Re: [lfs-support] configure package texinfo 5.2 failure

[Armin K.]

On 04/26/2014 02:50 AM, Aislan de Sousa Maia wrote:
> Yay!! I don't know why, but now texinfo configure and no more complaints
> about Perl and Encode module. 
> 
> My only two configure's warnings below:
> 
> configure: WARNING: Could not find a terminal library among tinfo
> ncurses curses termlib termcap terminfo
> configure: WARNING: The programs from `info' directory will not be built.
> 
> It's problematic or nothing for me worry about ?
> 

It's okay, you don't need "info" program from chapter 5 texinfo anyways.
It has something to do with no libncurses.so compatibility library
installed in chapter 5 build like in chapter 6.

> And about the problem above, I just update Gawk for 4.0.1 and redo
> installation for Perl according to the LFS says.

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Re: [lfs-support] configure package texinfo 5.2 failure

[Armin K.]

On 04/26/2014 12:59 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Aislan de Sousa Maia wrote:
>> Here is the version-check's output:
>>
>> bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release
>> /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
>> Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22
>> bison (GNU Bison) 2.5
>> /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc
>> bzip2,  Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.
>> Coreutils:  8.13
>> diff (GNU diffutils) 3.2
>> find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
>> GNU Awk 3.1.8
> 
> Needs to be Gawk-4.0.1 or later.  Typo?
> 
>-- Bruce
> 

Apparently it doesn't, since it's only used by glibc package and 4.0.1
was only required by certain version because of some kind of bug.

His error is rather misconfigured perl in /tools. My
/tools/lib/perl5/5.18.2 has Encode.pm file and Encode directory, which
is what texinfo configure looks for. His apparently doesn't which seems
a missed step in chapter 5 perl installation.


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Re: [lfs-support] missing systemd out

[Armin K.]

On 04/23/2014 12:04 PM, xinglp wrote:
> 2014-04-23 17:26 GMT+08:00 TheOldFellow :
>> Am I right in thinking that ACL, ATTR are not needed if systemd is being 
>> avoided?  What else has had to be added so that systemd compiles?
>>
>> I'm also avoiding d-bus and sysklogd as I have better alternatives.
>>
>> Richard.
> Viceversa, I'd like to know what can be removed if I don't want
> sysvinit. I've removed
> sysklogd sysvinit bootscript and some adjusting of chapter7.
>>
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Both of you are correct, what you ask can be done.

However, it might be a good idea not to drop non-systemd/non-dbus
packages (such as acl, attr, libcap, etc) so they can be asumed that
they're always installed and be removed from BLFS in the future.

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Re: [lfs-support] missing coreutils-8.22-shuf-segfault-1.patch

[Armin K.]

On 04/23/2014 05:15 AM, xinglp wrote:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/coreutils-8.22-shuf-segfault-1.patch
> not found.
> 
> There's only 
> svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/trunk/coreutils/coreutils-8.22-shuf-segfault.patch
> 

Patches get copied when online book is generated and that still wasn't
the case since the patch was added.

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Re: [lfs-support] ACL check errors: are they important?

[Armin K.]

On 04/21/2014 06:13 PM, Hazel Russman wrote:
> I am building a 7.5 LFS with systemd and currently working through
> chapter 6. Having successfully installed coreutils, I rebuilt acl and
> ran the test suite. Initially I got 47 errors!
> 
> According to BLFS, the acl test suite requires a daemon user who is also
> in the bin group (currently section 6.6 of LFS-systemd does not include
> this user in /etc/passwd). Adding it reduced the number of errors from
> 47 to 10. However I have not been able to reduce them any further.
> BLFS also recommends giving bin and daemon "proper" home directories (I
> used /bin and /sbin respectively) and a shell, but this had no effect
> in my case.
> 
> As far as I know, the acl and user_xattr options required for
> acl to work on the mounted lfs partition are built into the ext4
> driver that my host kernel (3.10.17) uses and do not need to be set
> explicitly. When I do set them, they are accepted silently but don't
> show up in /proc/mounts, whereas noacl and nouser_xattr do.
> 
> I attach an edited log file containing the actual test errors. I need to
> know if they are important and, if so, how to get rid of them.
> 
> 
> 

Drop the "root-tests", they are broken anyways. I couldn't even get them
to run with daemon user present.

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Re: [lfs-support] error when trying to cross compile glibc-2.19

[Armin K.]

On 19.4.2014 7:42, mar...@byteanywhere.com wrote:
>
>  Hi
>
>Thanks all for the replays.
> I am trying to create a cross compiler using the steps for building LFS
> when the temporary tools are build.
> Those steps should allow me to use the cross compiler, but obviously
> i am not doing something correctly.
> I just used the path from cross-tools package 0.43
> but not using anything from there. One reason for which i am trying
> to create the cross compiler, is that i saw you build for LFS gcc 4.8.2
> and glibc-2.19, which are not supported anymore by that tool or others.
>
> This are the steps is used. I didnt created a lfs user,
> but if you think thats the cause of the problem i can create it and try
> that way as well. The host is x86_64 with kernel 3.7.10
>
> I have a symlink between:
>   ls -ld /tools
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Apr 17 08:08 /tools ->
> /home/marian/crosstool/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/
>
>
> export PREFIX=/home/marian/crosstool/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> export TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

The trick is in this line. To "cross compile" glibc for the same arch, 
target triplet needs to be different or you are nothing other but simply 
compiling. I ran into similar issue when I bootstrapped 32 bit glibc on 
64 bit os. That's one reason lfs uses $LFS_TGT-*lfs*-linux-gnu, not 
$LFS_TGT-*unknown*-linux-gnu for pass1 of both binutils and gcc.

> export
> SYSROOT=/home/marian/crosstool/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root
> export PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
>
> 1. Binutils
>   ../binutils-2.24/configure --prefix=/tools --with-sysroot=$SYSROOT
> --with-lib-path=/tools/lib --target=$TARGET --disable-nls
> --disable-werror
>
>binutils compiles fine. no errors.
>
> 2. Kernel headers
>
> make headers_check
> make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install
> cp -rv dest/include/* /tools/include
>
>
> 3.  From some other docs i saw they install the glibc headers as well here.
> I have tried this, but the same error is happening when building gcc or
> glibc.
> System glibc headers
>
> mkdir glibc-build
> cd glibc-build
>
> ../glibc-2.19/configure --prefix=/tools --host=$TARGET
> --build=$(../glibc-2.19/scripts/config.guess) --disable-profile
> --enable-kernel=2.6.32 --with-headers=/tools/include
> libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes libc_cv_ctors_header=yes libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes
> --without-selinux
>
> make -k install-headers install_root=/
>
> 4. GCC stage 1
>
> ../gcc-4.8.2/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=/tools
> --with-sysroot=$SYSROOT --with-newlib  --without-headers
> --with-local-prefix=/tools
> --with-native-system-header-dir=/tools/include --disable-nls
> --disable-shared  --disable-multilib  --disable-decimal-float
> --disable-threads --disable-libatomic  --disable-libgomp --disable-libitm
> --disable-libmudflap --disable-libquadmath --disable-libsanitizer
> --disable-libssp  --disable-libstdc++-v3 --enable-languages=c,c++
> --with-mpfr-include=$(pwd)/../gcc-4.8.2/mpfr/src
> --with-mpfr-lib=$(pwd)/mpfr/src/.libs
>
> Here if i use make, i get the same error, that compiler can not create
> executables. From config log, the error is that cross gcc is not able
> to find a couple of libs (which seems generated by glibc) crt1.o, crti.o,
> crtn.o and libc.so
>
>Thus from other docs i have seen these being used, so i have tried to
> continue using them:
>
> make all-gcc
> make all-target-libgcc
> make install-gcc
> make install-target-libgcc
>
> 5.  building glibc fails building in sunrpc folder,
> for some rpc_* files, with the same same error, saying that those libs can
> not be found.
>
>
> ../glibc-2.19/configure --prefix=/tools --host=$TARGET
> --build=$(../glibc-2.19/scripts/config.guess) --disable-profile
> --enable-kernel=2.6.32 --with-headers=/tools/include
> libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes libc_cv_ctors_header=yes libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes
> --without-selinux
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Re: [lfs-support] SVN-20140331 6.29. Coreutils-8.22. 1 test failure nohup

[Armin K.]

On 04/01/2014 02:11 PM, Robin wrote:
>>From nohup.log:
> + test -w /dev/full
> + test -c /dev/full
> + exec
> ./tests/misc/nohup.sh: line 66: /dev/tty: No such device or address
> + fail=1
> 
> Found discussion at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-03/msg00017.html
> Patch discussed
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2014-03/msg00017.html
> 
> 
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> 

You should have /dev/tty in chroot since $LFS/dev is a bind-mount of
host's /dev

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Re: [lfs-support] Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20140328 6.22. Attr-2.4.47 Multiple failures on tests

[Armin K.]

On 04/01/2014 12:11 AM, Robin wrote:
> If I run 'make tests root-tests' I get 65 failures.
> Running the tests separately i.e. 'make tests'  then  'make
> root-tests'  and all tests were successful.
> 
> My MAKEFLAGS='-j 4' if that is signicant.
> 
> Thanks
> 

Parallel testing doesn't work with either attr or acl. Use make -j1 ...
for them.

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Re: [lfs-support] /run directory: Maybe a bit off topic?

[Armin K.]

On 03/22/2014 02:59 PM, baho utot wrote:
> I am working on RPM-LFS-7.5 which is LFS with the rpm package manager.
> 
> I would like to adhere to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3 so my linux 
> systems file system layout matches/closely matches my FreeBSD systems.  
> When was the /run directory introduced and what package(s) required 
> moving run-time data from /var/run to /run?
> 

It was introduced and first used by udev way before systemd merge.

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Re: [lfs-support] Blank screen when booting with 3.13.3 kernel. - LFS 7.5

[Armin K.]

On 03/12/2014 08:29 PM, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 03/12/14 12:11, Duc Tran wrote:
>> On 03/12/2014 11:11 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>>>
>>> Could you post your kern.log from /var/log after you boot? (you can get
>>> it from chroot after reboot iirc). Compress it before sending or it
>>> might get blocked.
>>>
>> I also had no success after deselecting Sony Vaio Programmable I/O
>> Control Device Support.
> 

It looks like you are using a laptop. I had a similar problem when I
transfered my lfs install from my p4 desktop to my corei5 laptop.
Everything seemed to be working, but I couldn't see anything. The trick
was that backlight was set to zero. Pressing "Brightness Up" key brought
up the display.

Permanent solution was to add "acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor" to
the kernel command line (in grub.cfg after root=...)


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Re: [lfs-support] Blank screen when booting with 3.13.3 kernel. - LFS 7.5

[Armin K.]

On 03/12/2014 05:09 PM, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> On 03/12/14 10:19, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote:
>> On 03/12/14 10:54, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 03/12/2014 03:46 PM, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> I've built LFS 7.5 with the 3.13.3 kernel but receive a blank screen
>>>> upon booting.  As an experiment, I unselected AGP Support in my kernel
>>>> configuration and can successfully boot.  My thinking was perhaps
>>>> there's a problem with AGP support.
>>>>
>>>> However, as I'm running LFS/BLFS 7.4, I compiled that 3.10.10 kernel in
>>>> my LFS 7.5 build and CAN successfully with with AGP support.  I compiled
>>>> the kernel with the same .config I used when compiling the LFS 7.5
>>>> 3.13.3 kernel.  I also received a blank screen with the 3.13.5 kernel,
>>>> so the problem isn't unique to 3.13.3.
>>>>
>>>> It appears there's a problem with newer kernels.  However, I certainly
>>>> can't ignore the possibility of user error, as that's my "talent."  A
>>>> few questions:
>>>>
>>>> Does it make sense it's a kernel version problem?
>>>>
>>>> If not, what might I have done wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Will there be problems running an older kernel (3.10.10) than the kernel
>>>> with which I built LFS 7.5 (3.13.3)?
>>>>
>>> Have you enabled framebuffer console? CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
>>>
>> Similar problem with me; mine was radeon related.  I had to blacklist
>> (/etc/blacklist.conf) the radeon module in 7.4 until I had finished
>> building X and Mesa.  I also spent almost a week before I found out that
>> I also needed firmware for my card as well.  Once I had all the pieces
>> in place, I removed the radeon entry from the blacklist, and it boots
>> fine, with the open-source drivers.  I test-built 7.5 RC-1, leaving
>> radeon totally out of the kernel config, and it booted fine.   I've been
>> off on an arc-tangent for awhile, and I'll get back to 7.5 later.
>>
>> Merell Matlock
> Yes, CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is enabled.
> 

Could you post your kern.log from /var/log after you boot? (you can get
it from chroot after reboot iirc). Compress it before sending or it
might get blocked.

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Re: [lfs-support] Blank screen when booting with 3.13.3 kernel. - LFS 7.5

[Armin K.]

On 03/12/2014 03:46 PM, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I've built LFS 7.5 with the 3.13.3 kernel but receive a blank screen 
> upon booting.  As an experiment, I unselected AGP Support in my kernel 
> configuration and can successfully boot.  My thinking was perhaps 
> there's a problem with AGP support.
> 
> However, as I'm running LFS/BLFS 7.4, I compiled that 3.10.10 kernel in 
> my LFS 7.5 build and CAN successfully with with AGP support.  I compiled 
> the kernel with the same .config I used when compiling the LFS 7.5 
> 3.13.3 kernel.  I also received a blank screen with the 3.13.5 kernel, 
> so the problem isn't unique to 3.13.3.
> 
> It appears there's a problem with newer kernels.  However, I certainly 
> can't ignore the possibility of user error, as that's my "talent."  A 
> few questions:
> 
> Does it make sense it's a kernel version problem?
> 
> If not, what might I have done wrong?
> 
> Will there be problems running an older kernel (3.10.10) than the kernel 
> with which I built LFS 7.5 (3.13.3)?
> 

Have you enabled framebuffer console? CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

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[lfs-support] LFS systemd 7.5 is out

[Armin K.]

I am pleased to announce the first stable release of the Linux From
Scratch book that is using systemd as the init system.

For a quick summary about differences between this and the official LFS
book see the first release candidate announcement[1].

The book can be read online[2] or downloaded[3] to read locally.

Unfortunately, there is no release of BLFS that follows this book. There
are notes[4] for building packages from current BLFS svn (soon to be
BLFS 7.5) book on LFS systemd.

Once again, thanks to everyone who made this release possible.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg19432.html
[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.5-systemd/
[3] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5-systemd/

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3f25106ace9c17b7fe759076b482e321  lfs-network-scripts-20140214.tar.bz2
3c6e98a815615d61b4c210030bd6ee91  md5sums
85134bfc9576352d9a0eb0f41f85ee81  wget-list

[4] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/notes.txt

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Re: [lfs-support] init script question

[Armin K.]

On 02/21/2014 01:35 AM, joel kammet wrote:
> I've been wondering about the case statement in S00mountvirtfs that mounts 
> the virtual filesystems.
> 
> 
>   if ! mountpoint /run >/dev/null; then
>  mount /run || failed=1
> 
> and similar commands for proc sys and dev.
> 
> 
> I understand what the mountpoint lines are doing, but "mount /run" puzzles me.
> 
> 
> There are no fstab entries for these filesystems, so I would expect "mount 
> [device] [mountpoint]".
>

There are.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/fstab.html

"tmpfs  /run tmpfsdefaults0 0"

> 
> Why does that command work without the [device] parameter?
> 


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Re: [lfs-support] CLFS

[Armin K.]

On 02/19/2014 11:55 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 05:51 -0500, Chris Staub wrote:
>> On 02/19/14 05:46, loki wrote:
>>> Heya,
>>>
>>> just wanted to ask what happened to CLFS?
>>>
>>> On the address http://www.cross-lfs.org/ I'm getting a Domain for Sale.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>> Nothing happened to it, it's where it's always been, at trac.cross-lfs.org.
> 
> I get domain for sale there as well, and indication it has expired.
> 

Simple whois says that domain was renewed today (19.02), but nameservers
still point to the

Name Server:NS1.MYDOMAINCOM-EXPIRED.DOMAINPARKINGSERVER.NET


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Re: [lfs-support] Basic Kernel Configuration

[Armin K.]

On 02/17/2014 12:14 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> 
> It is a very good work, would have saved me some days, perhaps months,
> as the first build, I gave up, in the past. Thanks.
> 
> Optional, for "VMware virtual machines": it could be interpreted
> incorrectly as optional for VM... I would think that to emphasize, it
> could be "Optional, but required for VMware virtual machines".
> 

There was a coma, and that doesn't make it the same as "Optional for
VMware virtual machines", but yes I agree there. I've corrected that to
be "Optional, required for ..." as in the USB part.

> "One of the USB controller drivers, hardware dependent. You can look in
> the "lsmod" output" - can all be used?
> 

Well, that really depends. I've corrected it to say "One or more", since
some hardware can use only one (ie USB 2.0 only hardware), while some
older hardware has both USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 and some newer hardware has
also USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

> # while the others can be also select as "module": s/select/selected/?
> 

Yes, corrected.

Thanks for your input.

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[lfs-support] LFS systemd 7.5-rc1 is out

[Armin K.]

I am pleased to announce a release candidate for the first release of
the Linux From Scratch book that is using systemd as the main init system.

The book contains all the changes from LFS-7.5-rc1, along with extra
packages that are necessarry for systemd, as well with some packages
removed that are still part of standard Linux From Scratch installation.

New packages include:

Acl-2.2.52
Attr-2.4.47
D-Bus-1.8.0
Expat-2.1.0
Gperf-3.0.4
Intltool-0.50.2
LFS-Network-Scripts 20140214
Libcap-2.24
Systemd-208
XML-Parser-2.42_01

Removed packages include:

LFS-Bootscripts-20130821
Sysklogd-1.5
Sysvinit-2.88dsf
Udev-208

The book can be read online at

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.5-systemd-rc1/

or it can be downloaded as HTML, HTML-NOCHUNKS and PDF version at

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5-systemd-rc1/

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8bdbab37787a687575a30f8463b594af  md5sums
4e36d00a4076f201086a8e773f5ac3c6  wget-list

All users are encouraged to read through this release of the book and
test the instructions so that the final release can be made as good as
possible.

Thanks to all who have contributed and provided feedback for this
hopefully useful piece of work.

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Re: [lfs-support] Basic Kernel Configuration

[Armin K.]

On 02/16/2014 02:38 AM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:04:12AM +0100, Armin K. wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I have been spending my time on LFS IRC for a long time now and have
>> noticed that most users who come for help there get stuck at configuring
>> their kernel.
>>
>> Thus, I have written a rather basic guide on how to configure the kernel
>> to get your machine to boot for the first time (disk controllers and
>> filesystem drivers), but not other hardware specific stuff.
>>
>> You can see it here:
>>
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/basic-kernel.txt
>>
>> Any suggestions or additions are welcome.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>  Just a couple of suggestions:
> 

Thanks for your input.

> 1. SATA etc
> "So I select the first two modules below."
> s/modules/drivers/ - people coming from a distro might be used to
> building everything as a module and take it too literally.
> 

Yeah, that makes sense. I've also added a note at the beginning that
everything should be built-in.

> 2. filesystems -
> I would be inclined to drop specific mention of reiser3, and cover
> it by "Additionally, any other filesystem not listed here.", but
> perhaps some distro(s) used to use it in the last couple of years.
> 

That was first in my mind, but I realised that BLFS still provides fs
tools for reiserfs and that's why I added it. I've removed it now though.

>  I guess that defconfig covers almost everything else that is
> commonly needed to get a bootable .config.
> 
> ĸen
> 

That is mentioned at the beginning. But then again, some might try to
"strip" the kernel as much as possible, that's why I've covered the
basics only.

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Re: [lfs-support] systemd versus sysvinit

[Armin K.]

On 16.2.2014 12:59, Frans de Boer wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> It looks like most Linux distributions are switching to systemd from
> sysvinit. As Bruce is even one of the (co-?)authors of systemd, the
> knowledge is already in the house. Why would (x)LFS stick to sysvinit
> while the rest of the world is moving to systemd?
>

I doubt he ever contributed any code to upstream systemd. If you by 
"systemd" mean the LFS systemd book, then no, he is one of the 
maintainers of LFS with sysvinit, on which LFS systemd is based.

> Of course, simplicity might be one reason. After all sysvinit system is
> much easier to understand then the somewhat more complex systemd system.
> However, if everybody was thinking like this, there would be no progress
> ever.
> I also think that in order to keep (x)LFS attractive to new followers,
> the project should go with the flow.
>
> Since my days of programming are long past, I can only offer my system
> resources for (test)building development versions - much as what I do today.
>
> Regards, Frans.
>

See the following two threads:

https://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg16106.html

and

https://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg16069.html

including replies from Bruce and other people.
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[lfs-support] Basic Kernel Configuration

[Armin K.]

Hello there,

I have been spending my time on LFS IRC for a long time now and have
noticed that most users who come for help there get stuck at configuring
their kernel.

Thus, I have written a rather basic guide on how to configure the kernel
to get your machine to boot for the first time (disk controllers and
filesystem drivers), but not other hardware specific stuff.

You can see it here:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/basic-kernel.txt

Any suggestions or additions are welcome.

Cheers.

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Re: [lfs-support] 6.40 automake-1.14.1 and flex-2.5.38

[Armin K.]

On 02/15/2014 01:29 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
> During a BSS rebuild I found that automake generates two errors which 
> stop the auto build.
> 
> It is introduced by flex-2.5.38, I tried the same with flex-2.5.37 with 
> no errors.
> 

Maybe automake needs static flex library which Bruce disabled explicitly
with 2.5.38? There were no big changes in 2.5.37->2.5.38 development
cycle that could cause that.

> I added the next line to the build script for automake because I can't 
> find the cause. All errors complain about a missing 'yylex' label in one 
> of the libraries. Maybe a problem with flex-2.5.38 not exporting a label 
> anymore?
> 
> Added line:
>sed -i '/\(t\/lex-clean-cxx.sh\|t\/lex-depend-cxx.sh\)/d' Makefile.in
> 
> After which automake makes it through the tests.
> 
> MAYBE: this is also the cause why man-db - the initial reason for a 
> rebuild - generates two errors? Keep you all informed.
> 
> Regards, Frans.
> 


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Re: [lfs-support] 6.55 man-DB 2.6.6

[Armin K.]

On 02/13/2014 04:42 PM, Frans de Boer wrote:
> During testing I get "col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide 
> character" as output for the man-6 test. I found references which date 
> back to 2009 with the same errors, but no solution is found.
> 
> So, I doubt I'll be the first to notice this.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Regards, Frans.
> 

Ken also reported it few days back on lfs-dev, but it seems that there's
no solution for that one, too.

http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg19395.html

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[lfs-support] D-Bus in the kernel

[Armin K.]

For those interested in systemd and desktops in general, you might qlwo
be interested in a talk about kernel implementation of D-Bus.

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2014/Friday/104-D-Bus_in_the_kernel_-_Lennart_Poettering.mp4

When kdbus is ready, systemd itself won't depend on dbus-daemon and
libdbus anymore. kdbus userspace is in systemd, so any app that will
depend on kdbus will depend on systemd itself.

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Re: [lfs-support] version-check.sh

[Armin K.]

On 15.1.2014 22:22, William Darryl Jackson wrote:
> Anybody see any problems here? (FYI gcc-4.6 and 4.7 are both installed.
> Header uses 4.6 but other software requires 4.7).
>
> william@c-68-36-199-213:~/My_Documents$ ./version-check.sh
> bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release
> /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
> Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.22
> bison (GNU Bison) 2.5
> /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison
> bzip2,  Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.
> Coreutils:  8.13
> diff (GNU diffutils) 3.2
> find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
> GNU Awk 4.0.1
> /usr/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk
> gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
> g++ (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
> (Debian
> grep (GNU grep) 2.12
> gzip 1.5
> Linux version 3.2.0-4-686-pae (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
> version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1
> m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16
> GNU Make 3.81
> patch 2.6.1
> Perl version='5.14.2';
> GNU sed version 4.2.1
> tar (GNU tar) 1.26
> Texinfo: makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
> xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha
> g++ compilation OK
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
>

Looks fine to me.
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS-SYSTEMD-20131221 broken link

[Armin K.]

On 12/29/2013 05:09 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> On 12/29/2013 04:03 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>> On 12/29/2013 01:26 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
>>> The link
>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/systemd/lfs-network-scripts-20131222.tar.bz2
>>> seems to be broken. Does anybody know where can I get that?
>>>
>>
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/lfs-network-scripts-20131221.tar.bz2
>>
>> 03f9a8fd1f01bd2b6572ec4c47963cfe  lfs-network-scripts-20131221.tar.bz2
>>
>> Matt seems to be on vacation and he is responsible for book generation
>> so there's nothing I can do to fix it just yet. The book rendered online
>> is an old snapshot and doesn't contain any latest fixes. I recommend
>> cloning the book from svn, running make will generate the mentioned
>> tarball, too.
>>
> Thanks Armin. I'm glad you 're back. Actually I've built revision 10419
> with jhalfs. The broken link is from the generated html. There were
> two more in wget-list and found the tarballs elsewhere,
> but I don't remember them. I'm not sure what you mean by
>  >running make will generate the mentioned tarball, too.
> 

In the directory you got with "svn co systemd-branch-url", you can run
"make" and it will generate html pages in $HOME/lfs-book by default, and
it will generate bootscripts tarball in the directory you ran "make" from.

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Re: [lfs-support] LFS-SYSTEMD-20131221 broken link

[Armin K.]

On 12/29/2013 01:26 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> The link
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/systemd/lfs-network-scripts-20131222.tar.bz2
> seems to be broken. Does anybody know where can I get that?
> 

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/lfs-network-scripts-20131221.tar.bz2

03f9a8fd1f01bd2b6572ec4c47963cfe  lfs-network-scripts-20131221.tar.bz2

Matt seems to be on vacation and he is responsible for book generation
so there's nothing I can do to fix it just yet. The book rendered online
is an old snapshot and doesn't contain any latest fixes. I recommend
cloning the book from svn, running make will generate the mentioned
tarball, too.

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Re: [lfs-support] Systemd branch now considered usable

[Armin K.]

On 23.12.2013 17:28, akhiezer wrote:
>>
>> For anyone that wants to read the book online can do so by going to
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/
>>
>> Latest daily regenerated book is also available for download as html and
>> pdf from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/systemd/
>>
>> Please allow it at least 12 hours to regenerate and include my latest
>> changes.
>>
>
>
> Those urls both still seem to be saying 'SYTEMD-20131210', and have e.g.
> changelog only up 'til that date; while trac indicates changes since then.
> Is there some problem with new daily renders, or what?
>

Hm, Matt can you check this?
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[lfs-support] Systemd branch now considered usable

[Armin K.]

Hello there,

After many months since lfs systemd branch was created, I am pleased to
announce that I consider it being usable for everyone that wants to use it.

I've managed to add missing bits to the branch today and doing that I've
finished what it was necessarry to bring it up to par with current lfs
development. There are some minor things missing like dependencies for
new packages, but I do not consider it critical to affect anything
related to the system built using the mentioned instructions.

In another thread, Bruce mentioned that:

"We plan on the next LFS version on March 1st with a package freeze
probably around mid-February."

We will try to follow LFS freeze and release date and if it seems
possible, we will release lfs-systemd-stable  along with lfs-stable.

For anyone out there who has spare time and motivation, I'd like to test
the instructions and report back if there are any problems. I will also
accept any fixes that may concern lfs systemd, be it a spelling or
gramatical fix, instructions fix or even instructions enhancements.

You can clone lfs-systemd book using svn co
svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/systemd

To create a patch, just change what's necessary and do "svn diff >
somename.patch" and send the patch either to me directly, to lfs-dev
development list or attach it to lfs trac ticket. Please specify
"systemd" as version in lfs trac.

Since I am not native English speaker, I expect that there will be many
gramatical or spelling mistakes, especially in chapter 7, where the most
changes occoured.

For anyone that wants to read the book online can do so by going to
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/

Latest daily regenerated book is also available for download as html and
pdf from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/systemd/

Please allow it at least 12 hours to regenerate and include my latest
changes.

Thanks to LFS team, specificaly Bruce and Matt and everyone else who
contributed to LFS book since at first Matt's, and later mine work on
lfs systemd was based on it. Also, big thanks to BLFS team for
maintaining systemd specific packages in BLFS, from which the
instructions in lfs systemd were based.

Happy holidays and happy compiling to everyone!

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Re: [lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm

[Armin K.]

On 08/18/2013 07:56 AM, Richard Coffee wrote:
> 
> I recently finished up with 7.3.  Didn't have serious problems getting it to 
> boot, however, when I installed gpm, I couldn't get my trackball to work.  
> Googling the issue came up with a few hits, but nothing very helpful.  I 
> suspect it has something to do with the kernel or udev because there is no 
> mouse symlink in /dev as there is with older LFS installs I've done.  
> Grepping the config file for MOUSE showed the exact same settings as I've 
> used in previous kernels.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> richard
> 
> 
> FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop!
> Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth
> 
> 

mouse nodes should be in /dev/input/, for main mouse it's
/dev/input/mice. You don't really want the old /dev/psaux interface.
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Re: [lfs-support] Installing GCC with ubuntu

[Armin K.]

On 10.8.2013 17:49, Michael Duffell-Hoffman wrote:
> I'm trying to set up LFS 7.3 stable on a computer running Ubuntu Server
> 13.04 because I like having the option to not use the GUI, and so I am
> trying to reroute the search paths, and so I spend half an hour typing
> in those long command sequences, type "done" and the computer just waits
> for me to type in the next line. is it like I have to indent the lines
> for it to work or something? The computer is an eight year old pavilion
> with 512 mb ram, ~2.6 ghz processor and uses a 32 GB flash drive as its
> main disk because the hard drive died a few months ago and I haven't
> gotten around to replacing it.
> Thanks
>

Why don't you just set up ssh and remotely connect to that machine from 
a GUI aware machine and then just copy/paste commands into the ssh prompt?
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Re: [lfs-support] Load kernel first - after initramfs build

[Armin K.]

On 08/07/2013 02:36 PM, Unix User wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I use a usb disk for LFS 7.3 installation which is recognized by the host as 
> /dev/sdb - one partition is ext3 (/dev/sdb1) and one swap (/dev/sdb5).
> 
> Within chroot, I installed grub on /dev/sdb. File /etc/fstab first included 
> /dev/sda1 to mount as / (to refer to the usb disk itself). File grub.cfg 
> first incuded "set root=(hd0,1)" and "root=/dev/sda1" to point also to the 
> ext3 partition of the usb drive. Subsequenty, BIOS was adjusted to boot from 
> usb, LFS grub menu* appeared, kernel bootet, recognized hardware but paniced 
> - the HD of my laptop also has an /dev/sda1 partition with Win XP. Kernel 
> also stated "no init found" after mounting the ntfs partition. Obviously, I 
> have a 'clash' concerning device numbering/identification. Since I found no 
> solution to prevent the kernel to boot my laptop HD instead of my usb drive 
> homing LFS, I wanted to use UUIDs. Thus, I created an initramfs according to 
> chapter 5 of BLFS (after cpio installation in chroot). During mkinitramfs 
> installation I got an error/warning that udev.conf  was not found (it is not 
> manually created by oneself according to LFS) - however,
>  initrd.img was created. After performing all other steps mentioned (and 
> adding UUID=* in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/sdXX) and rebooting, the error 
> "Load kernel first" occurs at boot. I do not know what to do now (and found 
> nothing on the internet)... Any advice is highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Seba
> 
> 
> 
> * It is indeed grub menu of the usb drive and not grub located on my laptop 
> HD.
> 

Since you are using USB with initramfs, you should use UUID on the
kernel command line and fstab. Node names can change, especially since
usb is in question.
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Re: [lfs-support] Can BLFS Packages that are compatible with version 7.2 work with 7.3

[Armin K.]

On 08/02/2013 11:12 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> Hello Again,
> 
> Can I install packages in BLFS that say that they "have been tested with
> 7.2"? I am working on KDE and would like to install some of the
> different recommended software for packages such as libmpeg.
> 
> (LFS 7.3 Build Host running in VMWare Player)
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Douglas Reno
> 
> 

Yes, I've built it  on latest svn, I see no reason it wouldn't work on 7.3
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS - chapter 8.3 -Linux-3.8.1 make mrproper failed

[Armin K.]

On 07/31/2013 12:44 PM, Srinivasan Friendster wrote:
> Dear all,
>  I am installing LFS 7.3 based on stable version. While
> installing kernel Linux-3.8.1 .
>  
> Step is  8.3 Linux-3.8.1
>  
> I got error like below while calling make mrproper :
>  
> 
> root:/sources/linux-3.8.1# make mrproper
> /bin/sh: find: command not found
> /bin/sh: line 6: xargs: command not found
> make: *** [clean] Error 127
>  
>  
>  
> I am Already in chroot mode:
>  
> chroot "$LFS" /usr/bin/env -i \
> HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \
> /bin/bash --login
>  
> Where I did mistake . please guide me.
>  
> Thanks,
> Srinivas
>  
>

you didn't install findutils, did you?

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Re: [lfs-support] 6.9 Glibc-2.17 check results

[Armin K.]

On 07/30/2013 09:25 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just finished running 'make' on glibc. While running a make check, I
> noticed that XPG3 has 165 failed out of 3993. XPG4 has 26 failed out of
> 4175, UNIX98 11 failed out of 4701, XOPEN2K 10 failed out of 6825, and
> XOPEN2K8 8 failed out of 7083.
> 
> I am running this in a VMWare Virtual Machine with 768mb RAM and 2GB
> Swap. Host OS is OpenSUSE 12.1
> 
> I noticed this while it was running tests (haven't got to the point
> where I am examining the logs yet) . This amount just seems very high.
> 
> LFS Version is 7.3.
> 
> Thanks,
> Douglas Reno
> 
> 
> 

These are conformance tests. You can safely ignore them. Glibc isn't
there yet to pass them all. The failure will show as "ignored" in output.
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 - VFS: Cannot open root device "/dev/sda4" or unknown-block(0,0)‏

[Armin K.]

On 07/19/2013 01:54 AM, Kevin Abraham wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I boot my LFS 7.3 system, I get a "VFS: Cannot open root device
> "/dev/sda4" or unknown-block(0,0)" error. I have traced the problem down
> to a driver missing from the kernel, but can't figure out which one. I
> have tried the SATA_NV driver and the SATA_SIL driver but none of those
> are working. What would the right driver be?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Kevin
> 
> 

Well, you can post lspci -v output from your host. Also, be sure to
build filesystem driver into kernel, too.
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Re: [lfs-support] Warning about autoconf while configuring glibc-2.17

[Armin K.]

On 07/10/2013 02:14 PM, Dave Wagler wrote:
> Do you mean:  'dpkg-reconfigure _bash_'

No, he said what he meant. Correct command is dpkg reconfigure *dash*
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 book, 6.17 GCC-4.7.2 -- too many errors after check

[Armin K.]

On 07/07/2013 11:14 AM, Sergey Shidlovsky wrote:
> From: "Armin K." mailto:kre...@email.com>>
> 
> Did you stop the build and resumed later, but forgot to mount virtual
> file systems?
> 
> 
> Yes, I can't continue the building process to the end without stops and
> resumes. And I can't truly remember did I or not all preparations after
> resuming, so it worth to check. But, if so, can I just correctly set up
> my environment and just recomplie gcc package?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
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> Sergey N Shidlovsky
> 
> 

You should just redo "Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems" and
"Entering the Chroot Environment" before continuing. You can continue
with GCC tests, no need to rebuild it if it's already built.
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 book, 6.17 GCC-4.7.2 -- too many errors after check

[Armin K.]

On 07/05/2013 09:52 AM, Sergey Shidlovsky wrote:
> Greetings to all of you! =)
> 
> So now I'm trying to build The Might and Mighty gcc-4.7.2 at Chapter 6
> of LFS-7.3 book.
> The package compiles without errors, but after I've checked it and had a
> look at summary, there was enormous amount of failed test and unexpected
> errors. Unfortunately, I can't transfer logfile from the laptop, where
> LFS system is building, to this machine, but, for example:
> 
> g++ Summary: # of unexpected failures 38364
> gcc Summary: # of unexpected failures 53773
> 
> These are in no comparison with results on gcc.gnu.org
>  mail archive:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2013-04/msg00747.html
> 
> I just can't figure what exactly went wrong. I've double checked how did
> I set up the environment after stop and resume, it all seems ok...
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
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> Sergey N Shidlovsky
> 
> 

Did you stop the build and resumed later, but forgot to mount virtual
file systems?
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.3: USB mouse repeatedly disconnecting and reconnecting

[Armin K.]

On 07/01/2013 08:39 PM, Niels Terp wrote:
>>> I have followed the book all the way to the end, and now have a 
>>> working system, sort of. I am able to boot and log into LFS-7.3. It 
>>> is of course a bare, minimal system but it does seem to be 
>>> functional. There is one problem however. Approximately every 60 
>>> seconds the mouse is disconnected then immediately reconnected. A sample
> of the console log is:
>>>
>>> [...] usb 1-8.2.2.2: USB disconnect, device number 25 [...] usb 
>>> 1-8.2.2.2: new low-speed USB device number 26 using ehci-pci [...] 
>>> usb 1-8.2.2.2: New USB device found, idVendor=046D, isProduct=c05a 
>>> [...] usb 1-8.2.2.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
>>> SerialNumber-0
>>> [...] usb 1-8.2.2.2: Product: USB Optical Mouse [...] usb 1-8.2.2.2: 
>>> Manufacurer: Logiech [...] usb 1-8.2.2.2: Input: Logiech USB Optical 
>>> Mouse as
>>> /devices/pci:00/:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8.2/1-8.2.2/1-8.2.2.2/1-8
>>> .2.2.2:1.0/input/input32 [...] usb 1-8.2.2.2: Hid-generic 
>>> 0003:046D:C05A.001A: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB 
>>> Optical Mouse] on
>>> usb-:00:1d.7-8.2.2.2/input0
>>>
>>> This occurs both before and after I login. What I have noticed is the 
>>> device number and Hid-generic value increments by 1 each time. The 
>>> next iteration of the above is
>>>
>>> ... USB disconnect, device number 26
>>> ... new low-speed USB device number 27 using ehci-pci ...
>>> ... usb 1-8.2.2.2: Hid-generic 0003:046D:C05A.001B: ... /input0
>>>
>>> The hardware is a Dell Latitude D620 laptop in a docking station with 
>>> both the mouse and (USB) keyboard connected to the docking station. 
>>> The keyboard appears to be functioning correctly.
>>>
>>> Skip H
>> I have had the same issue with an HP mouse connected to a USB port on 
>> a desktop machine, while there is no such thing with a microsoft mouse.
>> So, seems mouse-dependent. If you have a spre mouse, then give it a try.
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>>
>>
> Of course, read "spare" instead of "spre"...
> --
> Had the same problem with a logitec mouse. A p htmlossible (and better, in
> my opinion) is to install GPM Console Mouse Service:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/gpm.html.
> 
> Then you even get a mouse cursor and the possibility tu cut/paste in the
> console screen.
> 
> Niels 
> 

GPM has nothing to do with it. It's a driver "feature". When the mouse
"laser blinks" it reports the device as on or off.

You can remove the spam though by changing console log level to 4 or 3
(I think) (in /etc/sysconfig/console, not sure which parameter) or by
adding this parameter in /etc/sysctl.conf

kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3

or

kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7

(see
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13019/description-of-kernel-printk-values)
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Re: [lfs-support] Can't compile Check-0.9.9 package

[Armin K.]

On 06/21/2013 10:57 AM, Sergey Shidlovsky wrote:
> Hello, everybody!
> 
> I'm trying to get my firs LFS, based on 7.3 version of The Book.
> The host system is Debian Wheezy 7.0 with 3.2.0 kernel. All requirements
> for host system were met. The lfs user environments ($LFS variable etc.)
> set properly.
> 
> Now I'm in the middle of chapter 5 "Constructing a Temporary System".
> All was okay till package, mentioned in the subject.
> 
> First command, "./configure --prefix=/tools" goes okay. But when I'm
> trying to say next "make", I get compilation errors:
> 
> ---
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -Wall -ansi
> -pedantic -Wextra -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wwrite-strings -Wno-variadic-macros -MT putenv.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/putenv.Tpo -c putenv.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/putenv.o
> putenv.c:5:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before '{' token
> make[2]: *** [putenv.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/check-0.9.9/lib'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/check-0.9.9'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ---
> 
> If I'm understanding the problem correctly, there's some error in
> lib/putenv.c file. And I've tried to fix it! The mentioned file looked
> like this:
> 
> ---
> #include "libcompat.h"
> 
> int
> putenv (const char *string CK_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED);
> {
>   assert (0);
>   return 0;
> }
> ---
> 
> There was a semicolon after the function header. I've removed it. After
> that compile stage was done properly. Unfortunately, after correct
> compilation, "make check command" failed to pass all the test suites. So
> I don't know what to do... and thanks in advance for any advices and
> solutions.
> 
> -- 
> Yours faithfully,
> Sergey N Shidlovsky
> 
> 

Doh, second in a week (I guess)

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Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.3: Error while building package Check0.9.9

[Armin K.]

On 06/15/2013 01:38 PM, Vasudeo Bidve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is the detailed information:
>
> 1. LFS version: 7.3
> 2. Host dist: Linux Mint 13
> 3. Host system configuration: Attached in "host-system.txt"
> 4. Package under problem: Check-0.9.9 (Section 5.13 in the LFS book 7.3)
> 5. Exact error: Error produced during "make" process. Some of the last
> relevant section output of Make is copied in a log file
> "check0.9.9-error.log" and attached herewith.
>
> I also tried looking at lfs-faq and search-list. But didn't find
> suitable/related answer, so posting on Support.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Vasudeo K. Bidve
>
>

Hi, you could check errata page for how to solve your issue

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/errata/stable/

As for the hostreqs, you are missing bison and m4 (apt-get install them) 
and your shell still points to dash instead of bash (run 
dpkg-reconfigure dash and select no).

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Re: [lfs-support] LFS7.3: zlib-1.2.7 download link is not available anymore

[Armin K.]

On 05/18/2013 09:53 AM, Jon Franklin wrote:
> Because you are GFWed.
> http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/zlib/1.2.7/zlib-1.2.7.tar.bz2
> This must be available.
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Chunmeng Zhou  
> wrote:
>> The zlib 1.2.7 download link (http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.7.tar.bz2) is not
>> available anymore.
>>
>> You can download it from sourceforge:
>> wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/zlib-1.2.7.tar.bz2
>>
>> It seems the developer released the latest zlib on Aprial 28th and moved all
>> the previous version to sourceforge.
>>
>>
>>
>> Chun
>>

You can always get all packages from here

http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/LFS/lfs-packages/7.3/

or here

http://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs/lfs-packages/7.3/

or any other mirror listed here:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html (end of the page)
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Re: [lfs-support] no glibc on Ubuntu?

[Armin K.]

On 05/05/2013 08:10 PM, stud dent wrote:
> I find no glibc on ubuntu and here is result

There is it:

> (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10.4) 2.15

>
> ===
> is my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ready for building LFS 7.3?
>

Yes. Just make sure to fix this:

/bin/sh -> /bin/dash

as the book reqs say, /bin/sh should be a symlink to /bin/bash

run dpkg-reconfigure dash and select "No"
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Re: [lfs-support] lfs book 7.3

[Armin K.]

Dana 4.5.2013 17:22, Ferdinando Malgrati je napisao:
> Hi all,
>
> I need a simply clarification regarding chapter
>
>
>   6.2. Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems
>
> seems that is not request to execute the commands as root, but if
>
> *mkdir -v $LFS/{dev,proc,sys}*  command  is possible to do as lfs user
>
> the next must be done as root,
>
> *mknod -m 600 $LFS/dev/console c 5 1
> mknod -m 666 $LFS/dev/null c 1 3*
>
>
> The question is
>
> should i create "dev,proc and sys" directory as a root
>
> and then create console and null device as root?
>
>
> Regards and thanks in advance
>
> Ferdinando Malgrati
>

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter05/changingowner.html

This page clearly says that "The commands in the remainder of this book 
must be performed while logged in as user root and no longer as user lfs."

and this page comes *before* 6.2. Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems

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Re: [lfs-support] /usr/libexec

[Armin K.]

On 04/19/2013 05:10 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am I correctly understanding that the filesystem philosophy of LFS/BLFS
> is to not use /usr/libexec ??
>
> I don't need an explanation as to why, I just want to know if that's
> what has been adopted or not.
>
> Thanks
>

It's not yet part of the standard and it looks that only Fedora and 
maybe SUSE uses it yet by default. Arch, Debian/Ubuntu don't (Don't know 
about Gentoo). I don't like it and don't agree with it, so it is being 
avoided. There was an agreement that we shouldn't avoid it, but as it 
never was made part of the standard, I started avoiding it.
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Re: [lfs-support] lfs-support Digest, Vol 2836, Issue 2

[Armin K.]

On 04/09/2013 09:53 PM, Prabhu wrote:
> Hi, I executed the command "*chown -R root:root $LFS/tools*" in LFS
> user, it says I'm not permitted to do that, so I executed the same
> command with sudo, it says *"lfs is not in the sudoers file.  This
> incident will be reported". * I google it and I saw a post that, I'm not
> going to use LFS user after this command, so I proceed by give the
> admin privilege to LFS user and I execute the command. It got executed
> successfully but, I'm unable to remove build folders in source even in
> sudo it says I am not permitted.
>

First of all, you don't need sudo. Second, it clearly says that all 
commands after Texinfo should be run as *root* user! No one ever 
mentioned sudo or whatever.

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Re: [lfs-support] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at gen-libm-test.pl line 41 5.7. Glibc-2.17

[Armin K.]

On 04/09/2013 05:13 PM, سید احمد حسینی wrote:
> in this page
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/glibc.html
>
> 
> From: ahmad...@outlook.com
> To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 19:09:12 +0430
> Subject: [lfs-support] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> gen-libm-test.pl line 41 5.7. Glibc-2.17
>
> whene use "make" :
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.17/math'
> /usr/bin/perl gen-libm-test.pl -u ../sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/libm-test-ulps
> -o "/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/math/"
> Can't locate Getopt/Std.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at gen-libm-test.pl line 41.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at gen-libm-test.pl line 41.
> make[2]: *** [/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/math/libm-test.stmp] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.17/math'
> make[1]: *** [math/subdir_lib] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.17'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> plz help me
>
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Check the host requirements man. Your perl installation is incomplete. 
If you are using Debian or Debian based distros, install perl-modules 
package.
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Re: [lfs-support] Missing zic during "6.9.2. Configuring Glibc"

[Armin K.]

On 04/05/2013 08:30 PM, Alex Stefan Kaye wrote:
> During the "for tz in" loop in "Install timezone data", I'm getting this
> error:
> bash: zic: command not found
>
> AFAIK I've not deviated from the book, and the make/make install for
> glibc seemed to go ok, as did the the tests (I think - see below). If I
> cd into the timezone directory in the built glibc source, I see an
> executable called zic, so it seems to have built at least. Not sure what
> other information to provide, so apologies if something important is
> missing. Thanks in advance.
>
> bash-4.2# cd timezone
> bash-4.2# file zic
> zic: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically
> linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.25, not stripped
>
> bash-4.2# grep Error glibc-check-log
> make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored)
> make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/rt/tst-cpuclock2.out] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [rt/test s] Error 2
> make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/conform/run-conformtest.out] Error 1
> (ignored)
> make: *** [check] Error 2
>
> LFS Book Version: 7.3
> Host Info: Ubuntu 13.04 (daily build) x86_64 3.8.0-15-generic
>
> Version Check Output:
> bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release
> /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
> Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.23.1
> bison (GNU Bison) 2.5
> /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc
> bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.
> Coreutils: 8.20
> diff (GNU diffutils) 3.2
> find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
> GNU Awk 4.0.1
> /usr/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk
> gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-22ubuntu5) 4.7.2
> (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.17-0ubuntu4) 2.17
> grep (GNU grep) 2.14
> gzip 1.5
> Linux version 3.8.0-15-generic (buildd@lamiak) (gcc version 4.7.2
> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-22ubuntu4) ) #25-Ubun tu SMP Wed Mar 27 19:19:30
> UTC 2013
> m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16
> GNU Make 3.81
> patch 2.6.1
> Perl version='5.14.2';
> GNU sed version 4.2.1
> tar (GNU tar) 1.26
> Texinfo: makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
> xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha
> gcc compilation OK
>
>

Have you run make install after you've built glibc? zic should be 
installed in /usr/sbin iirc.
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Re: [lfs-support] util-linux 2.22 does not accept uuid's in fstab

[Armin K.]

On 04/05/2013 06:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Preparing my system for gdisk partitions ( PARTUUID ), I upgraded util-linux
>> to version 2.22.
>>
>> My working partition is formatted in xfs. I tried using UUID, but during the
>> boot process I get a message: "mounting root file system in read-only
>> mode...mount can't find UUID" and the boot process stops. Cold restart is
>> needed.
>> There are no problems, if fstab uses /dev/sda1 instead of UUID. There are 
>> also
>> no problems with an ext4 partition included in fstab using UUID.
>>
>> Could this be a bug ? Any hints how to proceed are welcome. I know,
>> downgrading util-linux fix this, but it excludes also the gdisk activities.
>
> You have to use a initramfs to boot to a drive using a uuid.  Other
> partitions should be OK.
>
> -- Bruce
>

Only true for root=UUID=blah kernel parameter. Nothing to do with 
/etc/fstab - I do it all the time.

UUID=blah in /etc/fstab
root=/dev/sdxy on kernel command line

Just start udev and let it settle before running mount -o remount,rw /
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Re: [lfs-support] util-linux 2.22 does not accept uuid's in fstab

[Armin K.]

On 04/05/2013 05:48 PM, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Preparing my system for gdisk partitions ( PARTUUID ), I upgraded util-linux
> to version 2.22.
>
> My working partition is formatted in xfs. I tried using UUID, but during the
> boot process I get a message: "mounting root file system in read-only
> mode...mount can't find UUID" and the boot process stops. Cold restart is
> needed.
> There are no problems, if fstab uses /dev/sda1 instead of UUID. There are also
> no problems with an ext4 partition included in fstab using UUID.
>
> Could this be a bug ? Any hints how to proceed are welcome. I know,
> downgrading util-linux fix this, but it excludes also the gdisk activities.
> Thanks in advance,
> Edgar
>

Are you sure it's bug in util-linux? I'd add "ls 
/dev/disk/by-uuid/youruuid" before the "mount -o remount,rw /" somewhere 
in bootscripts just to check if the path exist. If it doesn't - which I 
doubt is the problem - you need to remount after udev has run (I believe 
udev handles by-uuid symlinks).
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Re: [lfs-support] problem mounting virtual File System

[Armin K.]

On 03/30/2013 08:03 PM, bcl...@brianclarkprojects.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am getting a message that says I should not be getting this message.
>When the computer goes to mount dev and other directories.  It is
> giving an error of unknown file system devtmpfs.  I have tried
> multiple kernel configuration including my host system config file.
>
> Not sure what to look for anymore?
>
> Brian
>

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/kernel.html

I think we need far bigger notes. This one clearly says what do you NEED.
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Re: [lfs-support] systemd-journal group missing on LFS-SYSTEMD-20130324?

[Armin K.]

On 03/26/2013 06:55 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 07:27 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>> On 03/26/2013 04:31 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Did I miss that?
>>> Maybe it's intentional?
>>>
>>> Thanos
>>>
>>
>> Does LFS SYSTEMD have Systemd 198 now? I don't remember touching
>> anything. The group was introduced in that version.
>>
> It seems that Systemd 198 is current
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/chapter06/systemd.html
>
> Thanos
>

Oh well, I must have missed that commit. Matt, can you add 
systemd-journal group to LFS Systemd /etc/group with the GID reserved in 
BLFS "Users and Groups" in the next branch update?
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Re: [lfs-support] systemd-journal group missing on LFS-SYSTEMD-20130324?

[Armin K.]

On 03/26/2013 04:31 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> Hi
>
> Did I miss that?
> Maybe it's intentional?
>
> Thanos
>

Does LFS SYSTEMD have Systemd 198 now? I don't remember touching 
anything. The group was introduced in that version.
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Re: [lfs-support] systemd-journal group missing on LFS-SYSTEMD-20130324?

[Armin K.]

On 03/26/2013 04:31 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> Hi
>
> Did I miss that?
> Maybe it's intentional?
>
> Thanos
>

Does LFS SYSTEMD have Systemd 198 now? I don't remember touching 
anything. The group was introduced in that version.
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Re: [lfs-support] gcc compile error in lfs 7.3

[Armin K.]

On 03/24/2013 10:56 PM, سید احمد حسینی wrote:
> tnk
> Thanks for the tips
> I am using version 7.3 (Page 38)
>
> My OS is Ubuntu 12.04
> config command :
> ../gcc-4.7.2/configure \
> --target=$LFS_TGT \
> --prefix=/tools \
> --with-sysroot=$LFS \
> --with-newlib \
> --without-headers \
> --with-local-prefix=/tools \
> --with-native-system-header-dir=/tools/include \
> --disable-nls \
> --disable-shared \
> --disable-multilib \
> --disable-decimal-float \
> --disable-threads \
> --disable-libmudflap \
> --disable-libssp \
> --disable-libgomp \
> --disable-libquadmath \
> --enable-languages=c \
> --with-mpfr-include=$(pwd)/../gcc-4.7.2/mpfr/src \
> --with-mpfr-lib=$(pwd)/mpfr/src/.libs
>
> part of error :
> *** Makeinfo is missing. Info documentation will not be built.
> config.h is unchanged
> tm.h is unchanged
> bconfig.h is unchanged
> tm_p.h is unchanged
> ../../gcc-4.7.2/gcc/gcc.c: In function ‘execute’:
> ../../gcc-4.7.2/gcc/gcc.c:2674:6: warning: format not a string literal
> and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
> tconfig.h is unchanged
> ../../../gcc-4.7.2/libgcc/crtstuff.c: In function 'frame_dummy':
> ../../../gcc-4.7.2/libgcc/crtstuff.c:451:19: warning: array subscript is
> above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
> ../../../gcc-4.7.2/libgcc/crtstuff.c: In function 'frame_dummy':
> ../../../gcc-4.7.2/libgcc/crtstuff.c:451:19: warning: array subscript is
> above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
> ../../../gcc-4.7.2/libgcc/crtstuff.c: In function 'frame_dummy':
> ../../../gcc-4.7.2/libgcc/crtstuff.c:451:19: warning: array subscript is
> above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
> configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
> make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
>
>  > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:21:02 +
>  > From: zarniwh...@ntlworld.com
>  > To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
>  > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] gcc compile error in lfs 7.3
>  >
>  > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 03:04:28PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>  > > سید احمد حسینی wrote:
>  > > > Hi FriendsI came across this error while compiling linux:
>  > > > checking for a BSD-compatible install...
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > > Please guide me
>  > >
>  > > Your post is unreadable. Send messages in text mode.
>  > >
>  > > -- Bruce
>  > >
>  > Agreed, but I happen to be on a desktop so on this occasion I'll
>  > paste the error:
>  > configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES
>  >
>  > We had someone asking this recently. From memory, that message
>  > comes from trying to build g++ or libstdc++. I'm guessing that the
>  > OP is in the first pass of gcc [ سید احمد حسین : when you ask for
>  > help, please explain where you are in the book, and which version of
>  > it ]. If that assumption is correct, the OP has probably omitted the
>  > line --enable-languages=c from the configure command.
>  >
>  > Among the earlier unreadable text (no new lines in what was posted,
>  > so everything runs together which is just _weird_) I can see
>  > checking for gawk... mawk
>  > That is not going to work. Please read 'Host System Requirtements'
>  > in the preface.
>  >
>  > ĸen
>  > --
>  > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
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Chech the host requirements, run the hostreqs script and see what are 
you missing, then install it.
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Re: [lfs-support] Problem

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On 03/21/2013 05:44 PM, Mihal wrote:
> On lfs 6.8 on chapter 5.7 whet i run make i have an error :
> if test -r /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/csu/abi-tag.h.new; then mv -f
> /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/csu/abi-tag.h.new
> /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/csu/abi-tag.h; \
>  else echo >&2 'This configuration not matched in ../abi-tags'; exit 
> 1; fi
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.13/csu'
> make[1]: *** [csu/subdir_lib] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.13'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> and i stops/
> can you help me?
> mihalkras...@gmail.com
>

Check host system requirements and post the output of the hostreqs.sh 
scripit - it's in the book.
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Re: [blfs-support] Mouse and Keyboard don't work with Xorg :-(

[Armin K.]

On 03/19/2013 10:43 AM, Pierre M.R. wrote:
> James Tyrer wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Bruce Dubbs  wrote:
>>> James Tyrer wrote:
 Note that this is a temporary account and I am temporary running on a
 Fedora 15 CD till I get my new Linux from scratch system to work.  I
 need help.

 X.Org X Server 1.14.0

 I think that I followed the instruction and this is not the first time
 I have built the X11 server.  I started building XFree86.  Everyting
 appeared to go OK but when I started it for the first time with
 "startx" it opened with TWM and looked OK but the mouse and the
 keyboard didn't work.  A google search reveals that others have the
 same problem but I didn't really see the solution to the problem.

 X is installed with PREFIX=/usr/X11R7  Which is where I installed it
 last time although on a different disk.

 I checked the X log.  The module path appears correct:

 [ 35004.515] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules"

 The configure file for the mouse: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse-0.conf:

 Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "Mouse0"
 Driver  "evdev"
 Option  "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
 Option  "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
 Option  "Buttons" "5"
 Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
 Option  "Name"  "Logitech M100"
 EndSection

 looks OK, but the X log reports:

 [ 35012.524] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB
 Optical Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
 [ 35012.524] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.

 and the mouse and the keyboard simply do not work with X although they
 work fine in text mode.
>>> I suggest removing the config file and try the defaults.  Make sure that
>>> you built the evdev driver.  It should be in
>>> /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/input.
>>>
>> Well, Bruce, since I now have my new NEC flat screen hooked up as well
>> as yet another mouse to be destroyed by the cats. I removed the
>> xorg.conf files.  Might still need some configuration for my keyboard
>> as I have an original (but late model) IBM 101 key click keyboard
>> (buckling spring technology) and the result was that ...
>>
>> Well, the result was exactly the same.  The last two lines of the X
>> log were the same and neither the mouse or the keyboard worked.
> xf86-input-evdev provides default config files installed in
> /usr/X11R7/share/X11/xorg.conf.d.
> The mouse-0.conf should also be removed.
> To customize the keyboard or mouse cp the default evdev config file
> 10-evdev.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and make your changes there, for
> instance:
> ...
>MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
> ...
>
> Pierre
>

Just a tip - instead of using xorg configuration files, you can use udev 
rule for setting keyboard rules in Xorg.



cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/64-xorg-xkb.rules << "EOF"
ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="xorg_xkb_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="input", GOTO="xorg_xkb_end"
KERNEL!="event*", GOTO="xorg_xkb_end"

# import keyboard layout from /etc/default/keyboard
ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}=="?*", IMPORT{file}="/etc/default/keyboard"

LABEL="xorg_xkb_end
EOF



cat > /etc/default/keyboard << "EOF"
# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="ba"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
EOF


Adjust it to suit your needs.
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Re: [blfs-support] Mouse and Keyboard don't work with Xorg :-(

[Armin K.]

On 03/19/2013 02:13 PM, James Tyrer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:27 PM, James Tyrer  wrote:
>> Note that this is a temporary account and I am temporary running on a
>> Fedora 15 CD till I get my new Linux from scratch system to work.  I
>> need help.
>>
>> X.Org X Server 1.14.0
>>
>> I think that I followed the instruction and this is not the first time
>> I have built the X11 server.  I started building XFree86.  Everyting
>> appeared to go OK but when I started it for the first time with
>> "startx" it opened with TWM and looked OK but the mouse and the
>> keyboard didn't work.  A google search reveals that others have the
>> same problem but I didn't really see the solution to the problem.
>>
>> X is installed with PREFIX=/usr/X11R7  Which is where I installed it
>> last time although on a different disk.
>>
>> I checked the X log.  The module path appears correct:
>>
>> [ 35004.515] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules"
>>
>> The configure file for the mouse: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse-0.conf:
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>  Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>  Driver  "evdev"
>>  Option  "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>  Option  "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>  Option  "Buttons" "5"
>>  Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>  Option  "Name"  "Logitech M100"
>> EndSection
>>
>> looks OK, but the X log reports:
>>
>> [ 35012.524] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB
>> Optical Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
>> [ 35012.524] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
>>
>> and the mouse and the keyboard simply do not work with X although they
>> work fine in text mode.
>>
> Problem resolved.  I found a archived email on line that pointed out
> that there is also a Linux Kernel EvDev Driver.  It appears that I was
> missing it.  Now that I find this, it was the only possible and the
> obvious answer since I did everything the same and it didn't work.
> What I didn't do was compile a new driver into the Kernel.  Perhaps it
> would be worth mentioning in the BLFS book that it is needed.
>

That's already in the book.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x7driver.html#xorg-evdev-driver

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile 
the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
   Input Device Support --->
 Event interface: Y or M

Which is actually "evdev.ko" if built as module.
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS on a yeeloong (loongson2F MIPS) laptop

[Armin K.]

On 03/19/2013 12:45 PM, John Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> did anyone tried to install LFS on a yeeloong laptop? I'm trying to
> install gentoo on it now and I thought that LFS could be better because
> you have to build anything by yourself.
>
>

Not sure, LFS targets the same architecture as the OS it was built on. I 
remember that LFS mostly is x86/x86_64 orientated. You might want to 
check cross-lfs which iirc supported MIPS.
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Re: [lfs-support] M4-1.4.16 : libgmp.so.10 error

[Armin K.]

On 03/14/2013 01:13 PM, Rubin Saifi wrote:
> M4-1.4.16
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> output
> error while loading llibgmp.so.10 no such file or directory found
>
> Section 6.28 LFS 7.2
>
> any help please
>
>

Uh, did you build GMP before gcc? Does /usr/lib/libgmp.so.10 exist? If 
so, what's the output of "ldd /usr/lib/libgmp.so.10". Did you diverge 
from the book or did you miss/skip some steps?
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Re: [lfs-support] VLC-2.0.5 shenanigans

[Armin K.]

On 03/14/2013 03:33 AM, Arthur Radley wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Short version...
>
> If VLC-2.0.5 does not build and you installed libdvbpsi, then try VLC
> again after uninstalling libdvbpsi.
>
>
>
> Long version...
>
> I have been installing VLC in my last 5 or 6 BLFS systems. I like it.
> It's always a big project, but I've always gotten through it. Not this time.
>
> First, I see this after the patch and configure command...
>
>
>
> generating modules/**/Makefile.am
> .
> + echo
> + cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git
> + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
> Copying file ABOUT-NLS
> Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4
> Copying file m4/threadlib.m4
> Copying file po/Makevars.template
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4
> configure.ac:28 : error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER':
> this macro is obsolete.
>  You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead.
> /usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded
> from...
> configure.ac:28 : the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>
>
>
> My understanding is that stuff is related to the sudden removal of a
> long-deprecated macro from automake and now we sometimes see these
> warnings. Okay, fine. I wasn't able find out what to do about it. VLC
> would still continue on with the make command but then fail midway with
> this...
>
>
>
> dtv/en50221.c: In function 'en50221_SetCAPMT':
> dtv/en50221.c:2234:17: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'dvbpsi_DeletePMT' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> dtv/en50221.c: At top level:
> dtv/en50221.c:2288:12: warning: 'en50221_OpenMMI' defined but not used
> [-Wunused-function]
> dtv/en50221.c:2328:12: warning: 'en50221_CloseMMI' defined but not used
> [-Wunused-function]
> dtv/en50221.c:2356:15: warning: 'en50221_GetMMIObject' defined but not
> used [-Wunused-function]
> dtv/en50221.c:2381:13: warning: 'en50221_SendMMIObject' defined but not
> used [-Wunused-function]
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> make[5]: *** [libdtv_plugin_la-en50221.lo] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access'
> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> There are a bunch anecdotal things on the Internet about this. Some of
> them are not even recent. Some say it's caused by kernel 3.7 and up.
> Some say it's the new version libdvbpsi (v1.0.0). And so on. Okay, fine.
> I spent a day trying all kinds of things related to those ideas. VLC
> with the old libdvbpsi-0.2.2. No. VLC with kernel 3.5.2 from my old LFS
> 7.2 stash. No. I tried the previous VLC-2.0.3 which built and installed
> fine six months ago. No. Finally, I tried VLC-2.0.5 with no libdvbpsi at
> all. YES! I still see the automake stuff with configure, of course. But
> VLC goes on to build and install and work. I will find out later what
> difference not having the optional package libdvbpsi makes.
>
> I know this post was long. And I don't know what value this has for the
> book. But I thought I should say something about it, and I didn't how
> else to say it all.
>
> A.Radley
>
>

http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html

Scroll down and you'll find:

The latest libdvbpsi (LGPL v2.1) release version 1.0.0. Note: the API 
has changed since version 0.2.2 you need to update your applications.

In short, you can't use VLC with libdvbpsi 1.0.0.
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Re: [lfs-support] Ubuntu 12.10 install

[Armin K.]

On 03/03/2013 08:51 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
> On 13-03-03 02:37 PM, spiky wrote:
>> On 03/03/13 19:36, Keith Clark wrote:
>>> Has anyone successfully completed the LFS using Ubuntu 12.10?  I cannot
>>> get past the 5.5 GCC section.  Always ends up in an error. Three times
>>> tried.
>> Maybe post the output of the version-script
> version-check.sh output can be found here:
> pastebin.ca/2327809
>

/bin/sh -> /bin/dash

run "dpkg-reconfigure dash" as root and select "no"
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Re: [lfs-support] Slightly different output from gcc test in chapter 6.17.1

[Armin K.]

Dana 2.3.2013 18:56, Niels Terp je napisao:
> Hi,
>
> I’m doing the newly released version 7.3 on a OpenSuSE 12.3 host (32 bit).
>
> In this chapter I get some of the output right, but in the wrong sequence:
>
> The command*grep -B4 '^ /usr/include' dummy.log*
>
> Should give this output:
>
> #include <...> search starts here:
>
> /usr/local/include
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/include
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/include-fixed
>
> /usr/include
>
> But in my case I get:
>
> root:/sources/gcc-build# grep -B4 '^ /usr/include' dummy.log
>
> #include <...> search starts here:
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/include
>
> /usr/local/include
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/include-fixed
>
> /usr/include
>
> root:/sources/gcc-build#
>
> Does this mean anything ?
>
> Niels
>
>
>

In your case only first and second are swapped. It looks fine to me.
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Re: [lfs-support] distinct /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 dirs

[Armin K.]

On 02/27/2013 07:24 PM, Frans de Boer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The book allows creation if 32-bit systems as well as 64-bit. However,
> on 64-bit systems the library directory is still called /usr/lib pointed
> to from the symlink /usr/lib64.
>
> I case I want a system which can handle mainly 64-bit programs and on
> occasion a 32-bit program, I need the two libraries separated. This
> applies of course also for the root based /lib and /lib64 directories.
>
> I tried giving the parameter '--libdir=/usr/lib64' to the configure
> script. But I see at the end of chapter 5, that the 64-bit library was
> riddled with links to the 32-bit library. This is not a problem as long
> as it affects only the programs in the /tools directory, but I saw the
> same at the root.
>
> I searched the document, but could not find a way to solve this. Could
> someone give me a pointer where I might have gone wrong or what else I
> can/should do?
>
> Regards, Frans.
>

Bruce already responded, but as a side note, you can use /lib32 and 
/usr/lib32 for 32bit libraries on 64bit OS where /lib64 /usr/lib64 is 
symlink to /lib and /usr/lib respectively.
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Re: [lfs-support] 5.7.1 glibc compilation ERROR "Linker with -z relro support required"

[Armin K.]

On 02/24/2013 07:38 AM, Rubin Saifi wrote:
> while compiling glibc , i am getting compilation error which says
> "linker with -z relro support required"
>
> i don't know how to get over it though have strictly followed the book
> .. working on LFS 7.2
>
> please provide valuable solution
>
> thanks
>
>

Check host requirement before building  binutils and gcc pass1.
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Re: [lfs-support] gperf in glibc-2.17

[Armin K.]

On 02/22/2013 11:29 PM, Frans de Boer wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 11:21 PM, Tobias Gasser wrote:
>> Am 22.02.2013 22:50, schrieb Frans de Boer:
>>> I understand that gperf is not required - it would be mentioned
>>> otherwise does it?
>>
>> yes. gperf is NOT required for glibc (or any other package in lfs)
>> and yes, all requirements are mentionned.
>>
>>> However, I am not the first nor probably the last running into this
>>> issue. Even glibc-2.16 requires the use of gperf and thus failed the
>>
>> i never had to build gperf for lfs. and i'm building lfs for quite some
>> years (my first lfs was 3.0). glibc builds fine without gperf if you
>> follow the book.
>>
>> i think you are the first with this issue. as far i can remenber i never
>> have read about gperf issues so far. but as i'm getting older, my memory
>> seems to have failures sometimes ;)
>
> Just search for "gperf glibc lfs". It is even on the archives by LFS.
>
> 
>

If you build unreleased packages, ie GCC snapshots or svn/git repo 
clones, you might need gperf. I needed it when I built gcc snapshot 
instead of the released version iirc. Not sure about Glibc though.
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[lfs-support] HOWTO: Weston - The Wayland Compositor on LFS Systemd 20130215

[Armin K.]

How to build Weston, the Wayland compositor on LFS-Systemd 20130215

libffi-3.0.11 - blfs

xkeyboard-config-2.8 - ./configure --prefix=/usr 
--with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg --disable-runtime-deps

libxkbcommon-0.2.0 - ./configure --prefix=/usr

mtdev-1.1.3 - blfs

libjpeg-8d - ijg libjpeg - ./configure --prefix=/usr (libjpeg-turbo from 
blfs can be used too, but it needs nasm)

libpng-1.5.14 - blfs

pixman-0.28.2 - blfs

freetype-2.4.11 - blfs

fontconfig-2.10.2 - blfs

cairo-1.12.14 - ./configure --prefix=/usr

libpciaccess-0.13.1 - ./configure --prefix=/usr

libdrm-2.4.42 - sed "/pthread-stubs/d" -i configure.ac ; autoreconf -fi 
; ./configure --prefix=/usr

wayland git - ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-documentation

weston git - ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/weston 
--disable-egl --disable-xwayland --disable-xwayland-test 
--disable-x11-compositor --disable-weston-launch 
CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/libdrm" LDFLAGS="-ldrm" 
WESTON_NATIVE_BACKEND=fbdev-backend.so

dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33 - mkdir -pv /usr/share/fonts ; mv ttf 
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu ; fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/dejavu

as root

# install -dm700 /tmp/wayland
# export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/wayland

run weston as root:

# weston

Currently only works as root because weston-launch helper that allows 
weston to run as normal user needs Linux-PAM.

Sources for non-blfs marked packages above:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/data/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config-2.8.tar.bz2
http://xkbcommon.org/download/libxkbcommon-0.2.0.tar.bz2
http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz
http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.14.tar.xz
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/libpciaccess-0.13.1.tar.bz2
http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.42.tar.bz2
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/wayland.tar.xz (or git master 
checkout)
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/weston.tar.xz (or git master c 
heckout)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.33/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33.tar.bz2

Wayland and Weston 1.0.5 can't be used because they don't have fbdev 
backend and require EGL (Mesa).

Freetype, Fontconfig and Dejavu fonts can be ommited, but you will get 
ugly fonts.

My guess is that it can be built on standard LFS, too. It would need 
Expat, XML::Parser and Intltool from what I know.

Why? Useful for people who build their software in VT but don't really 
like it (like me). Terminal is really nice in Weston. There are some 
demos in clients directory in weston source.

It's definitely smaller than Xorg, requires more or less the same deps 
(well, maybe minus libffi and mtdev in some cases + Cairo (which is 
essential in modern X software)).

It needs a fbdev driver - be it drmfb or whatever. drmfb drivers are 
provided by KMS drivers (i915, nouveau, radeon and vmwgfx). I've tested 
it with vmwgfx - VMware Virtual Graphics Driver. I built LFS Systemd in 
a VM.

If you are going for X, you might need to rebuild Cairo later.

What else? A screenshot! 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/weston-screenshot.png

I hope someone will find this useful.
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Re: [lfs-support] chapter06 glibc

[Armin K.]

On 01/30/2013 10:55 PM, Yusuf Yılmaz wrote:
> thanks for your reply. it gave the error on chapter06. i changed link
> from dash to bash and gives again too
>

That's interesting. Check if /usr/bin/awk is symlink to mawk ... ls -l 
/usr/bin/awk

If so, install gawk - apt-get install gawk

On the other side, I don't see why it should throw an error on chap6 
since it doesn't use anyting from host.

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Re: [lfs-support] chapter06 glibc

[Armin K.]

On 01/30/2013 10:38 PM, Yusuf Yılmaz wrote:
> when i run make command it gives an error like this:
>
> ./scripts/mkinstalldirs /sources/glibc-build/linkobj
> mkdir /sources/glibc-build/linkobj
> (cd /sources/glibc-build/linkobj; \
>   /tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar 
> x ../libc_pic.a; \
>   rm
> $(/tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar
> t ../sunrpc/librpc_compat_pic.a | sed 's/^compat-//'); \
>   /tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar 
> x ../sunrpc/librpc_compat_pic.a; \
>   /tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar 
> cr libc_pic.a *.os; \
>   rm *.os)
> /bin/sh: command substitution: line 3: syntax error near unexpected
> token `)'
> /bin/sh: command substitution: line 3:
> `/tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar
> t ../sunrpc/librpc_compat_pic.a | sed 's/^compat-//')'
> make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/linkobj/libc_pic.a] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.17'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-build'
>
>
>
> what can i do something to fix it?
>
> my host system:
> linux 3.5.2 kernel
> debian 7.0
>
>
>

check hostreqs. On Debian system /bin/sh points to /bin/dash iirc. You 
need to set it to point to /bin/bash ... Use dpkg-reconfigure dash and 
select "no"
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Re: [lfs-support] LFS Version SVN-20130111 is last I obtain

[Armin K.]

On 01/27/2013 10:26 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> At
>
> 
>
> Version SVN-20130111
>
> Where is LFS SVN-20130125 or newer?
>
> []s,
> Fernando
>

I used svn to get the latest book.

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Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] LFS SVN-20130125 + Systemd HowTo

[Armin K.]

On 01/27/2013 06:34 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> Hello, I have taken some time to write a howto for LFS + Systemd.
>
> The instructions follow LFS BOOK versioned SVN-20130125 with additions
> from BLFS BOOK versioned 2013-01-26.
>
> Packages are installed in same order as alwas, mentioned versions were
> used without any modifications to the LFS book ones. I did some
> diversions and I've mentioned them below.
>
> Packages were added in specified place for a reason, I think I explained
> it for attr, acl and libcap2.
>
> Howto starts from Chapter 6, assuming everything else has been done as
> before.
>
> 6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks
>
> change "touch /etc/mtab" to "ln -s /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab"
>
> Proceed with the Book
>
> linux 3.7.4 api headers
> man-pages 3.45
> glibc 2.17
> zlib 1.27
> file 5.11
> binutils 2.23.1
> gmp 5.1.0
> mpfr 3.1.1
> mpc 1.0.1
> gcc 4.7.2
> sed 4.2.2
> bzip2 1.0.6
> pkg-config 0.28
> ncurses 5.9
> util-linux 2.22.2
> psmisc 2.20
> procps 3.3.6
> e2fsprogs 1.42.7
>
> (Not sure about this, but it could be possible that attr and acl need
> msgfmt, msgmerge and xgettext binaries from gettext package - I've
> installed all binaries from gettext in temporary stage so I can't
> confirm. I do remember that I had some problems with this in the past)
>
> attr 2.4.46 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/attr.html
> acl 2.2.51
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/acl.html (This one
> is not stricly required for systemd - but I installed it so Coreutils,
> Shadow and Systemd might benefit from it as well from libcap2).
> libcap2 2.22
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/libcap2.html
>
> shadow 4.1.5.1
> coreutils 8.20 (without coreutils-8.20-i18n-1.patch)
> iana-etc 2.30
> m4 1.4.16
> bison 2.7
> grep 2.14
> readline 6.2
> bash 4.2
> libtool 2.4.2
> gdbm 1.10
> inetutils 1.9.1
> perl 5.16.2
> autoconf 2.69
> automake 1.13.1
> diffutils 3.2
> gawk 4.0.2
> findutils 4.4.2
> flex 2.5.37
> gettext 0.18.2
> groff 1.22.1
> xz 5.0.4
> grub 2.0.0
> less 451
> gzip 1.5
> iproute2 3.7.0
> kbd 1.15.5 (without kbd-1.15.5-backspace-1.patch)
> kmod 12
> libpipeline 1.2.2
> make 3.82
> man-db 2.6.3
> patch 2.7.1
> sysklogd 1.5 - Removed
> Sysvinit 2.88dsf (I choose to install few support programs from this
> package, like sulogin, mesg, pidof, last, fstab-decode and killall5 - I
> usually enable mesg and sulogin at util-linux stage though so no need
> for it from this package)
>
> make -C src
>
> cp -v src/last src/mesg /usr/bin
> ln -sfv last /usr/bin/lastb
>
> cp -v src/fstab-decode src/killall5 src/sulogin /sbin
> ln -sfv ../sbin/killall5 /bin/pidof
>
> cp -v man/{last,lastb,mesg}.1 /usr/share/man/man1
> cp -v man/{fstab-decode,killall5,pidof,sulogin}.8 /usr/share/man/man8
>
> tar 1.26
> texinfo 4.13a
>
> udev 197 (extracted from systemd) - Removed
> vim 7.3 - Removed in my setup - Replaced with nano 2.3.1
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/nano.html
>
> dhcp 4.2.5
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/dhcp.html (My
> connection uses DHCP - client only with ifup script and configuration
> for eth0)
>
> expat 2.1.0
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/expat.html
> dbus 1.6.8 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/dbus.html
>
> Only difference now is that --without-systemdsystemunitdir becomes
> --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system
>
> Final configure script looks like
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr \
>  --sysconfdir=/etc \
>  --localstatedir=/var \
>  --libexecdir=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0 \
>  --with-console-auth-dir=/run/console/ \
>  --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system \
>  --disable-systemd \
>  --disable-static
>
> --disable-systemd is still there because Systemd requires D-Bus and
> D-Bus requires Systemd for certain functionality only. It does not see
> any use in LFS since it uses logind which we will disable in lfs because
> it would need PAM to work like it should.
>
> D-Bus should be recompiled in BLFS for dbus-launch binary with "Xorg
> Libraries" as dependency and --disable-systemd should be removed there
> after Systemd has been fully rebuilt for BLFS (Including PAM and some
> other deps like Glib and G-I for GUdev and so on).
>
> gperf 3.0.4
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/gperf.html
> xml-parser 2.41
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general

[lfs-support] LFS SVN-20130125 + Systemd HowTo

[Armin K.]

Hello, I have taken some time to write a howto for LFS + Systemd.

The instructions follow LFS BOOK versioned SVN-20130125 with additions 
from BLFS BOOK versioned 2013-01-26.


Packages are installed in same order as alwas, mentioned versions were 
used without any modifications to the LFS book ones. I did some 
diversions and I've mentioned them below.


Packages were added in specified place for a reason, I think I explained 
it for attr, acl and libcap2.


Howto starts from Chapter 6, assuming everything else has been done as 
before.


6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

change "touch /etc/mtab" to "ln -s /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab"

Proceed with the Book

linux 3.7.4 api headers
man-pages 3.45
glibc 2.17
zlib 1.27
file 5.11
binutils 2.23.1
gmp 5.1.0
mpfr 3.1.1
mpc 1.0.1
gcc 4.7.2
sed 4.2.2
bzip2 1.0.6
pkg-config 0.28
ncurses 5.9
util-linux 2.22.2
psmisc 2.20
procps 3.3.6
e2fsprogs 1.42.7

(Not sure about this, but it could be possible that attr and acl need 
msgfmt, msgmerge and xgettext binaries from gettext package - I've 
installed all binaries from gettext in temporary stage so I can't 
confirm. I do remember that I had some problems with this in the past)


attr 2.4.46 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/attr.html
acl 2.2.51 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/acl.html (This one 
is not stricly required for systemd - but I installed it so Coreutils, 
Shadow and Systemd might benefit from it as well from libcap2).
libcap2 2.22 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/libcap2.html


shadow 4.1.5.1
coreutils 8.20 (without coreutils-8.20-i18n-1.patch)
iana-etc 2.30
m4 1.4.16
bison 2.7
grep 2.14
readline 6.2
bash 4.2
libtool 2.4.2
gdbm 1.10
inetutils 1.9.1
perl 5.16.2
autoconf 2.69
automake 1.13.1
diffutils 3.2
gawk 4.0.2
findutils 4.4.2
flex 2.5.37
gettext 0.18.2
groff 1.22.1
xz 5.0.4
grub 2.0.0
less 451
gzip 1.5
iproute2 3.7.0
kbd 1.15.5 (without kbd-1.15.5-backspace-1.patch)
kmod 12
libpipeline 1.2.2
make 3.82
man-db 2.6.3
patch 2.7.1
sysklogd 1.5 - Removed
Sysvinit 2.88dsf (I choose to install few support programs from this 
package, like sulogin, mesg, pidof, last, fstab-decode and killall5 - I 
usually enable mesg and sulogin at util-linux stage though so no need 
for it from this package)


make -C src

cp -v src/last src/mesg /usr/bin
ln -sfv last /usr/bin/lastb

cp -v src/fstab-decode src/killall5 src/sulogin /sbin
ln -sfv ../sbin/killall5 /bin/pidof

cp -v man/{last,lastb,mesg}.1 /usr/share/man/man1
cp -v man/{fstab-decode,killall5,pidof,sulogin}.8 /usr/share/man/man8

tar 1.26
texinfo 4.13a

udev 197 (extracted from systemd) - Removed
vim 7.3 - Removed in my setup - Replaced with nano 2.3.1 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/nano.html


dhcp 4.2.5 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/dhcp.html (My 
connection uses DHCP - client only with ifup script and configuration 
for eth0)


expat 2.1.0 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/expat.html
dbus 1.6.8 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/dbus.html

Only difference now is that --without-systemdsystemunitdir becomes 
--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system


Final configure script looks like

./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0 \
--with-console-auth-dir=/run/console/ \
--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system \
--disable-systemd \
--disable-static

--disable-systemd is still there because Systemd requires D-Bus and 
D-Bus requires Systemd for certain functionality only. It does not see 
any use in LFS since it uses logind which we will disable in lfs because 
it would need PAM to work like it should.


D-Bus should be recompiled in BLFS for dbus-launch binary with "Xorg 
Libraries" as dependency and --disable-systemd should be removed there 
after Systemd has been fully rebuilt for BLFS (Including PAM and some 
other deps like Glib and G-I for GUdev and so on).


gperf 3.0.4 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/gperf.html
xml-parser 2.41 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/perl-modules.html
intltool 0.50.2 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/intltool.html


systemd 197

Journald appears to look for "adm" group, so add it (gid is reserved in 
BLFS specificaly for this group)


groupadd -g 16 adm

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var 
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-rootprefix= --with-rootlibdir=/lib 
--with-kbd-loadkeys=/bin/loadkeys --with-kbd-setfont=/bin/setfont 
--enable-split-usr --disable-static --disable-gudev --without-python


make

make check # triggers the testsuite but it appears to fail 5 tests.

make install
sed "s@0775 root lock@0755 root root@g" -i 
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf #1

mkdir -p /var/log/journal #2

#1 (So we don't add "lock" group).
#2 (By d

Re: [blfs-support] black screen and cursor after installing gdm in blfs

[Armin K.]

On 11/05/2012 03:26 AM, James Pinto wrote:
> Hi
>
> Heres the link to the .xsession-errors file:- http://pastebin.com/1T2VUSsA
> and also heres the link to the gdm log file:- http://pastebin.com/rHi8N2KF
>
> Regards
> --
> James Earnest Pinto
> Director/CEO
> *Phoenix Fusion*
> www.phoenixfusion.in

I asked for gdm log*s*, not log that is also Xorg.log. /var/log/gdm 
should contain dozen of them. From what I see, DRI is available but 
still not found. Post output of "groups" command ran as normal user.

I noticed that .xsession-errors looks nearly the same (ssh-agent error, 
gtk-engines error, networkmanager error), but at least caribou error is 
gone.
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Re: [blfs-support] gnome-power-manager

[Armin K.]

On 27.09.2012 21:03, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> michael [ /usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0 ]$ make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0'
> Making all in src
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/src'
> make  all-am
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/src'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/src'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/src'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/po'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/po'
> Making all in man
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/man'
> docbook2man gnome-power-statistics.sgml &> /dev/null
> make[2]: *** [gnome-power-statistics.1] Error 8
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0/man'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/gnome/gnome-power-manager-3.4.0'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> My base system is LFS 7.1.  I have docbook2man, so that probably isn't
> the reason for this.
>
>

Let me guess, have you installed SGMLSpm Perl module?
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Re: [blfs-support] XFCE4 Power Manager howto

[Armin K.]

Dana 10.9.2012 8:06, Ken Moffat je napisao:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:38:45AM +, Kenno Han wrote:
>>> Sounds like you need UPower
>> It doesn't say anything about UPower...
>>
>
>   And, because the book is perfect you will ignore my suggestion.
> OK, it's not my problem.
>
>>> it's probably a dbus issue []
>> I got that under control since a long time ago.
>>
>   Good.  Nobody has any idea what you have or haven't done, apart
> from what you have told us.  Some people don't do everything
> necessary for dbus, or build everything in one go and forget to
> start dbus.
>
> ĸen
>

Xfce chapter seems to be missing lot of deps ... Namely runtime deps 
such as gvfs, upower and consolekit aren't mentioned as far as I 
remember ... There are also few build deps that are missing on some 
packages.
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