Re: [lfs-support] A speedup with 4.14 and later kernels (against Meltdown)

2018-02-17 Thread Hazel Russman
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:46:22 + Ken Moffat wrote: > > 'git bisect'. > > In other words, working through the commits from 4.13.0 to 4.14.0 in > linus's tree (the stable git tree for 4.14 is separate). This > obviously requires git, but it also needs towards 3.0 GB of space for > linus's git t

[lfs-support] su nobody -s /bin/bash causes "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied"

2018-02-17 Thread René Nyffenegger
Step 6.34 (in LFS 8.1 -  http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/bash.html) suggest to run the tests as the nobody user: su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "PATH=$PATH make tests" However, when I want to that, or even a simpler su nobody -s /bin/bash I get a Cannot execute /bin/bash:

Re: [lfs-support] su nobody -s /bin/bash causes "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied"

2018-02-17 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 17/02/2018 18:50, René Nyffenegger wrote: > Step 6.34 (in LFS 8.1 -  > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/bash.html) suggest > to run the tests as the nobody user: > > su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "PATH=$PATH make tests" However, when I want to > that, or even a simpler su

[lfs-support] LFS-8.2-RC1: 5.12

2018-02-17 Thread Rob
When trying to compile expect, I got this: config.status: WARNING: 'Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting chmod: cannot access './install-sh': No such file or directory Here is my command line: ./configure -q --prefix=/tools \ --with-tcl=/tools/lib \

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-8.2-RC1: 5.12

2018-02-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:11:11PM -0600, Rob wrote: > When trying to compile expect, I got this: > config.status: WARNING: 'Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir > setting > chmod: cannot access './install-sh': No such file or directory > Here is my command line: > ./configure -q --pref

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-8.2-RC1: 5.12

2018-02-17 Thread Rob
Ken Moffat wrote: That message seems to be normal. Not sure where the '-q' came from. I added it, so I could catch any warnigngs. It suppresses the Checking for... messages and makes for a much cleaner experience. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxf