Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:54:47PM -0800, Thomas Tutone wrote: > > I get errors running the glibc-2.3.6 testsuite in > section 6.9 of Version 6.2 of the LFS book: > [snip a series of nptl failures, version-check showing a recent kernel, and relevant archive postings ] > > So, this suggests that

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread JIM CAMERON
Hi there. --- Thomas Tutone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get errors running the glibc-2.3.6 testsuite in > section 6.9 of Version 6.2 of the LFS book: > I'm running Slackware 11.0 with a custom recent > kernel on the host system. > Looking through the archives, I came across this: ... > 1.

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Lord
Tijnema ! wrote: > I build my whole LFS/BLFS system as root, nothing happpened, but as all > people aleady explained here, there is a security risk. > There are already some tools like JHALFS, but they don't work very well. What makes you say that? The tool works very well in my opinion. I can

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread Thomas Tutone
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:54:47PM -0800, Thomas > Tutone wrote: > > > > I get errors running the glibc-2.3.6 testsuite in > > section 6.9 of Version 6.2 of the LFS book: > > > [snip a series of nptl failures, version-check > showing a recent > kernel

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread TheOldFellow
Alan Lord wrote: > Tijnema ! wrote: >> So if you start creating a bash file that works for most of the >> packages, with su/suo, you can copy that in every package to be >> automated, and edit it for specific apps that require other configure >> options. > > This is a BAD idea. This was simila

tcp-syncookies not found, complain in boot

2007-03-02 Thread Lauri Kasanen
I'm now doing BLFS 6.2.0 stable and just put up a firewall. On boot it complains about missing table "nat", I think I missed that in my kernel, but it also complains about missing tcp-syncookies in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 that's echoed to 0 in the personal firewall script. There's only a syn_retry or s

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Lord
TheOldFellow wrote: > The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in > the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's > DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all the rest please. Now JHALFS isn't so good. That's a fair point. Although I do believe you can e

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread Thomas Tutone
--- JIM CAMERON wrote: [snip] > It's true that I had test failures under my host > kernel, and they went away when I booted from a > 2.6.16.27 kernel. I'm not sufficiently familiar with > the whole LFS thing to say whether they're > significant > enough to worry about; I thought it better to be

Re: Retrieving Packages from LiveCD after chroot

2007-03-02 Thread John Rodenbiker
On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Colin Kemp wrote: >> > next time remember that it did say to put all the sources in the > source dir at the beginning of chapter 3 Actually, it says "Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stored somewhere that is conveniently available throughout the entire

Re: Retrieving Packages from LiveCD after chroot

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Staub
John Rodenbiker wrote: > Actually, it says "Downloaded packages and patches will need to be > stored somewhere that is conveniently available throughout the entire > build." It goes on to say that a working directory will also be > required and that $LFS/sources can work for both. The text does

Re: Retrieving Packages from LiveCD after chroot

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/2/07, John Rodenbiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Colin Kemp wrote: > >> > > next time remember that it did say to put all the sources in the > > source dir at the beginning of chapter 3 > > Actually, it says "Downloaded packages and patches will need to be > store

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/2/07, Thomas Tutone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. Building glibc again using a 2.6.16 kernel, but > not rebuilding the temporary system, I now get the > following errors: > > make[2]: [/sources/glibc-2-build/posix/annexc.out] > Error 1 (ignored) > make[2]: *** > [/sources/glibc-2-build/n

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread Thomas Tutone
--- Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/07, Thomas Tutone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > OK. Building glibc again using a 2.6.16 kernel, > but > > not rebuilding the temporary system, I now get the > > following errors: > > > > make[2]: [/sources/glibc-2-build/posix/annexc.out

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread JIM CAMERON
--- Thomas Tutone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Jim. When you booted from the 2.6.16.27 > kernel, did you then rebuild the temporary system, > or did you (as Ken Moffat suggests) simply keep the > existing temporary system, chroot in, and resume > with building glibc? IIRC, I rebuilt everyt

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/2/07, Thomas Tutone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a Pentium III. (It's an old Dell C600 laptop, > but it works great - Slackware runs like a champ on > it.) Well, my main box was a PIII until very recently. I think I had one real failure that last time I ran the glibc-2.3.6 testsuite o

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/2/07, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 02 March 2007 11:49, TheOldFellow wrote: > > > The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in > > the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's > > DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all th

Re: Errors in glibc testsuite in section 6.9

2007-03-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:48:18AM -0800, Thomas Tutone wrote: > > > > > > 1. Any suggestions on how to proceed short of > > > building a 2.6.16.27 kernel for the host? > > > > Don't do that. Please. Adrian Bunk is maintaining > > 2.6.16 at the > > moment, if you are going to stay with 2.6.1

Re: Glibc replaces kernel headers [Was Re: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man]

2007-03-02 Thread Arden
On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> also glibc-2.5 wants to replace the linux-header file >> /usr/include/scsi/sg.h with it's own. > > Should we be addressing this? I noticed that in Fedora they remove the > scsi directory from t

Re: Glibc replaces kernel headers [Was Re: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man]

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/2/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> also glibc-2.5 wants to replace the linux-header file >> /usr/include/scsi/sg.h with it's own. > > Should we be addressing this? I noticed that in Fe

Host Requirements for 6.2

2007-03-02 Thread William Harrington
Can someone confirm that bison is needed to build bash-3.1 in chap5 of Stable 6.2? Someone just mentioned to me that bash-3.1 needed yacc. The host system requirements in 6.2 doesn't mention bison, and the development book, does. Sincerely, William -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/li

Re: Host Requirements for 6.2

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/2/07, William Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone confirm that bison is needed to build bash-3.1 in chap5 > of Stable 6.2? > > Someone just mentioned to me that bash-3.1 needed yacc. > > The host system requirements in 6.2 doesn't mention bison, and the > development book, does