As promised: LFS compilation summary

2008-05-08 Thread Philipp Christian Loewner
Hi everyone! After completing my school's final exams, I found time to do the LFS build. Here is a quick summary: I used the development LFS book version 20080423 but the newest available packages. As for the system specs, it is a 32bit system running the actual LFS live CD at build time. I

Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary

2008-05-08 Thread Ag. D. Hatzimanikas
On Fri, May 09, at 12:02 Philipp Christian Loewner wrote: First I had installed udev-120 but my system didn't boot. It turned out to be a problem due to missing kernel features, but I didn't recompile 120 after I had installed 113 then. Perhaps a hint in the book saying which kernel

Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: In my opinion the kernel page is too sparse and static for its significance. I agree. Linux development is rapid these days, so its mission impossible for a man to follow all that new exciting stuff. It's always rapid. Keeping up requires daily effort. Years

Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary

2008-05-08 Thread Philipp Christian Loewner
On Thu, 08 May 2008 22:47:42 +0200, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Years ago, I suggested a whole chapter or a new book, for the Kernel related stuff [boot process (init ...), udev, filesystems, virtual machines, etc...]. We did also found the man (Alexander) who could

Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:47:42PM +0300, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: Now I am in a position that I don't know if we should continue with LFS, as development doesn't simple happen anymore. The new gcc is out for months, I'm not doing _any_ book development at the moment (hope to get away

Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Ken Moffat wrote: I'm guessing 4.3.1 will be out soon, and that it will be worth playing with. I've done some testing with 4.3.0 as well. It's a little cranky. And based on similar reports I also decided to hold off working on updating -dev until a new release. Otherwise, I may have added it

LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: In any case, I don't see a reason that there won't be a LFS 6.4 or 7.0 release sometime this summer. At the current rate, if we do LFS 7.0 this summer it would have to be sans package manager. However, x86_64 support (and PowerPC, for that matter) is pretty much ready

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: To be current, I'd also like to see the Udev blocker sorted out before we release 7.0. See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2057 Since I see a mention of udev: Over the past couple weeks, I've started to

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bryan Kadzban wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: To be current, I'd also like to see the Udev blocker sorted out before we release 7.0. See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2057 Since I see a mention of udev: Over the past

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: In any case, I don't see a reason that there won't be a LFS 6.4 or 7.0 release sometime this summer. At the current rate, if we do LFS 7.0 this summer it would have to be sans package

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to the boot loader issue .. eventually. Don't apologize. :) Dropping in is welcome. Just FYI. Thanks for the reminder, Dennis. I'll

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to the boot loader issue .. eventually. Don't

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: you know .. I really like the atmosphere in the LFS project. Such a nice bunch of people. Oh, we've had our moments. You don't even have to go very far back in the archives to read some. :( But I think, on the whole, we all prefer a nicer, friendlier atmosphere, and we