Re: Adapting LFS SVN for multilib

2009-01-14 Thread Rob Thornton
Randy McMurchy wrote: Ryan Oliver wrote: Greg Schafer wrote: Hopefully, there are others like me that do not mind this banter between Ryan and Greg. I don't look at it as arguing, or trying to one-up each other. It is simply their way of expressing their own ideas. I like it. And

Re: CLFS antics

2008-12-25 Thread Rob Thornton
I have poked my head in from time to time so some of you may have seen my name once or twice. I have built LFS a few times now and must say it has been one of the most rewarding tasks I've ever completed. I've learned a great deal about Linux and continue to do so each time I build LFS. I

6.4 - 5.17.1 Coreutils

2008-12-03 Thread Rob Thornton
Quote: There's an internal issue with Coreutils which makes some of the programs behave abnormally if you build using an older kernel. It doesn't state what is considered old. 2.2? 2.4? 2.6.xx.x? I wasn't sure if this was worth making a ticket for. Rob --

wget/download utility

2008-11-06 Thread Rob Thornton
There may be good reason for this but after building LFS for the 3rd time, I've come to realize there's no direct method of building BLFS packages with the final LFS system. No method for downloading packages exist if you're not building from a host with the tools already available. I built

Re: wget/download utility

2008-11-06 Thread Rob Thornton
Randy McMurchy wrote: Rob Thornton wrote these words on 11/06/08 17:52 CST: There may be good reason for this but after building LFS for the 3rd time, I've come to realize there's no direct method of building BLFS packages with the final LFS system. No method for downloading packages