Re: [lfs-support] Perl-5.16.1 test failures in Ch 6 SVN-20120816

2012-08-21 Thread Richard Melville
Thanks, but perhaps not necessary - it seems to be a problem at my end (see Bruce's response, and my reply to that). In particular, the run as a regular user seems NOT to be the key. ?en -- das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce Probably not of much use to you then, but

[lfs-support] toolchain - chapter 6

2012-08-21 Thread Garrett Gaston
`/tools/bin/ld' - `/tools/bin/ld-old'`/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld' - `/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld-old'mv: cannot stat `/tools/bin/ld-new': No such file or directory The placed all the commands for http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/readjusting.html in a bash

Re: [lfs-support] Perl-5.16.1 test failures in Ch 6 SVN-20120816

2012-08-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:13:04AM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: Thanks, but perhaps not necessary - it seems to be a problem at my end (see Bruce's response, and my reply to that). In particular, the run as a regular user seems NOT to be the key. ?en -- das eine Mal als

[lfs-support] LFS 7.1 rebuilding a kernel with a newer version

2012-08-21 Thread Lewis Pike
After a week and a half of wrestling with LFS, I have successfully built up what appears to be a working system. This was my third attempt and well, you know what they say. Thanks to all of the maintainers for this wonderful resource. In section 6.7.1 of LFS 7.1 I installed the headers for

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 rebuilding a kernel with a newer version

2012-08-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:02:57PM -0400, Lewis Pike wrote: After a week and a half of wrestling with LFS, I have successfully built up what appears to be a working system. This was my third attempt and well, you know what they say. Thanks to all of the maintainers for this wonderful

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 rebuilding a kernel with a newer version

2012-08-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Lewis Pike wrote these words on 08/21/12 17:02 CST: In section 6.7.1 of LFS 7.1 I installed the headers for linux-3.2.6. By the time I made to actually building the kernel proper I grabbed linux-3.2.27 from kernel.org. This is perfectly fine. You can always upgrade the kernel proper. However,

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 rebuilding a kernel with a newer version

2012-08-21 Thread William Harrington
On Aug 21, 2012, at 17:02 PM, Lewis Pike wrote: Can I safely leave the kernel headers from an earlier Linux version in place when rebuilding the kernel proper. Are the Linux headers guaranteed to be stable across security/bugfix versions? If Linux headers do need replacing when upgrading,

[lfs-support] Redoing chapter 6

2012-08-21 Thread Oshadha Gunawardena
Hi all, For some unsolved reason I had to complete the chapter 6 without installing an essential package, namely *udev*. Knowing that it will cause problems in the future I would like to start again the chapter 6 from the beginning. So my question is how do I manage my environment, I mean after