Re: [lfs-support] 5.12

2015-10-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 09:37:03PM -0400, Michael Havens wrote: > boy am I glad I saved my build scripts! I sure did forget to do that! If you were not scripting, and you had run the command recently enough to be in your history, either using 'history | less' or just repeatedly using the cursor-up

Re: [lfs-support] 5.12

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
boy am I glad I saved my build scripts! I sure did forget to do that! -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which

Re: [lfs-support] 5.12

2015-10-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:47:16PM -0400, Michael Havens wrote: > error: > checking for Tcl private include files... configure: error: Cannot find > private header tclInt.h in /mnt/lfs/sources/tcl8.6.4 > I looked in the files config.log and the words 'private' and 'header' and > 'error' do not occ

[lfs-support] 5.12

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
error: checking for Tcl private include files... configure: error: Cannot find private header tclInt.h in /mnt/lfs/sources/tcl8.6.4 I looked in the files config.log and the words 'private' and 'header' and 'error' do not occur in it. Am I inspecting the proper file? I'm looking in: expect5.45/conf

Re: [lfs-support] export

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
okay. I'm not sure but I think I created nano /root/.bash_profile . Should I delete it or does it matter. I don't think it matters. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above informati

Re: [lfs-support] export

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
What in the world? I could swear I read that it wen into bash_profile! -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which

Re: [lfs-support] export

2015-10-28 Thread Thanos Baloukas
On 29/10/2015 12:11 πμ, Michael Havens wrote: The $LFS is set. I'm trying to set another variable sources=$LFS/sources. it refuses to stay set. lfs@debian:~$ cat ~/.bash_profile exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash export LFS=/mnt/lfs export sources=$LFS/sources lfs@deb

Re: [lfs-support] export

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
The $LFS is set. I'm trying to set another variable sources=$LFS/sources. it refuses to stay set. lfs@debian:~$ cat ~/.bash_profile exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash export LFS=/mnt/lfs export sources=$LFS/sources lfs@debian:~$ exit exit root@debian:~# su - lfs lfs@deb

Re: [lfs-support] export

2015-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Havens wrote: I want to make it easy to get to a certain directory. Why doesn't it retain $LFS/sources ? root@debian:~# cat /root/.bash_profile export LFS=/mnt/lfs export sources=$LFS/sources root@debian:~# su - lfs lfs@debian:~$ cat ~/.bash_profile exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1=

[lfs-support] export

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
I want to make it easy to get to a certain directory. Why doesn't it retain $LFS/sources ? root@debian:~# cat /root/.bash_profile export LFS=/mnt/lfs export sources=$LFS/sources root@debian:~# su - lfs lfs@debian:~$ cat ~/.bash_profile exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash exp

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

2015-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Craig Garner wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Michael Havens wrote: I wrote the script for 5.10 and ran it but messed something up. I fixed it and ran it again to find I did something else wrong One of the last lines said: ln: failed to create symbolic link `/tools/bin/cc': File exist

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

2015-10-28 Thread Thanos Baloukas
On 28/10/2015 05:25 μμ, Michael Havens wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Pierre Labastie mailto:pierre.labas...@neuf.fr>> wrote: Two solutions: - Use ln -sf (force) - remove the link command from your script... Thank you Pierre force option it is. As for my first run havin

[lfs-support] Another round of LFS

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
Yes, you are correct when you mentioned I have done LFS before but never successfully. The reason I gave up in the previous try is the computer I was sshing with blew up and so I had to put make the LFS machine my main computer. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-s

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > Two solutions: > - Use ln -sf (force) > - remove the link command from your script... > Thank you Pierre force option it is. As for my first run having already created it not really. It ran for lie 10 seconds and then barfed up the rest

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

2015-10-28 Thread Craig Garner
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > I wrote the script for 5.10 and ran it but messed something up. I fixed it > and ran it again to find I did something else wrong > One of the last lines said: > > ln: failed to create symbolic link `/tools/bin/cc': File exists > > Do I nee

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

2015-10-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 28/10/2015 15:29, Michael Havens wrote: I think I do. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: I think you don't ;-) A symbolic link (symlink) like the one you are talking about is a small file pointing to another file. It just contains the name of that file, but otherwise has nothing to do with its target. Th

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
I think I do. > > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why i

[lfs-support] 5.10

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Havens
I wrote the script for 5.10 and ran it but messed something up. I fixed it and ran it again to find I did something else wrong One of the last lines said: ln: failed to create symbolic link `/tools/bin/cc': File exists Do I need to delete this file before running it again? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- ht

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

2015-10-28 Thread James E. Lang
-Original Message- From: Bruce Dubbs To: LFS Support List Sent: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:27 Subject: Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5 Michael Havens wrote: > > If possible, it'd be better to make a difference between the source > files (configure, *.c, etc) and the source packages (usual