Re: binutils-2.16.1-posix-1.patch

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: We have ran into a issue of it failing on Solaris, that's the reason for the patch. Ah, so it's a patch specific to /tools (or cross-lfs equivalent). In that case, it's obviously fine for cross-lfs, though I'll leave it out of LFS as it doesn't affect us (at least I know o

Re: binutils-2.16.1-posix-1.patch

2005-10-29 Thread Jim Gifford
We have ran into a issue of it failing on Solaris, that's the reason for the patch. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See th

Re: binutils-2.16.1-posix-1.patch

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: The question is whether "both" or "none" is the correct answer. AFAIK there are no hosts in the real world that don't understand "tail -1", and the new version of coreutils says that disallowing this syntax was a mistake. And that's my understanding too. I shoul

binutils-2.16.1-posix-1.patch

2005-10-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, the patch named binutils-2.16.1-posix-1.patch is currently used in cross-LFS, but not in the regular LFS. It fixes some calls to "head" and "tail", for POSIX compliance. It has nothing to do with cross-compilation techniques and thus has to be present either in