Re: Kernel Headers

2006-04-30 Thread Ioan Ionita
On 4/29/06, Jim Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be nice is if we could go back to the 2.4 does things, they we wouldn't have these issues. I've contacted David, to see if we could collaborate on the effort, but I haven't heard anything yet. From what I've read in that thread,

Re: Kernel Headers

2006-04-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Ioan Ionita wrote: Probably not gonna be merged. Linus doesn't plan on making any header useable by userspace. I don't quite understand his whole point. It seems like he's allergic or something, thinking that if the headers are cleaned up, apps will start using them. Anyway, he doesn't seem to

Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Matt Darcy
Hi all, First of all, I have sent this mail to all lists, but I'd request that all responses happen on LFS-DEV to keep this thread (assuming it gets response) together and followable. Reading through threads in general there appears to be a little seperation and difference of opinion on a

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread matthew
Matt Darcy (the guvnah!) wrote: 1.) Kernel Headers, yes you knew this was coming but its certainly worth talking about, a lots been said on this but its really still unclear of direction. I suppose the discussion should center around a.) Do we stick with LLH and pray it takes off again b.)

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Darcy (the guvnah!) wrote: 1.) Kernel Headers, yes you knew this was coming but its certainly worth talking about, a lots been said on this but its really still unclear of direction. I suppose the discussion should center around a.) Do we stick with LLH and pray

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Darcy (the guvnah!) wrote: c.) what are the livecd doing with udev - removing hotplug ? what rules are they using ? etc I'd hope they're using the same rules as LFS+BLFS. Our rules contain all official ones, plus some livecd-specific ones. If not, I'd

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
(Resending because I think I used the wrong From: address last time around.) Andrew Benton wrote: install the raw kernel headers from the 2.6.16 kernel in /tools/glibc-kernheaders and compile glibc against them. For userspace, keep using the 2.6.12 sanitised llc headers. Works for me. It

Re: Kernel Headers

2006-04-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Ioan Ionita wrote: Linus doesn't plan on making any header useable by userspace. Not entirely true; from what I was reading in the archives, Linus doesn't mind making the kernel headers usable by glibc. But he absolutely does not want random userspace programs using them, because they will

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: III) Devices usable in LFS are correctly named and have proper permissions, as assigned by LFS developers. III) II, plus: Devices not usable without BLFS packages are at least correctly named. IOW, if one installs a BLFS package without reading the udev/passwd part in BLFS book, the

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: install the raw kernel headers from the 2.6.16 kernel in /tools/glibc-kernheaders and compile glibc against them. For userspace, keep using the 2.6.12 sanitised llc headers. Works for me. It worked well for LFS-6.0. It's a tried and tested method

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Andrew Benton
Bryan Kadzban wrote: (Resending because I think I used the wrong From: address last time around.) Andrew Benton wrote: How will your non-glibc userspace packages use inotify? Yes, glibc has support for its syscalls, but the LLH headers do not, and AFAIK glibc doesn't install headers for it;

Re: All's quiet on the LFS Front

2006-04-30 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:59:47PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Except for some touch ups by Manuel, there have been no commits to LFS for two weeks. Has everyone else lost their availability at the same time? I thought we were very close to releasing LFS-6.2-testing. Close is a relative term.

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:29:16AM +0100, Matt Darcy wrote: 1.) Kernel Headers, yes you knew this was coming but its certainly worth talking about, a lots been said on this but its really still unclear of direction. I suppose the discussion should center around For LFS-6.2, I recommend

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Joe Ciccone wrote: Bryan Kadzban wrote: How will your non-glibc userspace packages use inotify? I'm unaware of what glibc-2.3.6 does. glibc-2.4 does install /usr/include/sys/inotify.h regardless of whether linux/inotify.h is found. Ah, so glibc does install it. So then, if glibc

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: Matt Darcy wrote: 3.) users and group creation, I'm reluctant to touch on this again as I know its close to a few individuals hearts and a lot of time has been put into this, but due to the ude discussion I think its worth at least touching upon. a.) do we define

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread matthew
Bryan Kadzban wrote: So then, if glibc installs everything like this, why do we need any kernel headers at all? Is it just for glibc (and stuff like util-linux that's Linux specific)? Hmm. Yes, LKML folks appear to agree that the kernel headers are just for the C library (be it glibc,

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Kadzban wrote: So then, if glibc installs everything like this, why do we need any kernel headers at all? Is it just for glibc (and stuff like util-linux that's Linux specific)? Hmm. Yes, LKML folks appear to agree that the kernel headers are just for the C

Re: Need advices about make textinfo

2006-04-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Andrejs Spunitis wrote: /mnt/src/texinfo-4.8/info/terminal.c:236: undefined reference to `tgoto' /mnt/src/texinfo-4.8/info/terminal.c:236: undefined reference to `tputs' Support questions should be directed to the lfs-support list. The symbols tgoto and tputs are from ncurses. You might want

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm not sure I completely understand. Is Linus saying that it is up to the interface library to *copy* the needed data structures (not including) from the kernel to their own set of public headers? Yes. If so, is this because the kernel devs don't know what definitions

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
(Gaah! I think I need to change the address that I've subscribed. At least that way my mailer would use the right one by default.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Kadzban wrote: So then, if glibc installs everything like this, why do we need any kernel headers at all? Is it just for glibc

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
steve crosby wrote: iptables is one such application - currently non functional with jim's script created headers, but have yet to identify why. I thought iptables required the raw kernel source anyway? Regardless, it's definitely one of the few Linux-specific programs. Its only purpose in

Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hey All, Trying to close this ticket: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1768 In trying to incorporate Dan's suggestions, I decided to *require* the sanity check at the end of chapter 6 gcc. Up to now the wording there has said it was recommended to repeat the sanity checks

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 04/30/06 18:48 CST: That always kind of bugged me - that in the middle of the flow you have to go *back* in the book and repeat some instructions. You must do this in two other spots in the book and it has always bugged me as well. I remember not too long

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: [snip] Anyway, as long as you're trying to remove confusion, I'd like to see th mention of going *back* to GCC Pass1 in the GCC Pass2 instructions to just include the instructions again instead of saying to go back to the Pass1 instructions. And, more importantly, I'd

Re: Kernel Headers

2006-04-30 Thread Ioan Ionita
On 4/30/06, Bryan Kadzban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (That's because fcntl.h is glibc's interface to the rest of userspace. It needs to define that interface well enough that random userspace programs will almost all work. In the same vein, though, the Linux kernel needs to define its interface

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Please comment on the following: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/html-lfs-trunk/chapter06/readjusting.html and http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/html-lfs-trunk/chapter06/gcc.html I agree with Randy's comments, but would like to address the appearance.

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:12:18PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Agreed. Unless someone else raises an objection, I'll take a look at fixing that up. There might be a better way to go about this. With only one exception, the test commands are identical. So the first question is, why not add

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: There might be a better way to go about this. With only one exception, the test commands are identical. So the first question is, why not add grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log I answered this already. See below. [snip] Now we have identical tests and manageable output

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I don't like all the instructions in the caution. If it is supposed to be mainline, then put it mainline, not in a caution block. If you really need the caution, just say that the following instructions are considered mandatory and then drop back to the normal presentation.

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: Of course, the only reason for XIncludes is that despite the best intentions, it is likely a change to one page will be forgotten about in the other. Also, keep in mind that the location of the startfiles likewise differs when running the tests at those two points.

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:00:09PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Also, keep in mind that the location of the startfiles likewise differs when running the tests at those two points. Yes, as I pointed out. I made an assumption on the SEARCH grep since I didn't know, but I explicitely mentioned

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:55:25PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: As I already said, I didn't include it on the readjusting page because I didn't want to confuse the reader with perhaps unexpected occurrences of '/tools'. Unexpected? Please explain. /tools should either be in the output or

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Archaic
And don't overlook the changes to the 2 greps. Regardless of anything else this thread produces, those changes must be made to fix the current wrapping problem. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: And don't overlook the changes to the 2 greps. Regardless of anything else this thread produces, those changes must be made to fix the current wrapping problem. Yes, thanks. I thought of doing something like what you suggested, but wasn't sure if it was really appropriate.

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:12:50PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Personally, I would prefer another solution. Drop the 2nd instance of the crt tests and drop the SEARCH tests. Otherwise, the output must be wrestled into conforming to layout requirements. -- Archaic Want control, education,

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:55:25PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: As I already said, I didn't include it on the readjusting page because I didn't want to confuse the reader with perhaps unexpected occurrences of '/tools'. Unexpected? Please explain. /tools should either be in

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:12:50PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Personally, I would prefer another solution. Drop the 2nd instance of the crt tests and drop the SEARCH tests. Otherwise, the output must be wrestled into conforming to layout requirements. Sorry to be