Re: [lfs-support] no rc.d, no /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

2012-08-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobi Ipaye wrote: > Hi all, > I've been following the stable LFS 7.1 book on-line, details - > I noticed the problem when I got to chapter 7.2. General Network Configuration > The first part suggests removing network symlinks if there is no > network card. I have a network card, but I wanted to se

Re: [lfs-support] chapter-6_bash

2012-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > Below is what I'M getting: > if test "bash" = "gettext-tools"; then \ /bin/sh > /sources/Chapter-6/6.31._Bash-4.2/bash-4.2/./support/mkinstalldirs > /usr/share/gettext/po; \ for file in Makefile.in.in remove-potcdate.sin > quot.sed boldquot.sed en@quot.header en@boldq

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

2012-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Ken Moffat írta: >> >> zarniwhoop? :) LOL. >> > Yes ? What's so funny ? It just struck me that way. > Seriously - you only just noticed ? Yes. The address b

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs

2012-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike Johnston wrote: > Maybe I'm dense here, but the Util-Linux doesn't have a fsck.ext2 or > fsck.ext3 in it's list of programs installed. Which module installs > an fsck capable of ext2/3 filesystems? > > When I built Util-linux I didn't get a fsck.ext2 or ext3. I only saw > those if I left the

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs

2012-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike Johnston wrote: > So I built util-linux-2.20.1 and it has fsck, fsck.minix. > > Building e2fs the command line in the 7.1 book has the > "--disable-fsck" flag in the configure. This prevents the ext2/3/4 > from being built. > > The list of installed programs lower in the book shows them being

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs

2012-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike Johnston wrote: > Hello, It seems the fsck programs for ext2 and ext3 don't get built > in LFS 7.1. They are explicitly not built by config for the > e2fsprogs. I have: $ ls -1 /sbin/fsc* /sbin/fsck /sbin/fsck.cramfs /sbin/fsck.ext2 /sbin/fsck.ext3 /sbin/fsck.ext4 /sbin/fsck.ext4dev /sbin/f

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

2012-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
> Ken Moffat írta: zarniwhoop? :) LOL. -- 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] chapter-6_bash

2012-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > I placed all the commands for chapter-6, bash into a script and then > executed it. A the bottom of the page all I see is make[1]: Leaving > directory `/sources/Chapter-6/6.31._bash-4.2/po' at the bottom of the > page with no prompt in sight. Does this look and sound right

Re: [lfs-support] NFS root booting fails...

2012-08-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: > [root@goose64 etc]# cat fstab > # Begin /etc/fstab > > # file system mount-point typeoptions dumpfsck order > goose64.robinson-west.com:/nfsroot/lfs/lfsx86_64/eagle64 / nfs > rw,_netdev,rsize=8192,wsize=81921 1 NFS is a BL

Re: [lfs-support] E2fsprogs in section 2.3 of 7.2-rc1

2012-08-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Michmerhuizen wrote: > I'm building under ubuntu 12.04 installed on a VirtualBox. There are > two partitions, /dev/sda1 for the ubuntu build system, /dev/sda5 for the > target lfs. Both of them are formatted ext4. > > debugfs -R feature /dev/sda5 > > reported extra features: > ext

Re: [lfs-support] hello i have a question about lfs.

2012-08-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
This is an lfs-support question. -- Bruce lx wrote: > hello, > i'm installing the lfs. > i bulid the file-5.10 in LFS-BOOK-7.1 5.20. when i "make", the error > messages is : > > */mnt/lfs/sources/file-5.10/src/.libs/lt-file: error while loading shared > libraries: libz.so.1: can

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

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > Bruce wrote: > >>> ... So I have to install everything in my own directories. I've >>> succeeded in doing this, and am now tying up a lot of loose >>> ends. >> >> You could have told us that at the beginning! > > Sorry, I didn't think it was relevant. > >> Use: >> >> expo

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

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 > regul

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

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Try: >> $ ldconfig -a > > My ldconfig doesn't have a -a option. Sorry. Without the link and as root: # ldconfig -v | less The /lib section should have libbz2.so.1.0 -> libbz2.so.1.0.6 Then $ ls -l /lib/libbz*

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

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: >> /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 -> libbz2.so.1.0.6 /usr/lib/libbz2.so -> >> ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 > > Again, thanks for your comments. However, my system doesn't behave > the way I would expect, in terms of what you've said. Here is what I > have in /lib and /usr/lib : > > /lib/li

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

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: >>> In the LFS book, version SVN-20120824, section 6.19.Bzip2-1.0.6, >> there >>> is a line near the end: >>> >>> ln -sv ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so >>> >>> The problem I've experienced is that when bzip2 fires up after >>> this compilation step, it can't fi

Re: [lfs-support] Packaged LFS-6.8

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > On 08/24/2012 11:50 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> 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:/

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

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > Hi, > > In the LFS book, version SVN-20120824, section 6.19.Bzip2-1.0.6, > there is a line near the end: > > ln -sv ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so > > The problem I've experienced is that when bzip2 fires up after this > compilation step, it can't find the lib

Re: [lfs-support] Packaged LFS-6.8

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 "build system" I u

Re: [lfs-support] gcc_Chapter-6

2012-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > Below is what I got for gcc on chapter 6. I placed all the commands from > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/gcc.html in a > script using && at the end of each line. Does anyone have any idea which > command from that page could have produced the

Re: [lfs-support] Mounting /tmp as tmpfs

2012-08-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > For the last couple of years I've been mounting /tmp as tmpfs and it does > seem to make a speed difference when building packages, particularly on a > slower machine; I've had no problems to date. > > I'd be interested to know what the views are here. That's certainly yo

Re: [lfs-support] Redoing chapter 6

2012-08-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: > As chroot you are referring to the system setting up at the beginning of > the chapter 6? Please don't top post. See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/strippingagain.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-suppor

Re: [lfs-support] Boot up on 7.1

2012-08-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike Johnston wrote: > Hello, I have just finished LFS 7.1 and have everything up and > running. On bootup however, I keep getting "/lib/lsb/init-functions: > line 668 /run/var/bootlog: No such file or directory". > > This starts to happen after the message "Cleaning file systems". > > The /run/var

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7.0: LFS booted successfuly: Few clarifications on Section 8.4: GRUB

2012-08-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Emerson Yesupatham wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Sorry for the late reply. > > Bruce wrote: > >>> BTW, I have three drives, sda, sdb, and sdc. sdc is a SSD an dI >>> generally boot from that: >>> /dev/sdc1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,data=writeback) >>> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosui

Re: [lfs-support] Redoing chapter 6

2012-08-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: > Hi all, > > For some unsolved reason I had to complete the chapter 6 without installing > an essential package, namely *udev*. Knowing that it will cause problems in > the future I would like to start again the chapter 6 from the beginning. So > my question is how do I

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

2012-08-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 > term's buffer - it then died wi

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

2012-08-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > In this case, I'd appreciate your comments (this list will do) on > automake (if you are testing it) - on a completed system, 1.12 and > later give me about 4 errors as a regular user (I'd still like to > get to grips with those, one day). In a system which boots, but > whe

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

2012-08-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Failed 2 tests out of 2202, 99.91% okay. > ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/105oneshot-zip-only.t > ../cpan/Time-Local/t/Local.t > > I'm guessing that this is not a problem. Any views appreciated. That's a problem we are working right now. It's a timezone installation i

Re: [lfs-support] glibc chapter 6

2012-08-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > This is what I got for the make -k check command for glibc on chapter 6 > /bootparam.h sysvipc/sys/ipc.h sysvipc/sys/msg.h sysvipc/sys/sem.h sysvipc/sys/shm.h termios/termios.h termios/sys/termios.h termios/sys/ttychars.h time/time.h time/sys/time.h time/sys/timeb.h wcsmb

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Thanks Bruce -- what was the thinking behind using SU from Shadow instead > of Coreutils? su has been dropped from coreutils and imported into util-linux. The util-linux version requires PAM. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ

Re: [lfs-support] glibc pass 2 chapter-6

2012-08-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > Sorry, what does top post and trim replies mean? Are you really that ignorant? Try googling for 'top post', I'm feeling lucky. Don't expect any more replies until you figure it out. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://

Re: [lfs-support] NFS root...

2012-08-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: > I'm debating whether to create a specific kernel for each type of > network card the 64 bit machines that I want to netboot have or a > single initial ram file system and a single modular kernel to go > with that for all of them. I'd go for a single kernel with modules,

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7.0: LFS booted successfuly: Few clarifications on Section 8.4: GRUB

2012-08-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
chen wang wrote: > 2012/8/19 Emerson Yesupatham >> Now question is, Can I use this type configuration (that is Two hard >> disks) to proceed with BLFS/CLFS? Yes. Very few applications care where a specific partition is mounted. that is it doesn't matter if / is mounted on hda, sdb, or some o

Re: [lfs-support] glibc pass 2 chapter-6

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > Sorry, I'M talking about glibc in chapter 6. As for the directory > names, I don't recall using spaces, I did use _ where spaces would > have been but I don't remember using any spaces. So is there a good > reason I I never got my FLAG file or got GOOD echoed to the screen

Re: [lfs-support] LFS chapter 5.9 binutils pass 2 fails on make install step

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
daveLin wrote: > Hi, > > LFS stable version 7.0 and my host system is Ubuntu lts 12. > > While running the "make install" step on Binutils-2.21.1a - > Pass 2 chapter 5.9 > i'm getting errors. > > Here is the log output > > ../../binutils-2.21.1/libiberty/../include/demangle.h > ../../binutils-2.21.

Re: [lfs-support] glibc pass 2 chapter-6

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > I have deviated from the book just a little. Instead of just typing > the commands I'M placing all the commands for each page in a script > called bld and running the script. In the script I'M appending each > line with && so what each line will not proceed unless the prev

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: >>> Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. >>> >>> I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group and >>> changed permissions but when I run:- >>> >>> su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TE

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

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > I sent an email to lfs-support but it's awaiting moderator approval. > It had an attachment, I think it was less than 1MB. Any ideas on when > or if the email will be approved? I really need some help here guys, > thanks. Put the file into pastebin.com and send us the lin

Re: [lfs-support] I post

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > I sent and email to the lfs support mail list over an hour ago and it > has never appeared in my inbox, is this normal? I don't know about hotmail, but gmail does not echo back messages you send. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support F

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. > > I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group and > changed permissions but when I run:- > > su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes -k check || true" > > It retur

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> On a fresh LFS svn system, I can do >> >> $ TZ=EST date;date;date -u >> Thu Aug 16 23:56:26 EST 2012 >> Fri Aug 17 04:56:26 GMT 2012 >> Fri Aug 17 04:56:51 UTC 2012

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck at Bash 5.16

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: >> Dear, you do realize that if you had read the page describing the >> host requirements first, you would not have landed in this >> predicament? And even so, you do realize that most of the people on >> the list prefer that you do a little more to help yourself first >> before asking

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

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:53:38AM -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: >> That would depend on how far back you're interested in going, and >> how much you're willing to look into it. For compatibility with most >> things, you would be interested in getting a "i386-pc-linux-gnu" >> targ

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:42:26AM +0300, Markku Pesonen wrote: >> >> I think the problem may lie in the way LFS installs the tzdata package. >> Glibc 2.15 (and earlier) installed timezone data without leap second >> information in /usr/share/zoneinfo and /usr/share/zoneinfo/pos

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > On another subject, and a minor issue, the tzdata package in the > SVN-20120816 build instructions is version "e" but the package downloaded > from the LFS repository is version "c" The best place to get the tz data is http://www.iana.org//time-zones/repository/releases

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lewis Pike wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Yes. That's due to a change in timezone data and adding leap >> seconds in glibc. The tests have not caught up with the changes. >> Look at the output of the tests: >> >> -File /lost+found (inode #11, mod time Mo

Re: [lfs-support] Dazed and Confused

2012-08-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: > I never set $LFS_TGT. > > I assume one of the command from the book did? Well, reading the whole book is a requirement: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter04/settingenvironment.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lewis Pike wrote: > I'm getting some failures during the e2fsprogs test suite in part 3 of > LFS Version SVN-20120806; revision 9930, to be exact. > > This seems related to ticket #3146 [1] in the bug reports. The report > indicates that the issue has been fixed in svn r9926 with the upgrade > to

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck 6.49...

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 17:29 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Michael Robinson wrote: >>> I don't have pkg-config installed, I wonder what I missed? >> >> What's your error? We can't help without details. > LFS Book 7.1 c

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck 6.49...

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: > I don't have pkg-config installed, I wonder what I missed? What's your error? We can't help without details. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above informati

Re: [lfs-support] NFS root...

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: > I plan on running my LFS system NFS root. Are there special boot time > scripts that are meant for NFS root? I'm building LFS for booting via > PXE, so I plan on skipping installation of grub. The purpose of this > Linux system is to facilitate bare metal recovery. Has

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

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
x yy wrote: > Hi! > > I had been using LFS for half a year until I realized that keeping it > up-to-date is a pain. I feel I'd like to have some hard work again:), > so now I'm trying to upgrade that system. As far as I know It could > be a failure, but definately not an easy task... I'm confus

Re: [lfs-support] Dazed and Confused

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: > Hello all, > > I am at 5.8 Adjusting the Tools chain. > > ... and I am really confused. > > Here is the command: > > SPECS=`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs > $LFS_TGT-gcc -dumpspecs | sed \ -e 's@/lib\(64\)\?/ld@/tools&@g' \ > -e "/^\*cpp:$/{n;s,$, -isystem /t

Re: [lfs-support] Error at GlibC

2012-08-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Eleanore Boyd wrote: > 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; \ >> >> mak

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc chapter 6 stuck...

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 20:38 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Michael Robinson wrote: >>> root:/# DL=$(readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n >>> 's@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]$@\1@p') >>> bash: command substitution: line 45: syntax err

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc chapter 6 stuck...

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: > root:/# DL=$(readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n 's@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]$@\1@p') > bash: command substitution: line 45: syntax error near unexpected token `)' > bash: command substitution: line 45: `readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n > 's@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]$@\1@p')' > root

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7.0:Section 8.3: Linux 3.1 Compilation.

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Emerson Yesupatham wrote: > Hi Team, > > I am currently working on Section 8.3 of Book 7.0. Section is about Linux > 3.1 compilation. > > I am new to kernel compilation from Scratch. Book recommends to do the > kernel compilation from Scratch, is there any online material to go through > or I shoul

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: >> Just went through this step in linux mint 32bit in vmware and found >>> no issues. >>> >>> That's because it's an intermittent bug. I've just had the same >>> problem using Linux Mint Cinnamon 64 bit. Sometimes the error >>> message appears and sometimes it doesn't. If

Re: [lfs-support] Google Chrome disappears after running script to remove $LFS/dev/shm symlink

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: >> Richard Melville wrote: >>> Can anybody tell me why the above happens? I'm using Chrome on the host >> to >>> follow the book. Chrome won't restart and I'm now using Firefox. I >>> noticed that the symlink was also removed from the host /dev directory; >> >> If LFS is

Re: [lfs-support] Why system accounts bin, nobody not in locked status?

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: > When I try to login my lfs with user name sshd. I found this message > in /var/log/auth.log . > > Aug 13 15:05:10 lfs_xxx sshd[5674]: User sshd not allowed because > account is locked > > But when I use bin and nobody, I didn't get this message. And there > are some different in /et

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 15:37 PM, Keiran wrote: > >> --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu >> --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu > > > What happened to your LFS_TGT variable? Are you using the lfs user? > Make sure you are the lfs user and your environment is set up r

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Keiran wrote: >> That tells me that gcc is not installed or binutils wasn't installed >> correctly. What is the output of the script in Section iii - Host >> System Requirements? > bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release > Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22 > bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 > bzip2, Versio

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Keiran wrote: > Hello, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to mail with this Yes, this is the right list. > When trying to compile GCC at Chapter 5.5, I get this error, and no > amount of Googling has been able to solve it. > > configure: error: in `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/lto-plugin': >

Re: [lfs-support] Google Chrome disappears after running script to remove $LFS/dev/shm symlink

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Can anybody tell me why the above happens? I'm using Chrome on the host to > follow the book. Chrome won't restart and I'm now using Firefox. I > noticed that the symlink was also removed from the host /dev directory; If LFS is not defined in the environment you used,

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Whitequill Riclo wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Whitequill Riclo wrote: >> >>> I've been looking for this for a very long time, I have this problem too! >>> and I've had it for months, and months... I can'

Re: [lfs-support] installing packages from chapter 6.7 onwards

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Moe Derballa wrote: > > Hi guys just a quick question. When installing API headers in 6.7 and > all packages from there on, which user login is best to use. Root on > the host system or lfs user?? (or something else). Everything in Chapter 6 and later needs to be done as root. -- Bruce -- htt

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.6.2 on 32 bit Mint13 mpfr error

2012-08-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander Yartsev wrote: > I am sure that I have the mpfr, gmp and mpc in the gcc source folder, but I > get the following: > > *gcc configure command: > $LFS/sources/gcc-4.6.2/configure --target=$LFS_TGT --prefix=/tools > --disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-multilib --disable-decimal-float >

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Whitequill Riclo wrote: > I've been looking for this for a very long time, I have this problem too! > and I've had it for months, and months... I can't figure it out. Which problem? We need your specific details in order to help. Also the output from the Host System Requirements script is ofte

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Hi Bruce > > I've now completed the temp build successfully, but digging around in the > file system to try and track down that error I've noticed that I have the > following directories under $LFS/tools (in addition to all the others of > course):- > > x86_64-lfs-linux-gn

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: >>> Everything has built fine up to this stage and the sanity checks were OK. >>> MPFR and GMP have compiled OK with the libraries installed in .libs. I've >>> even checked to make sure that the MPFR libraries were 64 bit, and now >> I've >>> run out of ideas. I'd be really

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > I realise that I'm building the dev edition, but my host is Linux Mint > Cinnamon 64 bit and the host requirements appeared to fit better. Also it > looked as though the dev edition was at a reasonably stable stage. > > I'm building a 64 bit edition on a 64 bit host (OS an

Re: [lfs-support] Installing 'Binutils' -- './configure' No such file or directory

2012-08-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Christopher Adams wrote: > I've run into a problem trying to configure the 'binutils' package. > > Note: I'm working on Section 5.3.1 (Compiling Binutils) of LFS version 6.3; LFS 6.3? That's 3 years old and 7 releases ago. It's not supported any more. Try LFS-7.1. -- Bruce -- http://linu

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7.0: Section 6.22: E2fsprogs - Test failure

2012-08-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Emerson Yesupatham wrote: > Hi Team, > > I am seeing a test fauilure in LFS-Boot-7.0, Section 6.22 > (E2fsprogs-1.41.14). > > Out of 107 tests, 1 test got failed. > > I have checked the reference test logs present at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/7.0/core2duo/test-logs/085-e2fspr

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

2012-07-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Eleanore Boyd wrote: > 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 >> e

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 : error during udev-181 compilation

2012-07-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Denis Mugnier wrote: > Hello ;o) > > A french LFS has the following trouble with the compilation of udev-181 : > > CCsrc/src_udevadm-udev-builtin-blkid.o > src/udev-builtin-blkid.c:84:30: error: unknown type name 'blkid_probe' > src/udev-builtin-blkid.c: In function 'builtin_blkid': > src/u

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

2012-07-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
avinash kumar wrote: > I get these errors when i run tests after Make: > make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/posix/bug-regex32.out] Error 1 > make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) > make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-attr3.out] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [/source

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 Chapter 6.7 "bash: /tools/bin/perl: No such file or directory"

2012-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daniel Cremer wrote: > Similar output: > root:/# ldd /tools/bin/perl > /tools/bin/ldd: line 126: /tools/bin/perl: No such or directory Then perl did not get installed in Chapter 5 or you did't have ln -sv $LFS/tools / set up properly. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 Chapter 6.7 "bash: /tools/bin/perl: No such file or directory"

2012-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daniel Cremer wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > root:/# ldd /usr/bin/perl > results in: > /tools/bin/ldd: line 126: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory Sorry. ldd /tools/bin/perl -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.ht

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 Chapter 6.7 "bash: /tools/bin/perl: No such file or directory"

2012-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daniel Cremer wrote: > Hello lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > > In Chapter 6.7 of the LFS book I got an error while > "make headers_check" > It says "/usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory". > > But the file is there (in chroot environment): > root:/# ls -la /tools/bin/perl > results in: > -rwx

Re: [lfs-support] Filesystem changes and systemd

2012-07-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > On 07/24/2012 06:14 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >> >> When I finish my "project" I would like to dive into the init scripts and see >> if I can make them LSB compliant. > > Already done. You only need to add initd-tools from BLFS for the > bootscripts part of LSB. There are other things,

Re: [lfs-support] Filesystem changes and systemd

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > BTW this "issue" with udev in my opinion is to insure systemd control over all > linux distros. The good thing about open source is that we can change things to be the way we want. lfs-svn can build udev from the systemd sources in about 10 seconds. It's was a little work

Re: [lfs-support] Filesystem changes and systemd

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > Some distributions are doing the following: > > > moving all the files in /bin to /usr/bin then symlinking /bin to /usr/bin > moving all the files in /sbin to /usr/bin then symlinking /sbin to /usr/sbin > moving all the files in /lib to /usr/lib then symlinking /lib to /usr/lib >

Re: [lfs-support] GRUB problems

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lázaro Morales wrote: > But the question is, How can I install > grub to the lfs partition? I can't boot into it. You need to boot from another device, dvd, usb, etc. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubs

Re: [lfs-support] GMP 5.0.4 cmpilation - chapter 6.14 - LFS version 7.1

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Israel Silberg wrote: > Hi all, > I'm a first time LFS maker. > when I try to run the ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-cxx --enable-mpbsd > I get the following output: > > checking C++ compiler g++ -g -O2... no > configure: error: C++ compiler not available, see config.log for details You eith

Re: [lfs-support] GRUB problems

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lázaro Morales wrote: > Hello, > > After completing LFS 7.1 the partitions layout was: > > Filesystem TypeDescription > -- --- > sda2 ext3Host system > sda3 ext3LFS > sda1 swapSWAP > > And the

Re: [lfs-support] Q: Is the map between physical SATA disks and GRUB2's hd fixed?

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
D.Dreschers wrote: > At 20.07.2012 22:16, Jeremy Henty wrote: > You can avoid all the hassle about device mapping by using UUID's. That is offset by the requirement for an initrd. UUIDs are not handled natively by the kernel. We do have instructions about how to create an initrd in BLFS. You

Re: [lfs-support] cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory GCC- PASS 2

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Moe Derballa wrote: > > Hi there. I am working from the latest LFS book online using Linux Mint > 32-bit. > I've followed the instructions letter for letter but seem to get an error > compiling gcc - Pass 2. > > /tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory > coll

Re: [lfs-support] grub-mkdevicemap no more?

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gordon Findlay wrote: > The grub-mkdevicemap utility seems to have disappeared from GRUB-2.00. > > This from the NEWS file: > > * grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of >any grub utility. > > It is referenced in sections 6.47, 8.4 of version SVN-20120719 > > Is

Re: [lfs-support] Q: Is the map between physical SATA disks and GRUB2's hd fixed?

2012-07-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Henty wrote: > > Can I be sure that GRUB2's hd0, hd1 etc. will always correspond to the > same physical SATA connectors on the motherboard, no matter what > hardware I plug in? (I know from experience that /dev/sda does not > always map to the same connector.) If not, how can I

Re: [lfs-support] Broken links for man-pages-3.35.tar.gz and zlib-1.2.6.tar.bz2 in wget-list

2012-07-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Christian Paro wrote: > I found the same version of the man-pages package in another location after > checking the man7.org home page: > > "http://man7.org/linux/download/man-pages/man-pages-3.35.tar.gz"; should now > be "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-3.35.tar.gz"; > > ..

Re: [lfs-support] Hard links

2012-07-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > On Monday, July 16, 2012 08:09:23 PM Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Baho Utot wrote: >>> One could do this >>> >>> echo "test file" > test >>> ln test link1 >>> ln test link2 >>> ln link1 link3 >>> >

Re: [lfs-support] Hard links

2012-07-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > One could do this > > echo "test file" > test > ln test link1 > ln test link2 > ln link1 link3 > > ls -i > > 1333952 test 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952 link3 > > rm test > ls -i > 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952 link3 > > Doesn't link[1..3] point to "no where" or garb

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

2012-07-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Eleanore Boyd wrote: > The compilation process creates the hard links, so there is no need to > manually create links. Correct. > If anything, creating links beforehand may cause > errors due to the links pointing nowhere. LOL. You can't create a hard link that points to nowhere. You could c

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel is not booting

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: > Hi, > > I have install linux kernel-3.2.6 from inside chroot to lfs system. > During boot, it displays /etc/fstab /etc/mtab not found or something. > This is the /etc/fstab: > /dev/sdb8 /ext4defaults1 1 > /dev/sdb6 swap swap defa

Re: [lfs-support] Can't change root password

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Эмиль Кранц wrote: > the line "passwd: password changed" says otherwise > you have changed your password. > there will be no visible indications of changing password. > try to log in Better, look at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You should see something like: /etc/passwd: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/b

Re: [lfs-support] Can't do "df -h", but coreutils is installed successfully

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rick Shelton wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:57 PM, gmspro wrote: >> I have a problem running df command. >> >> df -h >> df: cannot read table of mounted file systems >> >> man df , displays/shows the manual. >> >> Where is the problem? >> What should i do? > I think the error message was mis

Re: [lfs-support] Charpter 7.7.2 Changing Run Levels ' question

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
钱 枫 wrote: > Hello, I came across a little problem in the making progross of LFS > 7.1. In the book charpter 7.7.2 "Changing Run Levels", it metions > "There are a number of directories under /etc/rc.d that look like rc?.d > (where ? is the number of the run-level) and rcsysinit.d, all containing

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

2012-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
钱 枫 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 I indeed install

Re: [lfs-support] four questions after doing LFS

2012-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Yasser Zamani wrote: > Hi there, After doing LFS, I have four questions which may every body > ask him or herself at finish of LFS: How to save a checkpoint to 1) > recover and then redo in case of feauture mistkes or 2) deploying LFS > to architectural same other machines? I myself tared all file

Re: [lfs-support] Problem following LFS Version 7.1 - 6.7 Linux-3.2.6 API Header

2012-07-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Toby Ferguson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:18 PM, spiky wrote: >> Also can you not top post it,s prefered to post at the end so ppl can >> follow > OK - thanks for the speedy reply - I guess you mean I should post down > here? ... Yes, but you need to trim away non-relevant parts too.

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