Re: Compiling Xorg Protocol Headers in BLFS Version svn-20110728

2011-08-14 Thread ga ho
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:30 PM, ga ho gazz...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Will it create any problems when make is run if it doesn't need to be? It should not create any problems. If a target is run in make that does not exist, make just skips over it. -- Thanks I just wanted to make sure

Re: LFS 6.8 Udev-166 query Problem Solved

2011-07-29 Thread ga ho
-28 at 20:22 +0100, ga ho wrote: I think I should have mentioned that ever since LFS6.3 I have always built my systems on USB sticks and made them bootable. In fact I have never installed LFS on my hard drive. I'm guessing but that could be the reason why my USB sticks always show up

Re: LFS 6.8 Udev-166 query Problem Solved.

2011-07-28 Thread ga ho
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 07:37:14PM +0100, ga ho wrote: Hi All, On my LFS 6.4 system with Udev-130 I had to use the OPTIONS+=all_partitions in a udev rule to get my Sandisk Cruzer Micro 8GB USB stick EXT3 partition /dev/ubb1 set up. However it seems that the Udev developers

LFS 6.8 Udev-166 query

2011-07-27 Thread ga ho
Hi All, On my LFS 6.4 system with Udev-130 I had to use the OPTIONS+=all_partitions in a udev rule to get my Sandisk Cruzer Micro 8GB USB stick EXT3 partition /dev/ubb1 set up. However it seems that the Udev developers in their infinite wisdom decided to do away with the

Re: LFS 6.6 FATAL module... not found messages

2010-04-06 Thread ga ho
This rings a bell with me. I think these are messages from udev that would normally be output to /dev/null but if /dev/null doesn't exist, udev prints them to stdout. Udev tries to load modules for things but if they're built into the kernel (or you don't need them) then the FATAL messages

Re: lLFS on USB?

2010-03-08 Thread ga ho
ga ho wrote:    Why was this message sent three times?    -- Bruce I accidentally sent it as HTML. So I sent it again as plain text as I didn't think the first one would get through. Regards, Gary -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: LFS on USB?

2010-03-07 Thread ga ho
Message: 6 Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:54:01 -0500 From: Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com Subject: Re: LFS on USB? To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Message-ID: 4b932359.3010...@columbus.rr.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed cly...@clydew.org

Re: lLFS on USB?

2010-03-07 Thread ga ho
cly...@clydew.org wrote: Is it possible to build Linux from Scratch on a USB Flash Drive.  I did build it there but am having a time getting Grub to recognize it. Yes I built LFS-6.5 on my desktop and transfered it to a USB drive with rsync Building directly on the usb drive is slow and not

BLFS svn-20090928 Video Driver xf86-video-vesa-2.0.1.tar.bz2

2009-10-06 Thread ga ho
Hi All, The xf86-video-vesa-2.0.1.tar.bz2 tar ball is listed in the driver-7.4.wget file in Chapter 23. X Window System Environment Xorg Drivers but it is nowhere to be found. I know there is a ticket out for this but in the meantime does anyone know which other version is needed to get X

Re: LFS 6.5 Chapter 5.4. Binutils-2.19.1 - Pass 1

2009-08-29 Thread ga ho
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:03:08 + (GMT) From: ga ho gazz...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: LFS 6.5 Chapter 5.4. Binutils-2.19.1 - Pass 1 To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Message-ID: 528515.66933...@web28615.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 It states

LFS 6.5 Chapter 5.4. Binutils-2.19.1 - Pass 1

2009-08-28 Thread ga ho
It states in chapter 5.4: If building on x86_64, create a symlink to ensure the sanity of the toolchain: case $(uname -m) in x86_64) mkdir -v /tools/lib ln -sv lib /tools/lib64 ;; esac I just want to confirm. Do I still need to do this If I am building the 32 bit version of LFS on a 64bit

Re: Drivers sd and sr need updating

2009-04-13 Thread ga ho
, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:55:54AM +, ga ho wrote: LFS    6.4 Kernel 2.6.27.4 System 16GB USB 2.0 stick When my system starts up I get the following messages: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

Drivers sd and sr need updating

2009-04-12 Thread ga ho
LFS6.4 Kernel 2.6.27.4 System 16GB USB 2.0 stick When my system starts up I get the following messages: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Where would I get the drivers to update and what are bus_type methods?

Drivers sd and sr need updating

2009-03-23 Thread ga ho
LFS6.4 Kernel 2.6.27.4 System 16GB USB 2.0 stick When my system starts up I get the following messages: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Where would I get the drivers to update and what are bus_type methods?

Weird thing with LessTif-0.95.0 and ImageMagick-6.3.5-10

2009-03-03 Thread ga ho
Build BLFS svn-20090124 On 16GB USB2.0 stick Kernel 2.6.27.4 Here's a weird thing: In my .mwmrc file the line: ImageMagick-6.3.5-10 f.exec /usr/bin/display does not work and my .xsession-errors file states that it can't execute /usr/bin/display However when I run /usr/bin/display from an

LFS 6.4 Chapter 6.14 GCC-4.3.2 Could anyone confirm this for me.

2009-01-24 Thread ga ho
The make -k check finished with an error code of 2 and stated cannot make check-target. However when I checked ../gcc-4.3.2/contrib/test_summary against the 073-gcc test log file on the LFS website I had exactly the same passes, successes and failures. So could anyone confirm for sure that it

LFS 6.4 Chapter 5.4. Binutils-2.18 - Pass 1

2009-01-18 Thread ga ho
Host system BLFS6.3 kernel 2.6.22.5 on a 4GB USB Stick When running the command: CC=gcc -B/usr/bin/ ../binutils-2.18/configure \ --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror In the config.log file I get errors: configure:3565: gcc -B/usr/bin/ -c -g -O2 conftest.c 5 conftest.c:2: error:

LFS 6.4 Running debugfs -R feature /dev/xxx

2009-01-13 Thread ga ho
In Chapter 2.3. Creating a File System on the Partition When I run the debugfs -R feature /dev/xxx command on my USB stick I get the ouput: has_journal, resize_inode, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super, large_file or needs_recovery The ext_attr and needs_recovery features are missing. The

Problems compiling kernel in LFS 6.4

2009-01-06 Thread ga ho
System being built : LFS 6.4 on a 4GB USB 2.0 stick Host system used : BLFS 6.3 on a 4GB USB 2.0 stick Processor : AMD AM2 Athlon 64 LE-1620 RAM : 2GB I am getting the warnings below, first when compiling the 2.26.27.4 kernel in the LFS 6.4 book then with the 2.6.27.10 kernel. The