Re: no ifconfig

2005-03-18 Thread Jim Gifford
Karna Puri-Sengupta wrote: Hello all, i finished building LFS yesterday and everything worked fine. Apart from ifconfig. How come? Actually i searched thru Freshmeat and found the binaries from net-tools, which also included ifconfig. I extracted it into a folder and configured it: But during

Re: no ifconfig

2005-03-18 Thread Andrei A. Voropaev
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:34:19AM +0100, Karna Puri-Sengupta wrote: Hey jim, thanxs for the quick answer. When i used ifconfig the syntax was as following: ifconfig eth0 ip.ad.dr.ess netmask ne.t.mas.sk up How do i use ip add ? When i type : ip addr add 10.0.2.88 eth0 it

Re: ncurses ./configure fails because coreutils isn't built properly

2005-03-18 Thread Joachim Beckers
problem solved, had to do with optimizations -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

perl compilation problem

2005-03-18 Thread Donal Farrell
hi guys. i'm using LFS-6.0 and my problem is in chapter 5.34 (Perl 5.8.5) Everything has worked fine up to now. (Host system is SuSE9.1Pro) I get the following error makefile: line 917 *** missing seperator. stop i tried editing line 917 which only had a '0' on the line by commenting it out. I

Re: perl compilation problem

2005-03-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Donal Farrell wrote: hi guys. i'm using LFS-6.0 and my problem is in chapter 5.34 (Perl 5.8.5) Everything has worked fine up to now. (Host system is SuSE9.1Pro) I get the following error makefile: line 917 *** missing seperator. stop

Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
First of all let me say how great I think LFS is. I'm pretty disgusted with distros right now. Thanks for the effort. As my knowlege and skill increase (I hope), I'd like to contribute. But for now, I must just build. I'm using Version 6.0. In 4.2 Creating the $LFS/tools Directory, the

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:32 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: ln -s $LFS/tools / is given. I understand the syntax--and I even read the FAQ BG. My question is in the location of the link. I don't want my distro to think that everything is mounted in $LFS/tools. The book is usually right.

gcc chapter 6 time_dot_h problem

2005-03-18 Thread Donal Farrell
hello there. i'm at part 6.14 which is the final installation of GCC. I am getting the following error from make continuously: In file included from ../../gcc-3.4.1/gcc/crtstuff.c:62: ../../gcc-3.4.1/gcc/tsystem.h:79:19: stdio.h: No such file or directory ../../gcc-3.4.1/gcc/tsystem.h:82:23:

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 21:09 +, Matthew Burgess wrote: S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: The book is usually right. *usually*? :) I'd prefer that to be always :) Bug reports welcome of course, if your conscience can't bring you to write the latter! Yours somewhat jokingly, Matt.

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:32 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: ln -s $LFS/tools / is given. I understand the syntax--and I even read the FAQ BG. My question is in the location of the link. I don't want my distro to think that everything is mounted in $LFS/tools.

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:32 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: ln -s $LFS/tools / is given. I understand the syntax--and I even read the FAQ BG. My question is in the location of the link. I don't want my distro to think that everything is mounted in $LFS/tools.

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 16:37 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Let's say for sake of argument I've started in my home directory. Now let me ask if this sequence of code is correct to get to putting the symlink in the right place. # su # echo $LFS /mnt/lfs # mkdir $LFS/tools # cd $LFS/tools #

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: Step 4 (cd $LFS/tools) is unnecessary and has no bearing on the link creation. You could be in *any* directory when it is executed. In effect the command states. Take the last element of the first parameter and use it as the name for the symlink in the second parameter.

udev rule questions

2005-03-18 Thread DJ Lucas
Okay, I need a bit of udev help. I want to write a rule to create a dvd synlink. The /proc/ide/hdb/model file contains the string DVD with some other text. I got around that using grep 'DVD' in a PROGRAM field set. This is fine for *my* setup, but I want this thing to be generic for optical

Re: udev rule questions

2005-03-18 Thread Jim Gifford
DJ Lucas wrote: Okay, I need a bit of udev help. I want to write a rule to create a dvd synlink. The /proc/ide/hdb/model file contains the string DVD with some other text. I got around that using grep 'DVD' in a PROGRAM field set. This is fine for *my* setup, but I want this thing to be