> Thanks for the info. I think this is more serious than the ftp > issue. I couldn't remember what my partitions are laid out like so I > thought I'd have a look... > > andy:~$ su > Password: > root:/home/andy# cfdisk > Segmentation fault > root:/home/andy# > > DOH! > I edited the configure script to set the CFLAGS to -O and recompiled > and it's working fine now. To me, cfdisk is a much more important > system function than ftp. The gcc-4 book should set the optimisation > to -O by default, perhaps with > > sed -i '[EMAIL PROTECTED]"-O2"@CFLAGS-"-O"@g' configure
If only one utility from a package is causing a problem, wouldn't to be better to recompile that utility with a specific flag set rather than drop the optimisation on everything across the whole build ? Just my threepen'th, (though I guess this posting might be considered more of a "why spoil the ship for a ha'p'th of tar" for those of you who speak old-money) -- Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Kevin M. Buckley e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Systems Administrator * * Computer Centre * * Lancaster University Voice: +44 (0) 1524 5 93718 * * LANCASTER. LA1 4YW Fax : +44 (0) 1524 5 25113 * * England. * * * * My PC runs Linux/GNU, you still computing the Bill Gate$' way ? * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page