Re: Man-DB Nitpick

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 03/22/06 16:18 CST: The Man-DB instructions don't mention a test suite at all. This seems out of the ordinary as I'm used to seeing either a note to run the tests, or that there are no tests. I forgot to mention this yesterday. Though

Re: Linux-Libc-Headers reference repositories/approach

2006-03-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
Feldmeier Bernd wrote: Can someone tell me where to get these like gentoo ones etc ... These were pointed to by Tushar Teredesai within the last couple of weeks in one of the kernel header threads on this very list. The archives will have the info you're looking for. BTW: why not to work

Re: Glibc make error

2006-03-23 Thread Andrew Benton
EaStErDoM wrote: make fails at compiling Glibc with that Error: Please ask about support issues on the LFS support mailing list http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mail.html Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See th

Re: Glibc make error

2006-03-23 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Staub wrote: EaStErDoM wrote: Chris Staub schrieb: Then you used the wrong version, not the one in the book, though I am not sure if that's really the problem. Try using the version in the book and see if that works. I said that i used the ones of the book. I took them from one of the

Re: Glibc make error

2006-03-23 Thread Chris Staub
EaStErDoM wrote: Chris Staub schrieb: Then you used the wrong version, not the one in the book, though I am not sure if that's really the problem. Try using the version in the book and see if that works. I said that i used the ones of the book. I took them from one of their mirrors what I s

Re: Chapter 6 - Creating Dirs

2006-03-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 03/21/06 21:25 CST: > Have you looked at the LFS Trac ticket on this subject? > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1656 I had forgotten that Gerard opened this ticket after I initially said something about it on list. Thanks for the reminder. -- Randy

More sanity checks

2006-03-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
Hi, I would like to propose adding more sanity checks to the book since toolchain adjustment seems to be the primary source of operator error for newbies. Here's what I'm thinking. Ch. 5.7 Adjusting: gcc dummy.c -Wl,--verbose &> dummy.log readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools' # confirms specs spec

Re: Glibc make error

2006-03-23 Thread EaStErDoM
Chris Staub schrieb: EaStErDoM wrote: make fails at compiling Glibc with that Error: In file included from ../include/stdlib.h:8, from ./gconv_int.h:24, from gconv.c:23: ../stdlib/stdlib.h:617: warning: '__malloc__' attribute ignored In file included from ./gco

Re: Man-DB Nitpick

2006-03-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 03/22/06 16:18 CST: > The Man-DB instructions don't mention a test suite at all. This > seems out of the ordinary as I'm used to seeing either a note to > run the tests, or that there are no tests. I forgot to mention this yesterday. Though I'm sure Alexander i

Re: Glibc make error

2006-03-23 Thread Chris Staub
EaStErDoM wrote: make fails at compiling Glibc with that Error: In file included from ../include/stdlib.h:8, from ./gconv_int.h:24, from gconv.c:23: ../stdlib/stdlib.h:617: warning: '__malloc__' attribute ignored In file included from ./gconv_int.h:24,

Re: Man-DB- More than a nitpick

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Noted in the book that the Groff package creates a zsoelim file in /usr/bin (which is a symlink), and is described in the "installed programs" section. Please remove the symlink and move the description to the Man-DB page. A little bit later, Man-DB comes along and trum

Glibc make error

2006-03-23 Thread EaStErDoM
make fails at compiling Glibc with that Error: In file included from ../include/stdlib.h:8, from ./gconv_int.h:24, from gconv.c:23: ../stdlib/stdlib.h:617: warning: '__malloc__' attribute ignored In file included from ./gconv_int.h:24, from gconv.c:

Linux-Libc-Headers reference repositories/approach

2006-03-23 Thread Feldmeier Bernd
Hi all, I am looking for some scripts for kernel header sanitization to examine other approaches. Can someone tell me where to get these like gentoo ones etc ... BTW: why not to work together with e.g. gentoo group? Makes no sense to me that every party makes its one way for this not easy st

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: BLFS is not the right place to work around libc bugs. Agreed. If someone could cook up a patch for glibc-2.3.6 I'd appreciate it. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/kd.h.diff?cvsroot=glibc&r1=1.