Re: [lfs-dev] No IRC on the new server

2012-01-31 Thread Matt Darcy
Guys, it seems to make sense to move this to Freenode as they have a large infrastructure that is quite stable, they have hosted parts of the project before, I'm still listed as a project contact on Freenode so it would take almost no time and effort to set up the channels the same, re-add the

Re: cp foo{,.bak} not always supported

2008-06-01 Thread Matt Darcy
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 06:19:03PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > >> This was just to inform. >> You could require what you desire. >> >> For me, less requirement is better so we will adapt our scripts. >> I do not imagine I could make Ubuntu change something just to let IP

Re: Suggestions for the book

2006-05-22 Thread Matt Darcy
Well, if you or the OP can provide definitive examples of where the book is inconsistent then I will gladly reword it. As it is, the introduction sections of each chapter are the only places where I am aware we inform you of what user you should be, and it is assumed that one reads that in

Re: Suggestions for the book

2006-05-22 Thread Matt Darcy
r3al1tych3ck wrote: Sorry Bruce. Not embarrassed here. It took almost half an hour to explain it in irc before because the hot headed people would not listen. Eventually they got it but are still to smug to do anything about it. SURE. I, you, or anyone can point to any ONE place in the book

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-22 Thread Matt Darcy
Jim Gifford wrote: This is been a topic of many different discussions. A lot of people have tried to convince both sides, but nothing has ever been settled. It needs to be settled before this rift between projects gets any bigger. We in CLFS have our udev rules. LFS has their udev rules. B

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Darcy
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Matt Darcy wrote: I'm really dissapointed that this thread has turned into a "support" thread for certain products and arguments over specifics. The whole point of this thread was to discuss the options and directions of the whole projects not answer spe

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Darcy
There's nothing at all wrong with the mailing list. It's just the inherent nature of a project that is spread out among group of volunteers that don't always have time to discuss properly - the medium used is to discuss isn't to blame. In fact, it's good that you brought this up here becaus

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Darcy
steve crosby wrote: On 5/1/06, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a setup. The sticking point would be programs that include linux/.h or asm/.h, if there are any. And it sounds like there are glibc alternatives to all of those headers anyway, so it would be the program that's broken.

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Darcy
Bryan Kadzban wrote: steve crosby wrote: iptables is one such application - currently non functional with jim's script created headers, but have yet to identify why. I thought iptables required the "raw" kernel source anyway? Regardless, it's definitely one of the few Linux-specific programs.

Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Matt Darcy
Hi all, First of all, I have sent this mail to all lists, but I'd request that all responses happen on LFS-DEV to keep this thread (assuming it gets response) together and followable. Reading through threads in general there appears to be a little seperation and difference of opinion on a fe

Re: Users and Groups

2006-04-23 Thread Matt Darcy
Joe Ciccone wrote: I put this page together with the users and groups from LFS and BLFS. The only addition I made to this page is a users groups with a gid of 100. Anyone that wants to set something in stone, this would be a good place to start. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jciccone/users.ht

Re: LFS needs a new server.

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Darcy
Bruce Dubbs wrote: This is a request for donations. The LFS server is creaking along poorly. It is a 750MHz/512MB Ram/2 x 9G SCSI system. It frequently has high load factors and out of memory problems. Right now, Gerard is funding the server hosting fees from the meager PayPal donations he re

Re: Adding newer headers to llh (Was Re: merging udev_update branch)

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Darcy
Feldmeier Bernd wrote: Hi All, as for educational purpose I think I would be good to use an original kernel and then apply the header script. This shows that there is some magic around that stuff. Releasing "only" a package is only useful for advanced users I think. regards Bernd Surly that

Re: Adding newer headers to llh (Was Re: merging udev_update branch)

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Darcy
Jim Gifford wrote: Another option here is to use the headers package I've been working with a lot of people. It compiles a base LFS and CLFS with no issues at all.http://ftp.jg555.com/headers/linux-headers-2.6.16.2.tar.bz2, or roll your own by using http://ftp.jg555.com/headers/headers. For

Re: Adding newer headers to llh (Was Re: merging udev_update branch)

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Darcy
Archaic wrote: I would like to hear from Jim and everyone working on the header project regarding this possibility: Find the headers that llh currently lacks that glibc-2.3.6 and linux-2.6.16.x both support and patch them into llh. The only thing that comes to mind is inotify support. Headers t

Re: LFS 6.2 toolchain versions

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Darcy
Archaic wrote: Let me answer that with an example. gcc-4.0.x and mysql 5.0.{16,18,19} produce problems. I'd be interested in seeing the problems [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-4.0.2/configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/u

Re: merging udev_update branch

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Darcy
Andrew Benton wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would really like to update glibc and gcc for 6.2. Otherwise we will be behind the power curve. We don't want to get multiple revisions behind on these. And there's the kernel headers issue to sort out too. Andy The kernel headers are not really

Re: New LFS RElease?

2006-03-09 Thread Matt Darcy
The kernel is about to release 2.6.16 (they have been on 2.6.16-rc5 for about two weeks now) so we are quite a bit behind there. Yes, but any upgrade to the kernel will require a newer version of udev which is why the udev_update branch was created. If your considering the new 2.6.16 ke

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-08 Thread Matt Darcy
Another very minor point is trying to find a way to rip out all the __KERNEL__ portions That's what the "unifdef" tool in FreeBSD does. It also works in Linux. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ajw/public/dist/unifdef-1.0.tar.gz Note: Debian uses a CVS version for some reason, need to investigate. Not

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-08 Thread Matt Darcy
Jim Gifford wrote: A lot of you may have noticed the LLH kernel headers have not been updated as promised. With that in mind, I decided to do some tests over the past few days building LFS and CLFS with raw kernel headers. Unfortunately the raw kernel headers are not enough, but with minor mod

Re: /tools/bin/env: no such file or directory

2006-03-07 Thread Matt Darcy
Dominic Ringuet wrote: Simply reporting so nobody else wastes time on this. May be it could be added to the FAQ that describes this problem. if '/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/specs' exists on the host system, the binaries compiled in chapter 5, even with the specs patch properly applied in g

Re: 2.6.15 Hotplugging/Coldplugging via udev

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Darcy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chaps, can we put a little prespective on this. Its a dev-list, a development process has been put forward to the list for fun/evaluation/testing/feedback, this is not in lfs or cross-lfsyet, Matts done work on this also which I tested in the ea

Book News Server entry

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Darcy
All, I recently updated the cross-lfs book to remove reference to the news servers, I left the fact in that they used to exist and no longer do to make it clear they where shut down intentionally. can I suggest that other project devs to the same in their books Matt -- http://linuxfromscrat

Re: New Project Leader for ALFS

2005-12-05 Thread Matt Darcy
Nice to see you back and %150 fully up to speed, the latest Livecd is pretty nice, and the fact that your managing your time better (as this mail shows), means you'll probably be around for longer. Nice to see your keeping things in balance and not afraid to give a few things up Nice ! Ma

Re: Using Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.x.y + latest kernel version (e.g. 2. 6.14.x)

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Darcy
Mark Rosenstand wrote: Matt Darcy wrote: Mark Rosenstand wrote: And I run a dovecot IMAP server without inotify-support on a inotify-enabled Linux 2.6.14 machine because it couldn't find And what is your experience with this ? Do you find that inotify works/is picked up by dovecot

Re: Using Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.x.y + latest kernel version (e.g. 2. 6.14.x)

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Darcy
Mark Rosenstand wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:46 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 11/30/05, Feldmeier Bernd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello guys, I created a LFS 6.1.1 test system. But is there a problem if I use the latest kernel version ? Because Using Linux-Libc-Headers version and late

Re: :: why not include Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.12 + glibc 2.35 in LFS 6.1.1

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Darcy
Bernd Feldmeier wrote: Hi to all, sorry but as I know this release is bug fix release, but this stuff has nothing to do with the of any glibc/kernel stable versions. I think we should upgrade to these stable versions before releasing ... so we should use latest versions e.g. binutils 2.16.1 +

Re: More control...hint integration discussion

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Darcy
Kev Buckley wrote: Ah, yes. The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything LFS. I personally think it's more than just building a minimal working system, and I think there are others that will agree with me there. That should be shown by the fact that there are and continue to be

Re: More control...hint integration discussion

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Darcy
Ah, yes. The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything LFS. I personally think it's more than just building a minimal working system, and I think there are others that will agree with me there. That should be shown by the fact that there are and continue to be such packages as

Re: Experimental ELFS (Was: Re: More control...hint integration discussion)

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Darcy
Ag Hatzim wrote: Jeremy Huntwork([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:32:59PM -0500: Snip I think we really should look at including it sometime in the future, whether it starts with a hint or a separate branch or whatever. Ok lets give an end to these eternals debates (although i

Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans

2005-11-28 Thread Matt Darcy
Matt Darcy wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: Ag Hatzim wrote: I would like to propose to put reiserfsprogs,wget (with a note to rebuild wget from blfs,for those who would like support for encrypted http,which requires openssl) and maybe a text browser e.g lynx,into the book. +1 for wget

Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans

2005-11-28 Thread Matt Darcy
Andrew Benton wrote: Ag Hatzim wrote: I would like to propose to put reiserfsprogs,wget (with a note to rebuild wget from blfs,for those who would like support for encrypted http,which requires openssl) and maybe a text browser e.g lynx,into the book. +1 for wget Andy pussy -- http://li

Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans

2005-11-28 Thread Matt Darcy
Ag Hatzim wrote: Matthew Burgess([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:44:29PM +: Hi Matthew. If anyone wants any other features included now's the time to get those requests in. I would like to propose to put reiserfsprogs,wget (with a note to rebuild wget from blfs,for those who

Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans

2005-11-27 Thread Matt Darcy
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Matt Darcy wrote: LFS works as it is, it calls out at the start of the book what it will build, I don't see a need to move this to include more tools like a propritary package managment system. If there's one thing MSB's hint *isn't*, it&

Re: Hand holding (Was: Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans)

2005-11-27 Thread Matt Darcy
Gueven Bay wrote: Hi dear LFS devs, I am one of the - I think - many silent readers of LFS-dev. Normally I only read to gain insight how you develop (or better: write) the book but now I want to write some words here. I can understand that some of you are "not amused" of beginners who want to

Re: Hand holding (Was: Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans)

2005-11-27 Thread Matt Darcy
Archaic wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:56:05PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: IOW, I think the level of the book is just right. Please, Bruce, do not take offense at this, but the only posts I've seen from you in lfs-support this year are 2 in August and they were both release announcem

Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans

2005-11-27 Thread Matt Darcy
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 11/24/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So. I had been thinking it would be nice if LFS and BLFS adopted (some of) this approach. Again, I fully recognize that this is new ground in a way and that many people will think, "it is a hint and should stay a hi

Re: Unsupported Distro List - an open question

2005-11-25 Thread Matt Darcy
Are there really enough distros that won't build lfs (other than the ones that are just too old and ones that don't meet other basic criteria) to justify creating a such a list? We already have FAQ entries for a couple of problematic distros...just add more to the FAQ as needed... Very f

Re: More Control and Pkg Man [was: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans]

2005-11-25 Thread Matt Darcy
Just in case anyone is interested, I've put the coddled HTML, as it was a few days ago, here: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~kevin/LFS-SVN-051107-kmb.html Basically, as rendered at my end, commands from LFS that I no longer needed to follow are tagged with a RED background to the parts and command

Unsupported Distro List - an open question

2005-11-24 Thread Matt Darcy
Hi all, I believe this has been discussed before, but after reading a post on lfs-chat recently and some pretty frustring issues within the support IRC channels, I thought I'd post this open question. Should there be an "unsupported distro" page in the book. eg: the slamd64 distro is totally

Re: User IDs and Group IDs

2005-11-23 Thread Matt Darcy
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: Here's what's bugging me about this whole hardcoding of UIDS. Here is the page from the BLFS book Name UG exim31 31 postfix 32 32 postdrop33 sendmail 34 mail34 I think we all agre

Re: Typo lf-dev SVN-20051118

2005-11-21 Thread Matt Darcy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Matt Darcy wrote: uncompressing a file with bzip2 compression using tar 1.15.1 built in /tools failed for me. From what you guys have both said, I'm assuming you expected it to add the j option on its own ? For tar >= 1.15.x all you should need

Re: Typo lf-dev SVN-20051118

2005-11-20 Thread Matt Darcy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Matt Darcy wrote: However the missing j option for untaring needs updating. Again, we're using the tar in /tools at this time which we know is tar-1.15.1. Try that version on a tar.bz2 or tar.gz without the -j or -z and see what happens. ;)

Re: Typo lf-dev SVN-20051118

2005-11-20 Thread Matt Darcy
M.Canales.es wrote: El Domingo, 20 de Noviembre de 2005 15:01, Matt Darcy escribió: should be tar jxvf ../module-init-tools-testsuite-3.1.tar.bz2 --strip-path=1 The strip option is also questionable on certain versions of tar on platforms. Not. When issuing that command the tar

Typo lf-dev SVN-20051118

2005-11-20 Thread Matt Darcy
all, Chapter 6.50 module init-tools-3.1 the command tar -xvf ../module-init-tools-testsuite-3.1.tar.bz2 --strip-path=1 should be tar jxvf ../module-init-tools-testsuite-3.1.tar.bz2 --strip-path=1 The strip option is also questionable on certain versions of tar on platforms. Matt -- h

Re: User lfs is more than optional.

2005-11-20 Thread Matt Darcy
John Miller wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: William Zhou wrote: I have been using LFS for more than a year's time and it is great. One of my friend started LFS several days ago and got an error when adjusting the toolchain( 5.7 ). The problem was that the gcc specs path was pointed to the host'

Re: all the verbose output - LFS for dummies now ?

2005-11-13 Thread Matt Darcy
Andrew Benton wrote: Matt Darcy wrote: Guys, could someone explain the driver behind all the -v flags on pretty much every command within the LFS dev/testing releases. every command now seems ot have -v output. mkdir/chmod/chown etc etc. http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev

all the verbose output - LFS for dummies now ?

2005-11-13 Thread Matt Darcy
Guys, could someone explain the driver behind all the -v flags on pretty much every command within the LFS dev/testing releases. every command now seems ot have -v output. mkdir/chmod/chown etc etc. Matt -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscr

Re: Cross-compile to sparc64 glibc-configure problem

2005-09-27 Thread Matt Darcy
Frans Verstegen wrote: When following the "Version 7.0-cross-lfs-20050926-Sparc64" I get the following error in configuring glibc in "5.8.1. Installation of Glibc" (...) checking for long double... no checking size of long double... 0 running configure fragment for sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/elf

Re: broken link for "Glibc TLS Patch" in cross-sparc64

2005-09-27 Thread Matt Darcy
Frans Verstegen wrote: Hello everyone The following link is broken in the cross-sparc64 and cross-sparc64-multilib books Glibc TLS Patch - 4 KB: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/glibc/glibc-20050919-sparc64_tls-1.patch Frans _

Re: RFC - Cross-LFS Future

2005-09-15 Thread Matt Darcy
Jim Gifford wrote: One of things I've been mulling over is maybe have cross-lfs just build the toolchains, but the rest of the stuff, currently the temp-system and final-system of Cross-LFS, could be the future LFS book that supports multiple architectures. I'll put my comments in now t

X86_64 Multi-lib cross-build glibc32/64 gcc4 __thread failure

2005-09-07 Thread Matt Darcy
Hi all, There appears to be a problem with the cross-build gcc4 project. From dicussions on this it appears to be a compatability issue with gcc4 which displays its self on different platforms in different ways. I have been working on the x86 to x86_64 multi-lib version of this problem. The

Re: Successful First Install - GCC-4.0.1

2005-09-03 Thread Matt Darcy
Dex wrote: Went pretty smoothly and completed in less than 24 hours despite recompiling gcc a number of times to play with different C/CXX flag settings. No matter what I tried I got errors on the math tests and ended up with -march=ahtIon-xp -O2 -pipe. I did note that a couple of packages were