Re: [lfs-support] Error in compiling Binutils-2.24 Pass 2 - eval -r: invalid option

2014-05-27 Thread William Harrington
s set. If you aren't using the lfs user, then make sure your own use (not root) has the environment set right. If you are the root user, then the lfs user's environment wouldn't be used and LFS-TGT would not be set. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscra

Re: [lfs-support] Can't move past configuring in sec5.8 - libstdc++ (LFS7.5)

2014-05-31 Thread William Harrington
s are being expanded with variables properly may be a good start. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Can't move past configuring in sec5.8 - libstdc++ (LFS7.5)

2014-05-31 Thread William Harrington
there? Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 6.3 questions

2014-06-08 Thread William Harrington
infinite loop during glibc configure with gawk. I use a Dual P3 1.4GHz Tualatin with 4GB ram just fine with current Arch Linux or current Debian to build current LFS or CLFS builds. I see no reason why your machine can't do it, either. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http:/

Re: [lfs-support] Final Prep Item for LFS-7.5--kernel rebuild

2014-06-13 Thread William Harrington
ffects a lot of drivers. As you build, it should be noticeable of all the modules that get rebuilt. You have probably already seen the differences. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsub

Re: [lfs-support] Multiple CPU cores, Make and Parallel Builds

2014-06-15 Thread William Harrington
is always one job using each CPU while others are waiting for I/O All of this is variable depending on the build job and available RAM. There is an optimum setting, which after having too many jobs will pollute the cache too much. You will need to experiment. Normally with your quad core machi

Re: [lfs-support] Why use exec in chapter 6.6?

2014-06-21 Thread William Harrington
exec) Now run pstree You'll see bash has no other process other than itself. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Problem partioning

2014-06-21 Thread William Harrington
wer drives take care of that. http://lifehacker.com/5802838/how-to-maximize-the-life-of-your-ssd Sincerely, WIlliam Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS7.5 - 6.9.1. Installation of Glibc - Make Install Error

2014-07-18 Thread William Harrington
new mv -f /usr/sbin/iconvconfig.new /usr/sbin/iconvconfig /tools/bin/install -c /sources/glibc-build/iconv/iconv_prog /usr/bin/ iconv.new mv -f /usr/bin/iconv.new /usr/bin/iconv What is the output of: ls -ld /usr{,/bin} Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs

Re: [lfs-support] Errors in rebooting the completed system

2014-07-23 Thread William Harrington
river into the kernel (use whatever the vm uses for your configuration) Compile the filesystem into the kernel to mount the rootfs (use the filesystem to mount your lfs build) http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/basic-kernel.txt Sincerely, William Harrington --

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.5 klogd issue

2014-07-30 Thread William Harrington
KLOGD and klogd would segfault or cause other issues without CONFIG_KALLSYMS enabled in the kernel. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.5 klogd issue

2014-07-30 Thread William Harrington
le that and debugfs and haven't had an issue with systemd or sysvinit systems. Did you change anything else other than enabling CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG? http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DYNAMIC_DEBUG.html Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-s

Re: [lfs-support] systemd or not

2014-08-04 Thread William Harrington
y 16 at the lfs-support mailing list is a good start. Installing a distro that uses systemd would be a good way to find out if you want to use it or not. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsub

Re: [lfs-support] PATA-SATA puzzlement

2014-08-23 Thread William Harrington
ata mode in addition to ide devices. Hope this helps you get the pata portion working properly. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] util-linux compilation failed

2014-08-31 Thread William Harrington
long ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg18465.html Linker search paths may be an issue, too. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inform

Re: [lfs-support] mount -o noatime ?

2014-08-31 Thread William Harrington
ation to a file will continue to be updated anytime the file is written to. If a faster build time is required and test suites not of a concern, use noatime. That is if the test suites will require a filesystem with atime. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: [lfs-support] su--Shadow or Util-linux?

2014-09-14 Thread William Harrington
il-linux-ng/5881 Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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

Re: [lfs-support] In Systemd Version 7.6-systemd-rc2 Networking Not Working

2014-09-14 Thread William Harrington
ely, WIlliam Harrington -- 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 is top-posting s

Re: [lfs-support] Why not always use a longterm support kernel?

2014-09-27 Thread William Harrington
e. 3.13 is unstable and it has and end of life before 3.14 or 3.16. I don’t know why 7.5 was released with a 3.13 kernel, it should have been released with a 3.14 kernel. Perhaps the developers can explain that one. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/

Re: [lfs-support] Why not always use a longterm support kernel?

2014-09-28 Thread William Harrington
e candidate. https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html I hope this helps other people in knowing what is going on with the Kernel development cycle and numbering since 2.6.x Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscr

Re: [lfs-support] issue with 6.9.2. Configuring Glibc - localtime

2014-10-09 Thread William Harrington
y want to do and how to achieve it. Just because a few major distros decide how it is to be done, doesn’t mean it is correct for the target audience of LFS. I don’t know where /etc/localtime generated from, but it isn’t from the FHS. It is way before 1990 but I can’t find the source.. Sincere

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 | Unsuccessful reboot

2014-10-19 Thread William Harrington
s reply. > > Thanks, > Regards! Build SYSTEMD with LVM2 support. Look at the optional dependencies when configuring SYSTEMD. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above info

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 | Unsuccessful reboot

2014-10-19 Thread William Harrington
s reply. > > Thanks, > Regards! Build SYSTEMD with LVM2 support.That may help if you haven’t done that. Look at the optional dependencies when configuring Systemd. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 | Unsuccessful reboot

2014-10-19 Thread William Harrington
On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:35, Richard Melville wrote: > He says he's *not* building systemd. > > Richard Ah classic LFS. I’m sorry. Still make sure LVM2 is installed. Sincerely, WIlliam Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxf

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.6 Request for help in grub.cfg for multi-booting

2014-10-25 Thread William Harrington
ERVER BUILD" { set root=(hd0,2) linux /boot/linux-3.14.22 root=/dev/sda2 } menuentry "CLFS-GIT" { set root=(hd0,1) linux /boot/linux-3.12.17 root=/dev/sda1 } Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 Kernel Panic

2014-11-02 Thread William Harrington
. I suspect you may be using the host OS used to build LFS install location for the grub files and if that’s at hd0,2 then just deal with root=/dev/sd8 at the grub’s linux line. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscra

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.5 - Ch5 glibc-2.19 compile issues please help

2014-11-02 Thread William Harrington
you deviated from the book? Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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 nor

Re: [lfs-support] Booting problem

2014-11-05 Thread William Harrington
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > Hello Bruce, Perhaps the kernel is missing the configure option for executing scripts: config BINFMT_SCRIPT tristate "Kernel support for scripts starting with #!" default y help Say Y here if you wan

Re: [lfs-support] Booting problem

2014-11-05 Thread William Harrington
you want to execute interpreted scripts >starting with #! followed by the path to an interpreter. > > > Sincerely, > > William Harrington No matter, I see it set in the config. My guess is that the filesystem needs to be mounted and make sure the files are in t

Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] Yet another LibreOffice post

2014-11-06 Thread William Harrington
On Thu, November 6, 2014 04:49, alex lupu wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Ken Moffat > wrote: > > >> 1. Until recently, BLFS has always used -j1 for timings. For LO that >> recently changed in svn, and the change was matched with a comment >> about how many jobs were used. >> >> What is

Re: [lfs-support] HW issues

2014-11-07 Thread William Harrington
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 22:30, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I do have CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y but don't think CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is needed. In > any case I tried changing this and got no change in available memory. http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/X86_PAE.html How about that option? Si

Re: [lfs-support] HW issues

2014-11-07 Thread William Harrington
es/config-3.4.1-4 That config has # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set So there is no way PAE could be enabled with that disabled. SIncerely, WIlliam Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inf

Re: [lfs-support] HW issues

2014-11-08 Thread William Harrington
2888 1214402991448556 15348 74956 I think that is because the CPU doesn't have the PAT flag. Perhaps this is also the issue. Is there a PAE flag as well, or just PAT for i686 processors? Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfrom

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 -- glibc-2.20 Chapter 6 -- make check -- help with failures

2014-11-17 Thread William Harrington
FAIL: rt/tst-mqueue8x Hello Brent, This could be an issue with QEMU and the running kernel or some of the kernel filesystems are not mounted or some utils required the test suite were missed in ch5, such as diffutils (in that case there would most likely be more test failures than above). You

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 -- glibc-2.20 Chapter 6 -- make check -- help with failures

2014-11-21 Thread William Harrington
Create a build log by redirecting all output to a file and then looking back to some of those tests that fail and see if any errors crop up that are obvious. Check the .out files where is the actual test name. Content in those files can help. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 -- glibc-2.20 Chapter 6 -- make check -- help with failures

2014-11-22 Thread William Harrington
he shared library now? Hello Brent, You may wish to review this support thread with a user which had the same issues and the same amount of test failures: http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2013-February/044616.html Sincerely, William Harrington -- http

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 6.12 fatal link error

2014-11-25 Thread William Harrington
he link provided and make sure the links for libz are created properly and are in the right location and are not broken links. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above info

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 "smoke tests"

2014-12-04 Thread William Harrington
proper kernel options are in the config of your running kernel: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter08/kernel.html Mainly devtmpfs Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

Re: [lfs-support] Swap script not working for me

2014-12-07 Thread William Harrington
led. You have two options when using USB parittions to mount. Use rootdelay or use an initramfs even if your rootfs is not with the USB device. You can even put a delay in the swap script until the usb device becomes available. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfroms

Re: [lfs-support] LFS or CLFS for a pure 64-bit system

2015-01-09 Thread William Harrington
tter to stick with LFS. Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 Chapter 5 binutils pass2 configure error

2015-01-23 Thread William Harrington
d Hello Bruce, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/generalinstructions.html Do not apply patches unless needed per the instructions. Applying patches when not needed will result in a broken toolchain. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/

Re: [lfs-support] what is the purpose of && at the end of patching core utils?

2015-03-03 Thread William Harrington
amp;& \" "&&" does do something. If the patch command doesn't work, then touch will not be executed. If the user does not have the patch, and attempts to patch the source, the command won't succeed, and touch will not be ran. Sincerely, William Harrington --

Re: [lfs-support] Framebuffers

2015-03-04 Thread William Harrington
_the_framebuffer_resolution Hwinfo can be installed and used to view the modes: hwinfo --framebuffer At the Grub command line "vbeinfo" can be ran. Refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution Sincerely,

Re: [lfs-support] Framebuffers

2015-03-04 Thread William Harrington
ing the kernel module. I've sometimes had to resort to reading the source code. Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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

Re: [lfs-support] Can't Mount Root Filesystem

2015-03-18 Thread William Harrington
ck-device with the PANIC. View Armin's helpful document for configuring a basic kernel. http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/basic-kernel.txt Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: [lfs-support] makefile:382: recipe for target 'perl' failed

2015-03-28 Thread William Harrington
able/prologue/package-choices.html Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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

Re: [lfs-support] gcc erorr: unrecognized command lin eoption -V, -qversion

2015-04-02 Thread William Harrington
fails. > Here is the output from version-check.sh: > bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release > /bin/sh -> /bin/dash Others have already commented on the /bin/sh issue. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscrat

Re: [lfs-support] configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile

2015-04-02 Thread William Harrington
r: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot > compile > See `config.log' for more details. Hello, /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/./gcc/as: line 106: exec: --: invalid option I think this was the result of building the pass1 of binutils with dash. I can't be too sure, but if you

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

2015-08-23 Thread William Harrington
ge for more information regarding the installation. The last patch was created from upstream fixes over a year ago. Some distros may have more patches for it. http://clfs.org/view/git/x86/final-system/iputils.html Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinf

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

2015-08-23 Thread William Harrington
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:13:59 +0100 Richard Melville wrote: > On 23 August 2015 at 19:51, William Harrington > wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:28:20 -0500 > > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > > I'm open to disabling ping/ping6 in inetutils and adding ano

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

2015-08-23 Thread William Harrington
, but didn't think MD5 was optional at the time, so I'll give it another go. Thanks for the information. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information pa

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

2015-08-24 Thread William Harrington
e information, you can view what I've done so far with our ticket regarding iputils: http://trac.clfs.org/ticket/1066 Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above informat

Re: [lfs-support] unified usr directory

2015-08-24 Thread William Harrington
omscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-dev/2012-October/067268.html Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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

Re: [lfs-support] Multilib support for an lfs system

2015-08-24 Thread William Harrington
/www.williamfeely.info/wiki/Lfs-multilib Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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 whi

Re: [lfs-support] Linux-3.19 API Headers error

2015-08-27 Thread William Harrington
'as from binutils' while in chroot: echo "main(){}" | gcc -x c -v - Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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 l

Re: [lfs-support] symbolic links: relative vs absolute

2015-08-31 Thread William Harrington
e relative positions and may be moved around, relative links are good. If the file is in a known location, such as a config file, then absolute links would be good. I ran across a document a few years ago which went indepth about links titled "Unix file basics: Inode, Soft Vs hard link, De

Re: [lfs-support] glibc 2.21: Resolve test suite Failure after "make check"

2015-09-24 Thread William Harrington
s are mounted when entering chroot: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/kernfs.html Usually more tests fail if diffutils wasn't installed, but this does not seem to be the case. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] glibc 2.21: Resolve test suite Failure after "make check"

2015-09-24 Thread William Harrington
SS > I also forgot to mention that another user had the same issue not too long ago: http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2014-November/048116.html Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: [lfs-support] [Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2] LFS 7.8-rc1

2015-09-30 Thread William Harrington
mpler way. > > We can't cover every detail. By the time a user gets to Chapter 6, he > should be able to figure it out. > Hello, This seems more like something that could be put in the FAQ because this gets asked a lot in the mailing list and IRC channel. It'

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc Configure Errors

2015-10-17 Thread William Harrington
the newer make version: sed -r -i 's/(3..89..)/\1 | 4.*/' configure Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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

Re: [lfs-support] Odd - Building again

2015-10-21 Thread William Harrington
ed. mount $LFS/dev and then chroot and change the passwd. Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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

Re: [lfs-support] Security issues

2015-10-23 Thread William Harrington
ists regarding udev. https://github.com/gentoo/eudev (you can view the commit when hwdb was created and read the NOTES file after that commit.) Also, you'll need to be sure to view the README to configure your kernel with the required options. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lis

Re: [lfs-support] Triplet

2015-10-24 Thread William Harrington
toolchain for pentium3 or coreisbr for sandy bridge. pentium3-awesome-gnu-linux coreisbr-awesome-gnu-linux Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

2015-10-26 Thread William Harrington
.log When you go to the line in that log which gives the error, you'll find the error message either as or ld or gcc gave. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above i

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

2015-10-26 Thread William Harrington
On Mon, October 26, 2015 19:26, Michael Havens wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:49 PM, William Harrington > > wrote: > > configure:3437: /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc > -B/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-b > uild/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ > -B/tools/x86

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

2015-10-26 Thread William Harrington
error rather quickly if you post the actual config.log. Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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 orde

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

2015-10-27 Thread William Harrington
requirements, and fix the shell link to bash, you HAVE to remove the binutils build and source directories and start from scratch. http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2015-April/048637.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-from-scratch-13/lfs-

Re: [lfs-support] 5.23

2015-10-30 Thread William Harrington
stuff buildall 2>&1 | tee $LOGDIR/pkg_extra.log Then it doesn't matter where you are in the filesystem, the logs will output to $LOGDIR location. Don't forget to use -a option with tee if you need to append to the same logfile. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.l

Re: [lfs-support] 5.23

2015-10-30 Thread William Harrington
completed builds. This is out of the scope of building LFS. Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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 u

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.8 GCC 5.2.0 Pass 2 Compile Error

2015-11-02 Thread William Harrington
e following url? https://www.pld-linux.org/developingpld/advanceddeveloping/fixingasneeded Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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: Bec

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

2015-11-02 Thread William Harrington
ommands and don't deviate from the book. When you need help you explain your deviances from the book. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

2015-11-04 Thread William Harrington
should be using /tools/lib or /tools/lib64 You can check all of the binaries in /tools/bin if you want. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top po

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

2015-11-05 Thread William Harrington
On Thu, November 5, 2015 12:39, Michael Havens wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, William Harrington > wrote: >> >> run the following, your interpreter may be wrong or missing: >> >> readelf -e /tools/bin/ls | grep interp >> > > ~$ readelf -e /too

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

2015-11-05 Thread William Harrington
om the host. /usr/bin/readelf -e /tools/bin/ls | /bin/grep interp Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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 mes

Re: [lfs-support] New Lfs 7.8 system with some boot up errors and a question on network

2015-11-07 Thread William Harrington
On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 18:26:09 +0100 Pol Vangheluwe wrote: > Name= Yes or let the user figure out the interface from output in /sys/class/net. I think eth0 is used for a generic replaceable option, meaning the user needs to replace it. Sincerely, William Harrington -- h

Re: [lfs-support] New Lfs 7.8 system with some boot up errors and a question on network

2015-11-08 Thread William Harrington
up-link.rules, then edit the file there and change the lines as necessary. Pass the net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line (since v199) Does the chapter7 symlink page need an update either referencing the freedesktop link or enter a bit in there about how udev will behave? Or perhaps have

Re: [lfs-support] Problem in section 5.3 of lfs book

2015-11-17 Thread William Harrington
in/byaccj. They are both >>> ELF. >>> My host system is Fedora 23. >> >> Have you run version-check.sh? What does it say about yacc? > > Here is the output from version-check.sh > > bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release > /bin/sh -> /usr

Re: [lfs-support] Building gcc-5.2.0 Pass 1 on certain systems: Fix for the "invalid shift operand" error

2015-12-12 Thread William Harrington
anges from a bad GCC 4.6.0. GCC 4.6 issues are from 4.6.0 to 4.6.3. GCC 4.6.4 is fine. Just an FYI for a hasty host requirements update which is false. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html U

Re: [lfs-support] makefile:376: recipe for target 'perl' failed

2015-12-14 Thread William Harrington
thread.so.0: undefined reference to > `h_errno@GLIBC_PRIVATE' > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > makefile:376: recipe for target 'perl' failed > make: *** [perl] Error 1 Hello, Please review thread http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-support/2015-March

Re: [lfs-support] Building gcc-5.2.0 Pass 1 on certain systems: Fix for the "invalid shift operand" error

2015-12-14 Thread William Harrington
On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:14:36 -0600 William Harrington wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:40:23 + > wrote: > > > Hello list- > > > > > > > > > > on certain systems (more-or-less current MiniBIAN in my case, seems to > > apply to Debian s

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7, Ch 6.6

2015-12-26 Thread William Harrington
removed, or decided to not be removed. Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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 p

Re: [lfs-support] iptables

2016-01-03 Thread William Harrington
anything in the 1.4.21 ChangeLog which would introduce a problem. Maybe someone else can look at it and find something. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: [lfs-support] iptables

2016-01-04 Thread William Harrington
onds 60 --hitcount 6 --name SSH -j DROP See if setting the --name properly helps. Sincerely, William Harrington -- 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.

Re: [lfs-support] iptables

2016-01-04 Thread William Harrington
On Mon, January 4, 2016 21:58, Daniel M. wrote: > On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 19:05 +0000, William Harrington wrote: > > >> Hello Daniel, >> >> I looked at your config settings and conntrack is in the kernel for >> ipv4. >> I would look at your command: >

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7, Ch 6.9 (glibc)

2016-01-06 Thread William Harrington
ine. Did you set CFLAGS to remove those default optimizations? https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ#Why_do_I_get:.60.23error_.22glibc_cannot_be_compiled_without_optimization.22.27.2C_when_trying_to_compile_GNU_libc_with_GNU_CC.3F https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ#I.27ve_got_errors_compiling_cod

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.8 Gcc second pass problem

2016-01-08 Thread William Harrington
On Fri, January 8, 2016 14:31, Read, James C wrote: > >>Hope it is clear. > > So, the effect of && is like starting a new bash session? Is that why they > fall out of scope? http://linux.die.net/abs-guide/ Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratc

Re: [lfs-support] ipv6 and ifconfig

2016-01-12 Thread William Harrington
ipv6 support has been added since 1.9.2. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/tree/NEWS?id=inetutils-1_9_4 Perhaps you need to use the -6 option. Or if you are using an older version of inetutils, update it. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-s

Re: [lfs-support] glibc make (infinite loop) error!

2016-03-06 Thread William Harrington
if the clock was way off, start with a new extraction of the glibc source and continue with the book instructions. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] glibc make (infinite loop) error!

2016-03-07 Thread William Harrington
nuxquestions.org/questions/linux-from-scratch-13/lfs-7-5-stage-6-9-make-loops-4175501308/ and see if that leads to anything. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above info

Re: [lfs-support] Roadblock at Linux API Headers

2016-03-14 Thread William Harrington
ls binaries, the culprit is most likely not removing source/build directories (current book has build directories inside source directories). You must be careful to not reuse source directories as the book may change the source code with patches or other commands. Sincerely, William Harrington --

Re: [lfs-support] stalled out in 6.24 (Sed 4.2.2, LFS v. 7.9)

2016-03-19 Thread William Harrington
in/bzip2 | grep NEEDED should get exact result: 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libbz2.so.1.0] 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.l

Re: [lfs-support] Cross-compiler question for Chapter 5

2016-03-19 Thread William Harrington
t. That should be all you need to worry about. The LFS book has computer output for i686, but you should be seeing i586 in that place. There are still newer targets out there that use i586: Geode GX1 / GXm / VIA Nehemiah so i586 is still around. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.l

Re: [lfs-support] stalled out in 6.24 (Sed 4.2.2, LFS v. 7.9)

2016-03-19 Thread William Harrington
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:37:13 -0400 Glenn Becker wrote: > [Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2] > > (why is mine going to */tools*?) Should not be tools. You may have other libraries and programs looking in /tools. I would suggest look at your build history

Re: [lfs-support] stalled out in 6.24 (Sed 4.2.2, LFS v. 7.9)

2016-03-20 Thread William Harrington
m early in chapter 6 would be the step missing. It may be a PATH issue if/usr/bin/gcc exists but /tools/bin/gcc is being used instead. *'s around /tools/ doesn't seem right, either. Something went bad during an edit. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscrat

Re: [lfs-support] Cross-compiler question for Chapter 5

2016-03-21 Thread William Harrington
-gnu" (!). > > Question: do I run the "config" script following the instructions for step > 5.7? > > /Antonio > You can run the following in the GMP source tree before configuring and building: mv -v config{fsf,}.guess mv -v config{fsf,}.sub Sincerely, William Harrington --

Re: [lfs-support] procps-ng-3.3.11 fails two tests

2016-03-24 Thread William Harrington
/proc mounted and do you have read access to /proc/1/smaps ? 'cat /proc/1/smaps' You can run: 'pmap -X 1' and 'pmap -XX 1' or The open may succeed but the read may not. In which case it could be a change in the kernel of how pmap behaves. Sincerely, William Harrin

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs - Next Diagnostic Steps?

2016-05-16 Thread William Harrington
he kernel configuration. Of course make sure the following are enabled in the kernel config: CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inf

Re: [lfs-support] 6.7 Linux-4.6 API headers make mrproper fails

2016-06-12 Thread William Harrington
ound > > followed by ./scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 25: /tools/bin/gcc: no such > file or directory The interpreter is probably wrong. From the host run "readelf -e /tool/bin/gcc | grep interpreter" You may find it is linked to the host OS. Sincerely, William Harrington -- h

Re: [lfs-support] 6.7 Linux-4.6 API headers make mrproper fails

2016-06-13 Thread William Harrington
On Sun, June 12, 2016 20:32, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Paul Rogers wrote: >>> I admit I have not tested a 32-bit system is several months. They >>> really >>> are obsolete. >> >> That's OK, so is all my hardware! I'm retired living on a fixed income. > > You can't afford a one time $89? > Apparently y

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7 i686 build failure

2016-06-19 Thread William Harrington
f repairing things while you could effortlessly without special tools. Cars are like that, too. Gotta take the engine out just to replace most things these days. Sincerely, William Harrington -- William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.lin

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