Re: jHALFS CLFS master.sh changes

2014-05-08 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 08/05/2014 13:52, William Harrington a écrit : > Greetings, > > With CLFS, our current cross-lfs book has been going through some major > changes. > > With our future releases, we've been reorganizing and renaming some parts of > the book. > > With jHALFS, some changes need to occur to work

Re: CLFS Boot method changes for root user use

2014-05-11 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 11/05/2014 03:51, William Harrington a écrit : > > On May 10, 2014, at 8:13 PM, William Harrington wrote: > >> Ah okay I think I saw what I was missing, not AS_ROOT but as SUDO now in the >> Makefilfe I have this: >> >> SUDO: 086-creatingdirs 087-createfiles 088-devices 089-pwdgroup >

Re: CLFS Boot method changes for root user use

2014-05-11 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 11/05/2014 20:46, William Harrington a écrit : > > On May 10, 2014, at 8:51 PM, William Harrington wrote: > >> 086-creatingdirs: 085-grub-build >>@$(call echo_message, Building) >>@export BASHBIN=$(SHELL) && $(SHELL) progress_bar.sh $@ $$PPID & >>@echo "$(nl_)`date`$(n

Re: CLFS Boot method changes for root user use

2014-05-11 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 11/05/2014 23:08, William Harrington a écrit : > > On May 11, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > >>> However, they are still ran as the clfs user and will fail at the creation >>> of >>> devices when using mknod. >> Did you try ?

Re: CLFS Boot method changes for root user use

2014-05-11 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 11/05/2014 23:44, Pierre Labastie a écrit : > Le 11/05/2014 23:08, William Harrington a écrit : >> >> On May 11, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> >>>> However, they are still ran as the clfs user and will fail at the creation >>>> of &

Re: CLFS Boot method changes for root user use

2014-05-11 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 12/05/2014 03:04, William Harrington a écrit : > > On May 11, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > >> What I do not have is a way to be >> compatible with older versions of the book... >> >> Pierre > > Hello Pierre, > > I'm attaching

Re: get_package_tarball_name function

2014-05-23 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 24/05/2014 03:35, William Harrington a écrit : > > On May 23, 2014, at 8:09 PM, William Harrington wrote: > >> But what instance if any do we end up with a script name which needs >> [0-9]\{1\}- replaced with nothing? This comes from when I put "package management" into jhalfs. I needed a way

Re: CLFS new variables changes

2014-05-29 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 29/05/2014 02:12, William Harrington a écrit : > Greetings, > > http://www.cross-lfs.org/~chris/new_vars_page.patch > > We have updated our book some more regarding setting our variables. > > Please take a look and adjust any comments if see fit. > > Chris stated it works well for current ve

Re: CLFS new variables changes

2014-05-30 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 29/05/2014 20:15, Chris Staub a écrit : > On 05/29/14 06:17, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Le 29/05/2014 02:12, William Harrington a écrit : >>> Greetings, >>> >>> http://www.cross-lfs.org/~chris/new_vars_page.patch >>> >>> We have upda

Re: CLFS new variables changes

2014-05-31 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 30/05/2014 14:05, Pierre Labastie a écrit : > Le 29/05/2014 20:15, Chris Staub a écrit : >> On 05/29/14 06:17, Pierre Labastie wrote: >>> Le 29/05/2014 02:12, William Harrington a écrit : >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> http://www.cross-lfs.org/~c

Re: Creation of /etc/fstab moved

2014-06-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 03/06/2014 20:35, Chris Staub a écrit : > In current CLFS, the page for /etc/fstab is now in system-config instead of > bootable. This line should be copied to the case statement for system-config: > > *fstab) [[ ! -z ${FSTAB} ]] && cp ${FSTAB} $BUILDDIR/sources/fstab ;; Should be fixed at r3

Re: BLFS broken when trying to copy a file into itself

2014-08-23 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 20/08/2014 21:22, EyesIs Mine a écrit : > Using the latest SVN version of jhalfs, when using BLFS tools, it tries to > copy the downloaded file into itself. > > cp: ‘libffi-3.1.tar.gz’ and ‘/mnt/sources/libffi-3.1.tar.gz’ are the same file > > ERROR: Error 1 at common/libs/func_install_blfs li

Re: ***SPAM*** Building target 149-kernel Failure

2014-10-23 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 21/10/2014 17:01, 이승범 a écrit : > Hello, > > While building with Rev. 3807 of ALFS svn, I got this problem... > I tried twice but the same. > Can anyone give me a hint please..?? > > Regards. > > Mach > > > Building target 149-kernel > [+++/Makefile:179

Re: CLFS Util-linux additions

2014-11-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 03/11/2014 05:02, William Harrington a écrit : Greetings, We have created a pass1 in our final system. This change makes sure that the Makefile is generated with all of the proper lines so that the pkg tarball name is proper. The patch is attached. I have tested this with our multilib bui

Re: BLFS Support issue

2015-04-02 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 02/04/2015 18:03, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Di Appoggio wrote: Hi, with the help of jhalfs (rev 3824) I'm trying to add blfs support with latest lfs and blfs revision but I can't pass target 018-z-sqlite. ./jhalfs/build_dir/blfs_root/work/logs/018-z-sqlite: sqlite-autoconf-3080802.tar.gz: OK s

Re: segmentation fault when chrooting

2015-06-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 04/06/2015 09:04, Pol Vangheluwe a écrit : I already built several times LFS (6.4, 6.6, 6.8 and 7.2) manually (on old Apple PowerPC computers). This takes every time several months, because I do it in my sparse free time. I recently found a second-hand PowerMac G4 (MDD) and decided to try A

Re: CLFS 3.0.0-systemd breaks on Chapter 76

2015-08-20 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 20/08/2015 01:22, Michael Løjtnant a écrit : Hi, I'm trying to build a Pure 64-bit system using JHALFS and CLFS, but it breaks when it reaches Chapter 76-Choose. I'm using the 3.0.0-systemd stable book, and chosen chroot for the Build method. Host system is LFS-7.0. JHALFS is latest d

Re: CLFS 3.0.0-systemd breaks on Chapter 76

2015-08-20 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 20/08/2015 16:47, Pierre Labastie a écrit : Le 20/08/2015 01:22, Michael Løjtnant a écrit : Hi, I'm trying to build a Pure 64-bit system using JHALFS and CLFS, but it breaks when it reaches Chapter 76-Choose. I'm using the 3.0.0-systemd stable book, and chosen chroot for

Re: jhalfs needs to be updated for lfs-7.8

2015-10-02 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 02/10/2015 00:17, Bruce Dubbs wrote: It wants libncursesw.so.5, but lfs-7.8 has libncursesw.so.6 The workaround of course is to copy .5 from an older build. I didn't try, but it's possible a symlink from libncursesw.so.5 to libncursesw.so.6 might work. -- Bruce Have you tried to recomp

Re: jhalfs needs to be updated for lfs-7.8

2015-10-02 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 02/10/2015 18:30, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > William Harrington wrote: >> On Fri, October 2, 2015 08:01, Pierre Labastie wrote: >>> On 02/10/2015 00:17, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> It wants libncursesw.so.5, but lfs-7.8 has libncursesw.so.6 >>>> >>>>

Re: jhalfs needs to be updated for lfs-7.8

2015-10-03 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 02/10/2015 21:46, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > Needless to say, this has to be fixed, but I did not take the time before the > release, and I got used to it. Will look at it. > > Pierre > Well, I spent the morning looking at this. I cannot see any obvious difference betwee

Re: jhalfs needs to be updated for lfs-7.8

2015-10-03 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 03/10/2015 12:33, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 02/10/2015 21:46, Pierre Labastie wrote: > >> >> Needless to say, this has to be fixed, but I did not take the time before the >> release, and I got used to it. Will look at it. >> >> Pierre >> > &

Re: jhalfs needs to be updated for lfs-7.8

2015-10-03 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 03/10/2015 13:55, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 03/10/2015 12:33, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> On 02/10/2015 21:46, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> >>> >>> Needless to say, this has to be fixed, but I did not take the time before >>> the >>> release, an

RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-01 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, I do not know who monitors this list, but I'd like to submit some ideas about improving jhalfs, for both (C)LFS and BLFS. My initial idea was to put some time in jhalf-BLFS improvement, but I think others might have ideas about improvements to the (C)LFS part. Actually, I think of one: a few p

Re: RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-01 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 01/11/2015 12:24, EyesIs Mine wrote: > > I guess as one of the very few active users of jhalfs, I'm gonna comment here. > Thanks for that. I almost never receive feedback about this tool, and I am glad to see that someone is using it. >> - Pages with no version are not considered by the too

Re: RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-01 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 01/11/2015 18:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I do not know who monitors this list, > > I do that. > >> Now, the BLFS part offers much more room for improvement: > > I don't use jhalfs for BLFS, but there are a coup

Re: RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-09 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 01/11/2015 20:57, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 01/11/2015 12:24, EyesIs Mine wrote: > >>> - There is presently no way to know which bootscript to reinstall when the >>> bootscript tarball is modified. Having a file of installed bootscripts could >>> help (

Re: RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-09 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 01/11/2015 18:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I do not know who monitors this list, > > I do that. > >> Now, the BLFS part offers much more room for improvement: > > I don't use jhalfs for BLFS, but there are a coup

Re: RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-09 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 09/11/2015 22:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> On 01/11/2015 18:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Pierre Labastie wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I do not know who monitors this list, >>> >>> I do that. >>> &

Re: RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 09/11/2015 23:31, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: On 09/11/2015 22:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: On 01/11/2015 18:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, I do not know who monitors this list, I do that. Now, the BLFS part offers much more room for

Re: RFC: Improvements of jhalfs for (C)LFS and BLFS

2015-11-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 10/11/2015 18:53, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > >> Remember when I told I had a version comparison template in xsl language I >> was not proud about? It is implemented for that, and up to know (2-year >> testing), it has been working OK, although it lo

Re: CLFS updates for clfs user .bashrc

2015-12-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 28/12/2015 03:09, William Harrington wrote: > Ahoy, > > I have noticed some distributions, Slackware for one, which sets > PKG_CONFIG_PATH, so when "su - clfs" is given PKG_CONFIG_PATH from > /etc/profile.d is set and wreaks havoc with some packages, namely make if > guile exists, and util-l

Re: custom examples could use an update.

2016-02-14 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 14/02/2016 21:48, Tom Armistead wrote: > > Hello, > > The example files in jhalfs/custom/examples haven't been updated for > some time. I have some free time and would like to update them to the > current state of things (BLFS 7.8). > > Tom > > Hi Tom, Thanks for the proposi

Re: package management

2016-03-30 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, This list is very quiet and I am always glad somebody share ideas on it. Let me add some comments interspersed in your mail On 30/03/2016 17:02, Roger Koehler wrote: Kudos to Pierre! I am impressed with your work on package management in Jhalfs. I just have some thoughts I'd like to share

Re: package management

2016-03-31 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 31/03/2016 20:27, Roger Koehler wrote: > On Mar 30, 2016 10:18 AM, "Pierre Labastie" <mailto:pierre.labas...@neuf.fr>> wrote: >> How long... Depends on you ;-) I mean I am not able to work on this >> myself, because I have too much else to do (with updating BL

Re: jhalfs update for LFS 7.9

2016-05-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 04/05/2016 17:53, Robert Duffy wrote: Hello! I tried last jhalfs with the current LFS book 7.9 on a default and updated 64-bit Debian 7 host system and got this error. Does anybody know how to fix this error? Building the system... make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/jhalfs' ---

Re: jhalfs update for LFS 7.9

2016-05-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 06/05/2016 09:27, Robert Duffy wrote: On 2016-05-04 18:43, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 04/05/2016 17:53, Robert Duffy wrote: Hello! I tried last jhalfs with the current LFS book 7.9 on a default and updated 64-bit Debian 7 host system and got this error. Does anybody know how to fix this

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: jhalfs update for LFS 7.9

2016-05-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 06/05/2016 12:09, Robert Duffy wrote: On 2016-05-06 11:27, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 06/05/2016 09:27, Robert Duffy wrote: On 2016-05-04 18:43, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 04/05/2016 17:53, Robert Duffy wrote: Hello! I tried last jhalfs with the current LFS book 7.9 on a default and

Re: How to setup systemd book

2016-05-20 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 20/05/2016 00:36, Douglas R. Reno wrote: On 5/19/2016 4:20 PM, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: Hi How do I ensure that jhalfs downloads the Systemd book and not the original book? There seems to be no option to do this. Can I download it myself and incorporate it? thanks Cliff Hi Cliff, In

jhalfs for merged sysv-systemd

2016-05-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
I've received a private message from Bruce about the adaptation of jhalfs to the upcoming merged sysv-systemd books. I think it is better to start a public thread. But I wait for his approval for publishing his message. I do not have much time today, but I'll try to look at Bruce's patch later

Re: jhalfs for merged sysv-systemd

2016-05-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 26/05/2016 21:53, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> I've received a private message from Bruce about the adaptation of jhalfs >> to the upcoming merged sysv-systemd books. >> I think it is better to start a public thread. But I wait for his approval >

Re: jhalfs for merged sysv-systemd

2016-05-27 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 27/05/2016 03:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: On 26/05/2016 21:53, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: I've received a private message from Bruce about the adaptation of jhalfs to the upcoming merged sysv-systemd books. I think it is better to start a public t

Re: jhalfs for merged sysv-systemd

2016-05-27 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 27/05/2016 14:23, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 27/05/2016 03:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: On 26/05/2016 21:53, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: I've received a private message from Bruce about the adaptation of jhalfs to the upcoming merged sysv-systemd boo

Re: jhalfs for merged sysv-systemd

2016-05-27 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 27/05/2016 14:23, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 27/05/2016 03:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: On 26/05/2016 21:53, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: I've received a private message from Bruce about the adaptation of jhalfs to the upcoming merged sysv-systemd boo

Re: jhalfs for merged sysv-systemd

2016-05-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 27/05/2016 19:42, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > >>> This will need some testing: currently, I am building the book with the >>> sysv merged version. Next, the systemd version, then, old version >>> without merged books. But I am confident it

Re: jhalfs for merged sysv-systemd

2016-05-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 28/05/2016 12:12, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 27/05/2016 19:42, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Pierre Labastie wrote: >> >>>> This will need some testing: currently, I am building the book with the >>>> sysv merged version. Next, the systemd version, then, old vers

Re: package management

2016-07-22 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 31/03/2016 21:16, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 31/03/2016 20:27, Roger Koehler wrote: On Mar 30, 2016 10:18 AM, "Pierre Labastie" mailto:pierre.labas...@neuf.fr>> wrote: How long... Depends on you ;-) I mean I am not able to work on this myself, because I have too much

Re: 7.10 test issues in jhalfs

2016-09-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 06/09/2016 19:14, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Last night I did a jhalfs run of LFS to get timing data fo 7.10 (and to check > gcc failures (they were OK)). > > What I got was a hang in coreutils. The specific test was > tests/misc/seq-precision.sh where it does: > > seq 99 inf | head -n2 > out |

Re: jhalfs - failure adding user

2016-11-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi Gordon, On 28/11/2016 08:15, Gordon Findlay wrote: Hi I have finally got around to trying jhalfs seriously, after building LFS manually and with my own scripts at least 10 times. I think I have sorted things out, but one thing bothers me: The first run failed at 021-addinguser. The error

Re: jhalfs - failure adding user

2016-11-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 28/11/2016 19:11, Gordon Findlay wrote: ​In the mean time the build is working, whether by my good luck or good management. Thanks. ​ Glad you succeeded. Hope you'll have fun. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Uns

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Missing libtinfo

2017-01-13 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 13/01/2017 09:51, Gordon Findlay wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Thanos Baloukas > wrote: On 13/01/2017 09:32 πμ, Gordon Findlay wrote: Hi I build (using jhalfs) a SYSV5 system from the SVN of 21/12/16. Tonight I attempted t

Re: Missing libtinfo

2017-01-13 Thread Pierre Labastie
Trying again because I forgot to remove a "SPAM" header added by my silly ISP. Sorry Pierre On 13/01/2017 10:22, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 13/01/2017 09:51, Gordon Findlay wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Thanos Baloukas <mailto:baloukast...@sch.gr>> wrote:

Re: CLFS

2017-01-13 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 13/01/2017 19:09, Roger Koehler wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Roger Koehler > wrote: >> I recently tried running jhalfs for CLFS and received this error: >> >> Makefile:14: *** The REV variable is , but can only be 'sysv' or >> 'systemd'. Stop. >> >> Is there a manual way to set t

Re: CLFS

2017-01-15 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 15/01/2017 07:43, Roger Koehler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Roger Koehler > wrote: >> [...] >> >> Now I just have to figure out how to run jhalfs with my new working copy of >> LFS. > > It was pretty self explanitory (thanks, Pierre, great job!) > > Running now (including blfs

Re: CLFS

2017-01-18 Thread Pierre Labastie
Koehler wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Roger Koehler wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:44 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: On 01/14/2017 05:29 PM, Roger Koehler wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Thanks for the heads up. Will look into this. But I think building

Change default to not stripping

2017-02-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, Do not know who is monitoring this list. I'd like to change the default behavior of jhalfs respective to stripping. Right now, the default is to enable stripping. But as seen in BLFS ticket http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/8909, debugging symbols can be useful for debugging an

Towards a stable version of jhalfs

2017-03-07 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, The last stable version of jhalfs dates back 2009. The SVN version has de facto become the only usable one on latest versions of the book. Having a rolling release is nice, but it prevents big changes to be done, because each revision should just run "as usual". However, making big changes

Re: Towards a stable version of jhalfs

2017-03-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 07/03/2017 22:19, Bryan Gonzalez wrote: Yes On Mar 7, 2017 3:57 PM, "Pierre Labastie" <mailto:pierre.labas...@neuf.fr>> wrote: Hi, The last stable version of jhalfs dates back 2009. The SVN version has de facto become the only usable one on latest versi

jhalfs-2.4-rc1 pre-release

2017-03-12 Thread Pierre Labastie
After eight years of rolling release, the jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.4-rc1. It is a preliminary release of jhalfs-2.4. Uncountable changes have been made since the last version. The main new features are the ability to use a package manage

Re: [blfs-support] jhalfs-2.4-rc1 pre-release

2017-03-13 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 13/03/2017 03:09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: After eight years of rolling release, the jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.4-rc1. It is a preliminary release of jhalfs-2.4. Uncountable changes have been made since the last

jhalfs-2.4-rc2 pre-release

2017-03-19 Thread Pierre Labastie
This is the second release candidate for jhalfs version 2.4. Changes since rc1 include: - include the BLFS book in the list of books that can be chosen in menu - change the layout in blfs tools, along the lines of Bruce's message [1] - fix a few bugs - change the menu layout - update the README fil

Suggestions for documentation improvement

2017-03-25 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, I'd like to know what the followers of this list think about jhalfs documentation, and what would be their advises for improving it. Personally, I have not much idea of how documentation should be done, and apart from text improvement (there is room for that), I am happy with the "README" f

Re: Package management bug

2017-03-25 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 25/03/2017 20:27, Michael D. L. wrote: Hi, The latest release gives this error after exiting the menu-configuration: PKGMNGT... == Package management is requested but pkgmngt/packageManager.xml does no

Re: Suggestions for documentation improvement

2017-03-25 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 25/03/2017 20:22, Michael D. L. wrote: On 03/25/2017 10:58 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, I'd like to know what the followers of this list think about jhalfs documentation, and what would be their advises for improving it. Personally, I have not much idea of how documentation shou

Re: Package management bug

2017-03-25 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 25/03/2017 20:27, Michael D. L. wrote: Hi, The latest release gives this error after exiting the menu-configuration: PKGMNGT... == Package management is requested but pkgmngt/packageManager.xml does no

Re: Suggestions for documentation improvement

2017-03-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 26/03/2017 12:27, Michael D. L. wrote: On 03/25/2017 09:35 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 25/03/2017 20:22, Michael D. L. wrote: On 03/25/2017 10:58 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, I'd like to know what the followers of this list think about jhalfs documentation, and what wou

Re: Dockbook errors/warnings

2017-03-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 26/03/2017 12:05, Michael D. L. wrote: > Hi, > > Just did a checkout of the latest jhalfs, and after downloading the Stable > LFS-8.0-System V Book, I received loads of errors. > > Doesn't seem to affect the build-process though. Looks like the docbook DTD is not found. Is /etc/xml/catalog se

Re: Suggestions for documentation improvement

2017-03-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 26/03/2017 17:53, Tom Armistead wrote: It's been a while since I learned to use jhalfs. But what I remember as not knowing and being confusing at first was: 1) jhalfs needs to be run as a normal user which has sudo permissions. It also took me a bit to figure out how to set it up s

Re: Dockbook errors/warnings

2017-03-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 26/03/2017 19:22, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Michael D. L. wrote: On 03/26/2017 02:38 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 26/03/2017 12:05, Michael D. L. wrote: Hi, Just did a checkout of the latest jhalfs, and after downloading the Stable LFS-8.0-System V Book, I received loads of errors

Re: Dockbook errors/warnings

2017-03-27 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 26/03/2017 22:59, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > > On 26/03/2017 19:22, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Michael D. L. wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 03/26/2017 02:38 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: >>>> On 26/03/2017 12:05, Michael D. L. wrote: >>>>>

Re: Dockbook errors/warnings

2017-03-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 28/03/2017 12:56, Michael D. L. wrote: > > > Did a checkout (rev. 3946) - and I no longer get any DocBook errors :) > Thanks a lot for the test. Regards Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: '[...]' labels on subject line for *alfs lists.

2017-04-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 04/04/2017 10:27, akhiezer wrote: Hi, Could the *alfs lists use '[...]' labels on subject lines - like what lfs/blfs/clfs book/dev/support/trac/&c do - e.g.: == * LFS Trac Fri Mar 31 20:23 [lfs-book] [LFS Trac] Batch modify: #4069, #4070 * LFS Trac Tue Apr 4 02:46 Re:

Re: '[...]' labels on subject line for *alfs lists.

2017-04-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 04/04/2017 11:20, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 04/04/2017 10:27, akhiezer wrote: Hi, Could the *alfs lists use '[...]' labels on subject lines - like what lfs/blfs/clfs book/dev/support/trac/&c do - e.g.: == * LFS Trac Fri Mar 31 20:23 [lfs-book] [LFS Trac] Batch

Re: [alfs-discuss] cp error at func_install_blfs line 150

2017-04-09 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 09/04/2017 01:14, Roger Koehler wrote: I just tried a new jhalfs build at got this error: --2017-04-08 17:03:00-- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/svn// Resolving ftp.osuosl.org (ftp.osuosl.org)... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.233.100, 140.211.166.134, ... Connecting to ftp.osuosl.org (ftp.osuosl.org

[alfs-discuss] jhalfs 2.4 released

2017-04-09 Thread Pierre Labastie
ystemd. It also works with CLFS-3.x versions and CLFS development. Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list. Sincerely, Pierre LABASTIE -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the ab

Re: [alfs-discuss] cp error at func_install_blfs line 150

2017-04-09 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 09/04/2017 10:37, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 09/04/2017 01:14, Roger Koehler wrote: I just tried a new jhalfs build at got this error: --2017-04-08 17:03:00-- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/svn// Resolving ftp.osuosl.org (ftp.osuosl.org)... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.233.100, 140.211.166.134

[alfs-discuss] New features included in SVN trunk

2017-04-09 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, Now that 2.4 is released, I have merged (manually, thanks to subversion) new features into the main development line: - Using porg as a package manager (both LFS and BLFS) - Network settings now in the menu (LFS) [1] If for some reason, you need the former behavior, you are advised to use

Re: [alfs-discuss] makefile

2017-04-20 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 15/04/2017 02:47, Roger Koehler wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Roger Koehler wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Roger Koehler wrote: For some reason the /mnt/build_dir/jhalfs makefile is not getting generated. I have this message at the end of /mnt/build_dir/jhalfs/logs/000-

Re: [alfs-discuss] xsltproc: command not found

2017-04-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 28/04/2017 01:04, Roger Koehler wrote: Why am I getting this error after jhalfs builds LFS and the first blfs_root package (openssl) completes? Normally, the Makefile in $LFS/blfs_root/work is sed'ed so that xsltproc is not run after each package build (the normal behavior when building BLFS

Re: [alfs-discuss] No restart

2017-04-30 Thread Pierre Labastie
Forwarding to the list: it seems just hitting"reply" does not answer to the list, as it used to do... Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [alfs-discuss] No restart Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 23:18:40 +0200 From: Pierre Labastie To: Gerhard Gedigk On 30/04/

Re: [alfs-discuss] No restart

2017-04-30 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 01/05/2017 07:59, Pierre Labastie wrote: > One grep only works during the first run, afterwards I always get > > Are you happy with these optimization settings? yes/no (no): yes > -- > > grep: /mn

Re: [alfs-discuss] Update CLFS/master.sh do-housekeeping target

2017-06-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 05/06/2017 16:27, William Harrington wrote: > Of course, we still need to rm /cross-tools, too. > > Can scrap this portion: > >> -@-rm /tools /cross-tools >> +@-rm /tools > > Sincerely, > > William Harrington > Sorry for my late reply: I have some health problems, and cannot stay l

Re: [alfs-discuss] Update CLFS/master.sh do-housekeeping target

2017-06-11 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 10/06/2017 12:05, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 05/06/2017 16:27, William Harrington wrote: >> Of course, we still need to rm /cross-tools, too. >> >> Can scrap this portion: >> >>> - @-rm /tools /cross-tools >>> + @-rm /tools >> >> Sin

Re: [alfs-discuss] [blfs-dev] docbook-xsl checksum

2017-07-01 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 02/07/2017 02:38, Roger Koehler wrote: > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Roger Koehler > wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Roger Koehler >> wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> Okay. I will double check. I got an error from jhalfs, and this was the >>> checksum on the file that it downloaded. >>

Re: [alfs-discuss] xsltproc required for blfs_root

2017-07-03 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 03/07/2017 13:49, Roger Koehler wrote: I had to manually build xsltproc and dependencies before the blfs_root additions in jhalf would run. Hi Roger, I need to know more to debug this... What did you do? - use "Add blfs-tool support" in "BOOK Settings" menu? - run "install-blfs-tools.sh"? No

[alfs-discuss] testing version 2.4.1 of jhalfs

2017-07-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
A number of bugs have been found in version 2.4 of jhalfs: - Not all downloaded files were saved when "Retrieve source files" was selected with "add blfs-tool support". - Wrong path to the LFS book when "Rebuild the Makefile" was selected - Bootscripts/Systemd-units for BLFS did not respect the BUI

[alfs-discuss] Conflict between a jhalfs variable and a package one

2017-08-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, Trunk jhalfs blfs tools define a variable $BUILD_ROOT, which is exported to the build script. Unfortunately, the libvpx build machinery uses a variable of the same name in its Makefile. This leads to weird errors like "vpx_config.h not found", while vpx_config.h is in the build directory..

Re: [alfs-discuss] Conflict between a jhalfs variable and a package one

2017-08-26 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 26/08/2017 20:41, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, Trunk jhalfs blfs tools define a variable $BUILD_ROOT, which is exported to the build script. Unfortunately, the libvpx build machinery uses a variable of the same name in its Makefile. This leads to weird errors like

Re: [alfs-discuss] Dumb but important qn

2017-10-16 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 15/10/2017 23:08, Teresa Williams wrote: Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 11:05 PM From: "Bruce Dubbs" To: "ALFS Discussion and Development List" Subject: Re: [alfs-discuss] Dumb but important qn Teresa Williams wrote: Every time I use jhalfs I battle the starting setup. I create a parti

[alfs-discuss] Default setting for LC_ALL in envars.conf should be changed

2017-10-30 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, Just a heads up I am getting a lot of warnings and also an error (in new glib) for packages using meson: --- Warning: You are using 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' which is not a Unicode-compatible locale. You might see errors if you use UTF-8 strings as filenames, as strings, or

Re: [alfs-discuss] openssl, 64-bit

2017-12-13 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 13/12/2017 00:35, DJ Lucas wrote: > On December 12, 2017 3:52:21 PM CST, Pol Vangheluwe > wrote: >> >>> Op 9 dec. 2017, om 19:31 heeft Pol Vangheluwe >> het volgende geschreven: >>> >>> After a lot of trial and error, I finally could finish the build of >> LFS-8.1-systemd with ALFS. >>> I hav

Re: [alfs-discuss] openssl, 64-bit

2017-12-22 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 22/12/2017 00:21, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pol Vangheluwe wrote: [...] >> >>   016-z-sqlite: the digits ‘320' were missing in the lines >>   unzip -q ../sqlite-doc-320.zip >>   cp -v -R sqlite-doc-320/* /usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.20.0 > > That does appear to be an alfs issue. > It looks

Re: [alfs-discuss] alfs wishlist

2018-01-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 06/01/2018 22:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > What I would find useful is a way to turn on checks for just selected packages > in LFS.  That is, I am now in the process of doing an update to > e2fsprogs-1.43.8 and gdbm-1.14.1.  I would like to turn on checks for those > packages only (in Chapter 6). >

Re: [alfs-discuss] alfs wishlist

2018-01-07 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 06/01/2018 23:00, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> On 06/01/2018 22:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> What I would find useful is a way to turn on checks for just selected >>> packages >>> in LFS.  That is, I am now in the process of doing an upd

[alfs-discuss] About circular dependencies when using jhalfs

2018-01-13 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, This message is about circular dependencies in BLFS, and the way to resolve them automatically for jhalfs, so it belongs to both alfs-discuss and blfs-dev. Let us first introduce some notation (BTW, please read this message with a monospaced font): a -> b: means "a directly depends on b". N

Re: [alfs-discuss] About circular dependencies when using jhalfs

2018-01-14 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 14/01/2018 00:56, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This message is about circular dependencies in BLFS, and the way to resolve >> them automatically for jhalfs, so it belongs to both alfs-discuss and >> blfs-dev. >> >> [...]

Re: [alfs-discuss] LFS 8.2 with blfs-support

2018-03-08 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 08/03/2018 12:26, Thomas Seeling wrote: > Hallo, > > > when trying to build LFS 8.2 and include BLFS tools support I noticed > that the BLFS download tries the URL > > svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/tags/8.2/BOOK > > which does not exist. > > The jhalfs script contains some hardcoded B

Re: [alfs-discuss] LFS 8.2 with blfs-support

2018-03-08 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 08/03/2018 14:39, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 08/03/2018 12:26, Thomas Seeling wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> >> when trying to build LFS 8.2 and include BLFS tools support I noticed >> that the BLFS download tries the URL >> >> svn://svn.linuxfromscratc

Re: [alfs-discuss] problem at elfutils ch06

2018-03-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 10/03/2018 16:37, Thomas Seeling wrote: Hallo, I'm building 8.2 LFS with jhalfs 2.4 and I noticed that step 114-libelf fails because some commands are missing in the Makefile. After I added the ">>" marked lines (copied from 113 and adapted the name) it worked. All other steps in the Makefil

Re: [alfs-discuss] circular dependencies in makefile

2018-03-21 Thread Pierre Labastie
Sending again to list (sorry for private mail Thomas) On 21/03/2018 14:58, Thomas Seeling wrote: > Hallo, > > > I'm currently building LFS 8.2 with BLFS tools support. > > Instead of jhalfs 2.4 release I used something later from the svn > repository so the 114-elf step was successful and the L

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