[lfs-dev] Glibc-2.16.0

2012-07-01 Thread Andrew Benton
I hope you are all well. Glibc-2.16.0 has been released http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.16.0.tar.xz The good news is that it no longer needs the patches that are in current LFS. However, there are still some problems with it. Firstly, the libgcc_s.so issue:

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: My shiny new LFS system is heading for /dev/null. That's ok, it was only a test of current packages, but I must admit I'd hoped to keep it for a week or two. The reason is that although I've built everything

[lfs-dev] libgcc_s.so breakage

2012-06-28 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello All From the that's what you get for touching that dept: I've been testing the development versions of gcc and glibc (from svn and git) and lately I've seen some breakage related to libgcc_s.so. Current Glibc fails to build with a LD cannot find -lgcc_s error. Grepping the source for

Re: [lfs-dev] stack at compiling glibc

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:14:00 +0100 Okrah Asante okrah.asant...@gmail.com wrote: hello world, i am going throug lfs 7.1 and cannot make after configuring glibc 2.15 with an error : *configure: error: gcc must provide the cpuid.h header. *how can solve this problem. This is the development

Re: [lfs-dev] udev : testing Bryan's systemd-make-systemd-optional.patch

2012-06-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:19:18 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I've been watching the mailing lists and William Hubbs has been trying to get a set of patches into systemd for several days. He is being ignored by upstream AFAICT. They have seemed quite arrogant about it in

Re: [lfs-dev] linux-3.4 needs patch to build

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:32:04 +0100 Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br wrote: I have built linux-3.4.1 in five machines. No problems, as with the unstable 3.4.0, which required a patch or sed for one of the machines. One can see in https://www.kernel.org/: Latest Stable Kernel:

Re: [lfs-dev] popt in the book?

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:30:29 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: The current headers-install command in the kernel tree is a perl script, but there exists a patch to replace it with a very simple shell script (and I believe the intent is to submit it upstream).

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:22:00 +0100 Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com wrote: When they merged udev and systemd they said that it'd be possible to install just udev without systemd but with the very first merged release it is impossible to install udev without all of systemd's dependencies

Re: [lfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:39:59 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I am of the opinion that we should re-introduce pkg-config into LFS. I think it would make things simplier for both LFS and BLFS. pkg-config would make building kmod, libpipeline, man-db, and udev/systemd all

Re: [lfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:39:59 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: The current version, Dan's version, and the 'lite' verion all fail the same test for me. I get the same test failure with both pkg-config-0.26 and pkg-config-lite-0.26-1. With both of them I can make all tests pass if

Re: [lfs-dev] systemd - another failed attempt.

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:34:51 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: 2. but then make dies at CC src/shared/libsystemd_units_la-install.lo In file included from src/shared/path-lookup.h:33:0, from src/shared/install.c:33: ./src/core/manager.h:28:23: fatal

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:58:08 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: Actually, for some of us they *are* scary. I thought I was making some progress (persuaded autoreconf to complete without errors using the attached -A.patch), but then configure went into an infinite loop spewing

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:05:19 +0100 Dan Nicholson dbn.li...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an update. I forgot that [] are quotes in autoconf, so you usually end up using test instead. I still didn't test it works all the way, but I think configure should run. Withthis patch automake fails with:

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 16:58:00 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Try this diff for configure.ac. It helps. I can get through configure Ok, but I can't see a way to get through make without dbus. Andy udev-only.patch Description: Binary data --

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 22:20:25 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Well Dan, I've run into a problem with autoconf that I can't figure out how to solve. configure.ac has several lines like: PKG_CHECK_MODULES(KMOD, [libkmod = 5]) Now that's a reasonable check, but requires

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 22:51:28 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Did you try in a Chapter 6 environment? I can't get it to work without pkg-config. No, I think your make.sh is a better bet for an LFS Chapter 6 build. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 22:38:21 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Since when does glib require Python? I think Python's been a required dep since glib-2.32. It may be possible to build glib without python but it will need more than configure switches. Are you using

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 23:03:17 +0100 s...@slohj.org wrote: I've created a patch to systemd-183/{Makefile.am,configure.ac}. No dbus, pam, tcp-wrappers. Only kmod and blkid needed. It strips out everything but libudev, udevadmin, and udevd ( now called that again), rules, helpers, and tests.

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 23:49:25 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Check these out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/ That looks good. It installs /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 which we need. This is pkg-config-lite-0.26-1, based on pkg-config-0.26.

Re: [lfs-dev] linux-3.4 needs patch to build

2012-05-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:52:34 +0100 Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Now, I see i forgot the patch? Please, find it attached If you decide to use it (3.4 compiles fine for me BTW), the change could be made with a sed: sed -i '/__iommu_table/a\\t(jiffies|jiffies_64)|' \

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 18 May 2012 10:28:11 +0100 Qrux qrux@gmail.com wrote: On May 17, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Since you are using Applemail, I think the problem is that it is using \r for newlines instead of \n. I see your mail wrapped, but when replying, it doesn't wrap

Re: [lfs-dev] resizecons not installed by kbd

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 11 May 2012 00:11:47 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: But looking at upstream git it's already fixed in configure.ac: case $host_cpu in i?86*) RESIZECONS_PROGS=yes ;; x86_64*) RESIZECONS_PROGS=yes ;; *) RESIZECONS_PROGS=no ;; esac

[lfs-dev] Rename sources?

2012-05-04 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello All, There's a rather ill natured thread on LFS Support at the moment called Chapter 5 questions. Scott Robertson has made an interesting point: On Fri, 04 May 2012 11:35:32 +0100 Scott Robertson scottrobertso...@yahoo.com wrote: But do you not see from a newcomers perspective that

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 02 May 2012 01:41:47 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: The downside was that I got one new (to me) test failure in iconvdata: make[2]: *** [/usr/src/glibc-build/iconvdata/tst-tables.out] Error 1 make[1]: *** [iconvdata/tests] Error 2 make[2]:

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-05-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: My shiny new LFS system is heading for /dev/null. That's ok, it was only a test of current packages, but I must admit I'd hoped to keep it for a week or two. The reason is that although I've built everything

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-05-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 01 May 2012 23:12:16 +0100 Matt Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: This is upstream bug 13579 (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13579) and the attached patch should fix it. Would you mind giving it a try please? The patch attached to that bug is

Re: [lfs-dev] Cherry picking r9818 and r9822 for trunk

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:38:19 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: On 4/23/12 4:33 PM, Matt Burgess wrote: The fix for this is to add --with-native-system-header-dir=/tools/include to GCC's pass1 and pass2 builds so that it doesn't look at /usr/include at all.

Re: [blfs-dev] [Solved] webkit-1.8.0: configure and gtk-doc problems

2012-04-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:41:35 +0100 Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br wrote: ... /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Documentation/webkitgtk/html/WebKitWebWindowFeatur es.html GENinstall-data-local Running gtkdoc-rebase Rebasing WebKit1 documentation... Traceback (most

Re: [lfs-dev] [lfs-support] Ncurses compilation during the Temp Tools stage

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:15:11 +0100 Эмиль Кранц bl8r1...@tut.by wrote: Hello all. Ncurses configure script during the Temp tools stage (chapter 5.15) gives an error, requesting to be complied against gpm. As gpm is installed in BLFS, the key --without-gpm should be passed to the configure

Re: [lfs-dev] suggest check for ed

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:01:51 +0100 Cyril LEVIS cy...@levis-heb.net wrote: Hi, I think the test script in part vii should check for ed binary. It is not installed by default on a debian-testing-amd64-netinst for example (like my previous gawk and bison) Just out of intrest, why should we

Re: [lfs-dev] pass1 gcc 4.7.0 glibc 2.15 fails

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:46:11 + thierr...@hispeed.ch wrote: This was necessary otherwise make install was trying to creating the directory /var/db (for nss) So after checking various Makefile and as a probably temporary solution I specifiy make install_root=/tools install Another

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc-2.15

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:56:23 + Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like glibc-2.15 is about to be released: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.15.tar.xz is in the repository but I can't find a release announcement yet. Patch to use glibc-2.15 Andy glibc-2.15.patch

[lfs-dev] siginfo breakage

2012-03-22 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, A recent change in glibc has broken compiling gcc on i686 http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=4efeffc1d583597e4f52985b9747269e47b754e2 The solution is to change struct siginfo to siginfo_t sed -i 's#struct siginfo #siginfo_t #' libgcc/config/*/linux-unwind.h

[lfs-dev] gcc-4.7.0 patch

2012-03-22 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello a simple patch to use gcc-4.7 in the book. Andy gcc.patch Description: Binary data -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] I give a try with glibc 2.14.1 and gcc 4.7.0-RC-20120314

2012-03-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:25:32 + Thierry Nuttens thierr...@hispeed.ch wrote: Hello As every year, I'm giving a try to the next coming version of gcc 4.7.0 which should be release very soon. Unfortunately, the pass2 of gcc has making some problems because of (I guess) the sed which

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-15 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:05:49 + Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Has anyone else had a chance to try out the build fully and compare? I'm waiting to hear more of a consensus from others who have tested it before I drop this in, although I'm confident it's sound. It

[lfs-dev] glibc timezone/zoneinfo

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello FYI, it seems that timezone/zoneinfo data are no longer installed by glibc (from git). It still installs zic, and the files are still in the source tree so you can use zic to generate /etc/localtime, however, more up to date files are available at http://www.iana.org/time-zones Andy --

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

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:47:24 + Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:24:27 +, Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:18 + Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I'd like to get to the bottom

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

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:19:19 + Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com wrote: checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES. make[2]: *** [configure-target-zlib] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/sources/gcc-build' make

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

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:02:47 + Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Here's my log: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1 And the script that generated it: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1.sh Here are mine:

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

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:02:47 + Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Here's my log: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1 And the script that generated it: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1.sh For me, the build fails whilst it's

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

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:40:03 + Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a problem with why this is happening. Me too... The jhalfs vanilla LFS svn build worked perfectly for me. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/033-gcc-pass1 Looking at your log I see: *** This

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

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:06:33 + Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: What's your CPU? andy@eccles:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 30 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @

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

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:37:30 + Gilles Espinasse g@free.fr wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com To: lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1 On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:31:41 + Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:39 +, Andrew Benton wrote: I'm still no nearer to figuring out why I get this error. Trying to follow Jeremy's new newlib build method fails for me at the first pass

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:19:46 + Matt Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: OK, the paragraph above your output stated that it fails for me at the first pass of gcc, hence why I tested against the first pass of GCC. That said, I *now* notice that paragraph also states your results are

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:18 + Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I must admit to being really confused by your need for these workarounds. Me too. It makes me feel stupid. Is this from your Fedora 16 Live CD? I'm building from a Fedora 16 host with all updates from

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:47:16 + Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Yes, when you are cross compiling you (typically) can't bootstrap, so they disable the bootstrap if it's determined you are building a cross compiler. So where we would normally need the

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:47:51 + Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: OK, sorry, I use --disable-target-zlib. Anyway : any library will be supposed to run on the target, so be compiled with xgcc. As an exception, I think libiberty, if not disabled, is compiled twice: once to

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:47:21 + Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: On 3/12/12 7:24 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: I mainly use my current LFS install, I get the same errors if I use a Fedora or Ubuntu live CD. Which version specifically? If I get a chance, I'll download

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:18 + Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:36:15 +, Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com wrote: The book fails for me installing glibc, I have to add libc_cv_ctors_header=yes to glibc's configure options. But you knew

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

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:17:54 + Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: I've run binutils/gcc-pass1 following Jeremy's patch, with gcc-4.6.3, so without --disable-target-*. It compiles. zlib is compiled in the gcc-build/zlib directory, with the host toolchain, then linked to gcc

[lfs-dev] Shadow 4.1.5 - su: Cannot drop the controlling terminal

2012-03-11 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I've just changed to shadow-4.1.5 and it's caused me a problem. When I launch Xorg I do it with a bootscript like this: user=andy su - ${user} -c xinit /etc/X11/xinitrc ~/.x-session-errors With shadow-4.1.4.3 it worked fine but with shadow-4.1.5 I get an error: su: Cannot drop the

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

2012-03-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:54:44 + Matt Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:39 +, Andrew Benton wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:40:49 + Matt Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Andy hit issues that were discussed in the thread starting

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

2012-03-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:36:08 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: So it is. Do you want me to change them or do you want to do it? I'll do it Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above

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 jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com 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

Re: [blfs-dev] New package: Wicd

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:41:17 +0100 Ragnar Thomsen ragnarthom...@hotmail.com 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

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 bruce.du...@gmail.com 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

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 jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com 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.

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

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:06:11 + Matt Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org 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

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

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:38 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com 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

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:33:49 -0800 Qrux qrux@gmail.com wrote: Back to the unanswered question (2): Andrew, does your machine (pure-64 build) have the LFS-7.0-release toolchain, It's more like current LFS svn, there are few packages that are not up to date in my scripts but not many. With

Re: [blfs-dev] other filesystem utilities

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:04:33 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Also, util-linux plans to add GPT support into fdisk in version 2.22. That's probably six months away. Thanks, that's good news. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:43:05 -0800 Qrux qrux@gmail.com wrote: [~/lfs/src/openssl-1.0.0e] # grep ENGINESDIR $(find . -name *.c -o -name *.h) ./crypto/engine/eng_list.c: if((load_dir = getenv(OPENSSL_ENGINES)) == 0) load_dir = ENGINESDIR; ./crypto/opensslconf.h:#define

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

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:40:49 + Matt Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Andy hit issues that were discussed in the thread starting at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2011-March/064617.html When I have a bit more time, I'll try to build again without the patch,

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:02:59 -0800 Qrux qrux@gmail.com wrote: I don't think anyone referred to precomp bins. I presume all discussions here are about source builds. 1) Which BLFS version? Current. 2) Are you on a 64-bit only platform? My 64 bit systems are pure x86_64 with

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:27:17 -0800 Qrux qrux@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 29, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:02:59 -0800 Qrux qrux@gmail.com wrote: I don't think anyone referred to precomp bins. I presume all discussions here are about source

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:49:07 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Please review and test the actual changes. I'd like to commit this to trunk, but I want to hear opinions first. The rendered book is here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/sysroot/ And a full

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:10:28 -0800 Bryan Kadzban br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: 5. Since we don't support multilib, remove all toolchain uses of lib64. No need for those symlinks any more. Everything goes to lib. I don't think this is a good idea. The 64-bit

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:15:27 -0800 Qrux qrux@gmail.com wrote: As for the 64-bit works in practice...BIND is an example of a downstream app that seems to want to look in /lib64. Whether it's looking for ld64.so.1, ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, or something else even, I can't say. I do know

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-linux arch command

2012-02-27 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:43:11 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to remove it from my working copy of the book and make a test run to see if not having it runs into any problems. I do want to leave it in for 7.1 just because its a minor issue and we don't have enough

[lfs-dev] /etc/shells

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I notice that on the BLFS pages for dash and zsh we add them to /etc/shells so that people can change their shell with chsh (installed as part of shadow). However, grepping through LFS for /etc/shells finds nothing. /etc/shells is not needed until we install shadow so perhaps we could echo

Re: [lfs-dev] test on LFS 7.1-rc1: ICA + suggestion

2012-02-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:47:00 +0100 Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Hi, I have done a test of LFS-7.1-rc1. ICA went OK, except the already reported problem with ld.so.cache (ldconfig still missing somewhere), which is not a big issue. In case somebody else does ICA, there is

Re: [blfs-dev] Git-1.7.9 issues

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:50:51 +0200 Thanos Baloukas baloukast...@sch.gr wrote: Hello everybody I just subscribed on this list. I hope I can help. The book states python-2.7.2 as required dependency. I'm not sure if the INSTALL source tree's file is up to date, but it says nothing about

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:46:24 +0100 Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Maybe try (supposing the build tree has not been removed): echo '#includecstdio' |/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc \ -B/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/gcc -nostdinc++ \

Re: [lfs-dev] The case of libgmpxx

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:01:30 +0100 Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: If I understand the xxx.la files, they are used by libtool to find libraries. I am certainly missing something, but I do not understand why changing tools to usr in libstdc++.la would give a better result. When

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:56:55 -0800 Bryan Kadzban br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net wrote: Looks like Uli broke it again: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=c3a87236702cb73be1dada3438bbd3c3934e83f8 If you remove that defined __USE_GNU off the end of the #if line, I bet it'll

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:44:34 -0800 Bryan Kadzban br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: But according to that bugzilla page, the bug was fixed weeks ago? The 'fix' is definitely in the glibc source so it would appear that it's not working. I assume that by this you mean

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:49:37 -0800 Bryan Kadzban br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:44:34 -0800 Bryan Kadzban br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net wrote: Do you get __USE_ISOC11 #define'd (to what value?) or #undef'ed? What about __cplusplus (again

[lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-03 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I've tried to build LFS with current glibc from git (well, current as of yesterday) and the second pass of gcc (the first one after installing glibc into /tools) failed like this: Making all in libsupc++ make[4]: Entering directory

Re: [lfs-dev] Second report from ICA use

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:28:19 +0100 Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Hi, Maybe another thing to worry about: -- --- iteration-1/usr/lib/libgmpxx.la +++ iteration-2/usr/lib/libgmpxx.la @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ inherited_linker_flags=''

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:47:36 + Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I've no useful comments on the rest of this, but isn't reiser4 more or less defunct at the moment? Btrfs seems to be where development that will get into the kernel seems to be happening, although I'm not sure it's

[lfs-dev] Udev-177 and a monolithic kernel

2012-01-17 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, When I'm booting with udev-177 I get a cryptic message output to the screen in amongst the bootscripts that reads: udevd[120]: No such file or directory Is anyone else seeing this? I suspect it may be due to kmod looking for something that is not present in a monolithic kernel. When I run

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Direction

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:22:45 -0800 Zachary Kotlarek z...@kotlarek.com wrote: But yes, if you want to do a modules-only build you do need to rebuild the initramfs when you change kernels. Or at least the /lib/modules bit of it. My point was just that, since the current direct-boot method is

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Direction

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:32:49 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: udev is dropping support of module-init-tools for a new package called kmod. It seems that kmod is required for udev-177: checking for KMOD... no configure: error: Package requirements (libkmod = 3) were not met: No

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Direction

2012-01-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:32:49 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: There appears appears to be a movement to consolidate /bin and /usr/bin, /lib and /usr/lib, and /sbin and /usr/sbin. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove I like this. I've started doing it on my systems.

Re: [lfs-dev] Patch naming

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:23:59 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Just a reminder that we did at one time adopt a patch naming convention: pkgname dash version dash short underscore descriptive underscore name dash patchrev3.patch That is, the name should be:

Re: [blfs-dev] anomaly in firefox section

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:07:42 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Be careful. There are a lot of packages that need libpng. At least qt3, firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, and gimp have patches for libpng-1.5. Since it's only a point release, they are probably OK, but they should

Re: [lfs-dev] libnl and iproute2

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:15:19 +0100 Olaf mailingli...@ban-solms.de wrote: FWIW: libnl-3.2.3 proved quite an interesting 'change', I've needed to tweak several packages (hostapd to name one) to deal with the move of header files :-( Could you tell me how you built hostapd with libnl-3.2.3?

Re: [blfs-dev] anomaly in firefox section

2012-01-09 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:31:31 -0500 Walter Webb ng...@earthlink.net wrote: The blfs book for 2012-01-03 (I also checked 2012-01-07) has a patch for firefox-9.0.1. The compile failed with the patch, and succeeded without the patch. In the patch itself it says: Description: Fixes compiling

Re: [lfs-dev] util-=linux and coreutils arch

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:20:09 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I think the arch command is a bit more than uname -m. See http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/arch/ That link is to the BSD man page. It may be a bit more than uname -m on BSD but for us the version we currently install

[lfs-dev] util-=linux and coreutils arch

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, From the trivial detail department; we configure util-linux with --enable-arch, however, on the man page for arch I see: DESCRIPTION arch is a deprecated command since util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m or use arch from the GNU coreutils package. Coreutils can install arch

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS7.0

2011-12-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:56:39 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I think that idea is fine, but wonder about the use of awk. It may not be available. The book requires awk. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/

Re: [lfs-dev] gettext configure error

2011-11-27 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:27:32 -0600 DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Should probably add --without-git to the chapter 5 gettext configure flags. Though I did not have any trouble with git, it will not be available in the chroot environment, but is picked up by default. Gettext

udev-175

2011-11-12 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, Just a heads up, it seems that udev-175 installs udevd into --libexecdir, ie /usr/lib/udev/udevd and not /sbin/udevd Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: udev-175

2011-11-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:39:04 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Ugh. Is there a mailing list for udev so I can ask about tarballs? Google doesn't seem to help. I've made a tarball http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/udev-175.tar.xz Andy --

Re: LFS 7.0-rc2 Release

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:42:47 +0700 pham.the.chung0 pham.the.chu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I have just do make menuconfig with kernel linux-3.0.1.That kernel seem has a problem it doent have wireless or wiremax driver.I must ask these problem because if you have same problem just share

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Good news everyone! shadow-4.1.4.2 works, it can (at least with PAM, I've not tried without) successfully limit the number of processes. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Sorry for the noise. My fault. Shadow-4.1.4.3 is working normally. I've been using slim http://slim.berlios.de/ as a login manager run from a bootscript run by init and it seems that it is not setting the limits. If I login at the command prompt shadow sets the limits. The reason I thought

shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I originally sent this to LFS support by mistake; I shouldn't send emails late at night ;) I've wrote to LFS support before about fork bombs. Last July I learned how to prevent them by limiting the number of processes a user can have with /etc/limits. Recently I've been working on

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