[lfs-support] E2fsprogs in section 2.3 of 7.2-rc1

. But doesn't the section 2.3 note imply that it *does* (or at least *might* ) make a difference? -- Regards Jim Michmerhuizenhttp://michmer.net "There are far /fewer/ things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --

[lfs-support] ext{3,4}

I'm about to build LFS, for about the fourth time in six years. I'm on ubuntu 10.04.4, intent on using a 20GB ext4 partition. The manual for LFS-7.0 specifies an ext3 partition. Is this important enough to make me reformat my /dev/sda11? It's no big deal, I'm just wondering whether ext4 woul

Re: Networking Is My Weakest Area--A Really Basic Question

On 07/19/2010 01:50 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: > There will be a file in /etc that defines the > interfaces and how they are configured. (On Debian, > it's /etc/network/interfaces; dunno about other systems, or even LFS.) In my 6.5 LFS it's /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/*, with an "ifconfig-ethX" fo

Re: mawk error from glibc make pass 1, in gen-sorted.awk

Chris Staub wrote: > > William's suggestion to install Gawk is correct, however more generally > you need to check the "Host System Requirements" page and make sure you > have everything listed there - Gawk is just one Another 'Doh!' for the record. A couple of days ago, when I was beginning

Re: mawk error from glibc make pass 1, in gen-sorted.awk

William Immendorf wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Jim Michmerhuizen > wrote: >> I'm having trouble building the first-pass glibc-2.10.1 according to the >> instructions in section 5.7.1 of the 6.5 LFS book. > >> [3] So, in this context, why on earth

mawk error from glibc make pass 1, in gen-sorted.awk

Hi maillist members -- I'm having trouble building the first-pass glibc-2.10.1 according to the instructions in section 5.7.1 of the 6.5 LFS book. [1] the Make aborts with this message: mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: regular expression compile failed (bad class -- [], [^] or [) /[^ mawk: