Re: [lfs-support] The easiest Linux From Scratch version to be builded under Debian Squeeze?

2013-02-05 Thread John Fanjoy
On Feb 4, 2013 3:06 AM, "MR Essop" wrote: > > Hi guys, > > May be a bit off topic, but not terribly. > I was invited to (I do much beta testing and reviews) and so just started using Elementary OS Luna beta, and I was wondering what the LFS community thought of it? > > Personally I love the clean,

Re: [lfs-support] IPRoute2

2011-12-31 Thread John Fanjoy
On Dec 31, 2011 8:15 PM, wrote: > > I just tried to download from: > https://devresources.linuxfoundation.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-2.6.39.tar.gz > and got a 404 - Not Found > Any suggestions where I can download an IPRoute2 tarball? > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: [lfs-support] confusion setting up binutils-build directory

2011-12-28 Thread John Fanjoy
On Dec 28, 2011 5:53 AM, "Dave H" wrote: > > hi, i am at Chapter 5.4 of the lfs manual v7.0 and i'm confused where it says to make the binutils-build directory. > > > > i am assuming at this step, i should be user lfs and currently in the $LFS/sources directory. > > however the command mkdir -v ..

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc Compile

2011-12-26 Thread John Fanjoy
On Dec 26, 2011 11:11 PM, "Bruce Dubbs" wrote: > > Austin Jones wrote: > > I'm on LFS 7.0 section 5.7(Glibc-2.14.1) on Ubuntu 11.10, and am trying to > > compile. The configure runs fine, but after I run make I get the following > > error: > > > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target > > `/mnt/lfs/

Re: Building LFS using jhlfs

2011-09-29 Thread John Fanjoy
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Re: Building LFS using jhlfs

2011-09-29 Thread John Fanjoy
LFS owns up to everything they claim, but it requires a somewhat working knowledge of the command line and helps you through the process of building a system that suits your needs. If you take the time to learn you can build a custom system. Document your process and then script it out if you'd lik

Re: how to deal with kernel.org downtime

2011-09-28 Thread John Fanjoy
There's actually quite a few packages on github... The ones that aren't can be found in the wild. There are packages from Linux foundations too which was down during my last build. Those were much trickier to find On Sep 28, 2011 2:55 PM, "Diogo Melo" wrote: > Linus moved the kernel to github. htt