Re: [lfs-dev] Promote JS78.8.0 for 10.1 ?

2021-02-23 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Wed, 2021-02-24 at 02:02 +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > I see that people have been busy tagging things whilst I've been > offline.  One of those things is JS-78.8.0. > > Technically, the JS build does not appear to contain any security > fixes, just one or two lines of python got chang

Re: [lfs-dev] Possible binutils-2.36 problems

2021-02-08 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 19:36 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 17:40 +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:39:08AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > > wrote: > > > On 2/5/21 6:48 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: &

Re: [lfs-dev] Possible binutils-2.36 problems

2021-02-08 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 17:40 +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:39:08AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > wrote: > > On 2/5/21 6:48 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > > While replying to Frans on -support re his inability to build > > > glibc-2.33, I glanced at the b

Re: [lfs-dev] SVN 2021-02-02

2021-02-03 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 11:56 +, Roger via lfs-dev wrote: > At the end of section 8.7.1 installation of bzip2 is: > >   rm -fv /usr/lib/libz.a > > Shouldn't that be: > >   rm -fv /usr/lib/libbz2.a > -- > Roger > This should be fixed at r12123 Thanks for the report anyway Pierre -- http:/

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 10.0 read-only file system failure

2021-01-13 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 10:05 -0300, Jamenson Espindula via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi, everyone. Have an excellent 2021! > > I just finished building the LFS 10.0. This error message was shown > when I booted: > >  = = = = = Begin of transcription = = = = = > > FAILURE: > > You should not be reading th

Re: [lfs-dev] blfs-book-10.0-html.tar.xz and lxqt

2020-12-12 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 08:40 +1100, scsijon via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 13/12/20 7:00 am, > lfs-dev-requ...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:40:48 -0600 > > From: Bruce Dubbs > > To: lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org > > Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] blfs-book-10.0-html.tar.xz

Re: [lfs-dev] Issue with GCC after leaving Chroot at end of Chap7 and re-entering it for Chap8

2020-11-17 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 15:45 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 14:49, Kevin Buckley < > kevin.m.buck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Pretty sure this will be an "end-user" issue but, just in case > > anyone > > has seen something similar and can thus point me in the righ

Re: [lfs-dev] IANA-ETC protocols/services file problems

2020-11-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 23:58 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-11-14 07:38 -0800, Joel Bion via lfs-dev wrote: > > I also am using the tagged-as-a-release 20201110 > > > > It turns out that this is the difference: if you grab the tar file > > from > > the line that says "source code (t

Re: [lfs-dev] IANA-ETC protocols/services file problems

2020-11-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 06:18 -0800, Joel Bion via lfs-dev wrote: > There's a bit of a mess with protocols/services in the latest builds > from IANA-ETC. > > 1) They require that Python-3 be installed, because you need to > generate > these files in these latest releases by running a script 'updat

Re: [lfs-dev] Multilib Chapter 5 zlib: configure maybe missing --host flag

2020-11-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 10:45 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 09:29, Kevin Buckley > wrote: > > > > Hi Thomas, > > > > I believe that, as of Revision: 12059, your Zlib section in Chapter > > 5 > > is missing the "--host=$LFS_TGT" flag > > > > Compare > > > >    

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding attributes in the source XML

2020-10-06 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 18:48 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > i was experimenting with making use of an extra attribute in the > XML source tags, akin to the vanilla book's 'sysv' or 'systemd' > for the "revision" attribute,, or to Thomas's Multilib arch attribute > ('ml_32', 'ml_x32' or

Re: [lfs-dev] Linux API Headers not installed in Chapter 8

2020-09-24 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 22:43 +0200, Tim Tassonis via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi all > > While building lfs 10.0 from the book, I noticed that the linux api > headers are installed in chapter 5, but not again in chapter 8. > > While this of course works, as they are installed into /usr, it seems > a > b

Re: [lfs-dev] make check fails in binutils, chapter 8.18

2020-09-24 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 21:17 +0200, Tim Tassonis via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi all > > make -k check fails on my lfs 10.0 build, with following errors: > > after a while, I get this > > gcctestdir/collect-ld: internal error in set_section_addresses, at > ../../gold/output.cc:4445 > collect2: error: ld

Re: [lfs-dev] host /usr/share/config.site may break build

2020-09-04 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Fri, 2020-09-04 at 00:47 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 9/3/20 10:53 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > Now we are using --prefix=/usr in "Ch. 6 Cross Compiling Temporary > > Tools". The > > problem is that configure scripts (generated by autoconf) will try > > to load > > ${prefi

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc-9.2.0 test suite

2020-09-02 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 07:52 -0700, Tree Davies via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I automated my LFS build, and haven't had any issue with it. The > other day > during a rebuild, I notiiced that I had been running the gcc test > suite > as the root user. So I fixed it as in the intructions: >

Re: [lfs-dev] Section 9.4 (sysvinit)

2020-08-28 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 17:48 -0400, Joe Locash via lfs-dev wrote: > In managing devices, specifically WRT network devices, 2 methods are > listed for using traditional network names. Another and easier (IMO) > way is to just create an empty file: /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name- > slot.rules Do you m

Re: [lfs-dev] TCL tests hang on some host systems

2020-08-24 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 06:43 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 19:38 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I wanted to drop in a report from my adventures attempting to get > > LFS > > 10.0-rc1 bootstr

Re: [lfs-dev] TCL tests hang on some host systems

2020-08-24 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 19:38 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wanted to drop in a report from my adventures attempting to get > LFS > 10.0-rc1 bootstrapped on a VMWare VM for the xf86-video-vmware > driver. > Here's some supporting information first: > > renodr [ /mnt/

Re: [lfs-dev] M4 in chapter 6 fails to compile

2020-08-20 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 17:28 +0100, John Burrell via lfs-dev wrote: > I get this result > > make[3]: Entering directory '/mnt/lfs/build/m4/m4-1.4.18/lib' > CC gl_avltree_oset.o > CC binary-io.o > CC c-ctype.o > CC c-stack.o > CC c-strcasecmp.o > CC c-

Re: [lfs-dev] libcap-2.42 No rule to make target 'install-static'

2020-08-10 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 05:09 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > Trying to build current svn, libcap install failed: > > make -C libcap install > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'install-static', needed by > 'install'. Stop. > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs > make[1]: Entering

Re: [lfs-dev] report: test build with glibc-development, and old updated packages

2020-08-03 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-08-02 at 22:10 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > But the sed or the whole patch for binutils gold tests is (are) still > needed. I haven't had the time to get to the exact requirements... > Just to confirm that only the sed is needed. The patch

[lfs-dev] report: test build with glibc-development, and old updated packages

2020-08-02 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
I've done a test build with git version of glibc, and all other packages updated. I've forgotten the beta version of autoconf. The patch for gcc pass 2 is not needed anymore. But the sed or the whole patch for binutils gold tests is (are) still needed. I haven't had the time to get to the exact r

Re: [lfs-dev] More observations on directory creations

2020-08-01 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 16:16 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > All mkdir commands should use -p whether needed or not, just for > consistency. I'm not sure that "consistency" is the right word here: using an option consistently means using it when it is needed... Maybe "regularity" or

Re: [lfs-dev] More observations on directory creations

2020-08-01 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Hi, Exceptionally top-posting, because, I'll answer in the message body, and I want to tell general things first. First, thanks to Kevin to be our "quality assurance". Those messages are bugging me, but make me think... Second, presently, the whole management of directories is the result of design

Re: [lfs-dev] Some files on the final system are now created during the temporary tools phase

2020-07-31 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 15:22 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 7/31/20 2:14 PM, Marcel van den Boer via lfs-dev wrote: > > Thanks for this, > > > I compared a completed system of SVN-20200721 with a backup of the > > temporary system and found that a few files from the temporary > > syst

Re: [lfs-dev] Bootscript checkfs anomoly

2020-07-31 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 14:54 -0500, William Harrington via lfs-dev wrote: > I tried to provide the community a possible problem. Since the > community doesn’t like images, so where do I post proof? > > > On Jul 31, 2020, at 14:05, William Harrington < > > kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: > > > >  >

Re: [lfs-dev] Creating the Minimal directory layout in LFS filesystem

2020-07-27 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 12:18 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 7/26/20 6:35 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > > At present, the LFS Book, at Revision r12002, says > > > > 4.2. Creating the Minimal directory layout in LFS filesystem > > > > The first task performed in the LFS partitio

Re: [lfs-dev] Errors with Linux From Scratch Version SVN-20200707

2020-07-11 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 11:28 +, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: > A couple of errors found: > > Chapter 6. Cross Compiling Temporary Tools > 6.7. File-5.39 > > Building gives the error: > > Cannot use the installed version of file (5.37) to > cross-compile file 5.39 > Please install file 5.3

Re: [blfs-dev] graphviz 2.44.1 does not build if ghostscript is not installed

2020-07-11 Thread Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 12:00 +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > I get: > - > false cdt.3.ps cdt.3.pdf > make[3]: *** [Makefile:1112: cdt.3.pdf] Error 1 > - > The reason is that if ps2pdf is not found, it is set to "false". Note > that this has

Re: [lfs-dev] libelf

2020-07-07 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 11:56 +0100, Roger via lfs-dev wrote: > Yesterday I built LFS-9.1 (sysvinit not systemd) with /usr > on a separate partition. Localnet failed when I booted. This > is because ip (from iproute2) links to libelf which is in > /usr/lib. Localnet is run before mounting /usr whic

Re: [lfs-dev] incorrect note about libstdc++ in toolchain technical notes?

2020-06-21 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 14:18 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > 在 2020-06-21星期日的 14:14 +0800,Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev写道: > > > "As said above, the standard C++ library is compiled next, > > > followed in > > " > > > "linkend=\"chapter-temporary-tools\"/> by all the programs that > > > need " > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] Some comments on the test results.

2020-06-19 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 16:26 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > I've now been through my test logs for the new build (on my i7 > haswell). > > Here are a few comments (in order of testing) > > glibc-2.31.0 > > > We say "misc/tst-ttyname is known to fail in the LFS chroot > enviro

Re: [lfs-dev] a typo in Toolchain Technical Notes?

2020-06-18 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 17:03 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > There is a table: > > Stage Build HostTarget Action > 1 A A B build cross-compiler cc1 using ccA on machine > A > 2 A B B build cross-compiler cc2 using cc1 on machine > A > 3 B

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-18 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 12:37 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 22:01, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: > > Please tell us what you think of: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~pierre/lfs-svn/index.html > > (I've not bee able to remo

Re: [lfs-dev] Stripping Again: loss of suid on some files

2020-06-17 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 19:55 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > Bringing this here now that Scott Andrews has pointed me towards the > source of why users could not su on my new system: loss of suid. > > In the past I have not usually run what was in 'Stripping Again' > because my CFLAGS drop d

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-17 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-06-16 at 19:58 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 20:01, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > wrote: > > > I'd like to see the "cross-compiling 101" sections, so > > > > > > Introduction > > > Toolchain Technical Notes > > > General Compilation Instructions > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] Using Chapter 7's Util-linux for su (for a short time)

2020-06-17 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 20:28 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > With the recent reorganisation comes the addition of Util-linux into > the > chroot environment. > > The instructions there follow the standard LFS practice of disabling > various > utilities from Util-linux , including the su u

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 19:28 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 18:34, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: > > OTOH, personally, I like meson/ninja. I wish it were used more > > often. > > They have nothing to do with systemd. > > For s

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 15:09 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 20:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > wrote: > > In the last few weeks, the LFS editors have been working on a major > > overhaul of LFS. This work can be reviewed at > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 22:03 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-06-14 15:35 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 15:15 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > > wrote: > > > I am currently testing whether moving iana-etc before gcc may

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 15:15 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > I am currently testing whether moving iana-etc before gcc may allow > tests to pass, as reported by Joe Locash. If so, I'll commit it. > Hmm, having iana-etc does not change anything to the &q

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 15:10 +0100, spiky via lfs-dev wrote: > On 13/06/2020 13:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > In the last few weeks, the LFS editors have been working on a > > major > > overhaul of LFS. This work can be reviewed at > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/cross2-l

Re: [lfs-dev] Future for LFS

2020-06-13 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 00:05 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 6/12/20 10:00 PM, William Harrington via lfs-dev wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I’ve noticed that LFS is only targeting i386 and AMD64. The is a > > great hunger for LFS to support ARM. Many have wished for the > > support. Wha

Re: [lfs-dev] test results with locale-archive symlink and vim-8.2.0814 (trunk book)

2020-05-26 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 22:17 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 05:20:44PM +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 16:14 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > > wrote: > > > Now this has been done with /dev/pts b

Re: [lfs-dev] test results with locale-archive symlink and vim-8.2.0814 (trunk book)

2020-05-25 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 16:44 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi, > Here are test results from a jhalfs run: > trunk book > $LFS is a subdirectory of $HOME, not a mount point (shouldn't be > important, but who knows) > with changes: > - added a link: >

Re: [lfs-dev] test results with locale-archive symlink and vim-8.2.0814 (trunk book)

2020-05-25 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 16:14 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > Now this has been done with /dev/pts bind mounted. Let's try with > /dev/pts mounted normally... > > Same, that is: no /dev/tty error... > But binding /dev/pts removes the failure in coreutils

Re: [lfs-dev] test results with locale-archive symlink and vim-8.2.0814 (trunk book)

2020-05-25 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
y 24, 2020 at 10:16:34PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 07:35:10PM +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs- > > dev wrote: > > > On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 16:44 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Here are

Re: [lfs-dev] test results with locale-archive symlink and vim-8.2.0814 (trunk book)

2020-05-24 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 16:44 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi, > Here are test results from a jhalfs run: > [... about vim test > === > [...] > --- > vim: stops at test1: > test1 FAILED - terminal size

[lfs-dev] test results with locale-archive symlink and vim-8.2.0814 (trunk book)

2020-05-24 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Hi, Here are test results from a jhalfs run: trunk book $LFS is a subdirectory of $HOME, not a mount point (shouldn't be important, but who knows) with changes: - added a link: /tools/lib/locale/locale-archive -> /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive - vim version: 8.2.0814 There are a number

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc-10 and stack protector in kernel

2020-05-21 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 16:17 +0200, Thomas Trepl via lfs-dev wrote: > Am Montag, den 11.05.2020, 09:50 +0200 schrieb Pierre Labastie via > lfs-dev: > > Sorry if this has already been reported. With gcc 10 and kernel > > 5.6.11, > > I get: > > Kernel panic - not sy

Re: [lfs-dev] Why is the /toolchain symlink on the host system even needed?

2020-05-15 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 18:21 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > Hey there, > > I'd like to inquire about the actual need for the /toolchain symlink > on the host system. > > Apparently, failure to create this link causes > configure/build/linking > problems starting from Chapter's 5 li

Re: [lfs-dev] CFLAGS in fixing up for gcc-10.

2020-05-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 10:57 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > > That being said, and based on my testings, I believe `gdbm` is the > only package that won't build with that flag and needs `-fcommon` > explicitly specified in CFLAGS. > > A couple of packages that might not work with t

Re: [lfs-dev] CFLAGS in fixing up for gcc-10.

2020-05-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 14:33 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-05-13 23:46 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 5/13/20 11:33 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > > I notice that in some places people have overridden any existing > > > CFLAGS when adding -fcommon. In most place

Re: [lfs-dev] CFLAGS in fixing up for gcc-10.

2020-05-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 05:33 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > I notice that in some places people have overridden any existing > CFLAGS when adding -fcommon. In most places, for those of us who > care the fix is obvious (CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fcommon"). One or two > packages will turn out to be m

Re: [lfs-dev] proposal: some improvements to LFS book

2020-05-11 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 19:51 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > I just redone LFS build for GCC-10.1.0. I proposed several > improvements during > the process: > > At first, some changes suggested by Firas: > > 1. Remove bzip2 in Chap. 5. No other changes needed. decreases the total number o

[lfs-dev] gcc-10 and stack protector in kernel

2020-05-11 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Sorry if this has already been reported. With gcc 10 and kernel 5.6.11, I get: Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary+0x169/0x170 at early boot. this has been reported upstream [1], who made a complicated patch, mainly consisting of comments. It

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc-10 breaks systemd-245

2020-05-09 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-05-09 at 09:22 -0500, Brendan L via lfs-dev wrote: > > As a workaround, I've added: CFLAGS=-Wno-format-overflow to the > > meson > > command. It may not be the best thing to do to pass CFLAGS, but I > > do > > not know enough of meson to do better... > > > > The preferred way with me

[lfs-dev] gcc-10 breaks systemd-245

2020-05-09 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
I get: -- [418/1741] Compiling C object 'src/core/2ac6ece@@core@sta/path.c.o' FAILED: src/core/2ac6ece@@core@sta/path.c.o cc -Isrc/core/2ac6ece@@core@sta -Isrc/core -I../src/core -Isrc/basic -I../src/basic -Isrc/boot -I../src/boot -Isrc/shared -I../src/shared -Isrc/systemd -I../src/systemd -Is

Re: [lfs-dev] Test failure in man-db

2020-05-04 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 06:51 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:51:34PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev > wrote: > > > Doesn't really explain why man-db has sometimes failed, but > > > passed > > > other times (for various builders). Maybe there is something > > > else >

Re: [lfs-dev] Modified build of LFS using pure cross-compilation and sysroot

2020-05-03 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 19:02 +0200, Thomas Trepl via lfs-dev wrote: > Am Freitag, den 01.05.2020, 15:53 +0200 schrieb Pierre Labastie via > lfs-dev: > > Hi, > > > > I propose a new way to build LFS, which removes the need for the > > /tools > > symlink, and d

Re: [lfs-dev] Test failure in man-db

2020-05-03 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 01:18 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/2/20 11:44 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 12:02:12PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev > > wrote: > > > On 2020-05-03 04:18 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > I'm building with LFS as at 25t

[lfs-dev] is the HELP2MAN trick still needed for flex?

2020-05-02 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Now that flex is in chapter 5 and that it is built without the trick, it can be seen that flex.1 man page is installed anyway. Is there something more that the HELP2MAN trick would allow? If not, I suggest to remove it. It just confuses things Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listin

Re: [lfs-dev] Modified build of LFS using pure cross-compilation and sysroot

2020-05-01 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 11:19 +1000, James B via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > > [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~pierre/lfs-modified/index.html > > If you can produce a single HTML version of this, that would be good > because it would be easier to archive for future reference. This idea > has its m

Re: [lfs-dev] Modified build of LFS using pure cross-compilation and sysroot

2020-05-01 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 10:55 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-05-01 20:51 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 5/1/20 8:53 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > >cons: chroot is entered in the middle of chapter 5 (maybe > > > chapter 5

[lfs-dev] Modified build of LFS using pure cross-compilation and sysroot

2020-05-01 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Hi, I propose a new way to build LFS, which removes the need for the /tools symlink, and decreases the number of tweaks needed when building gcc. The current build builds a cross-compiler in pass1, and uses it as a native compiler in pass2. This needs to use a non standard directory (/tools) to h

Re: [lfs-dev] SVN-20200423 Iana-ETC is obsolete (suggestion?)

2020-04-26 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:30 -0400, Jean-Marc Pigeon via lfs-dev wrote: > Hello, > > > Working with my (LFS based) server, I got a trouble > with /etc/services (iana port definition), as (just an example) > port 953 (rndc) is not defined. > > The LFS /etc/services (extracted from iana-etc-2.30.ta

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

2020-04-18 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 21:03 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 07:15:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 07:33:08PM +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs- > > dev wrote: > > > I've reinstated the ICA system

Re: [lfs-dev] chapter 6 readline slightly incorrect

2020-04-10 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 12:18 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 4/9/20 11:38 AM, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:12 AM Pierre Labastie < > > pierre.labas...@neuf.fr> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 23:27 +0200, Tadeus Prast

Re: [lfs-dev] util-linux depends optionally on udev

2020-04-09 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Changed the subject to reflect what is really going on... On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 11:56 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > [...] > Sometimes I wonder why I assume something without checking! It > happens > to me too often that it then proves wrong! > > Here it is: I&

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

2020-04-09 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 09:37 +, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote: > On April 3, 2020 2:17:29 PM CDT, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev < > lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 13:27 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 4/3/20 12:33 PM,

[lfs-dev] Another issue revealed by ICA

2020-04-08 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
When doing ICA, I see that login, expiry, and su differ between first pass and next. Using objdump, I see that the files from first pass reference /bin/passwd, while the files from the next pass reference /usr/bin/passwd. Note that passwd is installed in /usr/bin (and not moved to /bin afterwards),

Re: [lfs-dev] chapter 6 readline slightly incorrect

2020-04-08 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 14:06 +0200, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev wrote: > Hello Pierre, > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:55 AM Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We say that SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw" is needed to force > > Re

[lfs-dev] chapter 6 readline slightly incorrect

2020-04-08 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Hi, We say that SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw" is needed to force Readline to link against the libncursesw library. But: 1) Even if readline uses the tremcap functions, it does not link against any library containing it (see the INSTALL file in source). 2) This switch had not effect to the o

Re: [lfs-dev] x86_64-bit dynamic linker location

2020-04-08 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 21:37 -1000, Dean Takemori via lfs-dev wrote: > For x86_64 builds, LFS patches gcc to set the default directory name > for 64-bit libraries to “lib” instead of “lib64” (eg in chapter > 5.5.1, 5.10.1 and 6.25.1) by patching gcc/config/i386/t-linux64 > > But the location of the

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

2020-04-03 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
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 sysroot/cross-compile system. > > > > For tho

[lfs-dev] e2fsprog depends optionally on udev

2020-04-03 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
I've reinstated the ICA system in jhalfs, in order to test the builds with the sysroot/cross-compile system. For those who haven't folowed lfs in the 200x years, ICA (iterative comparison analysis) is a way to rebuild the system with itself, and compare the results. There used to be another system

Re: [lfs-dev] Linux kernel policy

2020-03-31 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 08:52 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-03-30 15:05 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > We have almost always updated the linux kernel to the "mainline" > > release. We do skip intermediate releases though because of the > > frequency of releases. > > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] sysklogd

2020-03-28 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 17:59 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 10:04 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 3/28/20 7:48 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 00:04 -1000, Dean Takemori via lfs-dev > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] sysklogd

2020-03-28 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 10:04 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 3/28/20 7:48 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 00:04 -1000, Dean Takemori via lfs-dev wrote: > > > The version of sysklogd that LFS uses (1.5.1 - from > > > https:

Re: [lfs-dev] sysklogd

2020-03-28 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 00:04 -1000, Dean Takemori via lfs-dev wrote: > The version of sysklogd that LFS uses (1.5.1 - from > https://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/) has not been updated in > over 5 years (late 2014). > > There is a successor project with active development ( > https://github.

Re: [lfs-dev] Differences in package description texts beween LFS and BLFS

2020-03-23 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 23/03/2020 à 10:12, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 16:59, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: > >> >> I think blfs adds a level of details so that users can decide whether they >> want to build the package or not. In LFS, the

Re: [lfs-dev] Differences in package description texts beween LFS and BLFS

2020-03-23 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 23/03/2020 à 09:53, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : > Because I decided to build the three packges from LFS's Chapter 5 > that don't get built in Chapter 6, despite the builder having had to > download the sources for Chapter 5, I noticed: > > 5.11. Tcl-8.6.10 > > The Tcl package contains

Re: [lfs-dev] Ordering of Chapter 5 GGC Pass2 required external packages stanza

2020-03-18 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 14/03/2020 à 10:44, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev a écrit : > Le 14/03/2020 à 09:56, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : >> I note, because my PkgUser Book has explicit sections for >> unpacking the sources that the vanilla book doesn't, that, >> in Chapter 5 GGC Pass2,

Re: [lfs-dev] Inaccuracy in chroot page

2020-03-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 14/03/2020 à 17:36, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : > On 3/14/20 10:55 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >> Le 14/03/2020 à 16:00, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : >>> On 3/14/20 3:41 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >>>> In "6.4 Enteri

Re: [lfs-dev] Inaccuracy in chroot page

2020-03-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 14/03/2020 à 16:00, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : > On 3/14/20 3:41 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >> In "6.4 Entering the Chroot Environment", we have: >> >>  From this point on, there is no need to use the LFS variable anymore, >> b

Re: [lfs-dev] Ordering of Chapter 5 GGC Pass2 required external packages stanza

2020-03-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 14/03/2020 à 09:56, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : > I note, because my PkgUser Book has explicit sections for > unpacking the sources that the vanilla book doesn't, that, > in Chapter 5 GGC Pass2, the order of actions prior to the > creation of the build directory is: > > > Unpack the re

[lfs-dev] Inaccuracy in chroot page

2020-03-14 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
In "6.4 Entering the Chroot Environment", we have: From this point on, there is no need to use the LFS variable anymore, because all work will be restricted to the LFS file system. This is because the Bash shell is told that $LFS is now the root (/) directory. But it is not true t

[lfs-dev] Complete removal of docbook snapshot

2020-03-13 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Hi all, I've removed completely the docbook snapshot at r11779 and r11780. Testing on my system with installed docbook-xsl-1.79.1 (or 2) generated the same book (up to meta information) as with the previous system. I hope everybody has a usable docbook stylesheet installation. And that higgs has i

Re: [lfs-dev] Building Glibc without the Info pages?

2020-03-12 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 12/03/2020 à 03:52, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : > On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 17:59, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: >> ... >> what if you tried passing "MAKEINFO=/bin/true" to configure? >> >> Pierre > > Gets you very close. > > ma

Re: [lfs-dev] Building Glibc without the Info pages?

2020-03-10 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 10/03/2020 à 10:19, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : > As I usually build against Thomas Trepl's Multilib book, I've realised > that I end up building the Glibc Info pages SIX times, three in Chapter 5 > and three in Chapter 6. > > I've been looking at the Glibc Makefile hierarchy but couldn

Re: [lfs-dev] Should we keep the "milestone" entity in general.ent

2020-03-02 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 02/03/2020 à 16:06, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : > On 3/2/20 3:11 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >> Presently, this entity is 9.0, and has been last changed in July 2019. The >> questions are: >> - what's its use? >> - if it is used, shouldn

[lfs-dev] Should we keep the "milestone" entity in general.ent

2020-03-02 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Presently, this entity is 9.0, and has been last changed in July 2019. The questions are: - what's its use? - if it is used, shouldn't it be changed to 9.2? - it not, shouldn't it be removed? Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Un

Re: [lfs-dev] A misleading `--disable-libstdcxx-threads' description?

2020-03-02 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 23/02/2020 à 16:31, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev a écrit : > Le 23/02/2020 à 15:49, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev a écrit : >> >> I am glad to help. But, really, test what you fly, and fly what you >> test. In other words, don't do an SVN build to write the book's

Re: [lfs-dev] The nochuncks book doesn't get the aux-file-data.sh changes

2020-03-01 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 01/03/2020 à 07:55, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : > On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 01:16, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: >> >> Le 29/02/2020 à 16:09, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : >>> On 2/29/20 4:57 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >>> >&g

Re: [lfs-dev] The nochuncks book doesn't get the aux-file-data.sh changes

2020-02-29 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 29/02/2020 à 16:09, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : > On 2/29/20 4:57 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > >>> >>> Assuming there's no reason why the noChunks book shouldn't >>> be created from the xmllint-ed source, (1) looks the cleaner &g

Re: [lfs-dev] The nochuncks book doesn't get the aux-file-data.sh changes

2020-02-29 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 29/02/2020 à 11:39, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev a écrit : > I do hope I have this right: I don't think this one is down > to my rendering environment. > > As I think of it, there are three files created in RENDERTMP > > lfs-html2.xml > lfs-full.xml > lfs-html.xml > > resulting from this p

Re: [lfs-dev] A misleading `--disable-libstdcxx-threads' description?

2020-02-23 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 23/02/2020 à 15:49, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev a écrit : > > I am glad to help. But, really, test what you fly, and fly what you > test. In other words, don't do an SVN build to write the book's text > (note that GCC has just moved from SVN to git this new year). Thank > you. I only did th

Re: [lfs-dev] A misleading `--disable-libstdcxx-threads' description?

2020-02-23 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 23/02/2020 à 15:06, Tadeus Prastowo a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 9:48 AM Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: >> >> Le 23/02/2020 à 09:20, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev a écrit : >>> In other words, the description of the option given in the LFS book >>>

Re: [lfs-dev] A misleading `--with-sysroot' description?

2020-02-23 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 22/02/2020 à 23:04, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev a écrit : > Le 21/02/2020 à 21:50, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev a écrit : >> Le 21/02/2020 à 18:15, Tadeus Prastowo a écrit : >>> Some corrections below, keeping in mind that the binutils build is a >>> native build, no

Re: [lfs-dev] A misleading `--disable-libstdcxx-threads' description?

2020-02-23 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
Le 23/02/2020 à 09:20, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 7:58 AM Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: >> >> Le 23/02/2020 à 07:21, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev a écrit : >>> Le 23/02/2020 à 00:33, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev a écrit : >

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