Re: [lfs-support] Can Regular Users Contribute?

2016-08-27 Thread Rob
lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) wrote: > (Top-posting as I gather that can be useful re accessibility stuff: is that correct?) It doesn't matter to me personally. A lot of lists for vi folks do top post though. I strike a compromise between the ones that do and the ones like this which bottom post

Re: [lfs-support] Can Regular Users Contribute?

2016-08-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: The way this type of thing is handled is by someone writing a hint: Do I have to join the hints list (I'm already on way too many lists as is) or can I send you the hint directly. You can just post it hre or send to me directly. -- Bruce -- http://lists.lin

Re: [lfs-support] Can Regular Users Contribute?

2016-08-27 Thread akhiezer
(Top-posting as I gather that can be useful re accessibility stuff: is that correct?) I'd certainly be very interested in learning such info in practice. Although the software side would be the main info, if possible could there be some details on hardware that would be used typically. akh >

Re: [lfs-support] Can Regular Users Contribute?

2016-08-27 Thread Rob
Bruce Dubbs wrote: The way this type of thing is handled is by someone writing a hint: Do I have to join the hints list (I'm already on way too many lists as is) or can I send you the hint directly. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: [lfs-support] Can Regular Users Contribute?

2016-08-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: One of the things missing from the LFS book is the inclusion of accessibility services, such as speakup and BRLTTY. Now these services aren't exactly essential for most users, but for those with vision impairment, we need them in order to use the basic system. These packages should be

[lfs-support] Can Regular Users Contribute?

2016-08-27 Thread Rob
One of the things missing from the LFS book is the inclusion of accessibility services, such as speakup and BRLTTY. Now these services aren't exactly essential for most users, but for those with vision impairment, we need them in order to use the basic system. These packages should be installed

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1-rc. Inetutils-1.9.4. All tests passed immediately after building.

2016-08-27 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 27/08/2016 10:35, Hazel Russman wrote: > The Good Book says: > > One test, libls.sh, is known to fail due to hard coding of some support > program paths. All tests pass if the tests are rerun at the end of Chapter 6. > > That doesn't seem to be the case any more. Not on my system anyway. >

[lfs-support] LFS 7.1-rc. Inetutils-1.9.4. All tests passed immediately after building.

2016-08-27 Thread Hazel Russman
The Good Book says: One test, libls.sh, is known to fail due to hard coding of some support program paths. All tests pass if the tests are rerun at the end of Chapter 6. That doesn't seem to be the case any more. Not on my system anyway. Hazel -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-

Re: [lfs-support] binutils pass 2 - 'c compiler can not create executable' [Was: lfs-support Digest, Vol 563, Issue 1]

2016-08-27 Thread akhiezer
> From: Pierre Labastie > Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:08:18 +0200 > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] lfs-support Digest, Vol 563, Issue 1 > > On 27/08/2016 06:53, Sumit Kokal wrote: > > Hello, > > Hello sir, my first pass is successfully done..all packages are properly > > installed,and M move to pass 2.