Re: [lfs-dev] Significant changes to LFS

2018-09-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 09/29/2018 08:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 07:23:40PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: Last thing for these changes is whether or not to add fstrim and uuidd bootscripts to the lfs bootscripts tarball for SysV book. The fstrim bootscript is fairly obvious in its purpose, but I've n

[lfs-dev] Fwd: Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
FYI. -- Bruce Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc. Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:57:46 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs To: libc-al...@sourceware.org This proposal is to being circulated to all the distribution maintainers to gain the

Re: [lfs-dev] [lfs-support] Incorrect MD5 for /development/lfs-bootscripts-20170626.tar.bz2

2018-10-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 10/24/2018 11:42 AM, Thomas Trepl via lfs-dev wrote: Today I came across that issue too because i want to build a 8.3 system (for some reference purposes) and failed because of that chksum mismatches. Currently there are again 3 chksums for lfs-bootscripts- 20180820.tar.bz2 - one in 8.3, one

Re: [lfs-dev] Fwd: Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 10/27/2018 11:56 AM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 10/24/2018 04:35 PM, William Harrington via lfs-dev wrote: On 2018-10-23 12:58, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: FYI.   -- Bruce Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc

Re: [lfs-dev] Typo in bc instructions

2018-11-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 11/07/2018 04:53 AM, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: Ref: Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20181029 Chapter 6. Installing Basic System Software 6.15. Bc-1.07.1 The second line of: ln -sv /tools/lib/libncursesw.so.6 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 ln -sfv libncurses.so.6 /usr/lib/libncurses.so .

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc fails to build

2018-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 11/09/2018 09:44 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/11/2018 14:30, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/11/2018 13:38, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: As an aside, what is the first line of the current script meant to expand to? $ for file in gcc/config/{linux,i386/linux{,

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc fails to build

2018-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 11/09/2018 11:10 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/11/2018 17:19, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 11/09/2018 09:44 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/11/2018 14:30, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/11/2018 13:38, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: As an aside

Re: [lfs-dev] lfs-systemd svn 6.75.Util-linux-2.33

2018-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 12/03/2018 10:02 AM, Thanos Baloukas via lfs-dev wrote: It has rm -vf /usr/include/{blkid,libmount,uuid} We don't create those symlinks now. It should be rm -vf /usr/lib/lib{blkid,mount,uuid}* Without the above the util-linux installation leaves in /usr/lib symlinks to /tools/lib Those l

Re: [lfs-dev] lfs-systemd svn 6.75.Util-linux-2.33

2018-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 12/03/2018 04:42 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On December 3, 2018 11:12:34 AM CST, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 12/03/2018 10:02 AM, Thanos Baloukas via lfs-dev wrote: It has rm -vf /usr/include/{blkid,libmount,uuid} We don't create those symlinks now. It should be rm -vf

Re: [lfs-dev] C Locale in UTF-8?

2019-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/01/2019 10:43 AM, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: Hi guys, I was wondering if we should add the C.UTF-8 locale to our environment (if it's even available?). Two of the tests in GNOME's Gjs (BLFS Chapter 33) because we don't have C.UTF-8 setup as a locale. I suppose the first questio

Re: [lfs-dev] Multilib patch

2019-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/02/2019 03:28 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 08:55:52PM +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: With that in mind I wanted to say that I am often surprised by the number of XML comments there are still in those "release tag" SVN sources. Comments are written

[lfs-dev] Fwd: glibc 2.29 - Winter is coming...

2019-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
Just for info. -- Bruce Forwarded Message Subject: glibc 2.29 - Winter is coming... Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:58:04 +0530 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar To: GLIBC Devel [OK, so winter doesn't quite mean freeze here in Pune but hey, y'all know what Im talking about right?!] He

Re: [lfs-dev] binutils, elfutils-0.175, objdump, linux kernel-4.19.12 (SVN-20190101) Follow-up

2019-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/08/2019 08:52 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:18:36PM -0500, Jean-Marc Pigeon via lfs-dev wrote: Hello, Redone all chapter 6 with elfutils-0.173 (all things equal otherwise) Kernel compilation is now OK. According: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61151 Bug i

Re: [lfs-dev] Library mismatch in readline

2019-01-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/11/2019 03:47 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but in chapter 6 readline, there is: make SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw" but then: make SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncurses" install shouldn't the second one be also -lncursesw? From

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs not work with bash-5.0

2019-01-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/12/2019 08:24 AM, xinglp via lfs-dev wrote: When I run './jhalfs run', it just show below messages and quit. INTERRUPT trapped exit The command is 'jhalfs' without options when creating the scripts. Then: cd /mnt/lfs/jhalfs make -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listi

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs not work with bash-5.0

2019-01-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/12/2019 11:31 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 12/01/2019 17:47, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 01/12/2019 08:24 AM, xinglp via lfs-dev wrote: When I run './jhalfs run', it just show below messages and quit. INTERRUPT trapped exit The command is '

Re: [lfs-dev] init from Sysvinit-2.93 does not display version information

2019-01-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/20/2019 03:16 PM, Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: Hello LFS editors. When I boot into my LFS system, the first thing I see is something like this: "INIT: version 2.88 booting" Ever since version 2.91 of Sysvinit the version of "init" is no longer displayed "INIT: version  booting" Cha

Re: [lfs-dev] Missing option for grub-install?

2019-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/21/2019 03:44 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, My machine has an UEFI BIOS, so that I rarely run grub-install. But yesterday, I built a new qemu VM, with a non-UEFI (virtual) BIOS. When running grub-install, it failed with a message (sorry, I haven't saved it) telling that it cou

Re: [lfs-dev] init from Sysvinit-2.93 does not display version information

2019-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/21/2019 04:06 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 20/01/2019 22:52, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 01/20/2019 03:16 PM, Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: Hello LFS editors. When I boot into my LFS system, the first thing I see is something like this: "INIT: version 2.88 bo

Re: [lfs-dev] Missing option for grub-install?

2019-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/21/2019 09:05 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 21/01/2019 11:09, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-01-21 10:44 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, My machine has an UEFI BIOS, so that I rarely run grub-install. But yesterday, I built a new qemu VM, with a non-UEFI (

Re: [lfs-dev] Missing option for grub-install?

2019-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/21/2019 02:06 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 21/01/2019 18:21, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 01/21/2019 09:05 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 21/01/2019 11:09, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-01-21 10:44 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, My

Re: [lfs-dev] init from Sysvinit-2.93 does not display version information

2019-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/21/2019 01:32 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-01-21 11:14 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 01/21/2019 04:06 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 20/01/2019 22:52, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 01/20/2019 03:16 PM, Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: Hello LFS

[lfs-dev] Upcoming package releases

2019-01-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
I've been reviewing some upstream mailing lists. As a heads up, binutils and glibc are now scheduled for updates in the next week or so. I do not plan on doing any updates to LFS until they are released. I'm not sure, but I also expect linux-5.0 to be released soon also. https://sourceware.o

Re: [lfs-dev] Missing "content" section in Chapter 5 util-linux page

2019-01-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 01/30/2019 09:43 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: There should be a "content" section like other section 5 packages, looks like: Details on this package are located in Note that this page is systemd only. In any case I'll update it in a few days at the next book

[lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
Just a heads up. I am in the process of updating all current packages in the ticket system except systemd (7 packages including a new glibc). Glibc now requires Python-3.4 or later so that will be going into Chapter 5 and requires an update to the host system requirements. Checking against l

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/01/2019 02:13 PM, Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: Just a heads up.  I am in the process of updating all current packages in the ticket system except systemd (7 packages including a new glibc). Glibc now requires Python-3.4 or later so

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/01/2019 12:01 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Just a heads up.  I am in the process of updating all current packages in the ticket system except systemd (7 packages including a new glibc). Glibc now requires Python-3.4 or later so that will be going into Chapter 5 and requires an update to the ho

Re: [lfs-dev] Replace GNU bc

2019-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/01/2019 03:49 PM, Gavin Howard via lfs-dev wrote: Hello, I am the author of a bc with GNU extensions (https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc) that enables it to help build the Linux kernel. I think that my bc would be useful in Linux from Scratch. I have run through the entire LFS book with no

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/01/2019 08:26 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-02-01 15:07 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: This gives me: FAIL: inet/tst-idna_name_classify UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-alias-avx512 UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-alias-avx512-main UNSUPPORTED: math/test

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/01/2019 09:53 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:05:41PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 02/01/2019 08:26 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: FAIL: rt/tst-cputimer1 FAIL: rt/tst-cputimer2 FAIL: rt/tst-cputimer3 Summary of test results: 5 FAIL

Re: [lfs-dev] Symlink in Glibc-2.29 test instruction is 64-bit only

2019-02-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/02/2019 05:35 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: We should change the command creating the symlink to the dynamic linker so the test can be run on 32-bit machine: case $(uname -m) in i?86) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux.so.2/lib ;; x86_64) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/02/2019 01:05 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 11:40:40PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: For 4.19, it was broken in 4.19.13 and fixed in 4.19.19. The fix for division by zero (which caused this problem) was in the 4.20.0 release, and as you said, the fix

Re: [lfs-dev] zic -y option is obsolete (TZDATA in glibc)

2019-02-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/05/2019 01:20 AM, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: Hey guys, I was examining the logs on my 32-bit machine tonight and noticed the following: for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica asia australasia backward pacificnew systemv; do > zic -L /dev/null -d

Re: [lfs-dev] Creating a bootable UEFI stick from an iso ?

2019-02-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/05/2019 07:35 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: So far, all my linux machines have had CD or DVD drives, so I have not needed to create bootable usb sticks. But I'm hoping to get a new laptop, and all the interesting and available ones come with windoze-10 installed and without a DVD drive

Re: [lfs-dev] Creating a bootable UEFI stick from an iso ?

2019-02-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/05/2019 11:27 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 10:03:45PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: sudo dd if=/path/to/debian.iso of=/dev/sd? bs=8M status=progress \ oflag=direct Thanks, after what DJ said, I think that hybrid isos will be fine with 'dd&#

Re: [lfs-dev] Remove libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes in glibc pass 1

2019-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/06/2019 07:12 AM, Romain GEISSLER via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, In https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88749#c16 Joseph Myers writes that using libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes in the configure script of glibc pass 1 is useless since https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.

Re: [lfs-dev] Python 3.7.2 build errors using Glibc 2.29

2019-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/10/2019 06:41 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 10/02/2019 08:45, Brandon Murry via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, I hope this is the right place to put this. I've been attempting to build Linux From Scratch from the development book using Systemd. One of the big new changes is an early build

Re: [lfs-dev] Python 3.7.2 build errors using Glibc 2.29

2019-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/10/2019 10:07 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-02-10 09:54 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 02/10/2019 06:41 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 10/02/2019 08:45, Brandon Murry via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, I hope this is the right place to put this. I've been attem

Re: [lfs-dev] Bash tests

2019-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/11/2019 11:29 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, I already wrote (at a wrong place) that I was worried about the number of test failures in some LFS test suites. Here are my findings about the bash test suite: - Two locales are missing: Ja_JP.SIJS and zh_HK.big5hkscs. Can be   cre

Re: [lfs-dev] Bash tests

2019-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/11/2019 12:10 PM, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: While we're here, can we please add the C.UTF-8 locale? That will resolve issues with the Gjs test suite in BLFS. What is the full localedef line? -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxf

Re: [lfs-dev] Bash tests

2019-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 02/11/2019 03:19 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 11/02/2019 19:49, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 02/11/2019 12:10 PM, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: While we're here, can we please add the C.UTF-8 locale? That will resolve issues with the Gjs test suite in BLFS. Wh

Re: [lfs-dev] About C.UTF-8 font

2019-02-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/12/19 10:10 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: First: localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 generates warnings and has exit code 1! So it is not suitable for scripting (at least with "set -e"). Looking at what debian does, they have a patch to generate a file named "C" in localedata/local

Re: [lfs-dev] Creating a bootable UEFI stick from an iso ?

2019-02-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/14/19 12:18 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 07:53:45PM +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 12:17:50AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 02/05/2019 11:27 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 10:03:45PM -0600

Re: [lfs-dev] Creating a bootable UEFI stick from an iso ?

2019-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/14/19 1:22 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:38:25AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: Summary: I hate UEFI even more! ;-) I can understand that, but I thnk the issue is that you still want to keep a Windows instance. W requires secure boot. Linux/Grub

[lfs-dev] LFS-8.4-rc1 is released

2019-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version 8.4-rc1. It is a preliminary release of LFS-8.4. Major changes include toolchain updates to glibc-2.29 and binutils-2.32. In total, 34 packages were updated since the last release. Changes to the text have also been made thro

Re: [lfs-dev] /tools/bin/perl

2019-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/14/19 11:20 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: A vim error of the sort I make, noticed in r11518 - ln -sv /tools/bin/{env,install,perli,printf}/usr/bin I was tempted to just fix it in svn, but -rc1 has already been released. Worst case, there is an error in some test. I fixed it

Re: [lfs-dev] CLFS book?

2019-02-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/15/19 10:16 AM, Anthony Jagers via lfs-dev wrote: Is it not being hosted on this site any longer? No, it has not been hosted here for many years. Honestly, I do not know if it is active any more or not. The old url, http://trac.clfs.org, does not seem to be active. -- Bruce -- htt

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-support] LFS 8.4 rc

2019-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/16/19 9:08 AM, Thomas Trepl via blfs-support wrote: Am Samstag, den 16.02.2019, 15:18 +0100 schrieb Gerhard Gedigk via blfs-support: Hello, please correct the example for the German console fonts. (7.6.5) KEYMAP="de-latin1" # is correct FONT="lat0 ... needs to be changed to lat1 as wel

Re: [lfs-dev] german console font

2019-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/17/19 9:10 AM, Gerhard Gedigk via lfs-dev wrote: I apologize for writing to BLFS. On 2/16/19 9:08 AM, Thomas Trepl via blfs-support wrote: I have - # Begin /etc/sysconfig/console UNICODE="1" KEYMAP="de-latin1" KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2" #FONT="lat0-16 -m 8859-15" FONT="Lat2-Terminu

Re: [lfs-dev] Sanity checks for LFS

2019-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/17/19 5:05 PM, Akira Urushibata via lfs-dev wrote: In September 2018 there was some discussion on sanity checks for LFS on this list. I see that lists has been uploaded to linuxfromscratch.org. http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/sanity.html Many thanks for providing the lists. I'

[lfs-dev] Displaying utf8 characters

2019-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
In FF 65.0.1, how do I get utf8 characters to display properly? For example, if I look at https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=8960&number=128 Many characters show up as hex in a box. I do have noto fonts installed. Any help is appreciated. -- Bruce -- http://lists.li

Re: [lfs-dev] Displaying utf8 characters

2019-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/20/19 11:35 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:52:03PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: In FF 65.0.1, how do I get utf8 characters to display properly? For example, if I look at https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=8960&number=128

Re: [lfs-dev] man-db on sysv creates /lib/systemd/system

2019-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/21/19 4:33 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: Looking at the breakage on my latest build in BLFS (missing dependency when I built make-ca!) I saw that make-ca had written to /lib/systemd/system/ : the reason for that was that male-ca had created that and installed there. This is with --with-

Re: [lfs-dev] man-db on sysv creates /lib/systemd/system

2019-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/21/19 4:34 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:48:53AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 2/21/19 4:33 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: Looking at the breakage on my latest build in BLFS (missing dependency when I built make-ca!) I saw that make-ca had

Re: [lfs-dev] man-db on sysv creates /lib/systemd/system

2019-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/21/19 5:10 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:34:36PM +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:48:53AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 2/21/19 4:33 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: Looking at the breakage on my latest build in

Re: [lfs-dev] /usr/lib/os-release

2019-02-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/23/19 10:58 AM, Daniel Schepler via lfs-dev wrote: I just noticed that section 9.1 "The End" creates a file /etc/os-release. However, the systemd documentation [os-release(5)] recommends that this file should be in /usr/lib/os-release and that /etc/os-release should be a relative symlink to

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 doc: issue with Perl executables still lists c2ph which is now removed

2019-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/24/19 10:39 AM, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: In fact, I believe it was removed in earlier 5.26 release of perl. Also, on install, /usr/bin/perl is not linked to /usr/bin/perl5.28.0. I am using the more_control_helpers package management. Thank you for the report. I'll remove c2ph and p

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 doc for Systemd-239 shows an older lib file

2019-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/24/19 5:10 PM, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: Hey guys, very minor issue here: the LFS 8.3 Systemd-239 doc lists contents: *Installed libraries:*libnss_myhostname.so.2, libnss_mymachines.so.2, libnss_resolve.so.2, libnss_systemd.so.2, libsystemd.so, libsystemd-shared-231.so, and libudev.s

Re: [lfs-dev] Update GCC optional dependencies for graphite

2019-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/25/19 11:44 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: Now GCC relys on ISL (https://repo.or.cz/isl.git) to enable graphite optimization, instead of Cloog-PPL and PPL. We should update this in LFS Appendix C. OK, I'll fix that today. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-de

Re: [lfs-dev] man-db on sysv creates /lib/systemd/system

2019-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/23/19 12:31 PM, Roger via lfs-dev wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:10:17 +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: For cleanliness, in the sysv book I suggest we should add 'rm -rf /lib/systemd/'. I don't like this; I prefer to use a configure option. Adding --with-systemdsystemunitdir=

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 doc problem with Gawk-4.2.1 (igawk listed in doc, but not installed)

2019-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/25/19 3:44 PM, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: Hi again, small doc problem? or my bad? built and installed Gawk-4.2.1, and after successful build, check and install, the list_package does not show "igawk". It is located in build dir under "./pc" which I guess means it is a PC only file?

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 Findutils-4.6.0 doc lists "oldfind" which is missing

2019-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/25/19 3:58 PM, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: Hi again, Possible doc issue: I just installed Findutils and listed package, it does not list "oldfind", and also lists "code" only under EXTRA EXECUTABLES as "/usr/libexec/code" along with two other undocumented programs. (bigram & frcode).

[lfs-dev] Last call for 8.4 changes

2019-02-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
We now have all tickets for 8.4 closed and all packages tagged. Please review what is in the development books and let us know if there are any changes that need to be made. Small issues are as important at this stage as big ones. Thanks. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/list

Re: [lfs-dev] Typos in SVN 2019-02-25

2019-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/27/19 1:54 AM, Roger via lfs-dev wrote: Chapter 5.30 - Python required disk space changed from 32 MB to 371 MB. One of those must be wrong. My log for Python in Chapter 5 says 371.156 MB and for Chapter 6 392.328 MB. Chapter 6.57.2 - "gnd awk-4.2.1" should be "and gawk-4.2.1" Fixed.

Re: [lfs-dev] Last call for 8.4 changes

2019-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/27/19 10:45 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 27/02/2019 04:47, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: We now have all tickets for 8.4 closed and all packages tagged. Please review what is in the development books and let us know if there are any changes that need to be made.  Small

Re: [lfs-dev] Typos in SVN 2019-02-25

2019-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/27/19 11:02 AM, Roger via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:20:46 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 2/27/19 1:54 AM, Roger via lfs-dev wrote: Chapter 5.30 - Python required disk space changed from 32 MB to 371 MB. One of those must be wrong. My log for Python in Chapter 5

Re: [lfs-dev] Last call for 8.4 changes

2019-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/27/19 3:27 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 27/02/2019 18:05, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 2/27/19 10:45 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 27/02/2019 04:47, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: We now have all tickets for 8.4 closed and all packages tagged. Please review

Re: [lfs-dev] Last call for 8.4 changes

2019-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/27/19 3:43 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:27:02PM +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 27/02/2019 18:05, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 2/27/19 10:45 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 27/02/2019 04:47, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: We

Re: [lfs-dev] Last call for 8.4 changes

2019-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/28/19 12:08 PM, DJ Lucas (LFS) via lfs-dev wrote: On February 28, 2019 2:22:46 AM CST, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: To Bruce, Doug and DJ: I may take an intermediate approach: add the two lines above only to jhalfs (in Makefile, under the "devices" target), not to the LFS book its

Re: [lfs-dev] Last call for 8.4 changes

2019-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 2/28/19 3:26 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Interesting, but it supposes the host is running systemd, which is likely with most modern distros, but not always true (devuan, gentoo). or LFS! That is one point I missed at first, but DJ pointed it (I'm not sure about my English: can

[lfs-dev] LFS and BLFS Version 8.4 are released

2019-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 8.4, LFS Version 8.4 (systemd), BLFS Version 8.4, and BLFS Version 8.4 (systemd). This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS. The LFS release includes updates to glibc-2.29, binutils-2.32, and bash-5.0

[lfs-dev] gcc-8.3 test suite

2019-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
I'm going to commit gcc-8.3 today, but there are some slight problems with the test site that we may be able to address. There are six failures: FAIL: 22_locale/time_get/get_time/wchar_t/2.cc execution test FAIL: 22_locale/time_get/get_time/char/2.cc execution test FAIL: 22_locale/time_get/get_

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc-8.3 test suite

2019-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/2/19 12:33 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-03-01 14:55 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: I'm going to commit gcc-8.3 today, but there are some slight problems with the test site that we may be able to address. There are six failures: FAIL: 22_locale/time_get/get_time/wc

Re: [lfs-dev] bad md5sums

2019-03-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/3/19 1:20 PM, Julius ter Pelkwijk via lfs-dev wrote: Hello team, I tried using ALFS on the latest build, but was greeted with this error message: "sysvinit-2.94-consolidated-1.patch does not match MD5SUMS value" Can anyone verify if the error message is actually correct? We need some

[lfs-dev] linux-5.0

2019-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
It looks like linux-5.0 has been released. The website is a little out of sync though, The icon on the upper right says "Latest Stable Kernel 5.0", but the detailed section says: mainline: 5.0 stable: 4.20.13 longterm: 4.19.26 ... I'll try a test build a bit later today,

Re: [lfs-dev] Hard-coded version of libffi

2019-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/4/19 2:50 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: Niuneilneo questioned us for "inconsistent" version numbers. So I ran grep -r "\-[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+" chapter* prologue appendices to detect hard-coded version numbers. All of them are OK but one: "/usr/lib/libffi-3.2.1/include" in chap

Re: [lfs-dev] Replace GNU bc

2019-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: On 2/1/19 4:43 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 02/01/2019 03:49 PM, Gavin Howard via lfs-dev wrote: Hello, I am the author of a bc with GNU extensions (https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc) that enables it to help build the Linux kernel. I think that my bc would be usef

Re: [lfs-dev] Bump book version for systemd

2019-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/4/19 3:24 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: In general.ent "versiond" is still 20190225-systemd. Should be 20190301- systemd. Thanks for the report. I went ahead and set it to March 1st. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: [lfs-dev] sysvinit 2.94 adds logsave (already installed by e2fsprogs)

2019-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/6/19 7:34 AM, Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: Hello all. I noticed that the latest sysvinit 2.94 adds a new program called "logsave."  This program was installed previously by e2fsprogs.  I don't know if sysvinit's version is any different from e2fsprogs' but I'm sure one of them needs to be

Re: [lfs-dev] BLFS 8.3-systemd has bad link to systemd-units

2019-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/6/19 10:09 PM, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: The link in the book is: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/8.3/blfs-systemd-units-20180105.tar.bz2 As you see, the folder is "8.3", but that is incorrect folder for the systemd file! 8.3 is out of date. We have released 8.4. In

Re: [lfs-dev] Errata errors

2019-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/7/19 5:12 AM, Roger via lfs-dev wrote: LFS 8.4 errata link goes to a page giving an amended md2sum for a sysvinit-2.94 patch but the book uses sysvinit-2.93. SVN 2019-03-01 errata link goes to "Page not found". The "contact the webmaster" link on that page goes to "Page not found". I just

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs updates

2019-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/9/19 10:09 AM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/9/2019 2:50 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: - add a chroot1 target in jhalfs Makefile (may be handy to do something manually in chroot, when chapter06 is not yet completed) This should be a nice addition for troubleshooting. Or

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs updates

2019-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/9/19 12:57 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/9/2019 10:38 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/03/2019 17:09, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: This reminds me, I'm getting /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 with IFACE=enp3s0. Yes, completely forgot about that... Problem is, I want to tak

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs updates

2019-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/9/19 3:47 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/03/2019 21:24, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/9/19 12:57 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/9/2019 10:38 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 09/03/2019 17:09, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: This reminds me, I'm ge

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc -dumpversion shows only major version

2019-03-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/11/19 9:18 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Hi, In Gcc-7, a new compile time option has been introduced: --with-gcc-major-version-only with the effect of having only the major version in directory names. But it has also the effect that "gcc -dumpversion" only shows the major version.

Re: [lfs-dev] corutils patch link svn

2019-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/13/19 3:42 PM, martyn vidler via lfs-dev wrote: The link for the patch is not working http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/coreutils-8.31-i18n-1.patch should be http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/coreutils/coreutils-8.31-i18n-1.patch It didn't work becaus

Re: [lfs-dev] About Systemd-241

2019-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/17/19 5:26 PM, Thanos Baloukas via lfs-dev wrote: Finally, the links to the util-linux libs that are created are not removed after the installation. See this post http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2018-December/072609.html I don't normally build the systemd version of

Re: [lfs-dev] About Systemd-241

2019-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/18/19 7:21 AM, Thanos Baloukas via lfs-dev wrote: On 18/3/19 12:58 π.μ., Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/17/19 5:26 PM, Thanos Baloukas via lfs-dev wrote: Finally, the links to the util-linux libs that are created are not removed after the installation. See this post http

[lfs-dev] Building LFS on a usb drive

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
After a long thread on -support today I did a test build on a USB drive today. These are some observations. The USB drive was /dev/sdg. I only had one partition on the MSDOS style partition table. From the host I installed GRUB with grub-install /dev/sdg To boot, I needed a grub.cfg f

Re: [lfs-dev] Multilib patch: ncurses 64-bit build wants to use /usr/lib32/pkgconfig

2019-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/23/19 11:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/23/19 3:48 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: Once again,not sure of this is LFS-dev related, so wanted to ask, for future reference,    are "Multilib patch:" discussions mre suited to another LFS list than lfs-dev:    maybe they are a good fit

Re: [lfs-dev] Multilib patch: ncurses 64-bit build wants to use /usr/lib32/pkgconfig

2019-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/23/19 3:48 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: Once again,not sure of this is LFS-dev related, so wanted to ask, for future reference, are "Multilib patch:" discussions mre suited to another LFS list than lfs-dev: maybe they are a good fit for CLFS ? These discussions are fine her

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/24/19 12:20 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: In r11250 DJ introduced several symlinks and GCC -isystem options for Glibc so it will use the final system location of system headers. When I was poking around Debian package build processes I found they were using -ffile-prefix-map to complete

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/25/19 8:12 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 25/03/2019 10:34, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-03-24 12:49 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/24/19 12:20 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: In r11250 DJ introduced several symlinks and GCC -isystem options for Glibc so

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/25/19 12:12 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 25/03/2019 16:05, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/25/19 8:12 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 25/03/2019 10:34, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-03-24 12:49 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 3/24/19 12:20 PM

Re: [lfs-dev] Are we creating debug builds with meson ?

2019-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/26/19 2:11 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 06:11:52PM +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: Posting to lfs-dev because this seems to potentially affect all meson builds. In BLFS we already make release builds for cmake packages (i.e. without assertions), but I'm no

Re: [lfs-dev] Are we creating debug builds with meson ?

2019-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/26/19 5:01 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 03:58:21AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-03-26 19:11 +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 06:11:52PM +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: Posting to lfs-dev because this seems to pot

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/26/19 11:51 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: For future reference, the 'strings' utility might be better suited for this task, rather than opening a binary in a text editor. $ strings /lib/libc.so.6 | grep "tools" Good idea. $ strings /lib/libc-2.29.so.dbg|grep tools /tools/include/bits

[lfs-dev] meson

2019-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
There are just too many problems with meson-0.50.0. Therefore I have reverted to meson-0.49.2 in lfs-svn until it gets fixed. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] meson

2019-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/28/19 12:45 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: On 2019-03-28 15:15 +1000, James B via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:59:38 -0500 Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: There are just too many problems with meson-0.50.0. Therefore I have reverted to meson-0.49.2 in lfs-svn until it gets

Re: [lfs-dev] meson

2019-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 3/28/19 1:35 AM, James B via lfs-dev wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:45:56 +0800 Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: Just my 2 cents. Also, just my 0.01 yuan (about 1/7 cents :). LOL. I certainly agree with you that autotools and cmake aren't without problems. Autotools is definitely a nightm

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