Re: [lfs-support] init-functions: new pidofproc function: posix compliant: no sub shells: tested

On 4/9/2021 5:16 AM, Scott Andrews wrote: This script is not intended to run with ash, the she bang line is as follows #!/bin/bash --posix My apologies for the duplicate reply Scott, I didn't reply to list. Unfortunately, init-functions is a special case. You cannot guarantee that the

[lfs-support] Lumina (Was: Re: DBus-Broker)

On 3/1/2020 4:50 PM, Scott Andrews wrote: I may not need dbus if I am successful building lumina. Hey, something I might actually be able to help with. From about a year ago (or so)...

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel Compilation for Headless Server

On 12/22/2019 5:41 PM, Rob wrote: I'm working on building a storage server, where I'm going to cram in as many drives as I can. I currently have 10. As such, I need to get rid of the video card to make room. I'll be administering the server over ssh. Can I build a linux version that requires no

Re: [lfs-support] Important software missing from LFS Basic System

On 10/23/2019 9:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:46:06PM -0500, Trent wrote: Is there any reason LFS does not include WGET? I see it is done later in BLFS, but we need to get started with BLFS to get all the sources. Trent This question comes up frequently enough that I'd

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS with systemd - SOLVED

On 07/25/2018 11:41 AM, Frans de Boer wrote: I remember that we only need doxygen as an additional package to build systemd without the LFS patch, right? It is libxslt that is needed to build the man pages. Additionally, the test suite is disabled for part of the build due to lack of

Re: [lfs-support] systemd compile error - SOLVED

On February 2, 2018 2:15:21 AM CST, Frans de Boer wrote: >On 02-02-18 09:05, Frans de Boer wrote: >> LS, >> >> Now that the issue of the undocumented two dots in the meson command >> line are clear, I encountered the next error: >> >> Meson encountered an error in file

Re: [lfs-support] Intel microcode updates adding confusion?

On 01/13/2018 06:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Paul Rogers wrote: Updating microcode can be a dangerous thing.  I've never found a need to live on the bleeding edge of technology. I agree about bleeding edge issues, but leading edge is OK.  My view is that rc releases and betas or earlier are

Re: [lfs-support] The Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities

On 01/08/2018 05:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: I might be confused, but I thought microcode updates on consumer processors is handled by BIOS update from the motherboard manufacturer, the AGESA part of the BIOS version, currently 1.0.0.7. I'm not sure if we'll see a late-load

Re: [lfs-support] The Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities

On 01/08/2018 03:12 PM, Michael Shell wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:47:00 -0600 DJ Lucas <blfs-...@lucasit.com> wrote: I might be confused, but I thought microcode updates on consumer processors is handled by BIOS update from the motherboard manufacturer, the AGESA part of the BIOS v

Re: [lfs-support] The Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities

On 01/07/2018 04:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:43:11PM -0500, Michael Shell wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:26:13 + Ken Moffat wrote: Does anybody have a link for (any) updated AMD firmware? Ryzen is model 17h, AFAICS linux firmware has

Re: [lfs-support] ALFS: glibc-2.26, pass-1 fails

On 11/08/2017 03:17 PM, Pol Vangheluwe wrote: Op 5 nov. 2017, om 17:22 heeft Pol Vangheluwe <pol.vanghel...@icloud.com <mailto:pol.vanghel...@icloud.com>> het volgende geschreven: Op 3 nov. 2017, om 00:15 heeft DJ Lucas <blfs-...@lucasit.com <mailto:blfs-...@lucasit.

Re: [lfs-support] ALFS: glibc-2.26, pass-1 fails

On 11/02/2017 04:12 PM, Pol Vangheluwe wrote: Op 21 okt. 2017, om 20:04 heeft Pol Vangheluwe > het volgende geschreven: Op 27 sep. 2017, om 08:25 heeft Pierre Labastie >

Re: [lfs-support] Copy & Shift actual status of LFS to a faster device / compiling with a virtual partition

On 10/29/2017 01:39 PM, Michael D. wrote: On 10/29/17 2:04 PM, Axel wrote: Dear all, now I reached chapter6.20. My host is an Aspire one with 4.9.0-4-amd64 and not very fast. But I want to install LFS on this device finally. I think about to use another device with with an amd64

Re: [lfs-support] Internet in chroot

On 10/25/2017 06:42 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: To be sure, you and I have different goals we're trying to achieve, which influences how we build systems. When it comes to building the packages, I go very close to the book in most circumstances, but higher-level parts of my process are quite

Re: [lfs-support] Internet in chroot & do not want doing lfs forbootable

On 10/25/2017 11:02 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 03:30:10PM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: (trimming to one point) So, once LFS is finished, then there may be some "essentials" one needs immediately, e.g. preferred editor, environment, iptables firewall,

Re: [lfs-support] Mistake in LFS book

On 10/10/2017 03:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: But my point was just that the sentence above the "mv" command on the coreutils page should mention "test" and "[" ;) Since the lfs boot scripts assume /bin/sh is bash, There is no assumption. rc uses #!/bin/bash

Re: [lfs-support] 8.1-systemd: Ch. 7.6 and 7.7: configuring linux console and system locale

On 10/03/2017 10:08 PM, Hans Malissa wrote: I'm a little confused about chapters 7.6 and 7.7: the configuration of the linux console and the system locale: there are some examples given for other languages, but what would the "default" setting for /etc/vconsole.conf and /etc/locale.conf for

Re: [lfs-support] Console adjustment

On 09/21/2017 05:44 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: One of the computers I just attached to my KVM switch doesn't have enough "front Porch" for the monitor in use, the first character is "off the edge". If I move the image right using monitor adjustments, then the other computers lose one on the

Re: [lfs-support] 8.1-systemd Ch. 8.3 Linux-4.12.7: Error during make?

On 09/18/2017 11:43 PM, Hans Malissa wrote: Hi, I’m working my way through LFS 8.1-systemd. I got all the way to 8.3.1 Linux-4.12.7 without any problem, but now I’m stuck during kernel compilation. After 'make mrproper’ and ‘make menuconfig', I run ‘make'. Compilation runs ok for quite some

Re: [lfs-support] Cross-compiling in Ch6

On 09/01/2017 11:04 AM, Paul Rogers wrote: Being able to use my (now old) i7 to build (B)LFS has made this much faster, but seems to have tripped me up. I was trying to build an i686 LFS, and thought it was enough to use an older i686-made OS and toolchain. Works on Conroe targets, but when