Re: A few install points

2007-07-20 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday 19 July 2007 9:28 pm, Randy McMurchy wrote: David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 20:16 CST: Taking my own route with this build stuff hasn't turned out to well for me. I usually get bitten by something after working on it for a few hours. Maybe the reason this install went

Re: A few install points

2007-07-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Baho Utot wrote these words on 07/20/07 17:53 CST: Actually the BLFS works so well that I use it to install packages I want to use onto fedora core 6 and CENTOS 5. I would rather use the BLFS book than to use yum and rpm, The book just works better and without problems. Way cool! Thanks.

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 18:37 -0400, David Barron wrote: Next up for me is to build the JDK so keep your fingers crossed. Good luck with that! I have built everything from source including OpenOffice at least once over the years, but I have never had much luck with JDK so now I just take the

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 07/19/07 18:50 CST: Good luck with that! I have built everything from source including OpenOffice at least once over the years, but I have never had much luck with JDK so now I just take the coward's way out and install the binaries. I just don't get

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 19:48 CST: You say you built JDK-6u2? That's not the supported version in the book. Did you follow the same steps or did you have your own route? I just kind of wing-it and play it by ear. With the JDK, it was really straight-forward. I used DJ's

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread David Barron
Randy McMurchy wrote: David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 19:48 CST: You say you built JDK-6u2? That's not the supported version in the book. Did you follow the same steps or did you have your own route? I just kind of wing-it and play it by ear. With the JDK, it was really

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread David Barron
Randy McMurchy wrote: David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 20:16 CST: Taking my own route with this build stuff hasn't turned out to well for me. I usually get bitten by something after working on it for a few hours. Maybe the reason this install went so well was that I followed

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 19:00 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Not to be s schmuck, but do you guys use the book's instructions to build the JDK? Och, Randy, the last time I tried was about 4 years ago. Heck, I don't remember what I had for breakfast today much less why I ran into trouble back