Re: ncurses libraries:why they are moved

2005-05-10 Thread Jeremy Utley
Andreas Fehr wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2005, 13:19, lin q (as lq) wrote: lq: I am in Chapter 6 and compiling ncurses. After "make install", lq: there are some instructions about moving the libncurses.so.5* from lq: /usr/lib to /lib. lq: lq: I wonder why it is wrong that these libraries are in /us

Re: LFS 6.0 compilation problem on i-686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-05-04 Thread Jeremy Utley
GALLICET Alessandro wrote: 2005-05-04, 22.32.14: My best regards to everyone, and possible apologizes for my poor english language (... I'm an italian subscriber to the List), apart from personal inexperience in computer science: I'm trying to convert myself to a LINUX-GNU operating system installi

Re: Strange man behaviour.

2005-05-02 Thread Jeremy Utley
TheOldFellow wrote: I've just built a new LFS using the Cross-LFS method. Most things seem to be very stable, but I've got two inexplicable problems. I'll start seperate threads on them though. Man reads /etc/man.conf, but ignores it. 'man man', for instance, results in 'No manual entry for man

Re: Module-Init-Tools-3.0 Compilation Error during LFS 6.0 Build

2005-04-23 Thread Jeremy Utley
David Clark wrote: Very early on during the Compilation of Module-Init-Tools-3.0, I get the following error, which I can only paraphrase as I am stuck with Windows until I get LFS built: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz lsmod exited with Error code 1 Can anyone help with this? The only thing I could

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
TheOldFellow wrote: Jeremy Utley wrote: Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? After the reboot, I throw in the Nvidia drivers, install Opera to /opt, configure X

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Jeremy Utley
Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? Regards Richard and Andrew have taken you some of the way, but I'll throw in my 2 cents worth anyway :) As is mentioned in the new LFS book

Re: udev rule questions

2005-03-20 Thread Jeremy Utley
DJ Lucas wrote: Okay, I need a bit of udev help. I want to write a rule to create a dvd synlink. I've always done the dvd symlink like this: KERNEL="hdc", NAME="hdc", SYMLINK="dvd". That should definately do it for you, always has for me. -J- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-

Re: Easy way to config kernel?

2005-03-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
warbirdnut wrote: There are a couple of ways to do this. I haven't played with Fedora so these options are rather generic. 1. Check and see if there is config.gz in /proc. This is your current kernel configuration. You can do a "zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/src/linux/.config" to use the orgional con

Re: Easy way to config kernel?

2005-03-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
lin q wrote: Hi, I am to run "make menuconfig", the options are so huge, i am afraid to make mistakes and hard to figure out in later period. My host currently runs Fedora Core 1, I wonder if somewhere I can find a good reference to config the kernel? Image that in installing, Fedora already

Re: 6.54. Shadow-4.0.7 (Unstable)

2005-03-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
Sergey Ilyevsky wrote: And yet another question ;-) : what happen if I don't move libs to satisfy FHS requirements? Thanks. Depends. If /usr is not a separate partition, then you should be ok no matter how you go about it - things will be available as needed. However, if /usr is on it's own p

Re: Binutils-pass2 not changing lib path

2005-03-08 Thread Jeremy Utley
kaladen wrote: Everything is correct. Chapter 6.12 installs a new linker which will look in /lib and /usr/lib for its library files on any packages installed from that point forward. The linker was still built with libraries from /tools/lib and is still in /tools/bin. The next step is to ins

Re: I'm might be screwd LOL

2005-03-06 Thread Jeremy Utley
MIke Cruz wrote: 2) on the bottom of page 64 it talks about "core" "g++" tarballs <--- it never said to download them "i checked the book and online" (I have them now!) You probably have the full tarball - you can either download GCC as a full tarball, including all languages, or download ind

Re: LFS hangs after "Setting Hostname"

2005-03-05 Thread Jeremy Utley
Roberto Perpuly wrote: Darn thing still wont boot. Permissions on /dev/null are 777 (they were 666). It is a character file. Just to make sure, I deleted it and ran the following command tor recreate it mknod -m 777 $LFS/dev/null c 1 3 I'm running out of ideas, I'm almost contemplating start

Re: LFS hangs after "Setting Hostname"

2005-03-05 Thread Jeremy Utley
Roberto Perpuly wrote: i just recently noticed that I DO get an error executing the cleanfs script. /etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S50cleanfs: line 73: /dev/null: Permission denied Could this be the cause of the hang?? a) Please don't top-post - see the FAQ for details b) it's a very good possibility tha

Re: Problems with bringing up ethernet interfaces..

2005-03-04 Thread Jeremy Utley
Min Shim wrote: Hi, everybody.. I finished setting up my LFS 6.0 system using ALFS-2.4. using Redhat FC 3(Because of the filesystem problem, I upgraded e2fsprogs to 1.36). Everything Works fine, but a network interfaces. I have two NICs,(both realtek 8139), and those works fine with Redhat FC3.

Re: help! an error about check glibc in chapter 6

2005-03-01 Thread Jeremy Utley
lorry wrote: >/bin/sh: line 1: /sources/glibc-build/malloc/mtrace: No such file or directory > > Here's the key - this indicates that something is wrong with your installation of perl in chapter 5. mtrace is a perl script, and if something is wrong with perl, then that will cause this error. -J

Re: LFS 6.0: Section 5.13 (GCC-3.4.1/Pass 2): "asm-generic/errno.h: No such file or directory"

2005-02-25 Thread Jeremy Utley
Nitebirdz wrote: Well, apparently that was precisely the problem. Running the following commands appeared to solve the errors: $ cd /tools/include $ ln -s ../glibc-kernheaders/asm-generic/ asm-generic Now, I may have missed this in the book, but I think I was doing right. If it turns out it

Re: Error Patching Bash-2.05b

2005-02-23 Thread Jeremy Utley
Mike Liford wrote: I've had trouble finding a Linux-2.6 distribution for Sun Sparc. I'm also working around my company firewall which will not let me use update software like "yum" and Gentoo's Portage system. I can only download rpm's and tarballs. LFS-6.0 requires Linux-2.6 on the host distri

Re: about LFS license problem

2005-02-21 Thread Jeremy Utley
Steve Crosby wrote: Note there are some LFS specific packages (bootscripts is one that comes to mind) and also the LFS created patches. These may need consideration as to the license. -- - Steve Crosby The bootscripts have never had an official license attached to them. I would understand t

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-20 Thread Jeremy Utley
Gerard Beekmans wrote: On February 20, 2005 04:52 pm, John Gay wrote: Mine says: Senthill, if you can provide output of that same command (tune2fs -l /dev/hda4) when you run it from Fedora Core 3, then we can compare it and offer some suggestions to you that you might try out. I happe

Re: Can't find /tools/bin/bash for initial chroot, and /tools/bin/bash is bad too.

2005-02-19 Thread Jeremy Utley
Steven Pasternak wrote: /tools/bin/env: /tools/bin/bash: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] steven]# Looks like your chapter 5 bash installation may be incorrect. This is discussed in the FAQ, but I'll give a synopsis for you here as well. Try this command outside your chroot: readelf -