Re: [lfs-dev] Very minor issue with bzip2 instructions

2020-08-23 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 8/23/2020 4:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 8/23/20 3:44 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 is not a symlink but a hard link. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter, any real difference (again, super minor) only shows up when packaging. Suggest changing

[lfs-dev] Very minor issue with bzip2 instructions

2020-08-23 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 is not a symlink but a hard link. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter, any real difference (again, super minor) only shows up when packaging. Suggest changing the following: cp -av libbz2.so* /lib ln -sv ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so to cp -av

Re: [lfs-dev] e2fsprog depends optionally on udev

2020-04-05 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On April 3, 2020 2:17:29 PM CDT, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 13:27 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: >> On 4/3/20 12:33 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >> > I've reinstated the ICA system in jhalfs, in order to test the >> > builds >> > with the

Re: [lfs-dev] Un-rendered XML files in the Book source tree

2020-02-11 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 2/9/2020 11:33 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Le 09/02/2020 à 17:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : On 2/9/20 10:36 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Le 09/02/2020 à 09:02, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : I'll spare you the details of how I cam to notice this but i

Re: [lfs-dev] Question about the "m" in Python library names

2020-01-18 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 1/19/2020 12:17 AM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: See https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/for rationale Sorry, bad link. https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/ --DJ -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe

Re: [lfs-dev] Question about the "m" in Python library names

2020-01-18 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 1/18/2020 9:21 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: On the back of trying to build Xen 4.12.2 on an LFS system, I've hit an issue whereby the Xen M4 python_devel module fails but, even when I fix that, Python3 seems to report the "wrong" info. ac_python_version=`$PYTHON -c 'import

Re: [lfs-dev] dynamic library libbz2.so seems to be needed for file-5.38 in chapter 5

2019-12-21 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 12/20/2019 6:33 PM, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: On 12/20/19 2:53 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 12/20/19 2:29 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Here is the error I get:    CCLD libmagic.la

Re: [lfs-dev] ipv6

2019-12-16 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 12/11/2019 10:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: Recently Joel Bion sent us a hint that addresses setting static ipv6 addresses in LFS. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/IPv6-in-LFS.txt Okay, I'm not subbed to hints, but I finally got a chance to take a look.

Re: [lfs-dev] ipv6

2019-12-13 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On December 12, 2019 10:17:24 AM CST, Joel Bion via lfs-dev wrote: >I agree with what Uwe is saying 100%. > >IPv6 use is increasing - right now Google is seeing 24.9% of its >incoming daily traffic is IPv6, of course a lot of that has to do with >mobile devices. > >But nobody can really ignore

Re: [lfs-dev] ipv6

2019-12-11 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 12/11/2019 10:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: Recently Joel Bion sent us a hint that addresses setting static ipv6 addresses in LFS. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/IPv6-in-LFS.txt I've been looking at this trying to decide if/how to incorporate this into LFS.

[lfs-dev] vim syntax rules for resolv.conf with IPv6 (Was: Got static IPv6 working reliably on LFS-running server)

2019-12-11 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 12/8/2019 5:11 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: Step 5: Why? This works just fine despite vim's broken highlighting - I need to fix that too. Can copy the expressions from the bind syntax files and upstream. Way OT, but it was bugging me. I ripped off the ones in bind's syntax files

Re: [lfs-dev] Got static IPv6...

2019-12-09 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 12/9/2019 4:35 AM, jpb...@westvi.com wrote: Hi - How you want to incorporate IPv6 into LFS is your choice, of course - my goal was to provide a 'nudge' to actually incorporating it, as I think it needs to be included. Nudge accepted. Thank you. :-) For example, I agree that the

Re: [lfs-dev] Got static IPv6 working reliably on LFS-running server

2019-12-08 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 12/7/2019 9:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 12/7/19 9:11 PM, Joel Bion via lfs-dev wrote: Hi - This concerns adding static IPv6 support to Linux From Scratch. I worked on this a bit a few years ago, but life got in the way, and I paused all work on this, but over the

[lfs-dev] Kernel options not covered in LFS

2019-10-26 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
Any objection to adding pointers to BLFS on the kernel page about Linux firmware and cpio that might be used by make? The firmware has been a known issue for some time but was not included in LFS because it is covered in detail in BLFS (as well as limited to exactly what is needed so not have

Re: [lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-22 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On September 22, 2019 11:14:01 AM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: >On 9/21/19 11:52 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: >> >> >> On 9/21/2019 11:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: >>> >>> I wonder if the firewalld authors have considered the case of a

Re: [lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-21 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 9/21/2019 11:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: I wonder if the firewalld authors have considered the case of a kernel without modules.  I don't know of any of the major distros that do not use modules.   User configured kernels are a relatively rare situation (not for us of course). 

Re: [lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-21 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 9/21/2019 11:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: Seems odd to depend on the overall setting.  If loadable modules support is set, but you don't build any modules, why should the SW care? I agree that the above would be a little unusual, but the test should not be whether the kernel is

Re: [lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-21 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 9/21/2019 10:02 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 9/20/2019 11:29 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 07:46, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: In the book, we currently have the text "Install the modules, if the kernel configuration uses them:" - this is

Re: [lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-21 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 9/20/2019 11:29 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 07:46, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: In the book, we currently have the text "Install the modules, if the kernel configuration uses them:" - this is incorrect. All kernels use them, whether they

Re: [lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-21 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On September 20, 2019 11:29:01 PM CDT, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: >On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 07:46, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev > wrote: >> >> In the book, we currently have the text "Install the modules, if the >kernel configuration uses them:" - this is incorrect.

Re: [lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-20 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 9/20/2019 6:52 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 9/20/19 6:46 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: In the book, we currently have the text "Install the modules, if the kernel configuration uses them:" - this is incorrect. All kernels use them, whether they

[lfs-dev] make modules_install text

2019-09-20 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
In the book, we currently have the text "Install the modules, if the kernel configuration uses them:" - this is incorrect. All kernels use them, whether they are built-in or not, and this step is required to populate /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.{builtin,dep,order,*}. This sentence should

Re: [lfs-dev] Concerning iana-etc

2019-07-19 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 7/18/2019 10:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/18/19 9:36 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/7/2019 5:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/7/19 5:23 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/3/2019 10:06 AM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/3/19 1:17 AM, DJ Lucas via

Re: [lfs-dev] Concerning iana-etc

2019-07-18 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 7/7/2019 5:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/7/19 5:23 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/3/2019 10:06 AM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/3/19 1:17 AM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: [snip] Just a quick (but functional) mock-up using update-ca-certificates as an example

Re: [lfs-dev] Searching for a chapter on multilib

2019-07-13 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 7/12/2019 5:53 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: I did have a patch for jhalfs that was relatively simple for Thomas's build, but it's went away with last cleanup, but was not difficult. I think all I had to do was to expand the glibc-* target I had to add -32 to the sed for the package

Re: [lfs-dev] Searching for a chapter on multilib

2019-07-12 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 7/12/2019 6:37 AM, Lewis Pike via lfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey via lfs-dev wrote: Woohoo, I got one! Try this: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/lfs-systemd-multilib/index.html I hit up a search engine, and the 404 (gone to Atlanta) dead

Re: [lfs-dev] Concerning iana-etc

2019-07-07 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 7/3/2019 10:06 AM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 7/3/19 1:17 AM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: On 6/28/2019 10:59 AM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 6/28/19 10:16 AM, Marty Jack via lfs-dev wrote: You could consider doing it the way I have been doing it. In my view the iana-etc

Re: [lfs-dev] Concerning iana-etc

2019-07-03 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 6/28/2019 10:59 AM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: On 6/28/19 10:16 AM, Marty Jack via lfs-dev wrote: You could consider doing it the way I have been doing it.  In my view the iana-etc package in the book is in unmaintained status. If you download

Re: [lfs-dev] lfs-bootscripts-20190524 /sbin/ifup not working with bridge interface

2019-06-09 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 6/9/2019 11:41 PM, xinglp via lfs-dev wrote: Jean-Marc Pigeon via lfs-dev 於 2019年6月10日 週一 上午10:17寫道: Hello, lfs-bootscripts-20190524 /sbin/ifup, fail to properly add bridge. ifconfig.bro is the bridge definition # cat /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.br0 ;- IFACE=br0

Re: [lfs-dev] Minor cosmetic cleanups of bootscripts

2019-05-24 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 5/23/2019 10:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: Initial look is OK, but I'll have to test tomorrow.   -- Bruce Thank you. Not that I couldn't commit myself, but I definitely wanted a second set of eyes. Thanks! --DJ -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

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

2019-04-16 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 4/12/2019 7:47 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: On 12/04/2019 12:37, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: Comparison does not work anymore because of some randomization in code generation... Maybe, It could be disabled by some switch, though. We may look at what is done for comparing

Re: [lfs-dev] multilib book SVN-20190327

2019-04-16 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 4/16/2019 2:00 PM, spiky0011 via lfs-dev wrote: Hello Just going through multilib book at ch5.7 glibc running sanity check for -mx32 I get wrong output [Requesting program interpreter: /tools/libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2 > not [Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux-x32.so.2]

Re: [lfs-dev] Python3 in LFS: but no bare python exectuable.

2019-04-16 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On April 15, 2019 9:03:10 PM CDT, "Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev" wrote: > >On 4/15/19 8:57 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: >> I am sure that there are reasons for not doing this but I've noticed, >> as a result of Xen no longer needing Python 2, that there isn't a >> bare `python` installed

Re: [lfs-dev] Mere Linux

2019-04-12 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On April 11, 2019 10:49:07 PM CDT, Jeremy Huntwork via lfs-dev wrote: >Hi Folks, > >I'm just dropping a line to say I've released some actual documentation >around a system I've been tinkering with for a long time: >https://merelinux.org > >I thought some of you might find some ideas and

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

2019-04-12 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On March 28, 2019 7:00:29 PM CDT, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: >It is disappointing that glibc links to static libgcc.  What we >really need is a new generation of experimenters to replace Greg and >Ryan. > >I like the sound of the "very clean method", but I'm not sure that >it helps,

Re: [lfs-dev] Patching LFS XML sources: SVN insight required

2019-03-31 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 3/30/2019 9:04 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: What's not been clear to me in trying to store changes within my local SVN repo is how to seperate things out so that for example, i could apply a "PkgUser" SVN diff to a vanilla LFS XML source tree if it hadn't had Thomas's Multilib patch

Re: [lfs-dev] Patching LFS XML sources: SVN insight required

2019-03-31 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 3/31/2019 2:38 AM, Thomas Trepl via lfs-dev wrote: Next step will be to make a branch in the original repository for the ML part. This should probably be done sooner rather than later, there is enough of a demand that it is useful outside of the core group of developers, and I'm not

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

2019-03-26 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 3/25/2019 4:34 AM, 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 it will use the final system location of system headers.

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs updates

2019-03-09 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
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 take my information from the book, and the book

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs updates

2019-03-09 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 3/9/2019 2:50 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: Sent to lfs-dev, since I am not sure everybody using jhalfs monitors alfs-discuss. I've made several updates to jhalfs lately: - generate an /etc/adjtime file for systemd. This involves a new variable named LOCAL, which is set in System

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

2019-02-06 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 2/6/2019 7:11 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > no existing mounts in /mnt Actually, there is a reason that /mnt hasn't been populated for a long time now. In FHS 2.2, IIRC, possibly earlier (I was unable to find 2.1), '/mnt' was redefined as a mount point for temporary filesystems (ex:

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

2019-02-05 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 2/5/2019 7:35 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

Re: [lfs-dev] Multilib patch

2019-01-03 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On January 2, 2019 6:55:52 AM CST, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > >The one other thing I noticed is that there must be some automatic >re-formatting of the XML going on (?) after changes are made, in that >a couple of the patch chunks only failed to apply to the vanilla 8.3 >XML >because the

Re: [lfs-dev] Multilib patch

2019-01-01 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 01/01/2019 10:50 AM, spiky0011 via lfs-dev wrote: DJ Lucas. I have tried building your multilib sysV version I get a error in building libcap-2.25 x32bit. So far no problems upto here, I have restarted from ch6 a 2nd time incase I made a mistake. Error libcap-2.25# make CC="gcc

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

2018-12-04 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 12/4/2018 2:18 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: > > No, something out of the ordinary. Came up when the build order was changed > last time. Think procps links to systemd and needs the util-linux logs or > something. Give me a bit and I'll confirm what it was. Sorry so late. I

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

2018-12-03 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
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 /usr/lib/lib{blkid,mount,uuid}* >> >>

Re: [lfs-dev] systemd-239 testsuite assumes "/bin/touch"

2018-11-17 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On 11/17/2018 04:56 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: systemd-239 test suite fails in BLFS: exec-basic.service: Executing: /bin/touch /tmp/b exec-basic.service: Failed to execute command: No such file or directory We can list `touch` as "a Coreutils programs expected by BLFS packages to be

Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc-2.28 for a 64-bit system

2018-11-10 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On November 10, 2018 9:00:32 AM CST, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: >On 2018-11-10 13:13 +, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: >> > > Ref: >> > > >> > > Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20181106 Chapter 6. Installing >> > > Basic >> > > System Software 6.9. Glibc-2.28 >> > > >> > > The

Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc-2.28 for a 64-bit system

2018-11-10 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
On November 10, 2018 7:13:53 AM CST, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: >> > Ref: >> > >> > Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20181106 Chapter 6. Installing >Basic >> > System Software 6.9. Glibc-2.28 >> > >> > The instructions mention: >> > >> > libc_cv_slibdir=/lib >> > This variable sets

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

2018-10-27 Thread DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
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. Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:57:46 -0500 From: Bruce