Re: [lfs-dev] Aid to the builder

2014-12-02 Thread Paul Rogers
library? If we're going to make them anyway, and there are no dependencies, it would AID the builder to have them made earlier. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: Everything you do communicates. (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL

Re: [lfs-dev] Aid to the builder

2014-12-03 Thread Paul Rogers
, This is what I'll do to remove all these files and directories I should, if you so choose. It's nice to be able to page through that--as it is it has to use cat for Stage 2. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: Everything you do communicates. (I do not personally endorse any

[lfs-dev] GPGME Awkward English

2015-06-06 Thread Paul Rogers
The GPGME package is a C library that allows to add support for cryptography to a program. May I suggest this less awkward wording: The GPGME package is a C library that allows cryptography support to be added to a program. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: Everything

[lfs-dev] Using GRUB-2.0

2015-09-06 Thread Paul Rogers
Please, OH PLEASE, include "set pager=1" in the example config file! It is absolutely necessary for (especially) "Help" to be of any value. It keeps things from running off the screen, as with "more". -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: &

[lfs-dev] Ch6 build order flaw in 7.10 (8.0?)

2017-05-15 Thread Paul Rogers
unt=1"' (It's correct in my 7.7 host.) I'm not going to try to workout another order that works, I'll just use sed to fix it in the coreutils build script. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any addit

[lfs-dev] automake-1.15 test failures fixes

2017-05-04 Thread Paul Rogers
another known failure sed -e '/t\/distcheck-no-prefix-or-srcdir-override.sh/d' -i Makefile.in && -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http

Re: [lfs-dev] automake -1.15 test failures fixes

2017-05-07 Thread Paul Rogers
ng it all away! I can't emphasize enough how important it is to have condifence in the reliability of the system we're building. Not knowing which failures have been accepted by the book developers, leaves doubt. I hope you do. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law:

Re: [lfs-dev] automake -1.15 test failures fixes

2017-05-07 Thread Paul Rogers
cripts? > >Alan I don't. I provided a sample template along with the hint I contributed for pio, to show how I use my package manager. You can find it there. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse

Re: [lfs-dev] Ch 5 - Building gcc

2018-04-29 Thread Paul Rogers
case statement here. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscri

[lfs-dev] Ch 5 - Building gcc

2018-04-29 Thread Paul Rogers
Maybe I'm being dense, or maybe it's just a stylistic thing, but a case statement with just one stanza? Isn't that more clearly an if statement? -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any addit

[lfs-dev] Future of i686 builds (in gcc, et al.)

2018-03-07 Thread Paul Rogers
nel 4.x-based software has just gotten too "heavy" for i686 to be a reasonable build. I leave it up to LFS-devs to decide when to take it out of the book. As much as I regret it, it's probably about time, so I won't. p.s. I still hope to get Meltdown/Spectre patches for linux-4.1.x i6

Re: [lfs-dev] Future of i686 builds (in gcc, et al.)

2018-03-08 Thread Paul Rogers
oment:https://github.com/landley/mkroot) but > essentially, the project build gcc toolchain for a number of > architecture including i486 > > Alain I've built LFS systems back to 2.1, and had that running on a real 486 DX-33 as late as 2016. (It's main issue was having a Dallas Sem

[lfs-dev] 6.6 Creating essential files

2018-03-05 Thread Paul Rogers
n't installed until BLFS, and a grep of my existing build scripts doesn't show it used as a parameter. What's its use in the very Spartan base LFS system? -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse

[lfs-dev] Erratum

2018-03-05 Thread Paul Rogers
I'm working through 8.1, and discovered this link is "gone", 410. https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/FHS You might want this: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do no