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] 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 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 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] 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 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] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-03 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/3/2012 11:23 AM, Richard Melville wrote: 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 separately. Richard As I understand it, with the first two times the toolchain is being built, and GMP, MPC, and MPFR

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

2012-09-03 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/3/2012 12:24 PM, Israel Silberg wrote: Thaks all for the replies, Richard, what do you mean by puting it in a script to what is going on? How do I make the script write me the data I need? I know some bash scripting but clearly not enogh :-) And another question, if I want in the end

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-09-01 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/1/2012 3:34 PM, Mikie wrote: I have said this before on this list and I'll say it again. LFS is a wonderful site for Linux experts who already know a lot of this stuff. Not so much for the rest of us. You say Know the build system ... how I say? LFS does not effectively teach this to

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-09-01 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/1/2012 4:01 PM, Mikie wrote: This might sound really odd or insulting or completely unrelated, but you could try remastering an already existing distro to learn about Linux in addition to building LFS. For example, you can strip about 3/4 of the packages from Ubuntu and it still works,

Re: [lfs-support] Grub Questions (or how to waist yet ... even more ... precious electrons)

2012-09-01 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/1/2012 6:07 PM, Ben Sutter wrote: It's obvious from your condescending replies to them that you think you are trying hard enough to deserve help at this level. --Ben Oh, the irony. It kills me. On a much more serious note, why are you bashing him for condescension when your reply was

Re: [lfs-support] Grub Questions (or how to waist yet ... even more ... precious electrons)

2012-09-01 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 9/1/2012 8:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Eleanore Boyd wrote: And besides that, you were once in his position, otherwise known as being a n00b in the gamer shorthand that has infested common English. For that matter, we all were, and possibly still are. Elly, There are generally three

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/31/2012 3:32 PM, Mikie wrote: Tried and Tried but could not stop the display during boot so ... I took a vid: http://www.mikienet.com/linux/VID_20120831_150531.3gp at 14 seconds it says: mount: unknown filesystem type 'devtmpfs' ln: failed to create symbolic link '/dev/shm': Read

Re: [lfs-support] upgrading 2-year-old sys

2012-08-28 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/28/2012 2:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com írta: zarniwhoop? :) LOL. -- Bruce Indeed. Though my favorite line comes from a video game: No one likes a smart ass. :) Elly -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] upgrading 2-year-old sys

2012-08-28 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/28/2012 5:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com írta: zarniwhoop? :) LOL. Yes ? What's so funny ? Seriously - you only just noticed ? When I got broadband, all the good names were already taken.

Re: [lfs-support] lfs tool chain technique LFS-7.1

2012-08-25 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/25/2012 10:02 AM, Hadi wrote: Hi Emerson, Thank your feedback, Emerson. I think I should correct you first. After binutils-2.22-Pass1 in Chapter 5 LFS 7.1, binutils are NOT picked up from the /tools directory: PATH= PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin In /tools/bin, there is only

Re: [lfs-support] lfs tool chain technique LFS-7.1

2012-08-25 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/25/2012 8:26 PM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: On 2012-08-25 16:10, Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 8/25/2012 10:02 AM, Hadi wrote: Hi Emerson, Thank your feedback, Emerson. I think I should correct you first. After binutils-2.22-Pass1 in Chapter 5 LFS 7.1, binutils are NOT picked up from the /tools

Re: [lfs-support] Link to libbz2.so

2012-08-24 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/24/2012 3:40 PM, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: My ldconfig doesn't have a -a option. Sorry. Without the link and as root: # ldconfig -v | less What does running this as root get you as opposed to running it as a regular user? I don't have root access. So I ran this as a

Re: [lfs-support] Link to libbz2.so

2012-08-24 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/24/2012 4:07 PM, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: Elly wrote: I suspect that something to do with ldconfig is my problem, but I don't understand how that plays into the complete Linux system. Alan This might be completely off-topic, but have you tried using a VM to build LFS? I have seen some

Re: [lfs-support] lfs tool chain technique LFS-7.1

2012-08-23 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/23/2012 9:13 AM, ??? wrote: Hi, I am very confused about tool chain technique, especially when digesting more details. In LFS-7.1 chapter 5 (constructing a temporary system) the book says Binutils is installed first because the *configure *runs of both GCC and Glibc perform various

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

2012-08-20 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/20/2012 9:09 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:56:56PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:04:49AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Unfortunately, this was unlogged and scrolled out of my term's buffer - it then died with an EPERM trying to create

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

2012-08-20 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/20/2012 12:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 8/20/2012 9:09 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:56:56PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:04:49AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Unfortunately, this was unlogged and scrolled out of my

Re: [lfs-support] Bruce my message is awaiting moderator approval

2012-08-18 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/18/2012 10:35 AM, Garrett Gaston wrote: Bruce, it's not just one text file, it's several text files that I've wrapped up into a tar.gz file. I don't see a way to upload an attachment on pastebin.com. Any ideas? Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:48:41 -0500 From: bruce.du...@gmail.com To:

Re: [lfs-support] How processor-specific is a standard LFS build?

2012-08-17 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/17/2012 4:26 AM, Peter Dickinson wrote: I'm building LFS 7.1. I'm building it using a host machine that is a current model, but I would like the LFS build to be compatible with as wide a range of x86 32-bit computers as possible. I've noticed that the build process appears to be

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck at Bash 5.16

2012-08-16 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/16/2012 6:50 PM, Mikie wrote: bison was it ... gosh everyone knows that yacc is in the bison ... otherwise why would he yacc it up? -Original Message- From: lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of William

Re: [lfs-support] Error at GlibC

2012-08-14 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/14/2012 11:12 AM, Mikie wrote: Hello all, When I did: make install ... at5.7. Glibc-2.14.1 I got an error: lfs@ubuntu:/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build$ make install LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C; export LANGUAGE LC_ALL; \ make -r PARALLELMFLAGS= CVSOPTS= -C ../glibc-2.14.1

Re: [lfs-support] Error at GlibC

2012-08-14 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/14/2012 11:41 AM, Mikie wrote: Thanks, Did sudo apt-get remove mawk and sudo apt-get install gawk but now ... lfs@ubuntu:/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build$ make install LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C; export LANGUAGE LC_ALL; \ make -r PARALLELMFLAGS= CVSOPTS= -C ../glibc-2.14.1

Re: [lfs-support] Error at GlibC

2012-08-14 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/14/2012 12:09 PM, Mikie wrote: Make sure that all of gawk's dependencies are resolved, get rid of packages that rely solely on mawk, then make sure everything is configured to use gawk and restart. Unless you're in runlevel 3 or using a server edition of Ubuntu, the power symbol on the

Re: [lfs-support] lfs-book-7.0 error while building glibc-2.14.1

2012-07-31 Thread Eleanore Boyd
31, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Eleanore Boyd cara...@cox.net mailto:cara...@cox.net wrote: On 7/31/2012 9:03 AM, avinash kumar wrote: Hello, I am using lfs-book-7.0. I get following error while building glibc-2.14.1 , section-6.9.1 in book

Re: [lfs-support] Setting Up a Network Firewall Question

2012-07-31 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 7/31/2012 4:32 PM, Téssio Fechine wrote: Hello, Reading the 'Setting Up a Network Firewall' section of the documentation, I could not stop thinking that constructions like those are redundant: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route echo 0

Re: [lfs-support] GRUB problems

2012-07-24 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 7/24/2012 10:52 AM, Lázaro Morales wrote: Hello, After completing LFS 7.1 the partitions layout was: Filesystem TypeDescription -- --- sda2 ext3Host system sda3 ext3LFS sda1 swap

Re: [lfs-support] GRUB problems

2012-07-24 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 7/24/2012 11:46 AM, Lázaro Morales wrote: Once upon a time, Bruce Dubbs said: You need to boot from another device, dvd, usb, etc. -- Bruce Yes, (.e.g boot a LiveCD of any Linux distribution) and then how I install GRUB in /dev/sda2? Thanks, Lázaro. Follow the instructions for

Re: [lfs-support] Why are binutils and gcc compiled twice(pass1pass2) ?

2012-07-19 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 7/19/2012 12:47 PM, Эмиль Кранц wrote: No, it isn't. And if OP is still in the dark, then he should RTFM. Everybody else does. Especially https://lfs.pilgrims.ru/lfs/view/development/chapter01/how.html to answer this particular question More importantly

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOk-7.0:Section:5.2 Tool Chain Technical Notes: Doubt

2012-07-16 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 7/16/2012 9:10 AM, Emerson Yesupatham wrote: Hi, I am following Book 7.0. In Section 5.2 Toolchain Technical Notes, the following is mentioned: Binutils installs its assembler and linker in two locations, /tools/bin and /tools/$LFS_TGT/bin. The tools in one location are hard linked to

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.1 Findutils check doubt

2012-07-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 7/5/2012 8:47 PM, ? ? wrote: Hello, It's my first time to do LFS, and sorry for my poor english. I came across a little problem when test Charpter 6.40 Findutils-4.4.2(LFS 7.1), after i enter make check, I noticed two line skipped test. It says no chinese GB 18030 locale is installed, but

Re: [lfs-support] pam_ck_connector and pam_loginuid

2012-07-01 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 7/1/2012 6:14 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: pam_ck_connector and pam_loginuid should not be placed into system-session, but rather directly in login, {g,k,x}dm, sshd, etc. as session optional. These modules are only intended for login sessions. When using sudo, pam_ck_connector causes gnome-shell to

Re: [lfs-support] 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches

2012-06-30 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/30/2012 3:06 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote: Do the downloads of 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches go into $LFS/sources ? Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com YES. Did you miss reading the introduction and first part of chapter 3? It says so right there, unless you were skimming, which

Re: [lfs-support] 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches

2012-06-30 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/30/2012 3:30 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote: Yea, I just now realized after downloading several of the files, that they are the same packages I just got done downloading using the wget-list. Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 6/30/2012 3:06 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote: Do

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.9 errors

2012-06-29 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/29/2012 6:46 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:12:22PM +0100, spiky wrote: The host is there beta of next release, 32bit , kernel 3.2.0-26-generic-pae I installed the 3.5rc4 in previous chapter 6.7 I was in 2 minds weather to carry on, or rebuild an earlier kernel ( if

Re: [lfs-support] Cannot boot to LFS with seperate boot partition

2012-06-25 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/25/2012 11:24 AM, Yasser Zamani wrote: *snip* */root@slax:~# cat /mnt/sda7/grub/grub.cfg/* /# Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg/ /set default=0/ /set timeout=5/ /*# WHEN I SELECT THIS ENTRY IT TELLS error: no argument specified BUT AFTER KEY PRESS ENTERS TO WINDOWS

Re: [lfs-support] Cannot boot to LFS with seperate boot partition

2012-06-25 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/25/2012 12:01 PM, Yasser Zamani wrote: On 6/25/2012 11:24 AM, Yasser Zamani wrote: *snip* */root@slax:~# cat /mnt/sda7/grub/grub.cfg/* /# Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg/ /set default=0/ /set timeout=5/ /*# WHEN I SELECT THIS

Re: [lfs-support] glibc 5.7

2012-06-21 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/21/2012 5:57 AM, Tobias Gasser wrote: why are the CC= AR= RANLIB= not set for glibc? as far i can understand, glibc will be built with the hosts compiler and not with the new one build in 5.5 as the new one didn't install reachable with the PATH-variable. in 5.8 binutils and 5.9 gcc

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7.0 Section 5.9 binutils pass2 doubt

2012-06-19 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/19/2012 12:09 PM, Emerson Yesupatham wrote: Hi, I am trying to build LFS. I am following LFS-BOOK-7.0.pdf. Problem: I am facing the following error while compiling Binutils-2.21.1a - Pass 2, section 5.9. *configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.* Complete error is attached in

Re: [lfs-support] Book 7.1 Chapter 6.7 Linux API headers: make headers_check

2012-06-11 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/11/2012 6:35 AM, Mike Young wrote: Hi all This is my first lfs build, and it was going swimmingly until I hit this little wall. Unfortunately I am very much a newbie, so I have absolutely no idea how to read these outputs (I'm just getting to grips with what's actually going on!)

Re: [lfs-support] Book 7.1 Chapter 6.7 Linux API headers: make headers_check

2012-06-11 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/11/2012 7:21 AM, Mike Young wrote: root:/# find /tools -name strict.pm http://strict.pm /tools/lib/per15/5.14.2/strict.pm http://strict.pm root:/# find /tools -iname *perl* /tools/bin/perl /tools/lib/per15/5.14.2/TAP/Parser/SourceHandler/Perl.pm /tools/lib/per15/5.14.2/Pod/Perldoc

Re: [lfs-support] AMD Catalyst drivers and LFS-7.1ish

2012-06-06 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/6/2012 6:09 PM, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: How on Earth does one manage to get that binary piece of junk to work? I've tried several approaches now, and after a few weeks with no luck getting first 12.2 and now 12.4 to work I'm about to give up. Has anybody managed to get AMD Catalyst

Re: [lfs-support] AMD Catalyst drivers and LFS-7.1ish

2012-06-06 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/6/2012 6:39 PM, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: On 2012-06-07 01:16:27 +0200 Eleanore Boydcara...@cox.net wrote: On 6/6/2012 6:09 PM, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: How on Earth does one manage to get that binary piece of junk to work? I've tried several approaches now, and after a few

Re: [lfs-support] lfs7.1 cannot boot

2012-05-24 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/24/2012 2:07 AM, Omar wrote: Hi, all: I finished all work of the LFS 7.1 book except the error when booting my LFS. Firstly, I states my LFS 7.1. I use VMware installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a virtual SCSI disk of 20G. Before beginning, I add another 8G virtual SCSI disk to VM and mount it

Re: [lfs-support] lfs7.1 cannot boot

2012-05-24 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/24/2012 7:11 AM, Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 5/24/2012 2:07 AM, Omar wrote: Hi, all: I finished all work of the LFS 7.1 book except the error when booting my LFS. Firstly, I states my LFS 7.1. I use VMware installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a virtual SCSI disk of 20G. Before beginning, I add

Re: [lfs-support] Bug in udev LFS 7.0

2012-05-22 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/22/2012 3:53 AM, satit pherm wrote: hi, I think i found a bug of udev in LFS 7.0. because of everytime after boot , it will stop and wait at ... Populating /dev with device node i used kernel 3.2 and asus main board P8Z77-V Pro. please helps, Thank you in advance. Satit P. Any

Re: [lfs-support] glibc-2.15 make error undefined reference to `__rela_iplt_start' undefined reference to `__rela_iplt_end'

2012-05-16 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/16/2012 12:22 AM, lei huang wrote: help help!!! On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:01 AM, lei huangcode.huang...@gmail.com wrote: system: centos5.8 linux2.6.18 gcc44 lfs: binutils-2.22 gcc-4.7.0 glibc-2.15 lfs-man Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20120513 build glibc erro: gcc44 -nostdlib

Re: [lfs-support] 6.2.3. Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems question

2012-05-13 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/13/2012 6:43 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On 13/05/12 20:13, Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 06:58:57 +0100 Wayne Blaszczykwblas...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi All, I've recently updated my main workstation to LFS 7.1 (From LFS 6.7), and noticed one of my auto build scripts is now

Re: [lfs-support] wget-list update

2012-05-08 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/8/2012 3:08 AM, Thomas de Roo wrote: On 05/08/12 06:14, Eleanore Boyd wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/1.2.6/zlib-1.2.6.tar.bz2/download Just remove the /download from the end of the URL, and you can wget the tarball from Sourceforge. Groet, Thomas How often do

Re: [lfs-support] wget-list update

2012-05-08 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/8/2012 6:59 AM, Thomas de Roo wrote: On 05/08/12 13:31, Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 5/8/2012 3:08 AM, Thomas de Roo wrote: On 05/08/12 06:14, Eleanore Boyd wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/1.2.6/zlib-1.2.6.tar.bz2/download Just remove the /download from the end

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 - 6.17. GCC-4.6.2

2012-05-08 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/8/2012 11:41 AM, Lázaro Morales wrote: En 08/05/2012 12:29:41, Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com escribió: No. You are OK. If you had hundreds of errors, then that would be a problem, but notice that the book points out libmudflap as a common problem. Thanks Bruce! I will continue

[lfs-support] wget-list update

2012-05-07 Thread Eleanore Boyd
I noticed that the wget-list file has outdated links for man-pages and zlib. For some reason, man7.org doesn't seem to host downloads anymore at all, and zlib got an update from the version in the book. Huzzah for google, at least.

Re: [lfs-support] wget-list update

2012-05-07 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/7/2012 11:28 PM, Yasser Zamani wrote: Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 23:14:28 -0500 From: cara...@cox.net To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [lfs-support] wget-list update I noticed that the wget-list file has outdated links for man-pages and zlib. For some reason, man7.org doesn't

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-04 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/4/2012 5:34 AM, Scott Robertson wrote: I started reading 7.0, and I was doing OK until about Chapter 5. Until I realized that some of my directories didn't seem right. Somehow I ended up with just a sources directory on the LFS partition. I'm not a hardened expert in Linux yet, but I

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-04 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/4/2012 4:45 PM, Qrux wrote: On May 4, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Qrux wrote: The users need to learn to think about what needs to be done, not just copy/paste without understanding. As a proxy example of ambiguity, do you not see the...confusion...some might experience when

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-03 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 5/3/2012 1:40 AM, Scott Robertson wrote: (snip) 2) Why are you here if you aren't going to be of any help? I'm not coming here with no experience with Linux. I've also noticed several problems with the manual, so clearly this is a work in progress. You, Tony, apparently can't even

Re: [lfs-support] Can i install the original package without patching?

2012-04-08 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 4/7/2012 10:18 PM, gmspro wrote: Usually the install process of a package is: ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install Normally the patches are not available with the original package. All user download the source code configure/compile/install it. Where can i get the patches of the

Re: [lfs-support] Ncurses compilation during the Temp Tools stage

2012-04-07 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 4/7/2012 12:11 PM, Эмиль Кранц wrote: Hello all. Ncurses configure script during the Temp tools stage (chapter 5.15) gives an error, requesting to be complied against gpm. As gpm is installed in BLFS, the key --without-gpm should be passed to the configure script, in addition. All works

Re: [lfs-support] Can i write my own init scripts skiping linuxfromscratch boot scripts? Can i skip patching?

2012-04-06 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 4/6/2012 4:34 AM, gmspro wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/bootscripts.html Here there are bootscripts. I want to make my own linux. That's why i don't want to use others' script. If i don't install those scripts will the lfs work or will it be bootable? If

Re: [lfs-support] lfs live cd and being blind

2012-03-31 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/31/2012 11:38 AM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: On 30-03-2012 12:05, Eleanore Boyd wrote: And that is why Google, Bing, Ask, etc. are the geek's best friends. Fun trivia: Ubiquity (the Ubuntu installer) is gui-only. Therefore, when making a livecd based off of the server installation

Re: [lfs-support] problem with glibc

2012-03-30 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/30/2012 8:02 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:29:04 +0100 Lázaro Moraleslaz...@frioclima.com.cu wrote: En 29/03/2012 14:13:05, ankit vishwakarmaankitvishwakarma0...@gmail.com escribió: after running the version.sh script the following is the output

Re: [lfs-support] lfs live cd and being blind

2012-03-30 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/30/2012 8:15 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:12:08 +0100 Eleanore Boydcara...@cox.net wrote: On 3/29/2012 11:03 AM, mike wrote: hi, I am blind and build my lfs's usually using grml and an ssh session but was wondering if their is a way to get the lfs live cd to start

Re: [lfs-support] lfs live cd and being blind

2012-03-29 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/29/2012 11:03 AM, mike wrote: hi, I am blind and build my lfs's usually using grml and an ssh session but was wondering if their is a way to get the lfs live cd to start with speakup for building? I am working on getting accessibility support back into the livecd in general, and am

Re: [lfs-support] lfs live cd and being blind

2012-03-29 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/29/2012 5:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Eleanore Boyd wrote: I am working on getting accessibility support back into the livecd in general, and am trying to replace the GNOME window manager with fluxbox, so it might be a while before it can without breaking. To be honest, I didn't expect my

Re: [lfs-support] Cross compiler for powerpc (LFS 7.1)

2012-03-28 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/28/2012 6:29 AM, Ratnaraj Mirgal wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to build a cross compiler for powerpc below are the version details, host=build=i686-pc-linux-gnu target=powerpc-home-linux-gnu binutils-2.22 gcc-4.6.2 glibc-2.14.1 gmp-5.0.4 linux-2.6.34 mpc-0.9 mpfr-3.1.0 (soft links

Re: [lfs-support] New development live CD

2012-03-28 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/28/2012 11:54 AM, Philippe Delavalade wrote: Le mercredi 28 mars à 04:20, Eleanore Boyd a écrit : I spent my spring break cobbling together a live CD based on Ubuntu 10.04 that has been stripped down a great deal. It can compile LFS with minimal problems, and has a console-based browser

Re: [lfs-support] New development live CD

2012-03-28 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/28/2012 7:45 PM, Anand Arumugam wrote: no. I happen to not be impaired in any way like that, so having the accessibility options on the livecd only wasted space. However, once I can figure out why scp doesn't want to copy my iso file to the server, I can make a special version

[lfs-support] New development live CD

2012-03-27 Thread Eleanore Boyd
I spent my spring break cobbling together a live CD based on Ubuntu 10.04 that has been stripped down a great deal. It can compile LFS with minimal problems, and has a console-based browser and a very lightweight GUI browser to view offline copies of the LFS book or to go to the site and read

[lfs-support] Package management

2012-03-25 Thread Eleanore Boyd
Has anyone thought of this: when you download a package, store it in the sources folder used for building the system, and organize it to personal preferences and tastes? That way, if you need to reinstall a package, you still have the tarball it was installed from, and you can see your

Re: [lfs-support] Package management

2012-03-25 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/26/2012 12:02 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: On 03/25/2012 10:04 PM, Eleanore Boyd wrote: Has anyone thought of this: when you download a package, store it in the sources folder used for building the system, and organize it to personal preferences and tastes? That way, if you need to reinstall

Re: [lfs-support] Failures when booting

2012-03-13 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 3/13/2012 7:42 PM, Jim Washko wrote: I have been working on LFS 7.0 with Ubuntu as my host and this is my first buildSo I have good news and bad news. IT BOOTS!... but I get two "Fail"s and get an error in /etc/profile as shown below:

Re: [lfs-support] Question about glibc pass1

2012-02-17 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 2/17/2012 8:43 PM, Jim Washko wrote: I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and LFS 7.0 with all the versions of the packages that the book is using. I am currently going through LFS for the first time. I am compiling glibc now and have a question about the next step. Earlier in book 7.0, it says:

Re: [lfs-support] compilation error in GCC pass 1 package

2012-01-29 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 1/29/2012 3:14 AM, mohit jain wrote: Sir I have attached the text file of the problem faced. Please find it and provide a remedy. I am using LFS-BOOK-6.7.pdf With UBUNTU 10.04 LTS as the host Facing problem in compiling GCC-4.5.1 - Pass 1 package and the error faced is attached as a text

Re: [lfs-support] LILO and GRUB - LILO I can make work, GRUB often leaves me Grubby

2012-01-11 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 1/11/2012 5:20 AM, jasonps...@jegas.com wrote: First of all, let me say that from everything I've read, Grub2 in particular is the best boot loader out there, but with its sophistication comes larger size and slightly more complicated configuration (for me anyways.) And I've read that there

Re: [lfs-support] Final GCC Compile Weirdness - 1 Time? No, 2 nd Time? Perfect!

2012-01-10 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 1/10/2012 6:34 AM, jasonps...@jegas.com wrote: I find that if a make fails first time, but completes (or gets further ) on second run it is due to some race condition where you have multiple jobs and a new job thread is dependent on something that hasn't completed. The simplest way around

Re: [lfs-support] Error while compiling GCC 4.6.1 Pass 1

2012-01-05 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 1/4/2012 8:04 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:22:26PM -0400, Franck Chuiton wrote: But it went wrong with gcc-4.6.1 : gcc -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -DCROSS_DIRECTORY_STRUCTURE -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-format-attribute

Re: [lfs-support] glibc tests errors

2012-01-03 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 1/3/2012 5:24 AM, jasonps...@jegas.com wrote: root:/sources/glibc-build# grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log |sed 's|; |\n|g' SEARCH_DIR(/tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib64) SEARCH_DIR(/tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib) SEARCH_DIR(/usr/lib) SEARCH_DIR(/lib); Is the *-unknown-* to be

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 8 Grub Reboot Failures... Progress - but Kernel explodes into confetti

2011-12-27 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 12/27/2011 1:44 AM, jasonps...@jegas.com wrote: ---JASON WROTE LFS 7.0 - win7-Oracle VirtualBox-Slackware 13 32bit host I guess I'm wondering if these screens show a complete failure on my part or show I'm PRETTY CLOSE to making this work. ---BRUCE WROTE Yes, you are close, but

Re: [lfs-support] (no subject)

2011-11-24 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 11/24/2011 10:41 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: I am using Version 7.0 of the LFS book. When I try to compile GCC with the make command as root, I receive the following error: cc1-checksum.o main.o tree-browser.o libbackend.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a