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From: Ronnie van Aarle ronnie.van.aa...@gmail.com
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:15:27
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Subject: [lfs-support] 6.17. GCC-4.6.1
[Sorry for the top post, I'm on my blackberry...]
It's sparse files being expanded. When using tar for making backups, you should
use --sparse or -S.
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From: xinglp
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Did you check to make sure you actually mounted something at /mnt/lfs before
starting your build? Maybe its all there hidden under your mount.
You might want to try a find / -name bash -print and see how many copies come
up, see if its somewhere else entirely.
Sent on the TELUS Mobility network
Its probably been 6 years since I built lfs on my alpha, and I have not kept it
up to date, but when I built it, there were no special packages for alpha
except milo and aboot. The only differences I recall were in the building of
gcc and glibc, (you were just telling them to build for a
Several years ago, I built lfs on a dec alpha with a pci card that had both usb
and firewire. As I recall, once I manually loaded the right module (ohci, as I
recall), it ran fine.
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From: brown wrap
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When you don't have a floating point coprocessor or built in floating point
support, the processor will throw an exception when a program tries to execute
floating point instructions. The FP emulation code traps those exceptions and
emulates the coprocessor.
As for other insructions, outside
