Re: LFS 6.2-rc1 Released

2007-07-25 Thread TheOldFellow
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:53:17 -0500 Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the first release candidate of LFS 6.3. Please see http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.3-rc1/chapter01/whatsnew.html for a complete list of new packages since

Re: LFS 6.2-rc1 Released

2007-07-25 Thread TheOldFellow
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:45:43 +0100 TheOldFellow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:53:17 -0500 Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the first release candidate of LFS 6.3. Please see

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org writes: If I end up getting it sorted it out, I'll let you take a look before I commit anything. Manuel, I'm slowly beginning to understand how the HLFS render 'magic' works. One question: would the 'condition' parameter be usable in an ENTITY

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org writes: 2) The commands to adjust the gcc spec file would have to change to incorporate either dynamic linker. (Also, the current command in chapter 5's adjusting the toolchain, gcc -dumpspecs | sed 's at ^/lib/ld-linux.so.2 at /tools at g'

Re: lfs build-logs

2007-07-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Heya, Not sure how important this is for the rc books, but chapter 6 gcc tells the user to compare the gcc test results with those at this missing link: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/6.3-rc1 Just want to make sure we don't forget to generate

Re: lfs build-logs

2007-07-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/25/07, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Heya, Not sure how important this is for the rc books, but chapter 6 gcc tells the user to compare the gcc test results with those at this missing link: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/6.3-rc1

Re: Gnome-2.18: Ejecting CD/DVD ROMs

2007-07-25 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/25/07 19:21 CST: Where is the `eject' program located? It is not in BLFS; at least it is not in the index. It is not in BLFS. It is referenced a couple of times in the book as an optional component. It is truly CMMI. If I

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Greg Schafer wrote: Anyhow, I still suspect there is a buglet involving MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES somewhere in the GCC driver that needs to be accounted for in this `--disable-multilib' build method, but my brain hurts when trying to figure out all the twisty parts of gcc.c. Thanks for your help

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Greg Schafer
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Do you know off-hand if anything changes with gcc-4.2? I've only tested x86 with GCC-4.2. I'll get to x86_64 and ppc when time allows. Regards Greg -- http://www.diy-linux.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Greg Schafer
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: As an aside, the effects of their not having a /lib64 dir or symlink seems to be that if I want to use a CLFS system as a host, I *must* use their pure64 patch. I tried a build last night without using that patch and just using

Re: dbus-python error

2007-07-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/25/07, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /sources/dbus-python-0.82.0/install-sh -c -m 644 'types.py' '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/types.py' 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 2, in module File

Re: Gnome-2.18: Ejecting CD/DVD ROMs

2007-07-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/25/07 19:21 CST: Where is the `eject' program located? It is not in BLFS; at least it is not in the index. It is not in BLFS. It is referenced a couple of times in the book as an optional component. It is truly CMMI. If I recall,

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:45:48PM -0400, Ivan Kabaivanov wrote: The only big issue is 32bit vs 64bit. As someone already mentioned previously in this thread, there are almost nil benefits in building a 64bit userland. Very few applications can make use of being compiled 64bit. So on

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Ivan Kabaivanov
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 12:10, Matthew Burgess wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:59:39 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:40:24 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, do we want x86_64 to be a separate

LFS LiveCD x86_64-6.3-min-pre1 Available

2007-07-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello, The LFS LiveCD team is pleased to announce a new 64bit-only CD. It is a minimal CD, meaning that it contains no X Windows System and dependent software nor any source packages. The LFS book that is included is based on the current development x86_64 branch. Be advised that as of now

Re: Gnome-2.18: Ejecting CD/DVD ROMs

2007-07-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/25/07, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/25/07 18:21 CST: I think you actually need the `eject' program. It's a runtime dep for HAL on Linux. It's called by /usr/lib/hal/hal-storage-eject, which is used by the Eject method. I get it now.

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread M.Canales.es
El Miércoles, 25 de Julio de 2007 19:10, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: Manuel, I'm slowly beginning to understand how the HLFS render 'magic' works. One question: would the 'condition' For LFS we should use the arch= attribute. It's more semantically correct. parameter be usable in an ENTITY

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:07:24PM +0200, M.Canales.es wrote: I'm not sure what do you meant, but entities are resolved while loading the XMLs in memory and before processing the they with XSL, thus I don't see how could we say to xmllint/xsltproc that they must use one set of entities or

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:24:04PM +, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: can easily become: gcc -dumpspecs | sed -e 's@/tools@@g' \ I can't test this on x86 right atm... would anyone be able to verify that this command would also work for x86? Nevermind. I verified it. Will be adding this to the