Re: [lfs-support] Issues with compiling GCC-4.8.1 (LFS 7.4)

2013-11-02 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 02 novembre à 17:19, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > What's the output of the host system requirements script in section vii? it is at the end of the message and semms correct :-) -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.or

Re: [lfs-support] Newbie

2013-08-17 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 16 août à 20:46, inquiring.m...@hushmail.com a écrit : > Hello all, > > 1. I just saw the LFS site and would like to try it but can't see the > section that says how to download the source file packages ready to work > through the programme. Hi. To buld LFS, a minimal knowledge about

[lfs-support] About chroot command

2013-06-07 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi all. I'm building the svn-10289. In chapter 6, if I am right, the chroot command changed in older versions after having installed bash in case one logged out. In the beginning of the chapter one issue chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ PATH=/bin:/usr/bi

Re: [lfs-support] About errors

2013-06-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 06 juin à 18:42, Pierre Labastie a écrit : > Sorry, I meant, put the lines from "_prompt_command()" to > "PROMPT_COMMAND=..." > into $LFS/root/.bashlogin (using copy/paste or an editor), and then > chroot using the command on page 6.4. > > Pierre Yes, I have understood ; but in /$LFS/ro

Re: [lfs-support] About gcc test

2013-06-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 06 juin à 16:03, William Harrington a écrit : > > On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > In chapter 6 when building gcc, to have a view from the test suite, > > it is > > said to issue > > ../g

Re: [lfs-support] About errors

2013-06-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 06 juin à 15:48, Pierre Labastie a écrit : > Le 06/06/2013 14:50, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : > > Hi :-) > > > > I prefer a second message for another problem. > > > > On my debian host system, in files .bashrc, i use the following lines to be >

[lfs-support] About errors

2013-06-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi :-) I prefer a second message for another problem. On my debian host system, in files .bashrc, i use the following lines to be informed from errors in a command : if [ "$PS1" ]; then _prompt_command() { local status="$?"; if [ $status != 0 ]; then echo -

[lfs-support] About gcc test

2013-06-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi all. In chapter 6 when building gcc, to have a view from the test suite, it is said to issue ../gcc-4.8.0/contrib/test_summary | grep -A7 Summ My problem is that it is too large for the screen and less or more are not installed. It's easy to go on another console and use the less of the host

Re: [lfs-support] problem with lfs-bootscripts-20130515.tar.bz2

2013-06-01 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 01 juin à 23:29, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Hi dear list ! > > > > I have just downloaded packages and patches for the svn-10289. > > > > I ran md5sum and got a failure for > > lfs-bootscripts-20130515.tar.bz2 > > &

[lfs-support] problem with lfs-bootscripts-20130515.tar.bz2

2013-06-01 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi dear list ! I have just downloaded packages and patches for the svn-10289. I ran md5sum and got a failure for lfs-bootscripts-20130515.tar.bz2 What am I supposed to do ? Thanks in advance. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxf

Re: [lfs-support] LFS on a yeeloong (loongson2F MIPS) laptop

2013-03-19 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Please don't post in html ! Le mardi 19 mars à 12:45, John Anderson a écrit : > Hi, > did anyone tried to install LFS on a yeeloong laptop? I'm trying to > install gentoo on it now and I thought that LFS could be better because you > have to build anything by yourself. > -- > http://linuxfroms

[lfs-support] make check for glibc

2013-01-23 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. When testing glibc in chapter 6, i obtain an error which looks like one of those signaled in the book but : make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/rt/tst-cputimer1.out] Error 1 make[1]: *** [rt/tests] Error 2 Another error is marked as (ignored) but does not appear in the book : make[2]: [/sour

[lfs-support] Sanity checks in 6.10

2013-01-18 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I have a new problem in the svn-10094 build, When performing sanity checks in 6.10. The command grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log |sed 's|; |\n|g' gives as output SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib") SEARCH_DIR("/lib"); The book, says I should have these lines but also the line SEARCH_DIR("/tools/i686

Re: [lfs-support] 5.13. Check-0.9.9

2013-01-16 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mercredi 16 janvier à 15:54, Pierre Labastie a écrit : > Le 16/01/2013 14:31, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : > > Hi. > > > > I'm building svn-10094 ; my host system is debian/testing. > > > > I obtain an error while building check-0.9.9 ;

[lfs-support] 5.13. Check-0.9.9

2013-01-16 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm building svn-10094 ; my host system is debian/testing. I obtain an error while building check-0.9.9 ; here is the output of make command : make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/lfs/sources/check-0.9.9' Making all in lib make[2]: Entering directory `/lfs/sources/check-0.9.9/li

[lfs-support] About SBU

2013-01-14 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. First I wish an happy new year to everyone on the list. I began to build the svn-10094. Usually I don't care about SBU. This time In 5.4 I wrapped configure, make and make install as suggested. But, after that, I saw that between make and make install I should have created a symlink. I thin

Re: [lfs-support] What Is "The" LFS Partition?

2012-11-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 05 novembre à 21:11, Feuerbacher, Alan a écrit : > Thank you all very much for your advice! > > Here's what I propose to do now, given your inputs: > > Don't put LFS on the SSD -- use a regular hard drive. > > Set up the partitions like this, using an ext4 filesystem: > > /dev/sda1

Re: [lfs-support] What Is "The" LFS Partition?

2012-11-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 05 novembre à 17:47, Feuerbacher, Alan a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > > > I read the man page for mke2fs and it's as clear as mud. And the LFS > > > book is completely unclear about exactly what is going on. > > > > The book suppose

Re: [lfs-support] What Is "The" LFS Partition?

2012-11-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 05 novembre à 17:04, Feuerbacher, Alan a écrit : > Thank you! > > But I still don't understand what I'm doing. How do I know which of the > various devices (/dev/sdaN) is supposed to be used with mke2fs? > > I read the man page for mke2fs and it's as clear as mud. And the LFS book > is

Re: [lfs-support] What Is "The" LFS Partition?

2012-11-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 05 novembre à 14:24, Alan Feuerbacher a écrit : > Howdy, > > I've done a major reset by giving up on installing an LFS system on my > old 32-bit computer, and am now installing it on a new 64-bit system. > The new system now has Fedora as the host system. It's installed on > /dev/sdb a

Re: [lfs-support] glibc pass 2 chapter-6

2012-08-19 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le dimanche 19 août à 17:21, Garrett Gaston a écrit : > > Sorry, what does top post and trim replies mean? 'top post' means that you should not begin with your message but include it inside as I am doing. For triming, that's mean that you have to delete part of the message that are out of span a

Re: [lfs-support] Dazed and Confused

2012-08-16 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 16 août à 17:20, Mikie a écrit : > I never set $LFS_TGT. > > I assume one of the command from the book did? Of course ! In section 4.4 when creating .bashrc for the LFS user. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch

Re: [lfs-support] Why am i getting error during make/compile for glibc in chapter 5?

2012-07-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 13 juillet à 14:44, gmspro a écrit : > Hi, > I'm getting error for make glibc-2.14.1.tar.bz2 > > /bin/sh scripts/move-if-change > /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/bits/stdio_lim.h.new > /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/bits/stdio_lim.h > rm -f /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/bits/stdio_lim.hT

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
HI. Le samedi 05 mai à 01:02, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Qrux wrote: > > > If LFS is just a source code project, then to some extent you can say that > > prose style or organization is irrelevant. It's not, because it's often > > repeated that it's a book, as well. So, style is important, because

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-03 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 03 mai à 15:16, Scott Robertson a écrit : > Ahh, ok, yes thank you, that is more what I am looking for.   So you can have > the Binutils-xx AND Binutils-build in the same /mnt/lfs/sources directory.  I > know everyone disagrees with me, but I still think that isn't clear given > that qu

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-03 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 03 mai à 09:47, Scott Robertson a écrit : > Page 35 of the book specifically says: > > "The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the > source directory in a dedicated build directory:" > > mkdir -v ../binutils-build > cd ../binutils-build > > > Should I just

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-03 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 03 mai à 08:40, Scott Robertson a écrit : > 1) I don't think that is true.  The manual contradicts itself.  On the one > hand it tells you to put stuff in $LFS/tools, but then it specifically > recommends NOT putting things in there during the initial compilation > process.  It also tel

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-23 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 21 avril à 18:48, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Andrew Benton wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:38:37 +0100 > > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > > >> Hi. > >> > >> I'm building svn-9812 ; my host is debian/wheezy ; I encounter for the &g

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 21 avril à 01:15, Ken Moffat a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:38:12PM +0200, Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > > > I don't obtain the right prompt ; all variables are correct except PS1 > > which is > > > > PS1=${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 21 avril à 01:06, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Le samedi 21 avril à 00:32, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > >> Philippe Delavalade wrote: > >>> Le vendredi 20 avril à 23:51, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > >>> [...] > >&

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 21 avril à 00:32, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Le vendredi 20 avril à 23:51, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > > [...] > >> Everything except PS1 seems OK. > > > > it's to complicated for me :-) > > > >> Did you

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 20 avril à 23:51, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : [...] > Everything except PS1 seems OK. it's to complicated for me :-) > Did you do 4.3: `su - lfs` Yes, sure ! I tried three times ; the first time, I thought I forgot some thing ; so I ran `userdel` and `groupdel` and began again, this two

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 20 avril à 23:22, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > > .bashrc and .bash_profile are exactly those of the book :-( > > > > My only deviation from the book is to have given a specific gid and uid to > > lfs when executing groupadd and

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 20 avril à 22:54, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm building svn-9812 ; my host is debian/wheezy ; I encounter for the > > first time a little problem in 4.4. > > > > When becoming user lfs and aft

[lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm building svn-9812 ; my host is debian/wheezy ; I encounter for the first time a little problem in 4.4. When becoming user lfs and after having passed the command source .bash_profile I don't obtain the right prompt ; all variables are correct except PS1 which is PS1=${debian_chroot:+($

Re: [lfs-support] New development live CD

2012-03-29 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 29 mars à 04:07, Eleanore Boyd a écrit : > On 3/28/2012 7:45 PM, Anand Arumugam wrote: > >> no. I happen to not be impaired in any way like that, so > >> having the accessibility options on the livecd only wasted space. > >> However, once I can figure out why scp doesn't want t

Re: [lfs-support] New development live CD

2012-03-28 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mercredi 28 mars à 04:20, Eleanore Boyd a écrit : > I spent my spring break cobbling together a live CD based on Ubuntu > 10.04 that has been stripped down a great deal. It can compile LFS with > minimal problems, and has a console-based browser and a very lightweight > GUI browser to view of

Re: Ok, now I am having issues

2011-11-07 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 07 novembre à 18:28, Danny Vukobratovich a écrit : > Ok, then what should I use to build my LFS if not the liveCD? Just > trying to go with what is recommended...thanks, I'm sorry to insist on the list but look at teh grml livecd ; it contains everything necessary but you.ll have to swi

Re: Problem building the book from svn

2011-10-27 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 27 octobre à 20:55, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have download the svn version 9644. No error arised. > > > > Then I built the book with the command : > > make BASEDIR=../svn-recent > > > &

Problem building the book from svn

2011-10-27 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I have download the svn version 9644. No error arised. Then I built the book with the command : make BASEDIR=../svn-recent Usually, all went right but this time I get the following error : /bin/sh: 1: [: x: unexpected operator Creating and cleaning /home/philippe/tmp Processing bootscripts.

Re: wget-list in svn-20111005

2011-10-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 06 octobre à 18:04, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm trying to download sources in svn-20111005 ; seven are failing ; for > > instance linux-3.0.4.tar.bz2... > > > > The exact URL given in wget-list is &

wget-list in svn-20111005

2011-10-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm trying to download sources in svn-20111005 ; seven are failing ; for instance linux-3.0.4.tar.bz2... The exact URL given in wget-list is http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.0.4.tar.bz2 When going on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ I could see there was no directo

svn-20110830

2011-08-30 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I just tried to download packages for svn-20110830 ; there is a problem with http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/development/lfs-bootscripts-20110830.tar.bz2 On the page http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/development/ there is lfs-bootscripts-20110803.tar.bz2 but not l

Re: lfs system

2011-08-14 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 13 août à 18:44, William Immendorf a écrit : > Please make > sure you read this: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/essential_prereading.txt Hi. I had a look to this document ; in the beginning, it is said to read the html version (better maintained) at : http:/

Re: glibc version in linux host

2011-08-11 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 11 août à 18:18, Franz L. Kuhlmann a écrit : > Hi - > when dabbling with LFS 6.6 last year using Ubuntu 9.04, I had no > problem to build my own linux up to the point of getting it to run > as an alternate to Ubuntu or Windows XP. > After having installed brand new PC, Display, and 3 in 1

Re: grml

2011-07-31 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le dimanche 31 juillet à 09:30, Bill Cunningham a écrit : > > Do you think this grml would be better to use than the lfs boot disk? I > downloaded the 64-bit 100M version. I don't know if it is better but it works knowing you have to download the sources (in wget-list), to switch from zsh to

Re: livedvd

2011-07-31 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le dimanche 31 juillet à 01:08, Bill Cunningham a écrit : > > Alain Toussaint wrote: > > Which livedvd? Gentoo? > > > > Alain > > 2nd choice. I'm going to try the LFS DVD first. That gentoo DVD is > almost 3 GB I have the AMD64 minimal disk. I have to download stage-3 which > isn't a proble

About tes suite in 6-38

2011-07-24 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm following svn-20110717 but I think it's not important because I saw this in previous buildings... It is said that autoconf can be re-tested after automake ; previously I didn't try. I wonder if I have to instal autoconf now (after the first test) or if I must wait to install it that the

Re: errors

2011-07-21 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 22 juillet à 09:39, Bill Cunningham a écrit : > > If you followed the book you would have configured gcc with > > --disable-libquadmath so you would not be seeing this error. > > Follow the book. > > I saw nowhere in the book anything about libquadmath. In the configuration of gcc

udev-172-testfiles.tar.bz2

2011-07-21 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi all. When retrieving sources for the svn-20110717, I saw that the required udev-172-testfiles.tar.bz2 is not present in the directory anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/. The more recent is udev-171-testfiles.tar.bz2. Is it a problem ? Thanks. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfroms

Re: Browsing internet from LFS live cd

2011-07-19 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 19 juillet à 08:48, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : > > Le mardi 19 juillet à 08:09, Karthik Bhuvanagiri a écrit : > > Can I use any one of the LiveCDs from http://www.livecdlist.com/ to build > > LFS along with browising internet intermittently? > > Please sugges

Re: Browsing internet from LFS live cd

2011-07-18 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 19 juillet à 08:09, Karthik Bhuvanagiri a écrit : > Can I use any one of the LiveCDs from http://www.livecdlist.com/ to build > LFS along with browising internet intermittently? > Please suggest suitable live cds that is sufficient to build LFS and that > can connect to internet. I didn't

Re: Building a LFS system

2011-03-31 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 31 mars à 10:24, Danny Engelbarts a écrit : > > > I first posted to this list as I was wondering about building a lfs box > > without using a host linux box to compile the files needed to build a lfs > > And how exactly do you propose to compile something without an OS? There is > no >

Re: question about gcc

2011-01-10 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 10 janvier à 17:14, mike cutie and maia a écrit : > > the book didn't tell me to put them in the source dir They are in 3.2 as all other packages. And all packages and patches should be in $LFS/sources. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ

Re: question about gcc

2011-01-10 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 10 janvier à 16:20, Alexander a écrit : > Am 10.01.2011 15:32, schrieb mike cutie and maia: > > > >hi, > > > >gcc tells me i don't have gmp or mpc how do i include them in the > >compiler or do i need to configure them first? > > > Hi! > you should cd in gcc-build directory, than tar -jxf

Re: question about the book for instalation

2011-01-10 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le lundi 10 janvier à 04:38, mike cutie and maia a écrit : > i no how to run that command and how to run make but i am not sure how to > change thhis stuff to match the book > > . > > Now prepare Binutils for compilation: > > ../binutils-2.20.1/configure \ > --target=$LFS_TGT --prefix=/too

Re: questions about partisions

2011-01-09 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. Le dimanche 09 janvier à 22:31, mike cutie and maia a écrit : > > hi am am blind and this is my first time reading the book is their any > partision editors for command line that are axcessible with speakup? With speakup, I cann't say but with braille and brltty, cfdisk is very easy to use o

Re: GCC Toolchain - HELP (NEWBIE)!!!

2010-10-14 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 14 octobre à 13:17, Alois Seifl a écrit : > > Hi, > > I've already tried the script but the weird thing is that everything seems to > be ok, but trying to build gcc fails. In your first message you spoke of gcc-3.x and lfs 6.7 requires gcc-4.1.2. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxf

Re: GCC Toolchain - HELP (NEWBIE)!!!

2010-10-14 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 14 octobre à 09:37, Alois Seifl a écrit : > > Hi, > > I'm a newby and tried to build gcc about over a half a year, but for some > reasons it fails everytime. > > Would you please be so kind to give me any recipe or could you please provide > me a small how to? > > Do I need GCC 3.x t

Re: Which environment and bash

2010-09-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 10 septembre à 13:39, William Immendorf a écrit : > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Philippe Delavalade > wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I'm building svn-20100906 and I have to shutdown my system. I've just > > finished with 6.30. >

Which environment and bash

2010-09-10 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hello. I'm building svn-20100906 and I have to shutdown my system. I've just finished with 6.30. I'm wondoring what to do when I'll be to continue building : shall I work with tools/bin/env or /usr/bin/env ? Idem for tools/bin/bash or /bin/bash ? 6.4 is not very clear on this point, IMHO. Thank

Re: Post LFS 6.7 RC-1-WIFI Config issues

2010-09-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le dimanche 05 septembre à 17:28, Hamish West a écrit : > Hi, > Well, YAY > I have finally finished LFS. > I used book version 6.7 RC1 but im stuck, I use wireless internet, but I dont > know how to setup wlan0. > I have installed Wireless-Tools from BLFS and iwconfig doesnt see wlan0, but > it

Re: A typo in the wget-list

2010-06-22 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 22 juin à 16:02, linux fan a écrit : > > On 6/22/10, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > >> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net//expect/expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2 > > > That may be a typo, but it shouldn't affect the download. U

A typo in the wget-list

2010-06-22 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hello. There is a typo (imho) in the wget-list of the svn-20100622 ; line 11 is http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net//expect/expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2 and should be http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expect/expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2 with one '/' and not two. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromsc

Re: lfs 6.6 GCC Pass 1

2010-06-22 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 22 juin à 09:14, PRAKHAR gaur a écrit : > > Dear All, > > > lfs 6.6 (section 5.5) GCC Pass 1 > Its mentioned that Gcc requires MPFR and GMP, its just mentioned to un-tar > these packages. > Do I need to install them, if yes where, Host system? Just follow the book :-) Untar them in th

wget-list in svn-20100503

2010-05-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. The wget-list in svn-20100503 tells to download zlib-1.2.4 but this is nomore the current version and so, wget -i wget-list does not work here. Is it possible to download version 1.2.5 or is it really safer to deal with 1.2.4 ? Thanks for advices. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscr

Re: Stuck on Section 5.6

2010-04-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 13 avril à 14:52, duck wilson a écrit : > Greetings, > > I have managed to get through Section 5.5 ( GCC.4.4.3 - Pass 1) of LFS 6.6 > and still have some hair left on my head. > > I am now at Section 5.6 (Linux-2.6.32.8 API > Headers

Re: Psmisc-22.10 broken symlink

2010-03-29 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 30 mars à 07:05, Rick Shelton a écrit : > > I think I found a little problem with the instructions in the book here. > > LFS 6.6 > Ch 6.52. Psmisc-22.10 > > > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make > make install > ln -sv killall /bin/pidof > > root:/sources/psmisc-22.10# ln -sv killall /bi

Re: Unable to compile GCC-4.4.3, Pass 1

2010-03-27 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 27 mars à 10:27, Simon Geard a écrit : > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 23:20 -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > > I don't need anyone to tell me how important it is to make sure the > > book is clear - ensuring that the text is technically correct, and > > more importantly understandable, is my primary

Re: Unable to compile GCC-4.4.3, Pass 1

2010-03-26 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 26 mars à 12:04, John Stephens a écrit : > > Chris, > Thanks for the reply. I've spent a lot of time in chapters 4 and 5. > I'm finding the book (6.6) a little unclear in certain areas which is > probably what is throwing me off to some degree. > > For example, look at 5.5.1, first b

I'm sorry

2010-03-11 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm sorry for my preceding message ; I ran autoconf instead of autoreconf and all seems well. Sorry for the noise. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

lfs 6.6 (svn-20100301), 6.46, kbd-1.15.1

2010-03-11 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hello. I'm building lfs 6.6, svn-20100301, and all was fine (or seemed to be fine) until kbd. when running "autoconf" command, I obtain this error message : configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allo

Re: glibc error

2009-12-02 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mercredi 02 décembre à 14:56, Doug Downham a écrit : > When I create dummy.c and run 'cc dummy.c -v -Wl, --verbose &> > dummy.log', a.out is not produced. I don't if it's of any impotance but in the book there's no space between -Wl, and --verbose. -- -- Ph. Delavalade -- http:/

Re: build problem LFS 6.5

2009-11-27 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 27 novembre à 15:38, stosss a écrit : > 1st half of one of my scripts > > #!/bin/bash > tar -xvf vim-7.2.tar.bz2 > cd vim72 > patch -Np1 -i ../vim-7.2-fixes-5.patch > echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h > ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte > make > mak

Re: Unapplied patches

2009-11-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 13 novembre à 19:30, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : > Le vendredi 13 novembre à 16:25, Jonathan Arnold a écrit : > > I'm working through LFS SVN-20091112 and for the temporary system in Chapter > > 5, I've noticed a few unapplied patches that wget-list downloads

Re: Unapplied patches

2009-11-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 13 novembre à 16:25, Jonathan Arnold a écrit : > I'm working through LFS SVN-20091112 and for the temporary system in Chapter > 5, I've noticed a few unapplied patches that wget-list downloads and was > wondering if they should be, or if they just aren't applied because > it is just the

LFS svn-20091012, 4.3 adding the lfs user

2009-11-10 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. Two weeks ago I tried to install LFS svn-20091012 on a computer with no internet connection... So my questions won't be very precise because I forgot one error message :-( The host was debian squeeze. Fisrt in 4.3 and 4.4, I didn't get the correct prompt although I used the -k /dev/null opti

Re: Stumped by a Script

2009-09-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le samedi 12 septembre à 22:31, Dan McGhee a écrit : > This is not a problem with building LFS. I'm asking for help in the way > I want to do it. > > I'm preparing for another build and over the years I have developed some > scripts to take care of the sometimes "drudge work" of "configure, mak

Re: [lfs] error compiling gcc in Pass 1

2009-06-12 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 12 juin à 10:26, Ankur Sinha a écrit : > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:42 +0530, Aditya Bankar wrote: > > Hi Ankur, > > > > It seems that you have got confused with the instructions related to the > > mpfr library in gcc's compilation article. > > You can read this in section 5.5.1: > > t

Re: Don't Understand

2009-03-18 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mercredi 18 mars à 09:16, Laurence Jeloudev a écrit : > setting up the environment command > > this starts off with the command cat > > i typed it in and everything was frozen or destroyed after that it > didnt respond at all When did it freeze ? What did you type at last ? Did you respect

Re: 6.39 groff-1.20.1

2009-02-08 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le dimanche 08 février à 12:02, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas a écrit : > I am not sure as I don't have this version installed. Have you tried it? > I think you won't have a problem during installation, but I am not sure > if it is fully functional. Matthew that did the last build might know > to answ

Re: 6.39 groff-1.20.1

2009-02-08 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le dimanche 08 février à 11:12, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 07, at 09:08 Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm building lfs svn-20090201 version. > > > > Everything seems OK until groff ; when configuring, I get the foll

6.39 groff-1.20.1

2009-02-07 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm building lfs svn-20090201 version. Everything seems OK until groff ; when configuring, I get the following warning : configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-multibyte Did I miss something ? The command line was ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte So, I'm not quite

Re: Cannot make glibc

2008-10-01 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mercredi 01 octobre à 10:20, Michael a écrit : > Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2008 10:02:45 schrieb Glen Robinson: > > I have tried to build glibc without success on 2 separate machines. > > Both running ubuntu 8.04 desktop. The first instance is using shared > > space on a partition following the f

Re: mktemp-1.5 in svn-20080711 book

2008-09-16 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 16 septembre à 15:06, Randy McMurchy a écrit : > I believe that we don't install that package any longer as the mktemp > binary is now installed by another package (coreutils?). Ok ; I was afraid there could be a problem when building the book. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://li

mktemp-1.5 in svn-20080711 book

2008-09-16 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Thank you so much Ken for your answer to my previous mail. I have now a question about mktemp-1.5 ; in the book (svn-20080711 version) this package is not installed anywhere ; did I miss it or something else hapenned ? -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

6.53.1. Installation of Texinfo

2008-09-16 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm surprised to see that tests on texinfo failed ; every thing was nice before :-) here is a part of the output of the command "make -k check" : make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/texinfo-4.11/util' SKIP: bibtex.test FAIL: dvipdf.test SKIP: latex2html.test FAIL: texi2dvi.test ===

5.14 bash-3.2

2008-09-12 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I obtain an error message when installing bash ; theouput ends with following lines : ( cd ./po/ ; make DESTDIR= install ) make[1]: Entering directory `/lfs/sources/bash-3.2/po' test -z "[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ru.gmo" || make [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ru.gmo make[2]:

Re: glibc in chapter 5

2008-09-12 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 11 septembre à 16:37, Chris Staub a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Hi. > > > > > > Configuration for glibc-2.7 is OK ; I get the warning mentioned in the book. > > > > When I compile, make fails with the message : > > make[1]:

Re: glibc in chapter 5

2008-09-11 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 11 septembre à 16:04, Satish Patel a écrit : > > Hi. > > > > I'm building lfs with host debian/lenny with kernel 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem. > > > > I use the svn-20080711 book. > > > > Configuration for glibc-2.7 is OK ; I get the warning mentioned in the book. > > > > When I compile, make fails

glibc in chapter 5

2008-09-11 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hi. I'm building lfs with host debian/lenny with kernel 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem. I use the svn-20080711 book. Configuration for glibc-2.7 is OK ; I get the warning mentioned in the book. When I compile, make fails with the message : make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/lfs/sources/glibc-build/Vers

gcc-4.2.3 test suite

2008-02-21 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hello. First thanks for Ken.s help. I have now run test suite for gcc-4.2.3. In the book, an url is given to compare results : http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/development/ The problem is that on this url, gcc-4.0.2 is mentionned. So I'am wondering if the comparison between the fil

Errors in glibc-2.7 test suite

2008-02-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Hello. I'm building lfs with the development version. In 6.9 when running grep Error glibc-check-log after the test suite, I obtain errors which are not listed :-( These are : make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/crypt/sha512c-test.out] Error 1 make[1]: *** [crypt/tests] Error 2 make: *** [check]

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-05 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 05 février à 10:09, Alessandro Corbelli a écrit : > Hi all, I'm new to LFS and I've got a problem. > After building correctly with JHALFS, I've tryied to change root > password inside chroot but passwd doesn't work. > > If i run: > > "passwd root", command exit imediatly with: " > Cambio

Re: Dyslexia - or worse.

2007-12-06 Thread Philippe Delavalade
h qualifiers. > > > > This is not ok because ../configure needs to be ./configure. > > Where does it say ../configure? If it does say that anywhere that's a > typo. I don't think so ; for instance, in chapter 6 when installing e2fsprogs, you have to create a build d

Re: building LFS

2007-12-04 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le mardi 04 décembre à 14:20, Luuk a écrit : > Hi, > i started reading the BOOK (Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20071125) > i have the following questioon: > > In chapter 5.3.1 binutils-2.18 - Pass 1 the following is mentioned: > The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of

Re: Device Driver

2007-11-15 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 15 novembre à 11:31, Rajeev Bansal a écrit : > Hi All, > > I am not sure that this is a right forum to ask such question but > someone suggested me so I am asking my problem here. > > Actually I am trying to build a customary Linux distribution with 2.6.20 > Kernel, I am using the Bus

Re: No ttys, no login shell

2007-10-25 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 25 octobre à 14:06, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : > Le jeudi 25 octobre à 13:35, Marius Meinert a écrit : > > /etc/inittab: > > id:3:initdefault: > > > > si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc sysinit > > > > 10:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0 > > 1

Re: No ttys, no login shell

2007-10-25 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le jeudi 25 octobre à 13:35, Marius Meinert a écrit : > > On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > > > Marius Meinert wrote on 25-10-07 13:05: > > > >> I'm using version 6.3. I*ve gone throug the whole udev-chapter, but > >> the error stil exists. I also checked /dev, it exists and e

Re: Maybe an error ?

2007-10-20 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 19 octobre à 14:47, Walter Barnes a écrit : > From: Philippe Delavalade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >My question is : `make' or `make bootstrap' which was said in an other book > >(I cann't remember whichone ). > > In the current, stable version of

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