[lfs-support] Any female LFS hackers?

2012-09-05 Thread Oshadha Gunawardena
Hi all, I am wondering if there are any female LFS hackers out there :P. This is just to get an idea about the community, please ignore if this message is irrelevant Thanks, Oshadha. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] Any female LFS hackers?

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 07:13, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if there are any female LFS hackers out there :P. This is just to get an idea about the community, please ignore if this message is irrelevant Thanks, Oshadha.  Nope, I'm a carrot, same for elly and anyone else with a

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Melville
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: I extracted all of these packages from within the GCC-4.7.1 folder snip I'd still be interested to know why we build GMP, MPC, and MPFR inside GCC except on the final build where they are built

Re: [lfs-support] Any female LFS hackers?

2012-09-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/5/2012 1:13 AM, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if there are any female LFS hackers out there :P. This is just to get an idea about the community, please ignore if this message is irrelevant Thanks, Oshadha. ... So, you can't peruse the archives, or look through

Re: [lfs-support] Any female LFS hackers?

2012-09-05 Thread Oshadha Gunawardena
I didn't want to thoroughly look in to the details of who are the people in the mail list or their genders. I just wanted to get an idea about the community and its users :D On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Eleanore Boyd cara...@cox.net wrote: On 9/5/2012 1:13 AM, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Hi

Re: [lfs-support] Any female LFS hackers?

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
As I've said before: This is a top post DONT DO IT. On 2012-09-05 13:05, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: I didnt want to thoroughly look in to the details of who are the people in the mail list or their genders. I just wanted to get an idea about the community and its users :D    This is a bottom

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 10:43, Richard Melville wrote: Thanks for the reply Steve ( and Eleanor earlier).  Picking up on what Bruce said about the possibility of race conditions relating to building GCC with MAKEFLAGS set to -j 1, Im wondering if there may be a race condition affecting the GCC build

Re: [blfs-support] qtparted won't build...

2012-09-05 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/05/2012 03:33 AM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: Attached are the error messages from running make this way: make 2error The output should be there as well, but I don't know how to redirect that with the errors into the file. make | tee build.log --

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/05/2012 08:17 AM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: On 2012-09-05 10:43, Richard Melville wrote: Thanks for the reply Steve ( and Eleanor earlier). Picking up on what Bruce said about the possibility of race conditions relating to building GCC with MAKEFLAGS set to -j 1, Im wondering if there may

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 13:34, Baho Utot wrote: On 09/05/2012 08:17 AM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: I've been bashing away at building LFS for a VERY long time, and done many many builds of 7.2, this problem has not hit me once, I would suggest you stop building GCC with MAKEFLAGS set to -j 1, as was

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/05/2012 09:55 AM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: On 2012-09-05 13:34, Baho Utot wrote: [putolin] I always build all of LFS with -j4 or -j8 and it has not failed me. Maybe those that do have a problem are all using a scripted build vs those that don't have a scripted build? Suggesting that it

Re: [lfs-support] The learning process

2012-09-05 Thread Robert Cox
I was and am only an average Linux user . You guys roughed me up a bit but you got me through a build. Took me like 25 or more tries but I completed the build. Tw3ak. Thanks-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 15:34, Baho Utot wrote: On 09/05/2012 09:55 AM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: Leaping before looking is what I do well and it has taught me a great deal. Following a path by others may be a very good guide, but to truly learn requires ones to deviate from the beaten path and strike

Re: [lfs-support] The learning process

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 15:47, Robert Cox wrote: I was and am only an average Linux user . You guys roughed me up a bit but you got me through a build. Took me like 25 or more tries but I completed the build. Tw3ak. Thanks Not that I was one of the people helping, but It's good to see another happy

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Melville
On 2012-09-05 10:43, Richard Melville wrote: Thanks for the reply Steve ( and Eleanor earlier). ?Picking up on what Bruce said about the possibility of race conditions relating to building GCC with MAKEFLAGS set to -j 1, Im wondering if there may be a race condition affecting the GCC

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 16:37, Richard Melville wrote: Who are you referring to here?  You make an awful lot of assumptions. Richard  And yet you tell me that I should try reading all the posts. -- Jasmine Iwanek -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Melville
On 2012-09-05 15:34, Baho Utot wrote: On 09/05/2012 09:55 AM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: Leaping before looking is what I do well and it has taught me a great deal. Following a path by others may be a very good guide, but to truly learn requires ones to deviate from the beaten path and

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 16:46, Richard Melville wrote: What is that supposed to mean?  Really, if you have nothing useful to say then dont say anything. Thanks for your positive post Baho. Richard  This is lfs-support, not

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/5/2012 11:20 AM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: On 2012-09-05 16:46, Richard Melville wrote: What is that supposed to mean? Really, if you have nothing useful to say then dont say anything. Thanks for your positive post Baho. Richard This is lfs-support, not

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: I still think that helping others even if they have failed to follow the book is a worthy goal as it shows where the book my be improved. Who knows by some not following the book new things are learned? I don't have problem with users not following the book. It's just that

Re: [lfs-support] Any female LFS hackers?

2012-09-05 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:41:20 +0100 Jasmine Iwanek jasm...@iwanek.co.uk wrote: On 2012-09-05 07:13, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if there are any female LFS hackers out there :P. This is just to get an idea about the community, please ignore if this message is

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 19:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Baho Utot wrote: I still think that helping others even if they have failed to follow the book is a worthy goal as it shows where the book my be improved. Who knows by some not following the book new things are learned? I don't have problem with

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/05/2012 02:01 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Baho Utot wrote: I still think that helping others even if they have failed to follow the book is a worthy goal as it shows where the book my be improved. Who knows by some not following the book new things are learned? I don't have problem with

Re: [lfs-support] Any female LFS hackers?

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
alex lupu wrote: Oshy: If you send me your picture I'll ... Please take this type of discussion off list. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/5/2012 2:35 PM, Baho Utot wrote: One can not assume that if you do it manually that you will do it correctly every time. What if your some what dyslexic? Then the manual way is a great problem. Have you ever thought that the manual way does not have to involve typing? I don't use

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: #!/bin/bash set -o errexit# exit if error set -o nounset# exit if variable not initalized set +h# disable hashall shopt -s -o pipefail pkgname=package name pkgver=package version srcname=${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz srcdir=${pkgname}-${pkgver}

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/05/2012 03:47 PM, Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 9/5/2012 2:35 PM, Baho Utot wrote: One can not assume that if you do it manually that you will do it correctly every time. What if your some what dyslexic? Then the manual way is a great problem. Have you ever thought that the manual way does

[lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Mikie
Hello all, Anyone who does not have time or the desire to get into this please feel free to ignore past this sentence. I have been Googling for three days and I even tried Bing (don't tell anyone that I used Bing though). This may be a dumb question but ... I see that Book 7.2 section 8.4

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/5/2012 2:54 PM, Baho Utot wrote: On 09/05/2012 03:47 PM, Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 9/5/2012 2:35 PM, Baho Utot wrote: One can not assume that if you do it manually that you will do it correctly every time. What if your some what dyslexic? Then the manual way is a great problem. Have you

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/05/2012 03:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Baho Utot wrote: #!/bin/bash set -o errexit# exit if error set -o nounset# exit if variable not initalized set +h# disable hashall shopt -s -o pipefail pkgname=package name pkgver=package version

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:54:50PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes but what really is the difference if you cut and paste to a script then run it instead of the tty? What that gives me is a way of looking over what I had done when it doesn't work. If I cut and paste to a term then I have lost

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Mikie
Have you ever thought that the manual way does not have to involve typing? I don't use scripts to build LFS (always manual for me :) ), but I do know how to copy+paste the commands into the console and hit Enter. Elly Yes and us Windows people can allways download putty.exe and instal Open SSH

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/05/2012 04:15 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:54:50PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes but what really is the difference if you cut and paste to a script then run it instead of the tty? What that gives me is a way of looking over what I had done when it doesn't work. If I

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: Hello all, Anyone who does not have time or the desire to get into this please feel free to ignore past this sentence. I have been Googling for three days and I even tried Bing (don't tell anyone that I used Bing though). This may be a dumb question but ... I see that Book

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:54:50PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes but what really is the difference if you cut and paste to a script then run it instead of the tty? What that gives me is a way of looking over what I had done when it doesn't work. If I cut and paste to a term

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/5/2012 3:47 PM, Firerat wrote: On Sep 5, 2012 8:58 PM, Mikie k...@mikienet.com wrote: Hello all, Anyone who does not have time or the desire to get into this please feel free to ignore past this sentence. I have been Googling for three days and I even tried Bing (don't tell anyone

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Firerat wrote: /boot/grub/grub.cfg cannot be edited by hand! Wrong. I do it every time I build a kernel. I am by no means a grub expert, but from experience of doing grub-install from multiple distros living on different partitions I have noted that the theme changes That's because they

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
First, bottom posting is good, but trimming is good too. And at any rate, do you realize how snarky and snooty you sound? Seriously, he's only just gotten into the Linux scene and is still learning all about it. There really is a reason everybody deals with Microsoft's hoops and hassles and

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Firerat
On Sep 5, 2012 10:01 PM, Eleanore Boyd cara117@ cara...@cox.netcox.netcara...@cox.net wrote: On 9/5/2012 3:47 PM, Firerat wrote: On Sep 5, 2012 8:58 PM, Mikie kmb k...@mikienet.com@k...@mikienet.com mikienet.com k...@mikienet.com wrote: Hello all, Or is this a BLFS question. It

[lfs-support] prerequisites reading and kernel build

2012-09-05 Thread Robert Cox
going thru the prerequisites again and decided to build a custom kernel for my distro. linux gets confusing because of the independent thinking both good and bad... 1. distro call for debian is export cpu flags and so on... and the straight build is j4 or +1 or all the virtual cpu's depends

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Firerat
On Sep 5, 2012 10:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com@bruce.du...@gmail.com gmail.com bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Firerat wrote: /boot/grub/grub.cfg cannot be edited by hand! Wrong. I do it every time I build a kernel. I am by no means a grub expert, but from

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
Being snooty to everyone is not going to fix things. And yes, I'm aware of how many people have Windows, why do you think I even brought it up? Linux is rotting from the inside out because of people like you who don't care to try and teach new people properly, or even advertise Linux to the

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-05 Thread Firerat
Test -- Firerat On Sep 5, 2012 10:55 PM, Eleanore Boyd cara...@cox.net wrote: Being snooty to everyone is not going to fix things. And yes, I'm aware of how many people have Windows, why do you think I even brought it up? Linux is rotting from the inside out because of people like you who

Re: [lfs-support] prerequisites reading and kernel build

2012-09-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
On 2012-09-05 22:38, Robert Cox wrote: going thru the prerequisites again and decided to build a custom kernel for my distro. linux gets confusing because of the independent thinking both good and bad... 1. distro call for debian is export cpu flags and so on... and the straight build is

Re: [lfs-support] prerequisites reading and kernel build

2012-09-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:38:06PM -0700, Robert Cox wrote: going thru the prerequisites again and decided to build a custom kernel for my distro. If you've been here before, you should have remembered that (like most linux lists), we don't like top-posting. Please don't do that here.

Re: [lfs-support] Packaged LFS-6.8

2012-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
On 08/24/2012 10:35 AM, Baho Utot wrote: I have successfully packaged LFS-6.8 using pacman from arch linux. Here is the link if anyone is interested and wants to have a look. https://github.com/baho-utot/LFS-pacman I am going to update that repository to versions 7.0 7.1 and 7.2. The

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7​.0; Chapter 5.2 Toolchain Technical Notes - clarificat​ions

2012-09-05 Thread Emerson Yesupatham
Hi Team, Did you get a chance to look into my below mail? I waited for two days before sending this gentle reminder. If you have time please reply to it. Also, if you have any feedback you can openly give that, I would accept and work on it. I am little afraid of not getting replies to my

Re: [lfs-support] gcc compile phase 2 error

2012-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ashkan Rahmani wrote: hi every body I have some problem in gcc compile phase 2. as mentioned in book i try to configure gcc by this command: CC=$LFS_TGT-gcc \ AR=$LFS_TGT-ar\ RANLIB=$LFS_TGT-ranlib\ ../gcc-4.7.1/configure\ You should be the lfs user. Double check the that the PATH is