Re: Ncurses instructions - libcurses symlinks

2007-10-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: In Chapter 6, there is this set of commands... for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \ rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ echo INPUT(-l${lib}w) /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a /usr/lib/lib${lib}.a ; \ done ln -sfv libncurses++w.a

glibc-2.6.1 test errors

2007-10-05 Thread Athena
Hello List I would really appreciate it if somebody would be able to help me with a little problem which I'm having with glibc-2.6.1 make check on the current LFS-DEV. I chatted to somebody on #lfs-support last night and they suggested that I post my problem to this list. So here goes

Re: glibc-2.6.1 test errors

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:00:26PM +0100, Athena wrote: Hello List I would really appreciate it if somebody would be able to help me with a little problem which I'm having with glibc-2.6.1 make check on the current LFS-DEV. I chatted to somebody on #lfs-support last night and they

-mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello All, We never really decided on what to do for -mtune on Glibc. See the end of Greg's post here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-September/060338.html And again his comments here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-September/060338.html My opinion is

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hello All, We never really decided on what to do for -mtune on Glibc. See the end of Greg's post here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-September/060338.html And again his comments here:

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Richard Gill
2007/10/5, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All, We never really decided on what to do for -mtune on Glibc. See the end of Greg's post here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-September/060338.html And again his comments here:

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Richard Gill wrote: Hi successfully built the entire chapter 5, then start of chapter 6 (because then I deviate), with the following flags for *all* software: CFLAGS=-O3 -pipe -march=i686 -mtune=i686 CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS -Wno-deprecated thus binutils and glibc are built with those flags. I

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Richard Gill
2007/10/5, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (-O2 -pipe -s -fno-strict-aliasing -mtune=i686) by default, and very Oops, I forgot to mention the -s I use too :-) -- Richard 'riri' GILL jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://riri.houbathecat.info http://nasgaia.org « Frimousse en excessivité

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:52:49 +0200, Richard Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/5, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (-O2 -pipe -s -fno-strict-aliasing -mtune=i686) by default, and very Oops, I forgot to mention the -s I use too :-) Well this thread certainly went off topic

Re: glibc-2.6.1 test errors

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:25:48 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep Error /mnt/lfs/jhalfs/test-logs/065-glibc make[3]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) I'll be running a test on trunk now just to make sure that everything is kosher. The development

Re: glibc-2.6.1 test errors

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:31:56 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is known that on different Intel CPUs, glibc chooses at runtime different algorithms for certain floating-point operations (grep for HWCAP_I386_XMM, for example, which corresponds to SSE support). So here

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Bryan Kadzban
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:15:09AM -0600, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:10:59 -0500, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both your links are the same... Oh, sorry. Here's the one I left out: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-September/060268.html For the

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/07, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We never really decided on what to do for -mtune on Glibc. See the end of Greg's post here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-September/060338.html And again his comments here:

Re: glibc-2.6.1 test errors

2007-10-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:25:48 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep Error /mnt/lfs/jhalfs/test-logs/065-glibc make[3]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) I'll be running a test on trunk now just to make sure that everything is

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/07, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think adding -mtune=native will be fine so long as there are no test regressions. Otherwise, Greg's suggestion of -mtune=generic seems very safe. Reading Greg's post again, if -mtune=generic is the default on gcc-4.2, then I think that's

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 10/5/07, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think adding -mtune=native will be fine so long as there are no test regressions. Otherwise, Greg's suggestion of -mtune=generic seems very safe. Reading Greg's post again, if -mtune=generic is the default on

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:16:53 -0500, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of overriding completely what Glibc's internal build system uses for CFLAGS, append the new flag to the existing contents of CFLAGS by making use of the special file configparms. The -mtune=native flag is also

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Everything looks good to me, Bruce. Patches are always welcome :-) Why would I send a patch when I can just change it in svn? Woul dthat be OK? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

My status.

2007-10-05 Thread Ag. D. Hatzimanikas
Hi all, I really don't know how to start and how to finish my email. For a long time I wanted to explain my current situation, but believe it or not, I didn't have neither these few minutes of my time. My/Our life had changed in a such a drastic way that I don't/won't have time in the near

Re: glibc-2.6.1 test errors

2007-10-05 Thread Athena
On Friday 05 October 2007 17:31:56 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:25:48 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep Error /mnt/lfs/jhalfs/test-logs/065-glibc make[3]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) I'll be

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:19:42AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Reading Greg's post again, if -mtune=generic is the default on gcc-4.2, then I think that's what we should restore. Then the explanation makes more sense: -mtune=generic restores the default GCC settings from those implied by the

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:19:42AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Reading Greg's post again, if -mtune=generic is the default on gcc-4.2, then I think that's what we should restore. Then the explanation makes more sense: -mtune=generic restores the default GCC settings

Re: -mtune for Glibc

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:43:55PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I used 'native' in my proposal earlier. 'generic' may be a bit more conservative, but I think 'native' would be better for most people. If you change it, how about adding another sentence that 'native' is an option but issues may