Re: [lfs-dev] gcc fails to build

2018-11-08 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2018-11-08 10:50 +, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: > Ref: > > Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20181029 > Chapter 5. Constructing a Temporary System > 5.5. GCC-8.2.0 - Pass 1 > > Using the latest script to update the dynamic linker results in gcc > failing to build. I was building SVN-2

Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc-2.28 for a 64-bit system

2018-11-10 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2018-11-10 13:13 +, John Frankish via lfs-dev wrote: > > > Ref: > > > > > > Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20181106 Chapter 6. Installing > > > Basic > > > System Software 6.9. Glibc-2.28 > > > > > > The instructions mention: > > > > > > libc_cv_slibdir=/lib > > > This variable set

[lfs-dev] systemd-239 testsuite assumes "/bin/touch"

2018-11-17 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
systemd-239 test suite fails in BLFS: > exec-basic.service: Executing: /bin/touch /tmp/b > exec-basic.service: Failed to execute command: No such file or directory We can list `touch` as "a Coreutils programs expected by BLFS packages to be in /bin", and move it to /bin in Sect. 6.54 (along with

[lfs-dev] Proposal to edit openssl page

2019-01-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
1. We are using a sed to prevent the installation of two static libraries lib{crypto,ssl}.a but they are listed in "Installed Libraries". We should remove them from the list. 2. We should explain the meaning of the sed and "MANSUFFIX=ssl". -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technolo

Re: [lfs-dev] Missing option for grub-install?

2019-01-21 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-01-21 10:44 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi, > > My machine has an UEFI BIOS, so that I rarely run grub-install. But yesterday, > I built a new qemu VM, with a non-UEFI (virtual) BIOS. When running > grub-install, it failed with a message (sorry, I haven't saved it) telling

Re: [lfs-dev] init from Sysvinit-2.93 does not display version information

2019-01-21 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-01-21 11:14 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 01/21/2019 04:06 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 20/01/2019 22:52, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 01/20/2019 03:16 PM, Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > Hello LFS editors. > > > > > > > > When I boot into my

[lfs-dev] Missing "content" section in Chapter 5 util-linux page

2019-01-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
There should be a "content" section like other section 5 packages, looks like: Details on this package are located in -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-01 15:07 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > This gives me: > > FAIL: inet/tst-idna_name_classify > UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-alias-avx512 > UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-alias-avx512-main > UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-sincos-avx512 > UNSUPPORTED: math/

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-01 23:40 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 02/01/2019 09:53 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:05:41PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 02/01/2019 08:26 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > > FAIL

Re: [lfs-dev] Updates to lfs

2019-02-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-02 09:35 +0100, Thomas Trepl via lfs-dev wrote: > > Why do we build python3 after glibc in chap-5 then? That would > require to have P3 on host system (which usually is) but can't we get > rid of that dependency if building P3 before glibc? Python3 needs glibc. If we build it before

[lfs-dev] Symlink in Glibc-2.29 test instruction is 64-bit only

2019-02-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
We should change the command creating the symlink to the dynamic linker so the test can be run on 32-bit machine: case $(uname -m) in i?86) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux.so.2/lib ;; x86_64) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64 ;; esac -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Scienc

Re: [lfs-dev] Symlink in Glibc-2.29 test instruction is 64-bit only

2019-02-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-02 06:49 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 02/02/2019 05:35 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > We should change the command creating the symlink to the dynamic linker so > > the > > test can be run on 32-bit machine: > > > > case $(uname -m

Re: [lfs-dev] Findutils lfs svn version

2019-02-03 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-03 12:41 +, spiky0011 via lfs-dev wrote: > Just trying the svn version at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/chapter06/findutils.html > Next, make some fixes required by glibc-2.28: > " > sed -i 's/IO_ftrylockfile/IO_EOF_SEEN/' gl/lib/*.c > sed -i '/unistd/a #inclu

Re: [lfs-dev] Python 3.7.2 build errors using Glibc 2.29

2019-02-10 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-10 09:54 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 02/10/2019 06:41 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 10/02/2019 08:45, Brandon Murry via lfs-dev wrote: > > > Hi, I hope this is the right place to put this. > > > I've been attempting to build Linux From Scratch from the deve

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS system booted! Using alpha versions of GCC 9.0.1 and Linux 5.0.0

2019-02-16 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-15 23:55 -0800, Brandon Murry via lfs-dev wrote: > Thanks for everyone's help getting through some of the problems I encountered. > Finally got LFS complete and booted and thought I could share a few things > extra issues I came across using git repositories for GCC and the Linux > kerne

[lfs-dev] Update GCC optional dependencies for graphite

2019-02-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
Now GCC relys on ISL (https://repo.or.cz/isl.git) to enable graphite optimization, instead of Cloog-PPL and PPL. We should update this in LFS Appendix C. -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http:/

Re: [lfs-dev] Update GCC optional dependencies for graphite

2019-02-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-25 20:31 +, DJ Lucas (LFS) via lfs-dev wrote: > On February 25, 2019 11:44:00 AM CST, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev < > lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > Now GCC relys on ISL (https://repo.or.cz/isl.git) to enable graphite > > optimization, inst

Re: [lfs-dev] Update GCC optional dependencies for graphite

2019-02-28 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-28 19:56 +0100, Christer Solskogen via lfs-dev wrote: > On 26.02.2019 05:14, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-02-25 20:31 +, DJ Lucas (LFS) via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On February 25, 2019 11:44:00 AM CST, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev < > > > lfs-dev@lis

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc-8.3 test suite

2019-03-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-01 14:55 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > I'm going to commit gcc-8.3 today, but there are some slight problems > with the test site that we may be able to address. > > There are six failures: > > FAIL: 22_locale/time_get/get_time/wchar_t/2.cc execution test > FAIL: 22_locale/t

[lfs-dev] Hard-coded version of libffi

2019-03-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
Niuneilneo questioned us for "inconsistent" version numbers. So I ran grep -r "\-[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+" chapter* prologue appendices to detect hard-coded version numbers. All of them are OK but one: "/usr/lib/libffi-3.2.1/include" in chapter06/libffi.xml:55 should be "/usr/lib/libffi-

Re: [lfs-dev] Replace GNU bc

2019-03-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-02-01 21:01 -0700, Gavin Howard via lfs-dev wrote: > You're welcome! And replacing the GNU bc after this upcoming release sounds > great to me. > > Gavin H. > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 17:04 Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev < > lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > On 2/1/19 4:43 PM, Bru

[lfs-dev] Bump book version for systemd

2019-03-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
In general.ent "versiond" is still 20190225-systemd. Should be 20190301- systemd. Sorry for multiple mails but I just seen this one (before I go to sleep). -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: htt

Re: [lfs-dev] Bump book version for systemd

2019-03-06 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
在 2019-03-04一的 17:26 -0600,Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev写道: > On 3/4/19 3:24 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > In general.ent "versiond" is still 20190225-systemd. Should be 20190301- > > systemd. > > Thanks for the report. I went ahead and set it to March 1st. >

[lfs-dev] New test failure in Glibc-2.29

2019-03-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
misc/check-installed now *always* fails because the changes in Linux-5.0 headers. See https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-01/msg00413.html. We should mention it in the book. -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/l

Re: [lfs-dev] Multilib patch: ncurses 64-bit build wants to use /usr/lib32/pkgconfig

2019-03-23 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On Sat, 2019-03-23 at 16:48 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > Once again,not sure of this is LFS-dev related, so wanted to ask, for future > reference, > > are "Multilib patch:" discussions mre suited to another LFS list than lfs- > dev: > maybe they are a good fit for CLFS ? CLFS has

[lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-24 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
In r11250 DJ introduced several symlinks and GCC -isystem options for Glibc so it will use the final system location of system headers. When I was poking around Debian package build processes I found they were using -ffile-prefix-map to complete this goal. This has serveral advantages: 1. The in

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-24 12:49 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 3/24/19 12:20 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > In r11250 DJ introduced several symlinks and GCC -isystem options for Glibc > > so > > it will use the final system location of system headers. When I was pok

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-25 14:12 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > On 25/03/2019 10:34, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-03-24 12:49 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 3/24/19 12:20 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > In r11250 DJ introduced sev

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Use GCC -ffile-prefix-map option to simplify instruction of Glibc

2019-03-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-25 18:12 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > On 25/03/2019 16:05, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 3/25/19 8:12 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 25/03/2019 10:34, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > On 2019-03-24 12:49 -0500,

Re: [lfs-dev] Are we creating debug builds with meson ?

2019-03-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-26 19:11 +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 06:11:52PM +, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > Posting to lfs-dev because this seems to potentially affect all > > meson builds. In BLFS we already make release builds for cmake > > packages (i.e. without asser

Re: [lfs-dev] meson

2019-03-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-28 15:15 +1000, James B via lfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:59:38 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > There are just too many problems with meson-0.50.0. Therefore I have > > reverted to meson-0.49.2 in lfs-svn until it gets fixed. > > What I don't understand is the

Re: [lfs-dev] meson

2019-03-28 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-28 16:35 +1000, James B wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:45:56 +0800 > Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > Just my 2 cents. > > > > Also, just my 0.01 yuan (about 1/7 cents :). > > LOL. I certainly agree with you that autotools and cmake are

Re: [lfs-dev] meson

2019-03-28 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-03-28 12:11 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 3/28/19 12:45 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-03-28 15:15 +1000, James B via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:59:38 -0500 > > > Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS 8.3 systemd - geocode-glib (and some other ninja builds): need setuid on pkexec

2019-04-03 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-04-03 13:06 -0700, Mark Wigzell via lfs-dev wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm using the "more-control-helpers" hint. I guess its no longer supported > because in trying to build the "gnome-control-panel" I ran into a bunch of > ninja builds that fail with: > pkexec must be setuid root > (this is cas

Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc in chapter 6

2019-04-05 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-04-04 16:43 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 4/4/19 4:11 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > I've been testing several things for glibc in chapter 6 recently: > > > > - glibc-2.29 has introduced a hard dependency on Python 3. Previous versions > > were only dependent on pe

Re: [lfs-dev] Eudev installs two PkgConfig files in seperate locations?

2019-04-20 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-04-21 11:27 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 at 23:49, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > wrote: > > Indeed, I now see why you would want multiple, arch-specific, locations > for arch-specific Pkg-Config files, and a location for arch-agnostic ones, > however, the ques

Re: [lfs-dev] Our perl builds are not hardened

2019-04-22 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-04-23 04:09 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:59:04PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I was looking through my logs to identify which packages do not use > > my CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS (thinking about trying LTO at some point) and > > reading the voluminous output from

Re: [lfs-dev] Eudev installs two PkgConfig files in seperate locations?

2019-04-29 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-04-30 13:46 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 12:08, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev > wrote: > > > > by virtue of pointing to the /lib/udev, which is arch-specific, > > > > It's not. /lib/udev only contains udev scripts

[lfs-dev] New test failure in Glibc: misc/check-installed-headers-c

2019-05-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
The test suite log says: *** Obsolete types detected: /usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:KERN_PANIC_PRINT=78, /* ulong: bitmask to print system info on panic */ So this test failure seems because of changes in Linux API headers. Should we note this in the book? -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Sc

Re: [lfs-dev] New test failure in Glibc: misc/check-installed-headers-c

2019-05-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-05-02 12:48 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/2/19 12:15 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > The test suite log says: > > > > *** Obsolete types detected: > > /usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:KERN_PANIC_PRINT=78, /* ulong: bitmask to > &g

[lfs-dev] [RFC] Move iana-etc before GCC for GCC test suite

2019-05-07 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
Hi folks, I just updated the status of GCC test suite in r11593. I noticed two failures because the lack of /etc/hosts and iana-etc. They can be resolved by using the minimal hosts file from Perl page, and installing iana-etc before GCC. The edited book is at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~xr

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Move iana-etc before GCC for GCC test suite

2019-05-07 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-05-07 11:46 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/7/19 6:07 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I just updated the status of GCC test suite in r11593. I noticed two > > failures > > because the lack of /etc/hosts and iana-et

Re: [lfs-dev] [RFC] Move iana-etc before GCC for GCC test suite

2019-05-07 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-05-07 14:14 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/7/19 12:44 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-05-07 11:46 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 5/7/19 6:07 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS-8.4 systemd issue with util-linux

2019-05-10 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-05-10 15:35 -0400, Joe Locash via lfs-dev wrote: > In section 6.72 when building systemd, symlinks are created to > /tools/lib/lib{blkid,mount,uuid}*. When util-linux is rebuilt in 6.75 it is > built with --disable-static. In section 5.34, util-linux is not built with > that flag so .a stat

Re: [lfs-dev] Am I supposed to set some CFLAGS to build LFS ?

2019-05-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-05-12 05:24 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > As people probably know, I usually set my own CFLAGS when building > LFS (at a minimum, -O2 to get rid of most debug symbols). Me too. > But I'm now trying to compare the build times and the size of the > executables for "I did it my way"

Re: [lfs-dev] Bug report: insufficient privilegdes on /dev/pts/ptmx to run GCC test suite as nobody

2019-05-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-05-13 22:50 +0900, Pyry Kontio via lfs-dev wrote: > The problem seems to be that the file /dev/pts/ptmx that was created > when mounting devpts filesystem in 6.2 > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/kernfs.html) > and is symlinked from /dev/ptmx on modern systems, ha

Re: [lfs-dev] GCC ERROR

2019-05-20 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-05-20 14:42 +0200, emiliocabrera via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi. I´m at 5.5.1 Installation of Cross GCC, I´m building the LFS V8.4 > on > a VirtualBox machine with Debian x86_x64 installed. I get this error: > > Configuring stage 2 in ./intl Why should a cross compiler bootstrap itself? > conf

Re: [lfs-dev] bzip2 has a new maintainer and a repository now

2019-06-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-06-25 12:52 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 6/25/19 11:57 AM, Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, Brendan L via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > > Blog about the change in maintainership: > > > https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/maintaining-bzip2.html > > > > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] Things could get much worse for bzip2

2019-06-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-06-27 18:57 +0200, Thomas Trepl via lfs-dev wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 27.06.2019, 05:24 -0400 schrieb Marty Jack via lfs- > dev: > > Reading the new homepage, it seems this is the gentleman who rewrote librsvg > > in Rust and plans to do the same for bzip2. If he cannot be dissuaded, thi

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc-9.2.0

2019-08-16 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-08-16 16:25 +0200, Riccardo Corsi via lfs-dev wrote: > Hello, I have a question about GCC 9.2.0 > Is there a new option for ISL ? > I have in my configure (build of LFS 9.0-rc1) of GCC: > > ../configure --prefix=/usr\ > > --enable-languages=c,c++ \ > >

Re: [lfs-dev] Weird markup in meson

2019-08-28 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-08-28 11:39 +0200, Julien Lepiller via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi, > > In meson from chapter 6, I see: … via an environment variable, > NINJAJOBS. For example, setting … > > But that's not a command, is it? :) There is a comment saying it's intentional to make "For example" bold. -- Xi Ruoyao

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and BLFS Version 9.0 are released

2019-09-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-09-01 12:54 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of > LFS Version 9.0, LFS Version 9.0 (systemd), BLFS Version 9.0, and BLFS > Version 9.0 (systemd). > > This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS. > > The L

[lfs-dev] kbd: the note about Belarusian keymap seems outdated

2019-09-06 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
It's said: > For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't provide a useful > keymap where the stock “by” keymap assumes the ISO-8859-5 encoding, and the > CP1251 keymap is normally used. Users of such languages have to download > working keymaps separately. But now there is a CP1

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd: the note about Belarusian keymap seems outdated

2019-09-07 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-09-07 11:00 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > It's said: > > > For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't provide a > > useful > > keymap where the stock “by” keymap assumes the ISO-8859-5 encoding, and the > > CP1251 keymap i

Re: [lfs-dev] Kernel 5.3.1 uses rsync

2019-09-23 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-09-23 15:24 +0100, John Burrell via lfs-dev wrote: > I haven't noticed this before but linux-5.3.1 uses rsync to transfer > the files in the command > > make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install > > This is okay in chap. 5 if rsync is on the host but it doesn't work in > chap. 6 as rsync

Re: [lfs-dev] Kernel 5.3.1 uses rsync

2019-09-23 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-09-23 10:30 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 9/23/19 9:24 AM, John Burrell via lfs-dev wrote: > > I haven't noticed this before but linux-5.3.1 uses rsync to transfer > > the files in the command > > > > make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install > > > > This is okay in chap. 5

Re: [lfs-dev] Debian 10.2 install changes LFS kernel entry in grub.cfg

2019-12-08 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-12-09 08:43 +0900, Akira Urushibata via lfs-dev wrote: > Recently I installed Debian 10.2 on a computer with both LFS and > older > Debian versions. The installer automatically produced a new grub.cfg > in which LFS is listed as "unknown Linux distribution." To my great > surprise the lis

Re: [lfs-dev] Distro Comparison

2019-12-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-12-15日的 23:54 -0600,Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 12/15/19 7:06 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:30:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > > wrote: > > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=10980xe-intel-linux > > > > > > I find the benc

Re: [lfs-dev] Distro Comparison

2019-12-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2019-12-16 00:40 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 12/16/19 12:16 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > Considering SBU value, should we add --enable-checking=release into > > GCC > > configure command? Most distributions are using it and I think > >

Re: [lfs-dev] libcap-2.29: why use prefix=/usr, and useless sed

2020-01-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-01-03 09:42 -0800, Joel Bion via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-01-03 07:40, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 1/3/20 3:48 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > Le 02/01/2020 à 23:53, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev a écrit : > > > > On 1/2/20 3:26 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding zstd

2020-01-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
Zstd is installing libzstd.a and (I think) we should remove it. And, should we move libzstd.so.* to /lib just like libz.so.*, libbz2.so.* and liblzma.so.*? -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding zstd

2020-01-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-01-12 12:08 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > Note that tar needs to be rebuilt after zstd to recognize zstd > compressed tarballs. That seems not true... -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lf

Re: [lfs-dev] New package issues

2020-02-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-02-01 16:50 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > I am building a fresh LFS with the latest glibc and binutils and ran > into a problem when building gcc-pass2 in Chapter 5. > > linux-5.5.1 > glibc-2.31 > binutils-2.34 > > What the error looks like is somewhat complex and it looks like

Re: [lfs-dev] New package issues

2020-02-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
BTW: which address in lfs-dev@{lists.,}linuxfromscratch.org is correct? On 2020-02-01 16:50 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > I've been able to work around the problem with: > > sed -e '1161 s|^|//|' \ > -i libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc > > and it i

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS-9.1-rc1 is released

2020-02-14 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-02-14 14:27 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version > 9.1-rc1. It is a preliminary release of LFS-9.1. I'd like to remove the glibc "fix" sed -i '/asm.socket.h/a# include ' \ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/sock

Re: [lfs-dev] A misleading `--with-sysroot' description?

2020-02-20 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-02-21 01:54 +0100, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev wrote: > Hello, > > To quote > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter05/binutils-pass2.html > : > > --with-sysroot > The sysroot feature enables the linker to find shared objects which > are required by other shared obj

Re: [lfs-dev] A misleading `--with-sysroot' description?

2020-02-20 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-02-20 22:05 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2/20/20 6:57 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 2020-02-21 01:54 +0100, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > To quote > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/v

Re: [lfs-dev] Including elf/tst-protected1[ab] in glibc test failure?

2020-02-23 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-02-23 15:39 +0100, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev wrote: > Hello, > > Quoting > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/glibc.html > > You may see some test failures. The Glibc test suite is somewhat > dependent on the host system. This is a list of the most common is

Re: [lfs-dev] Including elf/tst-protected1[ab] in glibc test failure?

2020-02-23 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-02-23 16:21 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2/23/20 10:46 AM, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 5:20 PM Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev > > wrote: > > > We don't consider XPASS a failure. There are many XPASS in LFS packages

Re: [lfs-dev] Should we keep the "milestone" entity in general.ent

2020-03-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-03-02 10:11 +0100, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > Presently, this entity is 9.0, and has been last changed in July 2019. The > questions are: > - what's its use? > - if it is used, shouldn't it be changed to 9.2? > - it not, shouldn't it be removed? I think it isn't used at all and w

Re: [lfs-dev] Python missing from Expat's "Must be installed before" list

2020-03-07 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-03-08 09:06 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > The Chapter 6 Python configure instructions have a > > --with-system-expat > > option, suggesting Expat should have Python in its > > Must be installed before: > > list. > > Libffi provides a matching example. Thanks for pointi

Re: [lfs-dev] Ordering of Chapter 5 GGC Pass2 required external packages stanza

2020-03-14 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-03-14 16:56 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > Indeed, is there any reason why the ordering in GCC Pass 2 > couldn't be: > > > Unpack the required external packages > Change the location of GCC's default dynamic linker > On x86_64 hosts, set the default directory name for 64-bit li

Re: [lfs-dev] Linux kernel policy

2020-03-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-03-30 15:05 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > We have almost always updated the linux kernel to the "mainline" > release. We do skip intermediate releases though because of the > frequency of releases. > > For instance, today is the 90th day of the year, but there have been > abo

Re: [lfs-dev] Linux kernel policy

2020-03-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-03-31 08:52 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > LTS meaning continuing maintenance so we'll still get one release for each > severe bug (even if it's a bug in a strange server motherboard). s/motherboard/& driver/ I can't type :(. > I think we can just

Re: [lfs-dev] Linux kernel policy

2020-03-31 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-03-31 23:35 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:37:15AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 3/31/20 4:14 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 08:52 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] x86_64-bit dynamic linker location

2020-04-08 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-04-07 21:37 -1000, Dean Takemori via lfs-dev wrote: > For x86_64 builds, LFS patches gcc to set the default directory name for 64- > bit libraries to “lib” instead of “lib64” (eg in chapter 5.5.1, 5.10.1 and > 6.25.1) by patching gcc/config/i386/t-linux64 > > But the location of the dynami

Re: [lfs-dev] gnome-shell failure building man page

2020-04-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-04-13 12:01 +1000, Christoph Willing via lfs-dev wrote: > gnome-shell-3.36.1 from svn Version 2020-04-11 fails with: > > [19/187] Generating gnome-extensions.1 with a custom command. > FAILED: subprojects/extensions-tool/man/gnome-extensions.1 > /usr/bin/a2x -D subprojects/extensions-tool/

Re: [lfs-dev] gnome-shell failure building man page

2020-04-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
(move to blfs-dev since we're discussing BLFS packages) On 2020-04-13 10:45 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-04-13 12:01 +1000, Christoph Willing via lfs-dev wrote: > > gnome-shell-3.36.1 from svn Version 2020-04-11 fails with: > > > > [19/187] Generating

Re: [lfs-dev] Modified build of LFS using pure cross-compilation and sysroot

2020-05-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-01 20:51 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/1/20 8:53 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > >cons: chroot is entered in the middle of chapter 5 (maybe chapter 5 > > should be split), the debug sections of several packages reference > > x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu instead of

Re: [lfs-dev] Test failure in man-db

2020-05-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-03 04:18 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > I'm building with LFS as at 25th April. My previous build was in > early April, and I think this is the first time I've seen a failure > in the man-db tests. With man-db-2.9.1 : > > FAIL: man-missing-locales > > and src/tests/test-suite

Re: [lfs-dev] Test failure in man-db

2020-05-03 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-04 02:15 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 04:18:57AM +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > I'm building with LFS as at 25th April. My previous build was in > > early April, and I think this is the first time I've seen a failure > > in the man-db tests.

Re: [lfs-dev] Test failure in man-db

2020-05-03 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-04 04:12 +0100,Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 03:34:53AM +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:53:04AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 2020-05-04 02:15 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > >

Re: [lfs-dev] Test failure in man-db

2020-05-03 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-04 04:19 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 09:13:27PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 5/3/20 8:15 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > > root in chroot /# export LC_ALL=en_US.iISO-8859-1 && date > > > bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: canno

Re: [lfs-dev] Reduce Temporary System Components and Reorder Basic System Software

2020-05-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-04 20:39 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > Hey there, > > My name is Firas Khalil Khana, and I'm the creator of glaucus. > > I'd like to salute your efforts for keeping this project awesome this whole > time! The shear amount of information in a single place like LFS is tr

Re: [lfs-dev] Reduce Temporary System Components and Reorder Basic System Software

2020-05-05 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-05 13:49 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > @Xi, > > Thanks for taking the time to explain everything, much appreciated! > > > > Then it will be stupidly inconvenience typing commands. > > It will still get you through until bash is rebuilt again in Chapter 6, with > no p

Re: [lfs-dev] Reduce Temporary System Components and Reorder Basic System Software

2020-05-06 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-06 13:02 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:40 PM Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev > wrote: > > > > On 5/5/20 5:49 AM, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > @Xi, > > > > Thanks for taking the time to explain everything, much appreciated! > > >

Re: [lfs-dev] Reduce Temporary System Components and Reorder Basic System Software

2020-05-08 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-06 14:16 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:56 PM Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > Pierre recently discovered the circular dependency between eudev (in > > Sysvinit > > book) and util-linux: > > > > > util-linux

[lfs-dev] chapter6: move Zstd before GCC?

2020-05-09 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
Now GCC optionally depends on zstd (using it like zlib to compress LTO IR). Should we move zstd before GCC? -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: Se

[lfs-dev] proposal: some improvements to LFS book

2020-05-11 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
I just redone LFS build for GCC-10.1.0. I proposed several improvements during the process: At first, some changes suggested by Firas: 1. Remove bzip2 in Chap. 5. No other changes needed. 2. Remove ncurses in Chap. 5. Move Chap. 6 readline after ncurses to satisify it. Notes: (1) Chap. 5 Pyth

Re: [lfs-dev] proposal: some improvements to LFS book

2020-05-11 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-11 09:19 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/11/20 8:23 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 19:51 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > I just redone LFS build for GCC-10.1.0. I proposed several > > > improvemen

Re: [lfs-dev] CFLAGS in fixing up for gcc-10.

2020-05-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-13 23:46 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/13/20 11:33 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > I notice that in some places people have overridden any existing > > CFLAGS when adding -fcommon. In most places, for those of us who > > care the fix is obvious (CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fco

Re: [lfs-dev] proposal: some improvements to LFS book

2020-05-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-11 23:05 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-05-11 09:19 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 5/11/20 8:23 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 19:51 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > I just redon

Re: [lfs-dev] Why is the /toolchain symlink on the host system even needed?

2020-05-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-15 19:28 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:48 PM Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 18:21 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev > > wrote: > > > Hey there, > > > > > > I'd like to inquire about the actual need for the /

Re: [lfs-dev] Why is the /toolchain symlink on the host system even needed?

2020-05-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-16 04:37 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 4:19 AM Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev > wrote: > > On 2020-05-15 19:28 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:48 PM Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > &g

Re: [lfs-dev] Why is the /toolchain symlink on the host system even needed?

2020-05-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-16 06:03 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 5:48 AM Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev > wrote: > > On 2020-05-16 04:37 +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 4:19 AM Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev > > > w

Re: [lfs-dev] proposal: some improvements to LFS book

2020-05-29 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-15 15:09 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-05-11 23:05 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 2020-05-11 09:19 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On 5/11/20 8:23 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2020-05-11 at

Re: [lfs-dev] Housekeeping to satisfy latest LFS package removals (Flex)

2020-05-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-05-30 14:48 -0400,Ryan Marsaw via lfs-dev wrote: > Hello. > > Now that Flex is no longer installed in Chapter 5, one line needs to be > removed from Chapter 6.6: "Creating Essential Files and Symlinks" > > ln -sv /tools/lib/libfl.so* /usr/lib Sorry for forgot it.

Re: [lfs-dev] Future for LFS

2020-06-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-06-13 07:22 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 6/13/20 7:03 AM, William Harrington via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > > On Jun 12, 2020, at 23:40, Andrew Nevai via lfs-dev < > > > lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > > > > > I will also keep it short. Do not ever use the word "

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-14 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-06-14 15:35 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 15:15 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > I am currently testing whether moving iana-etc before gcc may allow > > tests to pass, as reported by Joe Locash. If so, I'll commit it. > > > > Hmm, having ia

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-14 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-06-14 10:49 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 6/14/20 8:35 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 15:15 +0200, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > I am currently testing whether moving iana-etc before gcc may allow > > > tests to pass, as reported by

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