Configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (long double)

I started a build of LFS-6.2 under a LFS-6.2 host. I want to create a dual boot system, one for a server and the second for a desktop system. I have the first (server system) complete and had started on the desktop build. The system only has a single LFS system on it presently. The build h

Re: Configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (long double)

On Sunday 15 July 2007 10:14 am, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:28:23AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > At Chapter 6.9 Glibc-2.3.6 I get the following error when on the > > configuring glibc step: > > checking sizeof long double... configure: error: cannot com

Re: Configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (long double)

On Sunday 15 July 2007 4:06 pm, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:09:51PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > It is hard to parse the config.log in glibc-build directory. > > Yes, but it is essential. The last part of it is a dump of all the > variables, which you c

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/fakeroot.txt

The link in the following section is broken: Hopefully, now you are convinced that the fakeroot approach is the right approach for you. So lets get down to the details on how to achieve this. Since it is impossible to include instructions for all the packages in LFS and BLFS, I will go through som

Re: Diffutils chapter 5 make install error

On Sunday 19 August 2007 7:58:50 pm Peter Santimauro wrote: > I am working on building the LFS system, I am currently installing > diffutils in 5.17. I ran the ./configure ... , make, and make > install. Make install finishes with an error, saying that it cannot > create regular file /usr/local

Re: 18 hours and counting ... gcc pass 1

On Friday 31 August 2007 2:59 am, J. Greenlees wrote: > Yup, 18 hours and counting for 'make bootstrap' of gcc 4.1.2 > > host is lfs livecd r2032 > target: > Dell inspiron 3000, a pentium-mmx @266 MHz (i586-linux-gnu) > ram 128 MB ( system reports 144 MB from onboard cache ram for bios and > video

LFS-6.3: Binutils-2.17 - Pass 1 Failed

I am at the start of Chapter 5 trying to compile Binutils-2.17 pass - 1. I am using Fedora core 6 as the build platform. I get the following error when running this: (cut and paste from the book to the command line) CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.17/configure \ --prefix=/tools --disable-n

Re: LFS-6.3: Binutils-2.17 - Pass 1 Failed

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 6:40 am, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:42:59PM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: [putolin] > You seem to have damaged the fedora installation. If you were able > to compile anything recently, think back to what you have changed > since then. I d

Re: Blender: How to track down origins of misconfiguration in Makefiles?

On Sunday 02 December 2007 6:31:46 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > Working on my LFS for years now, I sometimes get stuck on a make where I > know what's wrong but I can't find the position in the makefiles where the > command that needs to be modified is set. > Is there a best way to

LFS 6.2 6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

I am working on a scripting build system to build LFS 6.3 from a subversion repository. I have successfully built all the chapters up to the end of 5. I am starting on Chapter 6. From Chapter 6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks To remove the “I have no name!” prompt, start a new shell.

Re: LFS 6.2 6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

On Monday 21 January 2008 7:24:03 pm Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:06:17PM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > > To remove the “I have no name!” prompt, start a new shell. Since a full > > Glibc was installed in Chapter 5 and the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files > > ha

Re: Dual Core?

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 1:08:53 am Mark Olbert wrote: > This is probably a silly question, but I haven't been able to find an > answer in the mailing list archives. > > If built on a dual-core system, does LFS take advantage of the dual cores? > > - Mark if you compile a smp kernel it will. --

LFS 6.3 6.59 Stripping Again

I am scripting a build of LFS 6.3 and I would like to be able to skip 6.59 Stripping Again by adding CFLAGS=-s to the bashrc environment, then building all the packages. Will this cause any error? Or is there a better way to build the packages without the symbol info? Thank you -- http://linu

Re: LFS 6.3 6.59 Stripping Again

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 7:42:28 pm Steve Crosby wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008 12:47 PM, Baho Utot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am scripting a build of LFS 6.3 and I would like to be able to skip > > 6.59 Stripping Again by adding CFLAGS=-s to the bashrc environment, then

Re: LFS 6.3 6.59 Stripping Again

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 4:20:32 pm Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:45:17PM -0600, mark jones wrote: > > I'm not at a Linux Box right now, so I can't test my theory. . . But > > perhaps 'make' is objecting to being stripped while in action? > > > > What would happen if you were t

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

On Monday 25 February 2008 2:47:12 pm Hugo Grauls wrote: [putolin] > > JH > > Without the LiveCD I would never have been able to get LFS6.2 up and > running. Biggest worry is to have the right basic tools at hand to build > from scratch, i.e. the adequate releases of GCC, linker, header files > e

Re: GRUB Problem

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 10:46 -0700, Ben Feinberg wrote: > Sorry for being unclear, this error is occurring when I use the "root > (hd1,3)" command in section 8.4 to make the system bootable. I am > aware of the different naming scheme, lfs is on partition sdb4 which > (I think) corresponds to hd1,

LFS 6.3: USB Drives

How does LFS 6.3 handle USB pen drives? I have connected a USB pen drive and I see it in /sys/bus/usb/devices but it fails to make a device in the dev directory. I find some devices in dev named usbdev3.1_ep00 and usbdev3.1_ep81 which comes from inserting the device into a USB port. Should the k

lfs on mdraid

Does LFS support mdraid? I have an mdraid setup and I would like to run lfs from there, does LFS install and boot from a mdraid? I also use jfs as a filesystem, I think I would only have to build the jfs utilities. Right/Wrong? Thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-suppo

5.6 linux-2.6.27.4 API Headers build error

I am getting the following error lfs:~/linux-2.6.27.4$ make headers_check CHK include/linux/version.h UPD include/linux/version.h HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'traps': scripts/basic/fixdep.c:377: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will brea

Re: 5.6 linux-2.6.27.4 API Headers build error

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 07:36 -0500, William Immendorf wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Baho Utot wrote: > > scripts/unifdef.c:209: error: conflicting types for 'getline' > > /usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of 'getline' was > Hmm.

Make flags

I have a AMD Athlon X4 810 with 8GB of ram I am want to build an i686 system followed by an x86_64 system I would like to use these flags: export CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe" export CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe" export MAKEFLAGS="-j3" Is it possible to use -j3

LFS-6.5 Chapter 6.13 GMP-4.3.1

Compiling GMP on an Athlon Phenom II X810 using an i686 liveCD This is not what I wanted as I wanted to build an i686 system. What is in the book makes it compile like this: with march=k8 and mtune=k8 export ABI="32" ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=$CHOST --enable-cxx --enable-mpbsd I am goin

Re: Help

Sam Vivacqua wrote: > The problem is that when I type the comand In -sv $LFS/tools / I > get the output: -bash: In: comand not found > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Chris Staub > wrote: > > On 09/12/2009 02:26 PM, Sam Vivacqua wrote: > >

Re: lfs 6.4 live on usb flash

Rodolfo Perez wrote: > Hi > > I could install lfs-6.4 on my laptop and I'm really happy about my new > lfs. > Now I would like to put it on my USB-Flash drive. I checked on lfs and > was googeling but could not find a really satisfiying answer. > > I'd like to have a very small (max. 500Mb) lf

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/9/26 J.P.Kaper : > >> Maybe somebody else can find the right suggestion to let me solve my >> problem. >> >> Hans Kaper. >> > > One of the problems with usb drives is that they can > take a long time to appear. I've never tried to boot > from usb, but ISTR that th

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

J.P.Kaper wrote: > I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an > external USB harddisk. > My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. > > Booting from the USB disk fails with > "[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount > root fs on un

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

J.P.Kaper wrote: > I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an > external USB harddisk. > My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. > > Booting from the USB disk fails with > "[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount > root fs on un

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

Hans Kaper wrote: > Op Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:19:29 +0200 schreef Baho Utot > : > > >> J.P.Kaper wrote: >> >>> I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an >>> external USB harddisk. >>> My host system is SUSE 10.3 o

Re: Uninformed Question re Kernel Configuration

Dan McGhee wrote: > I have a Turion Dual Core Processer. I didn't not configure support for > multiprocessors when I did my new kernel and I load only one CPU. Is a > dual core processor a "multiprocessor" system as far as the linux kernel > goes? My friends accuse me of being "rhetoric sensi

Re: build problem LFS 6.5

stosss wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Chris Staub wrote: > > [putolin] > 1st half of one of my scripts > > [putolin] Here is my script that works #!/tools/bin/bash - CURRDIR=$(pwd) SRC=/sources tar xvf $SRC/vim-7.2.tar.bz2 cd vim72 patch -Np1 -i $SRC/vim-7.2-fixes-5.patch

Re: build problem LFS 6.5

linux fan wrote: > On 11/28/09, Baho Utot wrote: > > >> make test | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Check.log >> make install | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Install.log >> > Logging helps so much when things go wrong. > > As already mentioned > > >> Scripting

/usr/lib/libstdc++.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format

From Book version 1.1.0-x86_64-multilib Section 6.4 GCC-4.2.4 Slackware 12.2 as the build system. I am getting this error on compiling x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-c++ -shared -nostdlib /tools/lib/../lib64/crti.o /cross-tools/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.2.4/crtbeginS.o .libs/bitmap_al

Re: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format

Simon Geard wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 17:32 -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > >> Sorry for sending this here but I can not find the clfs support mailing >> list, >> Could someone point me to the correct place? >> > > Under "Mailing Lists",

LFS 6.5 6.9. Glibc-2.10.1 test error

The system is a AMD phenom II 820 X4 Quad core with 8 GB ram Host is Slackware 12.2 - only sees 4 GB Ram non pae kernel Is this ok? gcc tst-cpuclock2.c -c -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -O2 -O3 -Wall -Winline -Wwrite-strings -fmerge-all-constants -g -march=i486 -mtune=native -pipe -Wstrict-prototype

Re: LFS 6.5 6.9. Glibc-2.10.1 test error

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > >> The system is a AMD phenom II 820 X4 Quad core with 8 GB ram >> Host is Slackware 12.2 - only sees 4 GB Ram non pae kernel >> >> Is this ok? >> >> /Build/glibc-build/rt/tst-cpuclock2 > >>

Re: LFS 6.5 6.9. Glibc-2.10.1 test error

William Immendorf wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Baho Utot wrote: > >> The system is a AMD phenom II 820 X4 Quad core with 8 GB ram >> > This seems to be a common Phenom II problem, as Trac user ringlis got > the same error, albeit with LFS 6.6-rc1 and

Re: LFS 6.5 6.9. Glibc-2.10.1 test error

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > >> cat /mnt/lfs/Build/glibc-build/rt/tst-cpuclock2.out >> live thread clock fffdd58e resolution 0.1 >> > > >> live thread before sleep => 0.53078 >> self thread before sleep => 0.

Re: LFS 6.5 6.9. Glibc-2.10.1 test error

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > >> I don't understand how a quad core would be "under heavy system load", >> > > You're right. I've done a bit of research and testing today and I'm > rewriting the error sections. &g

LFS-6.5 8.3. Linux-2.6.30.2

Yikes.my hand done builds and my now scripts/Makefile/Build system worked so far! On i686 or x86_64 platform.. I want to boot this from a USB thumb drive. Any pointers on what I need to set? Also is there a "generic" config file around for i686? Just the basic minimal needed, so I can

Re: Still no USB

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > brown wrap wrote: > >> I have been away from LFS for a few days, but now back to it. I did >> confirm the system is up by by installing SSH and DHCP. I can bring >> up the system, which has no keyboard access, but log into from >> another machine. Below is the latest output

Re: LFS-6.5 8.3. Linux-2.6.30.2

Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:58:56 -0500, Baho Utot > wrote: > >> Yikes.my hand done builds and my now scripts/Makefile/Build system >> worked so far! >> >> On i686 or x86_64 platform.. >> >> I want to boot this from a USB t

Re: LFS-6.5 8.3. Linux-2.6.30.2

Simon Geard wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:54:35 -0500, Baho Utot > wrote: > >> Ok thanks, I would have missed the SATA/IDE as modules, I did pickup on >> that it is a good thing to have ext2/3 built in. >> > > The key thing is that modules aren't

LFS 6.5 Boot USB

I have finished my LFS 6.5 build I now want to boot it from USB thumb drive. Here is what I did fdisk usb drive changing the partition type to 83 (linux) mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdd1 ---/dev/sdd1 is the usb drive mount /dev/sdd1 /media/disk rsync -var /mnt/lfs/ /media/disk/ changed the /boot/grub/men

LFS 6.5 Boot USB

I have finished my LFS 6.5 build I now want to boot it from USB thumb drive. Here is what I did fdisk usb drive changing the partition type to 83 (linux) mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdd1 ---/dev/sdd1 is the usb drive mount /dev/sdd1 /media/disk rsync -var /mnt/lfs/ /media/disk/ changed the /boot/grub/men

Re: LFS 6.5 Boot USB

Hans_2 wrote: >> title LFS USB >> root (hd3,0) >> kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.30.2 root=/dev/sdd1 ro >> > > How about entering kerneloption rootdelay = 10? That solved my problem > with booting from my USB-harddisk. > > > Hans. > > OK tahnks I will try that -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/

LFS-6.6 booting USB grub

I would like to boot LFS-6.5 on USB I have it working except that when I change from my desktop computer which has 3 drives to my laptop that only has one drive I must edit grub and change the kernel line to point to the prober /dev/sdx drive I would like to boot grub on the USB drive and have

Re: LFS-6.6 booting USB grub

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Hans Kaper wrote: > > >> I am curious to know what the experts have to say about why the UUID- and >> LABEL-options don't work. >> > > I'm not sure about the LABEL, but I know that the UUID option has to be > handled in an initrd. > >-- Bruce > I have since fo

Re: LFS-6.6 booting USB grub

Hans Kaper wrote: > Op Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:23:58 +0100 schreef Baho Utot > : > > >> I would like to boot LFS-6.5 on USB >> >> I have it working except that when I change from my desktop computer >> which has 3 drives to my laptop that only has one driv

Re: LFS-6.6 booting USB grub

Ken Moffat wrote: > On 25 February 2010 21:38, Baho Utot wrote: > > >> I have since found out that UUID and LABEL are a redhat twist. Â THey >> require an initrd and nash. >> nash mounts the drives ( does the dirty work and passes the info to the >> kerne

Error in BLFS Book Version svn-20100215

Small flea on the MTA page. /blfs-book-svn-html-2010-02-25/server/mail.html There isn't any IMAP server (Courier-IMAP) Mail Server Software MTAs are the programs which transport mail from one machine to the other. The traditional MTA is Sendmail, however there are several other choices. As

Re: Partition Sizes, AGAIN!

Andrew Benton wrote: > On 04/03/10 20:13, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> Andrew Benton wrote: >> >> >>> I use one partition for both /home and /boot. IE, /boot is a symbolic link >>> pointing at /home/boot >>> >> Why not just use an ordinary directory for /boot, then? Is >> there something

Re: Partition Sizes, AGAIN!

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > >> I don't like a separate swap partition, because it's difficult to >> resize, and the information I have is that with 2.6 kernels a swap file >> is as fast as a separate partition, and much easier to resize. >> > > Interesting. I've never had

Re: Partition Sizes, AGAIN!

Mike McCarty wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: [putolin] I use a boot partition and this layout >> $ ls /boot >> LFS-6.5/ Slack-x86-crypt/ Slackware-13.0-x86/ grub/ lost+found/ >> > > If /boot is an ordinary directory under /, and not a mount point, > then one needs

Re: Partition Sizes, AGAIN!

Mike McCarty wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Baho Utot wrote: >>> >> [putolin] >> >> I use a boot partition and this layout >> >>>> $ ls /boot >>>> LFS-6.5/ Slack-x86-

Re: LFS on USB?

cly...@clydew.org wrote: > Is it possible to build Linux from Scratch on a USB Flash Drive. I > did build it there but am having a time getting Grub to recognize it. > Yes I built LFS-6.5 on my desktop and transfered it to a USB drive with rsync Building directly on the usb drive is slow and not

Re: lLFS on USB?

Mike McCarty wrote: > ga ho wrote: > >> cly...@clydew.org wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to build Linux from Scratch on a USB Flash Drive. I >>> did build it there but am having a time getting Grub to recognize it. >>> >>> >> Yes I built LFS-6.5 on my desktop and transfered it to a U

Re: LFS on USB?

Mike McCarty wrote: > Hans Kaper wrote: > >>> My grub entry for my LFS6.4 stick is: >>> >>> title Linux From Scratch 6.4 Kernel 2.6.30.2 >>> root (hd0,0) >>> kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.30.2 root=/dev/uba1 >>> >>> >> Omit the root=/dev/uba1-option. root (hd0,0) points already to the device

LFS-6.4 Book

I would like to download the LFS-6.4 version of the book but it is missing from the download section http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/ Is it still available? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: LFS-6.4 Book

Ken Moffat wrote: > On 1 April 2010 00:17, Baho Utot wrote: > >> I would like to download the LFS-6.4 version of the book but it is >> missing from the download section >> >> http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/ >> >> Is it still availabl

Re: LFS-6.4 Book

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > >> I would like to download the LFS-6.4 version of the book but it is >> missing from the download section >> >> http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/ >> >> Is it still available? >> > &g

Re: LFS-6.4 Book

Trent Shea wrote: > On March 31, 2010 05:31:07 pm Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Quite why anyone would want to read it now, other than to compare >> what has changed, is beyond me. >> > I agree with Ken. I see you fighting with KDE-3, but it's mainly because > you're building a version that's no

Re: LFS-6.6, Stage2, glibc, nscd.c:442

On 06/01/10 15:19, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Paul Rogers wrote: > >> As seems >> indicated by the current situation, someone should adopt a QC role, and >> have one system that trails, i.e. has exactly the package versions >> specified in the HSR, and verifies that each version of LFS does in fact >> in

Re: LFS-6.6, Stage2, glibc, nscd.c:442

On 06/01/10 18:24, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: >> On 06/01/10 15:19, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Paul Rogers wrote: >>> >>>> As seems >>>> indicated by the current situation, someone should adopt a QC role, and >>>> hav

Re: LFS-6.6, Stage2, glibc, nscd.c:442

On 06/01/10 19:05, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > >> The system I am using to compile this stuff is an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 >> 810 Processor that has 8G DDR3 memory. I use that system so I can make >> mistakes really fast ;) ie things can go sour quickly and at

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 15:11:31 Face wrote: > >> well, thank you all, i will start over and see what will happen. >> I am using a shell script to do the book if someone could take a look >> at it, that would be nice . >> >> >> Sincerely >> > > Ah, you don't seem to have

Re: LFS-svn chap 6.7 (gcc: No such file or directory)

On 09/08/2010 05:56 AM, Martin Zajíc wrote: [putolin] > So i've rewrite gcc pass2 with last svn and it's working. > > I have another question about testing error. > I try to make LOG with '{} 2>&1 | tee $BUILD_DIR/LOG_$PROGRAM.log' > but when I did it how can I test it for errors, becouse

Re: building a driver for a different system

On 11/02/10 07:21, Jannis Kafkoulas wrote: Off topic for this listbut see below. > Hi, > > well it's not exactly a lfs issue but a similar one in his structure. > > I have a RedHat EL 5.5 installed on a HP Proliant DL 360 server. > I actually need the 5.0 version but it's missing (at least) th

Re: LFS problem

On Monday, December 13, 2010 06:27:26 am code.xiyou wrote: > Hello everyone, > Some errors happened like following when i compile LFS6.3. My > version is Ubuntu 9.04. > l...@jiawei-laptop:/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build$ sudo make install [putolin] > /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/libc.so.

Re: iana-etc-2.30-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

On Sunday, December 19, 2010 06:07:04 pm Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:43:30PM +0100, pieter blomme wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm at section 6.23 of the book. I need to decompress this package, but > > I have never encountered a .xz archive before. I've tried several > > suggestion

LFS-6.1, Kernel-2.6.11.12

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 woul

Re: LFS-6.1, Kernel-2.6.11.12

Andrew Benton wrote: baho-utot wrote: 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/nul

find error

I get this error when I run find: find Hard link count is wrong for /proc filesystem driver may have bug Anyone know anything about that? Thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information p

Re: Chapter 8:Host system Booting Problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have completed upto chapter8 and have booted the LFS system, But we cannot boot the Base system, The base system we had used was RedhatEnterpriseLinux4 Our Menu.lst file reads #LFS Entry title LFS6.2 root(hd0,3) kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.16.27 root=/dev/hda4 #H

Re: Useradd

Geoffrey Thomas wrote: After a few keyboard issues, I now have a LFS system that boots without problems. I can login as root and cruise through directories and use basic commands. When I add a user with useradd, all the info goes into the /etc/password and /etc/shadow files When I try to login

Re: SATA

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 8:09 pm, Chris Staub wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I have just finished installing LFS-6.2 jhalfs build on my notebook a > > DELL INSPERION 1501. It has a SATA hard drive controller. The > > motherboard is some kind of ATI board from dmesg

Re: [lfs-support] Nobody has received the fatal error missing gmp.h in coreutils-8.14

On 01/03/2012 06:28 PM, jasonps...@jegas.com wrote: > I posted earlier, and I don't expect speedy response but I was hoping > someone would say yay or Nay. > > compiling: coreutils-8.14 I get: > > expr.c:54:18 fatal error : gmp.h: no such file or directory > > > Sounds kind of serious to me... has

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - No Devices in /dev on boot up - Kernel then shuts off PC

On Wednesday 11 January 2012 05:04:31 am Simon Geard wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 02:20 -0700, jasonps...@jegas.com wrote: > > Well, I opend the "previous untouchable" RC file and tossed readline all > > over it ... and when I booted .. GUESS WHAT? I was able to step through > > the actual boot

Re: [lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

On Tuesday 17 January 2012 12:29:40 am Firerat wrote: > On Jan 17, 2012 5:21 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > > lfsuthayan@ubuntu:/$ ls -l /tools > > total 48 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 lfsuthayan lfs 12288 Jan 16 11:22 bin > > drwxr-xr-x 2 lfsuthayan lfs 4096 Jan 16 04:18 etc > > drwxr-xr-x 4 lfsuthayan lfs

[lfs-support] LFS-7.0 Chapter 6.16. MPC-0.9 FYI

I have been working on mpc. I have noticed that the way it is built in the book it only builds the static library. If --enable-shared is passed to configure it look like that is ignored as it still doesn't build the shared library. If autoreconf is run before doing the configure it builds the

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 Chapter 6.16. MPC-0.9 FYI

On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:07:33 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:49:37PM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > >> I have been working on mpc. > >> > >> I have noticed that the way it is built in the book it only builds t

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 Chapter 6.16. MPC-0.9 FYI

On Thursday 19 January 2012 06:14:10 am Andrew Benton wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:49:37 -0500 > > Baho Utot wrote: > > I have been working on mpc. > > > > I have noticed that the way it is built in the book it only builds the > > static library. > &

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 Chapter 6.16. MPC-0.9 FYI

On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:16:27 pm Ken Moffat wrote: [putolin] > I disagree with the first part. I don't have the book open in front > of me (just shutting down, but this looked important enough to take a > look). > > I use ./configure --prefix=/usr and I also have 'unset CFLAGS' > befor

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 Chapter 6.16. MPC-0.9 FYI

On Thursday 19 January 2012 08:18:21 am Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 07:14:42AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > > When I build on the host I get the same thing. Only when I add > > autoreconf before the ./configure step do I get the shared library. > > > &g

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 Chapter 6.16. MPC-0.9 FYI

On Thursday 19 January 2012 11:53:31 am Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I believe I may have found the problema > > > > When I build it with the following > > > > MAKEFLAGS="-j4" > > CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe -fom

[lfs-support] LFS-7.0 /dev/pts

I have finished my LFS-7.0 build and I have successfully booted it aafter solving some problems. The symlink /bin/sh to /bin/bash was missing. I am looking into why that happened, but I see in the chapter06 in the bash section that the link is not created by hand. I believe it should have b

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 /dev/pts

On Friday 27 January 2012 11:57:57 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I have finished my LFS-7.0 build and I have successfully booted it aafter > > solving some problems. > > > > > > The symlink /bin/sh to /bin/bash was missing. I am looking into wh

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 /dev/pts

On Saturday 28 January 2012 07:22:24 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:06:44 -0600 > > > > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> There are three places /dev/pts is mentioned in the book: > >> > >> 6.2. Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems > >> 8.2. Creating the /etc/fsta

[lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

I am using the lvm hint by Bryan Kadzban I think I am almost there to put LFS-7.0 on lvm, Have the following issues If someone here can point me in the correct direction and correction me. The lfs-7.0 is stock out of the book, with the following added packages lvm2.2.02.88 lfs-initramfs-1.0.

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

On Sunday 29 January 2012 07:05:17 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > Am I correct in believeing that the root filesystem is mounted from > > the /etc/rc./init.d/mountfs script? > > No. It must be mounted in the initramfs or the kernel itself, usually > reado

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

On Sunday 29 January 2012 08:08:58 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions? > > How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else. > > And yes, I do manage 16 regular partitions: > &g

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

I believe I have solved my LVM booting problem with the kernel not finding the root filesystem. # Start the udev daemon to continually watch for, and act on, # uevents /sbin/udevd --daemon # Now traverse /sys in order to "coldplug" devices that have # already been

[lfs-support] LFS-7.0 7.13. The Bash Shell Startup Files

I have started on BLFS-SVN Upon compiling openssl I got this error Operating system: i686-whatever-linux2 perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US" Should LANGUAGE and

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 7.13. The Bash Shell Startup Files

On Thursday 02 February 2012 06:42:15 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I have started on BLFS-SVN > > Upon compiling openssl I got this error > > > > Operating system: i686-whatever-linux2 > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 7.13. The Bash Shell Startup Files

On 02/02/2012 06:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: >> I have started on BLFS-SVN >> Upon compiling openssl I got this error >> >> Operating system: i686-whatever-linux2 >> perl: warning: Setting locale failed. >> perl: warning: Please check that

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 7.13. The Bash Shell Startup Files

On Friday 03 February 2012 12:47:03 am Firerat wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 20:57 -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > > You will get the error above on anything that requires perl when it is > > built. > > > > If you unset LANG that works or you can add the following to >

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOk-7.0:Section:5.2 Tool Chain Technical Notes: Doubt

On 07/16/2012 11:47 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Eleanore Boyd wrote: > >> The compilation process creates the hard links, so there is no need to >> manually create links. > Correct. > >> If anything, creating links beforehand may cause >> errors due to the links pointing nowhere. > LOL. You can't cre

Re: [lfs-support] Hard links

On Monday, July 16, 2012 08:09:23 PM Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > One could do this > > > > echo "test file" > test > > ln test link1 > > ln test link2 > > ln link1 link3 > > > > ls -i > > > > 13339

[lfs-support] Filesystem changes and systemd

Some distributions are doing the following: moving all the files in /bin to /usr/bin then symlinking /bin to /usr/bin moving all the files in /sbin to /usr/bin then symlinking /sbin to /usr/sbin moving all the files in /lib to /usr/lib then symlinking /lib to /usr/lib moving all the files in /lib

Re: [lfs-support] Filesystem changes and systemd

On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 05:37:03 PM Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: [putolin] > For the user, it doesn't make any difference. For the developers, they > don't have to worry about some things being in the / directories and > others in the /usr directories. It r

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