Re: [lfs-dev] sysvinit

2012-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lemon Lime wrote: > I think the "-C src" in the instructions for sysvinit is not needed: > > pkg:~/build/sysvinit-2.88dsf$ cat Makefile > all install clean distclean: > $(MAKE) -C src $@ > > I already built it a few times with just "make" and "make install" and > it worked. You're right.

[lfs-dev] sysvinit

2012-03-05 Thread Lemon Lime
I think the "-C src" in the instructions for sysvinit is not needed: pkg:~/build/sysvinit-2.88dsf$ cat Makefile all install clean distclean: $(MAKE) -C src $@ I already built it a few times with just "make" and "make install" and it worked. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-05 Thread Qrux
On Mar 4, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 3/1/12 4:27 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> And because of the pre-adjusting there's even less chance to bring in >> something from the host system. The limits.h file is an example. The >> first pass of GCC doesn't install a full-featured limi

Re: [lfs-dev] Security

2012-03-05 Thread Qrux
On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Qrux wrote: > >> Does anyone know of any actual vulnerabilities in LFS-proper (either >> 7.0 or 7.1)? > > If we knew/know of any specific vulnerabilities, we'd address them. Is this necessarily the case? Aren't there issues that LFS doesn't ha

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:38 -0600 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> My proposal is to just skip 'arch' completely as I do not believe it is >> not used anywhere in LFS/BLFS. > > It is used in several places in BLFS (eg the pages for Liba52, nss and > nspr), but I'm sure uname -m

Re: [lfs-dev] Security

2012-03-05 Thread Qrux
On Mar 4, 2012, at 3:25 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 12:32:32AM -0800, Qrux wrote: >> >> Does anyone know of any actual vulnerabilities in LFS-proper (either 7.0 or >> 7.1)? >> > The most recent perl vulnerability came to light after 7.0 was > released, and the patch to fix

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:38 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > My proposal is to just skip 'arch' completely as I do not believe it is > not used anywhere in LFS/BLFS. It is used in several places in BLFS (eg the pages for Liba52, nss and nspr), but I'm sure uname -m will work just as well. Andy --

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matt Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:00 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> My proposal is to just skip 'arch' completely as I do not believe it is >> not used anywhere in LFS/BLFS. > > Ah yes, so it is. Do you mind if I make that change as part of #3002? Not at all. -- Bruce -- http

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Matt Burgess
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:00 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > My proposal is to just skip 'arch' completely as I do not believe it is > not used anywhere in LFS/BLFS. Ah yes, so it is. Do you mind if I make that change as part of #3002? Ta, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lf

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matt Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:06 +, Matt Burgess wrote: > > >> That led me to wonder why we bother passing the other '--enable' options >> (partx, arch and write). For reference, Bruce brought up 'arch' in >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2012-February/06

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:06:11 + Matt Burgess wrote: > Hi, > > I'm tackling #3002 (upgrading Util-Linux to 2.21). Bruce suggested the > use of '--enable-new-mount' so that we will use the new libmount based > version of 'mount'. It's marked as EXPERIMENTAL in configure's help, > but I'm happ

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Matt Burgess
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:06 +, Matt Burgess wrote: > That led me to wonder why we bother passing the other '--enable' options > (partx, arch and write). For reference, Bruce brought up 'arch' in > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2012-February/065811.html > and partx/write

[lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Matt Burgess
Hi, I'm tackling #3002 (upgrading Util-Linux to 2.21). Bruce suggested the use of '--enable-new-mount' so that we will use the new libmount based version of 'mount'. It's marked as EXPERIMENTAL in configure's help, but I'm happy enough to put it in as Util-Linux is now well maintained and I full

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs's error log

2012-03-05 Thread Matt Burgess
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 23:49 +, Matt Burgess wrote: > Suggested patch attached. Applied in r9762. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:57:01 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Yeah, as I've read more about it it seems like the culprit may be > libtool, so effectively gcc's build system. What the exact trigger is > that makes it different on various systems still isn't clear. > > So I'll concede that the pat

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 3/5/12 11:56 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > Sorry for being slow to respond, I've been busy :) > I remember reading that gcc bug last year when I first hit the problem. > I spent some time trying to implement the solutions proposed there but > none of them worked. Reading through it again now I noti

Re: [blfs-dev] Packages which could be removed.

2012-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > I only removed packages that I knew weren't coming back and I don't > think any of them were edited less than a year ago. The packages I've > removed from the book today are just commented out to make it easier to > revert if needed. Exactly the right approach IMO. -- B

Re: [blfs-dev] Packages which could be removed.

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:33:46 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Until you physically removed some > > things this weekend, my impression was that the xml for old packages > > always remained in the book, but the packages were commented in > > general.ent and in whichever xml file

Re: [blfs-dev] New package: Wicd

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:41:17 +0100 Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > > I would like to add the wicd package to BLFS. > > For those of you who do not know it, it is a network connection manager, > similar to NetworkManager but not as feature rich, and written in python. > > It can manage wired and wire

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:37:20 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > The patch is good to have as a workaround, but I'd like to find out what > the issue is that's causing this. I fear it's either a problem with your > host's compiler or a bug in the GCC build system. Check out: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bu