On 1/26/2012 12:32 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:27:04 +0100, Pierre Labastie<[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder if anybody still uses jhalfs, and if he(she) has tried ICA
>> lately.
> I use jhalfs all the time, but I've never done an ICA build with it.
>
>> ICA is broken because of the part in glibc's instructions, which
>> instructs 'test-installation.pl' to look for /usr/lib rather than
>> /tools/lib. On the second (and following) pass, the line 'DL=...' sets
>> DL to empty (because /tools has been removed). Then the sed creates
>> a flawed 'test-installation.pl'.
>>
>> Here is a patch which could be applied inside the LFS subdirectory
>> of jhalfs:
> Thanks, I'll apply that this evening.
>
>> Let me know if my efforts on jhalfs may be useful. It seems that
>> my post on jhalfs-discuss has reached nobody... Besides adding
>> package management, which you can simply disable by setting
>> package management to n (this is the default) in the config menu,
>> I spotted a few other bugs in the handling of tests. For example,
>> look for the line "ulimits..." before tests in gcc, in the scripts
>> from current jhalfs.
> I monitor alfs-discuss too, but have no interest in package management
> hence made no comment on it :-)  I guess if the patch doesn't break things
> for none-package-management uses then it could be applied with a minimum
> of discussion really.
>
I noticed the patch too but haven't had time to thoroughly review it 
yet. But I would say before it does get applied a new stable release of 
jhalfs as there have been a few fixes since the last stable so we have 
known good working version out there for the most recent versions of LFS.

Thomas

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