[lfs-support] 7.1-rc1 pcre

2012-02-24 Thread John Harrigan
In the Preface, Rationale for Packages in the Book, it explains the rationale for PCRE but PCRE is not listed in 3.2 All Packages. I'm assuming the PCRE reference is just left over from a previous iteration of the book, is that correct? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: mirrored /dev folder

2010-12-28 Thread John Harrigan
* piper.g...@gmail.com (Dec 28, 2010 @ 13:23-0500): In section 6.2.1 we create a couple of device nodes: a console device, and a null device. Then in the following section we mount /dev of the host platform to be mirrored at $LFS/dev. What's the point of creating the 2 devices in section

Re: missing output from init scripts

2010-11-05 Thread John Harrigan
* jfharri...@fedex.com (Nov 03, 2010 @ 10:58-0600): I've mostly followed the development book and added an initrd and BSD style init scripts. My problem is that output from the rc scripts is not echoed to the console during boot. I do get kernel messages on the console though. I know the rc

missing output from init scripts

2010-11-03 Thread John Harrigan
(disclaimer - I'm not using a standard build so I understand if no one can help me.) I've mostly followed the development book and added an initrd and BSD style init scripts. My problem is that output from the rc scripts is not echoed to the console during boot. I do get kernel messages on the

Re: Stumped by a Script

2009-09-12 Thread John Harrigan
* beesn...@grm.net (Sep 12, 2009 @ 15:31-0500): The problem I'm having is this. Some packages are *.tar.gz and others are *.tar.bz2. I thought it would be easy to test for this and then invoke tar with the appropriate command line parametes, but I can't get it to work. I don't know about

Re: LFS 6.2 - Stopping screen blanking

2007-02-17 Thread John Harrigan
* Darcy Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've looked over the kernel documentation, and haven't found anything explicit above turning off the screen blanker. It is a problem because the links browser doesn't restore the screen properly in vesafb graphics mode after hitting a key to exit screen

Re: Headers?

2007-02-08 Thread John Harrigan
* Galaxy Travel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I deleted the headers on mistake, Now I tryed to reinstall the headers and it looks like it wont let me, So do I have to reinstall everything again? I'm assuming you're using the newer 'make headers_install' method because I ran into the same problem.

Re: Headers?

2007-02-08 Thread John Harrigan
* To lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Galaxy Travel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I deleted the headers on mistake, Now I tryed to reinstall the headers and it looks like it wont let me, So do I have to reinstall everything again? I'm assuming you're using the newer 'make

Re: Headers?

2007-02-08 Thread John Harrigan
* Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2/8/07, John Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Galaxy Travel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I deleted the headers on mistake, Now I tryed to reinstall the headers and it looks like it wont let me, So do I have to reinstall everything again? I'm assuming

Re: Headers?

2007-02-08 Thread John Harrigan
* Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You shouldn't install the headers from an upgraded kernel. Ever. The headers should always be what you used when compiling glibc. I didn't know that, thanks. Is this worth mentioning in the Upgrade Issues section of chapter six (6.3.1 in the development

Re: clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread John Harrigan
* Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, bojster wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: After exiting less or man in other distributions, the screen appears as before, i. e, I see $ less foo. It is not so with [my ] LFS: the visible part of the foo document remains visible in

Re: Udev messages on the console

2007-01-29 Thread John Harrigan
* Darcy Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I stop udev from outputting messages to the console? IE when I insert a CF or USB flash device, a bunch of annoying messages shows up on my text console. I've looked in udev.conf, but cannot see anything jumping out at me. You can use setterm