Re: Apply MPFR upstream patch releases

2011-09-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:59:40 -0500, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: According to the home page, we should be applying the upstream patches found here: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/allpatches See bugs section at: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/ Thanks DJ, this is now ticket

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:27 AM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I believe complexity was the main objection. Seriously? What complexity? I'm sorry but LFS is a complex book for advanced Linux users. We're really going to run away from a set of shell scripts because we can't be

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:27 AM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I believe complexity was the main objection. Seriously? What complexity? I'm sorry but LFS is a complex book for advanced Linux users. We're really going to run away from a set of shell scripts

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote:e Complexity was not the reason I rewrote the scripts. I didn't want to add initd-tools to LFS, although I did add it to BLFS. I made the scripts LSB compatible, but didn't use the initd-tools

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote:e Complexity was not the reason I rewrote the scripts. I didn't want to add initd-tools to LFS, although I did add it to BLFS. I made the scripts LSB compatible, but

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: What point? That you duplicated all the effort DJ spent addressing these same issues and improvements in the LSB bootscripts. We had _long_ discussions about this which you seemed only vaguely interested in and did not

binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2

2011-09-02 Thread stefan schwarzer
Hi all, the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 package extracts to binutils-2.21.1 hence the book is wrong in assuming binutils-2.21.1a as extracted directory is wrong in chapter 5.4 Cross Binutils for the configure step. have fun Stefan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
stefan schwarzer wrote: Hi all, the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 package extracts to binutils-2.21.1 hence the book is wrong in assuming binutils-2.21.1a as extracted directory is wrong in chapter 5.4 Cross Binutils for the configure step. Right you are. Thanks for the heads up. I'll get

Re: binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2

2011-09-02 Thread xinglp
2011/9/3 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com: stefan schwarzer wrote: Hi all, the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 package extracts to binutils-2.21.1 hence the book is wrong in assuming binutils-2.21.1a as extracted directory is wrong in chapter 5.4 Cross Binutils for the configure step. Right you

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: What point? That you duplicated all the effort DJ spent addressing these same issues and improvements in the LSB bootscripts. We had _long_ discussions about this which you seemed only vaguely