Re: Moving to Grub2?

2008-12-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
ugh even if I did have problems with the menu list initially. I can't recall the last time I have looked at this or given it any thought. Perhaps I should take a glance there again as I was ( past tense ) doing some LFS work earlier this year on PowerPC and had diligently documented each and e

Re: GMP and MPFR

2008-10-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
little overhead required to build them it would perhaps be best to leave them in the LFS process as is. Dennis Clarke -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

SVN-JH-20080423 : Step 8.3. Linux-2.6.24.4

2008-05-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
/build/linux-2.6.24.4# The problem is the FreeScale 52XX processor target and I'm looking into it to see what the issue may be and I'll let you know what I find. Dennis Clarke -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jeremy Huntwork > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think that the prevailing attitude here is rather anti GRUB2. Mostly > > because development on it seems to focus on items perceived

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here > > working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to > > the boot

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
; forcing myself to sit down and do it. I've been getting side tracked by > a lot of other things. Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to the boot loader issue .. eventually. Just FYI.

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> If anyone has words of encouragement .. now would be a good time :-) > > Yeah, what Randy said. :) Anyway, yours is the type of testing, interest > and feedback we need to keep this project alive and moving forward, so > keep it coming. I know it&#x

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> If anyone has words of encouragement .. now would be a good time :-) > > Yeah, what Randy said. :) Anyway, yours is the type of testing, interest > and feedback we need to keep this project alive and moving forward, so > keep it coming. I know it&#x

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote these words on 04/19/08 17:29 CST: > >> If anyone has words of encouragement .. now would be a good time :-) > > 6 errors out of 42,000 tests ain't sh*t. Drive on, brother. Boot it > up and see what happens. :-) Should I be yelling "yeehaw&

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Randy McMurchy wrote: >> So, bottom line for me is I don't see any errors other than the >> math/test-double error in a 32bit multilib build. Both the 64bit >> multilib and regular LFS (not JH branch) don't get any errors. > > Not really the bottom line (yet). Dennis is working on a PowerPC arch

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Randy McMurchy wrote: >> So, bottom line for me is I don't see any errors other than the >> math/test-double error in a 32bit multilib build. Both the 64bit >> multilib and regular LFS (not JH branch) don't get any errors. > > Not really the bottom line (yet). Dennis is working on a PowerPC arch

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:53:27PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> > Dennis Clarke wrote these words on 04/18/08 13:11 CST: >> >> I have taken a run at this twice and am not entirely sure if the >> situation >> >> is acceptable or not. >&g

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote these words on 04/18/08 13:11 CST: >> I have taken a run at this twice and am not entirely sure if the situation >> is acceptable or not. > > I cannot answer that either. You've received more errors than I > have while building in several differe

SVN-JH-20080403 : 6.9. Glibc-2.7 - more than a few errors

2008-04-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
I have taken a run at this twice and am not entirely sure if the situation is acceptable or not. I build glibc as detailed and then run "make -k check " with output being dumped via tee into glibc-check-log. The make -k check ends with these lines : make[1]: Target `check' not remade because o

Re: LFS size and hardware requirements

2008-04-12 Thread Dennis Clarke
is really about, to me, is learning and seeing each piece along the journey. Dennis Clarke -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: > >>> No Sir. This is all on PowerPC. > > Please take this thread to lfs-support. Why ? I don't think this is a support issue at all. More of a "could LFS be more generic and open to other architectures" sort of thing. Since leaping

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> to "successfully" compile the core LFS system are in the book. For the >> making of make bison and flex... I would imagine it could be done without > a >> version of make already installed but it would probably be a lot of work. >> I would guess it realy depends on how you start the job. Is thi

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:22 PM > To: LFS Developers Mailinglist > Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure > > >&

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from any distro. > But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, > dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently > found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more > than a book", it may be

SVN-JH-20080403 5.7. Adjusting the Toolchain

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/lfs/sources/build$ rm -rf foo It may be reasonable to include a line or two for RISC (PPC/ARM etc) based people that may get different output from compiling that dummy.c code. - Dennis Clarke -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfro

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. >> >> >> >> Then ple

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Huntwork > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 'mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: regular expression compile failed >> >> (bad class -- [], [^] or [) >> /[^ >> mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: syntax error at or near ] >> mawk: scripts/gen-sorte

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Both attempts seem to be failing in similar way. >> >> Not sure what direction to take here. >> >> Any thoughts ? > > Well the CFLAGS thing shouldn't be necessary on powerpc, so your second > approach was the better one

RFE for SVN-20080403

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
CET 2006 GNU Make 3.81 patch 2.5.9 This is perl, v5.8.8 built for powerpc-linux-gnu-thread-multi GNU sed version 4.1.5 tar (GNU tar) 1.16 - Dennis Clarke -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
n.b. : this is a ppc machine and config.guess reports powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu I am attempting to follow the book and ran into a problem at 5.6.1 "Installation of Glibc". I tried twice with two different apporaches and both fail in a similar way. First attempt : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/