Re: [lfs-dev] Are we ready for LFS-7.5?

2014-03-02 Thread Alice Wonder
On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 03:06 +0100, Armin K. wrote: > > It is. Package ships *.la file that depends on another *.la file which > no package ships that the former one depends on. Packaging error. Indeed, Fedora quite some time ago stopped shipping libtool .la files because of how frequently they

Re: [lfs-dev] linux 3.9 need bc.

2013-04-29 Thread Alice Wonder
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 16:14 +0800, xinglp wrote: > We should > move http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/bc.html to > lfs. I agree that almost any use-able Linux system will have bc, but I'm not sure it belongs in LFS any more than, say, which or even Python (which also are on mos

[lfs-dev] Bug in 7.3 book - kbd and locales

2013-04-22 Thread Alice Wonder
I didn't see this mentioned in errata so I don't know if it has been noted yet or not. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/kbd.html The instructions have ./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/lib/kbd \ --disable-vlock While that does fix the problem of where the keyboard

[lfs-dev] bad entries in 7.3 binutils libtool files

2013-04-13 Thread Alice Wonder
grep "tmp2" /mnt/lfs/usr/lib64/*.la /mnt/lfs/usr/lib64/libbfd.la:dependency_libs=' -L/tmp2/build/binutils-build/bfd/../libiberty/pic -liberty -lz' /mnt/lfs/usr/lib64/libopcodes.la:dependency_libs=' -L/tmp2/build/binutils-build/opcodes/../libiberty/pic -liberty' /tmp2 is where I did the chapter 6 b

Re: [lfs-dev] More issues with BLFS

2012-11-22 Thread Alice Wonder
On 11/22/2012 10:03 AM, Wolf wrote: > On 11/22/2012 11:08 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Wolf wrote: >>> I've noticed the issues I've pointed out getting fixed, so here's a >>> couple more: >>> >>> - Tumbler has optional dependencies on GStreamer, libgsf, and libopenraw. >>> - Wireshark has an optional

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposed package freeze

2012-08-21 Thread Alice Wonder
On 8/21/2012 10:13 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I am proposing that we freeze LFS for 7.2 with the packages we now have > in svn. There is one outstanding ticket to address glibc issues, but > that does not require a package change. > > Util-linux may come out with a new release in the next week or so

Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc-2.16.0 [ test-installation.pl ]

2012-08-21 Thread Alice Wonder
On 8/21/2012 12:06 AM, Matt Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 19:18 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> That's the difference between Europeans and Americans. Americans only >> speak/understand one language. > > And even then they don't speak it very well, unlike their British > counterparts :-) >

[lfs-dev] Chapter 7.2 and pci.ids

2012-08-01 Thread Alice Wonder
In following the instructions for 7.2.1 (svn 20120725) the 70-persistent-net.rules was not created. I was missing the pci.ids file necessary. I went back and redid 6.61 udev-187 using the udev-lfs-187-3.tar.bz2 tarball and instructions from the archive but that didn't help. I borrowed the pci.

[lfs-dev] Grub 2 build error

2012-08-01 Thread Alice Wonder
Hello, Host: x86_64 CentOS 6.x Using the SVN for LFS - SVN-20120725 Everything builds just dandy and passes make check where applicable EXCEPT for grub 2.0 I attached full log of configure and also added at the end where it fails but of interest - checking build system type... x86_64-unkn