Re: OT: Unix Backup & Recovery CD-ROM

2010-07-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Tony Sauri wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:45, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Well, the larger parts are actually not in the book. It simply >> refers one to the CD-ROM. At least, the paper version of the book >> does. However, I'll reasearch what you suggest. > > Are these the scripts you are looking for

Re: OT: Unix Backup & Recovery CD-ROM

2010-07-14 Thread Tony Sauri
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Well, the larger parts are actually not in the book. It simply > refers one to the CD-ROM. At least, the paper version of the book > does. However, I'll reasearch what you suggest. Are these the scripts you are looking for? Free Backup Utilities:

Re: glibc-2.11.1 configure warning seems to be the problem but I cannot find the solutions

2010-07-14 Thread garth scott
Thanks for the response, but I think I am going to take the rest of the week to brush up on some basic bash scripting. I have a feeling that I jumped into this a bit quick. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: Se

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Dan McGhee wrote: > You are absolutely right, but I would not characterize it as a problem, > but something to be considered and about which to make a decision. In > fact, it's the reason I posted. Using only the instructions in the LFS > book, this header file would be replaced three times--w

Re: OT: Unix Backup & Recovery CD-ROM

2010-07-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Danny Engelbarts wrote: > > That book mentions the site http://backupcentral.com/ i had a quick look and Thanks. I'll look there. I did do a search, and found the O'Reilly book for sale from them, but no downloadable content. > the site appears closely related and offers downloads of various "f

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/14/2010 05:23 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 18:07:13 Dan McGhee wrote: > >> I hope everyone who reads this is getting a good laugh. >> > No, just chuckling and nodding knowingly. As I hobble around on my > bullet-riddled feet. Need the t-shirt? > > As long as *y

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 18:07:13 Dan McGhee wrote: > > I hope everyone who reads this is getting a good laugh. No, just chuckling and nodding knowingly. As I hobble around on my bullet-riddled feet. Need the t-shirt? As long as *you* are laughing, all is well. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/14/2010 04:50 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > > If you don't replace the kernel's /usr/include/scsi/scsi.h with hte one > from glibc then you will get build failures later on. I think it was > udev which failed? Some other things in BLFS (cdrtools?) also fail. Just > do what a normal LFS install w

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On 14/07/10 21:10, Dan McGhee wrote: > On 07/14/2010 02:33 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>If you weren't using the package users hint, the problem would not >> arise. Therefore we can assume that allowing the kernel's headers >> to be installed is the well-tested choice. >> > You are absolutely ri

Re: Glibc Testing Errors: [SOLVED]--maybe

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/14/2010 04:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: > >> I did the rebuild of Chapter 5 make twice. Once using only the patch >> from Ch. 6 and then with both the patch and the sed command from Ch. 6. >> There was no change in the glibc tests. However, after applying the >> patch and

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On 14/07/10 20:18, Dan McGhee wrote: > In addition to the testing failures I've documented in another thread, > I've also had an installation failure with GlibC-2.11.2. I know the > cause though. It's a result of using the More Control and Package User > package management system. I've encounter

Re: Glibc Testing Errors: [SOLVED]--maybe

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > On 07/14/2010 12:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Dan McGhee wrote: >> >>> I got some interesting results when I ran the glibc-2.11.2 test suite. >>> I'm conducting a 64-bit SVN build. >>> >>> These are the last three lines of the test log: >>> >>> make[1]: Target `c

Re: Glibc Testing Errors: [SOLVED]--maybe

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/14/2010 12:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: > >> I got some interesting results when I ran the glibc-2.11.2 test suite. >> I'm conducting a 64-bit SVN build. >> >> These are the last three lines of the test log: >> >> >>> make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of e

Re: OT: Unix Backup & Recovery CD-ROM

2010-07-14 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:03:02 Mike McCarty wrote: > I was at a used book store and selected a copy of O'Reilly's > "Unix Backup and Recovery" "nutshell" series book for purchase. > One of our party became ill, and I left early to take her home. > When I retuned, the others had already made the

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/14/2010 02:33 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > If you weren't using the package users hint, the problem would not > arise. Therefore we can assume that allowing the kernel's headers > to be installed is the well-tested choice. > You are absolutely right, but I would not characterize it as a p

OT: Unix Backup & Recovery CD-ROM

2010-07-14 Thread Mike McCarty
I was at a used book store and selected a copy of O'Reilly's "Unix Backup and Recovery" "nutshell" series book for purchase. One of our party became ill, and I left early to take her home. When I retuned, the others had already made the purchase, and I wound up with the book, but no companion CD-RO

Re: Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On 14 July 2010 20:18, Dan McGhee wrote: > > The GlibC install wants to install sg.h, scsi.h and scsi_ioctl.h in > /usr/include/scsi.  There are two ways in which to get the install > process to proceed.  The first is for me to manually remove scsi.h and > let glibc do it's thing.  The other is f

Ch. 6 GlibC Install Failure from Package Management--Which headers to use

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
In addition to the testing failures I've documented in another thread, I've also had an installation failure with GlibC-2.11.2. I know the cause though. It's a result of using the More Control and Package User package management system. I've encountered similar things in my previous builds,

OT: Search Engines

2010-07-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > "Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download location > has changed since this book was published, Google > (http://www.google.com/) provides a useful search engine for most > packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the alternative May I sug

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Simon Geard wrote: [...] > That's experience talking, I might add. My LFS builds are almost always > scripted, and more than once, I've investigated a compile problem that's Is there a reason you prefer a script to an automated package like JHALFS? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);

Re: Glibc Testing Errors

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > Reading this I forgot to mention my host system. It's Ubuntu 10.04 and > I'm running Ubuntu's latest version of 2.6.32-23-generic (wish I hadn't > wiped out my CLFS build). I'm supplying this info now because in my > research I found some references in the LFS archives about

Re: Glibc Testing Errors

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/14/2010 12:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > If you do rebuild the Chapter 5 make and try the Chapter 6 glibc tests > again, I'd appreciate knowing the results. However, I don't think this > is what is causing the glibc test errors. I was able to duplicate at > least some of the errors on the c

Re: Glibc Testing Errors

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > I got some interesting results when I ran the glibc-2.11.2 test suite. > I'm conducting a 64-bit SVN build. > > These are the last three lines of the test log: > >> make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of errors. >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/glibc-2.11.2/gl

Glibc Testing Errors

2010-07-14 Thread Dan McGhee
I got some interesting results when I ran the glibc-2.11.2 test suite. I'm conducting a 64-bit SVN build. These are the last three lines of the test log: make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of errors. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/glibc-2.11.2/glibc-2.11.2' make: *** [check] Er

Re: Syntax and Logic on a Build Script

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On 14/07/10 01:20, Dan McGhee wrote: > > BUILD=$HOME/$package-build > cd $BUILD > #Double sanity check--visual and logical > pwd > if [ $(pwd) -ne $BUILD ] > echo Check the build directory creation > exit Status 1 > It seems that you're trying to test whether $BUILD exists after you've cd'd into i

Re: glibc-2.11.1 configure warning seems to be the problem but I cannot find the solutions

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On 14/07/10 01:30, garth scott wrote: > I am still getting this warning: > configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: present but cannot be compiled > configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? > configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: see the Autoconf documentation > configure