Re: compilation ok, chroot fails

2005-07-06 Thread Roberto Nibali
Hi, I see this before, but already forgot how I overcome it. I'm puzzled, to be honest. Ensure that dynamic loader is visible as /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2 from chroot (this message is produced when dynamic loader cannot be found). It is, as far as I can ensure, I even added /lib and

make 3.80

2005-07-06 Thread Hai Zaar
Hi, all! I've passed through roadmap in the wiki. Some comments on the following line: * make (no known compatible alternatives, any issues with 3.80?) There is actually one problem with make-3.80. I've pointed it out about a year ago during LFS-6.0 test phase. Read more here:

Re: make 3.80

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hai Zaar wrote: Hi, all! I've passed through roadmap in the wiki. Some comments on the following line: * make (no known compatible alternatives, any issues with 3.80?) There is actually one problem with make-3.80. I've pointed it out about a year ago during LFS-6.0 test phase. Read more

Please mention prerequisites: bison flex

2005-07-06 Thread Kim McCall
Being unable to build LFS6.1 on my FC4 system because of the gcc4 problem, I installed a minimal ubuntu distribution. When I tried building binutils, I ran into the problem of the nonexistence of yyparse. I had to hunt around on the web a bit, and I finally found somebody who had the same

Re: Please mention prerequisites: bison flex

2005-07-06 Thread steve crosby
On 7/6/05, Kim McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip that there ought to be some kind of documentation of what development tools are required in order to build LFS. There already are: from the binutils page Installation depends on: Bash, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext,

Book for 6.1-pre1: a few miscellaneous nits

2005-07-06 Thread Bernard Leak
Dear List, I present a few nits I have picked out of the hair of blfs-6.1-pre1 (the book): I've decided to send this collection as it is rather than wait for completion. I dare say I will find others later. 6.58.1 compliment should be complement Preface.2 (gosh, a preface

Re: Book for 6.1-pre1: a few miscellaneous nits

2005-07-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Bernard Leak wrote: Dear List, I present a few nits I have picked out of the hair of blfs-6.1-pre1 (the book): LFS, not blfs. The word is programme. Yes, it really is, unless you are writing American. It is a curiosity of the LFS book that

RE: Book for 6.1-pre1: a few miscellaneous nits

2005-07-06 Thread David Fix
And if push comes to shove, I assume Canadian usage will be the preferred model ;) Yay! :) BTW, Happy Canada Day to those Canadians on here. ;) (Sure I'm about 5 days late saying it on here, but I had a HECK of a good time on the first!) Dave --

pseudo random for 2.6.12.2

2005-07-06 Thread Alan Hourihane
The pseudo random patch for 2.6.12 that's up on the patches site doesn't apply cleanly to 2.6.12.2. Is there anyone uploading a fix soon ? Alan. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Building LFS-6.1pre1 on Ubuntu, Chap6 glibc test had a failure

2005-07-06 Thread Kim McCall
I'm building LFS 6.1 pre 1 using Ubuntu as the host system. Everything has gone well up through the early parts of Chapter 6. I've built glibc and then run # make check It aborted most of the way through, and the last output file it seemed to have written was

Binutils 2.16.1

2005-07-06 Thread David Fix
Just wondering... I'm going through the SVN-20050705 book, and I notice that it's still got binutils 2.16 in it... There's 2.16.1 out, and I've successfully compiled it instead of 2.16 (I'm at chapter 6.14 now)... Any reasons that we shouldn't be using 2.16.1? :) Dave --

Re: Binutils 2.16.1

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
David Fix wrote: Just wondering... I'm going through the SVN-20050705 book, and I notice that it's still got binutils 2.16 Well, it did up until 07:26 (UTC) today :) I upgraded it this morning, it should show up in tomorrows render. Regards, Matt. --

RE: zlib vulnerability

2005-07-06 Thread David Fix
We may have to stop the presses. Zlib has a DoS vulnerability. I'm looking for info now. -- Archaic A new one? Affecting v1.2.2? Where did you read about this? I can't find anything about it! :) Not that I disbelieve you, I just want to read about it myself! :) Dave --

zlib vulnerability

2005-07-06 Thread Archaic
A possible buffer overflow exploit was discovered in zlib. This includes web browsers or email programs able to view PNG images (which are compressed by zlib). The most likely scenario is a Denial of Service by crashing the program that is linked to zlib. However, a possibility of priviledge

RE: zlib vulnerability

2005-07-06 Thread David Fix
A possible buffer overflow exploit was discovered in zlib. -- Archaic Thanks for the link and the patch, Archaic. :) Much appreciated. :) Dave -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: zlib vulnerability

2005-07-06 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:36:49PM -0400, David Fix wrote: A new one? Affecting v1.2.2? Where did you read about this? I can't find anything about it! :) Not that I disbelieve you, I just want to read about it myself! :) Subscribe to bugtraq if you want to keep up on vulnerabilities

Chapter 6 and testing...

2005-07-06 Thread David Fix
Hey guys... I'm running through SVN-20050705, and I notice that on 6.14 (GCC 3.4.4), it says to run the tests (make check)... However, in chapter 5, it mentions that you don't HAVE to run the tests in chapter 5, but gives details on the test suite notes... In chapter 6, where the tests are

Re: Chapter 6 and testing...

2005-07-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Fix wrote: Hey guys... I'm running through SVN-20050705, and I notice that on 6.14 (GCC 3.4.4), it says to run the tests (make check)... However, in chapter 5, it mentions that you don't HAVE to run the tests in chapter 5, but gives details on the test suite notes... In chapter 6, where

SVN-20050705 - 5.11. GCC-3.4.4 - Pass 2

2005-07-06 Thread David Fix
Hey guys, Here's another one for SVN-20050705, SVN-20050705 - 5.11. GCC-3.4.4 - Pass 2... There's this line: Results can be compared with those located at http://beta.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/svn/. However, that gives me a 404. :) I also tried it on a few different mirrors. :)

Re: SVN-20050705 - 5.11. GCC-3.4.4 - Pass 2

2005-07-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Fix wrote: You can find this same error in the testing book (TESTING-20050705), with the following URL (for GCC-3.4.3, of course): http://beta.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/testing/ This is a website issue - will be fixed later today. Thanks -- JH --

LFS-6.1-pre2 released

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1-pre2. This pre-release for the upcoming final 6.1 revision of the book includes a patch to fix a recently disclosed security bug in zlib. You can read the book online at

Small errors

2005-07-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In Linux From Scratch, Version 6.1-pre2, Table of Contents, Preface, Host System Requirements located at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1-pre2/prologue/hostreqs.html I found the following errors: In the first paragraph the word First is used and is followed by Secondly. Second is

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: mountkernfs script succeeds, however it leaves behind messages (merged) when sh is a symlink to ash. '' does not redirect. Suggest '21'. Also, I'm not sure what version of hotplug right this second, but the math early on in the following files is also broken with ash symlinked

Errors 6.1-pre2 prologue

2005-07-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope this isn't too nit picky: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1-pre2/prologue/typography.html 1. This form of text is used for several purposes in the book, mainly to emphasize important points or items. Should not be a comma splice and should instead be: This form of text is

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-06 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: mountkernfs script succeeds, however it leaves behind messages (merged) when sh is a symlink to ash. '' does not redirect. Suggest '21'. Also, I'm not sure what version of hotplug right this second, but the math early on in the following files

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: Yes, I had thought about suggesting that, however held it for a few reasons, the most important is that we don't install ash in LFS. Not breaking BLFS is IMHO more important. Also with hotplug-ng coming... Forget about hotplug-ng. It's already dead, to be replaced with the