chapter 5 parent directory question

2005-09-05 Thread ralph jefferies
I have a simple newbie question on LFS: Section 5.3.1 of version 6.1 of the book instructs you to enter: mkdir ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build and later ../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls I understand that ../ implies the parent directory of the current

Re: chapter 5 parent directory question

2005-09-05 Thread Kris van Rens
ralph jefferies wrote: I have a simple newbie question on LFS: Section 5.3.1 of version 6.1 of the book instructs you to enter: mkdir ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build and later ../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls I understand that ../ implies the

Re: chapter 5 parent directory question

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Benton
ralph jefferies wrote: I have a simple newbie question on LFS: Section 5.3.1 of version 6.1 of the book instructs you to enter: mkdir ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build and later ../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls I understand that ../ implies the parent

Re: ncurses cannot find libstdc++ in chapter 6.21

2005-09-05 Thread Chris Staub
Ilja Honkonen wrote: Archaic wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:11:08PM +0300, Ilja Honkonen wrote: No it did not, I noticed this when Groff wouldn't configure complaining that it couldn't compile c++ programs. There were no gcc or c++ or even cc in /usr/bin. Very strange, but everyting

Re: ncurses cannot find libstdc++ in chapter 6.21

2005-09-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Chris Staub wrote: [snipped a lot of the previous thread] You shouldn't have to symlink anything unless it tells you to in the book. If you do have to then you need to go back and figure out what's wrong before going any further. You should go back to the gcc installation in chap. 6, and

Re: Package user hint - the build script and subshells

2005-09-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/05/05 15:48 CST: What I lose with this method is the delete_package of the hint. For packages that have a 'make uninstall' target this is irrelevant. Meaning you trust a package developer to clean up your disk for you? And I'm sure all those packages where

Re: Package user hint - the build script and subshells

2005-09-05 Thread Dan McGhee
Randy McMurchy wrote: Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/05/05 15:48 CST: What I lose with this method is the delete_package of the hint. For packages that have a 'make uninstall' target this is irrelevant. Meaning you trust a package developer to clean up your disk for you? And

LFS-6.1, Kernel-2.6.11.12

2005-09-05 Thread baho-utot
LFS-6.1 build I build a kernel (2.6.11.12) for my scratch built system and it populates /dev with the wrong permissions, ie /dev/null with crw-rw permissions. Non root users can not access it example: echo Cat shit /dev/null. Fails with Permission denied. (because of 660 perms) Why would

Re: Package user hint - the build script and subshells

2005-09-05 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/3/05, S. Anthony Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is NOT a problem, unless one of the functions sets a variable, or cd's to a directory (typically in the configure_commands function, the way I use it at least), and the variable needs to be accessible later, or later commands need to