Re: autoconf. make error

2006-04-02 Thread Chris Staub
Faheem Mohammed wrote: i redid the install all the tests ran okay but i got a warning saying that there is perl in /tools/lib/perl5/ beyond the scope of the installation.. how can i fix this?... Faheem What do you mean you redid the install? The install for perl or Autoconf? --

Re: Problem with mount, umount or more...

2006-04-03 Thread Chris Staub
laurent wrote: Chris Staub wrote: The host distro is fine. You probably forgot the sed command in chap. 5 util-linux instructions. Using scripts is not a problem - what is a problem is when you don't put all the correct commands in the scripts, and that must be what you did. Sorry Chris

Re: Problem with mount, umount or more...

2006-04-03 Thread Chris Staub
laurent wrote: Chris Staub wrote: laurent wrote: Sorry Chris, but I make the sed command! In bash sripts or by hand directly but nothing change! AAARRRGG!! No you did not, or what you typed was incorrect. Please attach the script you used. ok, in this script i

Re: Problem with mount, umount or more...

2006-04-03 Thread Chris Staub
laurent wrote: Chris Staub wrote: laurent wrote: ok, in this script i test at the end if mount was linked with the good interpreter... echo Test cd $installdir readelf -l /mnt/lfs/tools/bin/mount | grep interpreter

Re: Compile problem with module-init-tools

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Staub
Dan Nicholson wrote: Missing libz.a is your problem. Go back to the zlib section and make sure you follow the instructions to create both a shared and a static library. Then you should be able to return to module-init-tools and continue. -- Dan In addition, you should also rebuild the File

Re: Compile problem with module-init-tools

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: You are seriously close to being told that you are too inexperienced to build an LFS system. The error you are getting is one of the most elementary things in all of Linux. The error message you get even tells you what to do to fix it. Yet, you send in mail to the support

Re: cannot untar after install of bzip2-1.0.2, page 188 of LFS-6.0

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Staub
Niels Larsen wrote: Conc. LFS 6.0 I am using Debian Sarge 3.1 as host. Everything went well until I should install diffutils-2.8.1.tar.bz2 Nothing to do with diffutils...the problem is bzip2. Is this right after you installed the tar package? Or after bzip2? Here is a screen

Re: toolchain readjstment problems

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am experiencing difficulty with the toolchan readjustment. The attached file describes the problem. (I am using the current LFS development.) root:/# mv -v /tools/bin/{ld,ld-old} `/tools/bin/ld' - `/tools/bin/ld-old' root:/# mv -v /tools/$(gcc

Re: toolchain readjstment problems

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Staub wrote: root:/# cc dummy.c -Wl,--verbose dummy.log root:/# readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib' readelf: Error: 'a.out': No such file root:/# It seems gcc isn't working, but this output doesn't really help. Please paste the contents of dummy.log. And of course, does /tools/bin/cc

Re: Section 5.7

2006-04-30 Thread Chris Staub
elmarsa dice wrote: I am having some problems in understanding where to put the Linux Headers. Sections 5.4 and 5.5 are pretty clear that they go into the -build directories but it is not clear into which directory Linux-2.6.8.1 is to be placed. The book is unclear to me when it says ...,set

Re: LFS 6.1.1: chroot need to exited prior to running grub?

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: Section 8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable says to start the grub shell and issue a command like root (hd0,3). The root command, however, cannot mount the partition since we have not yet exited the chroot environment and grub cannot find any hard drives. Is this right,

Re: Section 5.7

2006-05-03 Thread Chris Staub
elmarsa dice wrote: Please read section 5.1 carefully. It tells you that all package installation instructions assume that you have unpacked the source tarball and entered the source dir. I have read it carefully and I think this is where I have my problem. I understand I need to enter the

Re: LFS 6.1.1: how do I log into LFS?

2006-05-03 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: How do I log into LFS after build and reboot? You type your username and password. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.1.1: how do I log into LFS?

2006-05-04 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: Well, what is the password if I have missed to set it in 6.54.3? It is whatever you want it to be. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: udevsettle not found

2006-05-06 Thread Chris Staub
Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: Hi, all! I've finished the LFS build but when booting into it I have the error message like /sbin/udevsettle: no such file or directory. I found /sbin/udevsettle call in lfs-bootscripts but the file needed doesn't exist in udev-088 package though udevd and

Re: LFS 6.1.1: version 0 swap is no longer supported

2006-05-07 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: Yes, I have run mkswap -v /dev/hda1 run it without the -v Without any options it will default to the new type (From Man Page) Well, the LFS book says, it must be with -v. Nope, in this case the book is wrong. It was assumed the -v was a verbose option (as it is for

Re: LFS 6.1.1: a coreutils test fails as user dummy

2006-05-08 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: I ran the tests in section 3 - Building the LFS System. All coreutils tests passed as user root. One test failed as user dummy and some were not run. There seem to be some problems with the glibc and gcc tests as well. Are these problem fatal? May I safely ignore them?

Re: LFS 6.1.1: glibc test fails

2006-05-10 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: What does it mean if a glibc test fails with: GCONV_PATH=/builds/glibc-2.3.4/iconvdata LC_ALL=C /builds/glibc-2.3.4/elf/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path

Re: LFS 6.1.1: glibc test fails

2006-05-10 Thread Chris Staub
Pasted directly from section 6.11... Test the results: make -k check glibc-check-log 21 grep Error glibc-check-log The Glibc test suite is highly dependent on certain functions of the host system, in particular the kernel. In general, the Glibc test suite is always expected to pass.

Re: LFS 6.1.1: glibc test fails

2006-05-10 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: The glibc page (in LFS 6.1.1) does in fact list several tests that are known to fail. Honestly, I cannot figure out which tests you are talking about. I looked both at section 5.6 and 6.11. Pasted directly from section 6.11... Test the results: make -k check

Re: LFS 6.1.1: glibc test fails

2006-05-10 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: No need to...just accept that some tests will fail for that reason, and continue. OK, if you say so. I think LFS 6.1.1 does noe mention any reason why a test may fail. It would probably be fine if it does so in upcoming releases. The glibc page (in LFS 6.1.1) does in

Re: LFS 6.1.1: glibc test fails

2006-05-10 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: This is mentioned in the book. It says that some tests are known to time out. Well, can I increase the timeout period so that I know whether or not the test passes? No need to...just accept that some tests will fail for that reason, and continue. --

Re: LFS 6.1.1: coreutils tests as user dummy: touch: setting times of `/': Permission denied

2006-05-17 Thread Chris Staub
Dave Abergel wrote: snip == 1 of 10 tests failed Please report to bug-coreutils@gnu.org == May I safely ignore this failure? http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-dev/2003-October/039044.html

Re: LFS 6.1.1: coreutils tests as user dummy: touch: setting times of `/': Permission denied

2006-05-17 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Staub [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:39 PM Subject: Re: LFS 6.1.1: coreutils tests as user dummy: touch: setting times of `/': Permission denied

Re: LFS 6.1.1 on PPC

2006-05-19 Thread Chris Staub
Aurel wrote: hello, did someone manage build a LFS system on a Mac or other PPC computer ? You want Cross-LFS for that. Look at trac.cross-lfs.org. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: Is bash history available in chapter 6?

2006-06-01 Thread Chris Staub
Barrie Stott wrote: 1. Should I expect bash history to work without problem at this point? I ask this because I already have an example where bash is not working normally. Outside of lfs I can type the following and the bell rings: echo $'\a'. I wanted to use this with lfs to tell me when some

Re: No gcc in chrooted environment

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Dexter Stowers wrote: Hi, I am using LFS 6.1.1 on Fedora Core 5. I have completed everything to the letter thus far, once I entered the chrooted environment and I reached 6.11 Glibc-2.3.4 and I prepared Glibc for compilation I got errors that gcc was not found

Re: Are the gcc build files still needed after section 5.4?

2006-06-04 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LFSers, Reading through the book, it isn't clear to me whether the gcc working files can be deleted at the end of section 5.4 in the book (v6.1.1). It should be clear since it's stated in Section 5.1... After installing each package, delete its source and

Re: Are the gcc build files still needed after section 5.4?

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Staub
steve crosby wrote: On 6/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion of hard vs soft links is way outside the scope of this email thread - suffice it to say the two are very different, and have different rules (both in how they work, and in how they are created). Hope that

Re: GCC 4.0.3 fails to compile Chapter 6.12

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Whitacre wrote: I've found several references to it with no apparent fixes and was wondering has anyone fixed/worked out the issue yet.. My findings are and I do not know what the outcome of this would be is it has something to do with the patch. If I make a new fresh directory of

Re: GCC 4.0.3 fails to compile Chapter 6.12

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Whitacre wrote: Oh, one other issue I had (which I only found one reference to) was installing GlibC for some reason when I done the stripping portion of chapter 5 it hosed all the libraries as well the executables ar, as, and some others, the second attempt of building LFS I skipped that

Re: XFree86 installation ...

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Staub
Jamie Risk wrote: I've seen the test screen for the X installation, so all seems to be going well with LFS 6.1.1. and BLFS 6.1. However, when I break out of the test screen (ctl-alt-bkspc) I see an error: ... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: error while loading shared \ libraries:

Re: Binutils-Build

2006-06-17 Thread Chris Staub
baldo wrote: so i change the .. to $LFS/sources/ and it seems to work (is this correct?!) everything seems to go fine but at the end i get the following errors make[3]: Entering directory `/binutils-build/gas/doc' rm -f gasver.texi echo '@set VERSION 2.15.94.0.2.2' gasver.texi touch as.1

Re: glibc-2.3.4 make error gconv.o

2006-06-19 Thread Chris Staub
Steven Vancoillie wrote: Hi, This is my first post on lfs-support and mailing lists in general. (I did read the netiquette and stuff). Just for information: this is also my first try at setting up lfs. Following the LFS-book 6.1.1, in chapter 5.6 I tried to compile glibc-2.3.4 with gcc.4.0.3

Re: LFS 6.1.1 problem with glibc

2006-06-27 Thread Chris Staub
David Barron wrote: I'm going through the book, everything has been going fine up until now. However, when I issue the ../glibc-2.3.4/configure --prefix-/usr --disable-profile --enable-add-ons --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc, it runs for a while then fails with checking for

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm using gcc-4.1.1 to build the tool chain, while it blocked at pass 2, and gcc reported no limits.h was found. my patch to gcc source: in gcc/configure: change STMP_FIXINC=stmp-fixinc to STMP_FIXINC= in gcc/cppdefaults.h: added #undef STANDARD_INCLUDE_DIR

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks . i did have problem with expect-5.44.1, which require tkConfig.sh to be present, and after install tk it seemed ok, expect was not used much up to now, so there's little chance for me to find it, nor did i noticed the claim on expect site. i do want to try

Re: Glibs

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Staub
lfs wrote: Somebody faced such problem? Does /tools/include/asm exist, and have those files in it? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Glibs

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Staub
lfs wrote: Здравствуйте, Chris. Вы писали 30 июня 2006 г., 21:55:45: No In a directory/tools/include/at me a directory/linux/ In it all headers I have unpacked linux-libc-headers-2.6.11.2.tar.bz2 in the created directory /linux-headers Here result

Re: Glibs

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Staub wrote: lfs wrote: Здравствуйте, Chris. Вы писали 30 июня 2006 г., 21:55:45: No In a directory/tools/include/at me a directory/linux/ In it all headers I have unpacked linux-libc-headers-2.6.11.2.tar.bz2 in the created directory /linux-headers Here result /linux-headers/linux

Re: Glibs

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Staub
1 wrote: Yes you are right I have forgotten a command cp-Rv include/asm-i386/tools/include/asm I shall try to be attentive Many thanks Is this correct? You did cp -Rv include/linux /tools/include? If so, this is wrong, and is probably the reason why you're having problems. If it is not

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

2006-07-02 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, steve crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, f. l. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#define DYNAMIC_LINKER /tool/lib/ld-linux.so.2 assuming it's not a typo, this should be tools, not tool, correct? no , its not a typo, i use a different prefix /tool =

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

2006-07-03 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/3/06, Chris Staub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't do that. You must use /tools. It doesn't matter what $LFS is and what /tools points to, but it MUST be /tools. -- i think its ok to use /tool , as long as its point to /lfs/tool and even /_anything_ will work

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

2006-07-03 Thread Chris Staub
kriss wrote: can you tell how you make gcc-4.1.1 pass1 ? cause in it the doc say that bootstrap don't work anymore I've run make bootstrap on GCC 4.1.1 many times. Where exactly does it say this? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

2006-07-03 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems fixinc.sh have been run, and thus caused this problem, maybe i have to modify the Makefile.in No, the problem is you are ignoring the book's instructions and doing your own thing. Did you even bother reading even one word I wrote? If you aren't going to listen

Re: vga=795 kernel option

2006-07-03 Thread Chris Staub
Steven Vancoillie wrote: Hi, I managed to install my first LFS system, hoera. I put a kernel option vga=795 in the grub boot menu, but this doesn't seems to work. I looked in BLFS, but couldn't find anything. Is there an obvious reason why this doesn't work? Do I have to change something in

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

2006-07-03 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, thanks for your reply, really. but i think the problem is not as described by you. as you know, instruction on the lfs-book are some sort of road map, as long as you know what you are doing, you can do your own stuff, surely. to this topic, the problem is that

Re: No ptys. Wrong kernel config?

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Staub
Paul G Rogers wrote: I'm building binutils in Ch6 and can't make binutils because there are no ptys. I've checked the things in the FAQ, and most seem OK. I depart from the book by installing /dev on the real FS, rather than a tempfs. What exactly do you mean by that last sentence? But I

Re: Kernel patching

2006-07-20 Thread Chris Staub
Paul G Rogers wrote: I've just installed 2.6.11.12 with LFS-6.1.1. I want to bring the kernel current. I thought patch-12 would be approproate but it had many rejects and I saw a few reversed or already applied fly by. What's the appropriate path to patch the kernel? Paul Rogers ([EMAIL

Re: Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.12.0 - 'permission denied' problem

2006-07-24 Thread Chris Staub
david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, I am using the x86-6.2-pre5 of official LFS LiveCD (it has nvidia graphics support). As a beginner I have been following the instructions to the letter - only improvising when instructions are absent, such as where I should be unpacking and configuring, etc. -

Re: LFS Version 6.2 - Binutils-2.16.1 - Pass 1 - compilation fails

2006-08-05 Thread Chris Staub
Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote: Hi everyone! Now, that LFS-BOOK 6.2 is out I did a new try on LFS. I am using Debian testing (etch) and here the problem starts. The system has some tools in an version to new for the book. I am writing some scripts for my LFS build. Here is the output of my

Re: LFS Version 6.2 - Binutils-2.16.1 - Pass 1 - compilation fails

2006-08-06 Thread Chris Staub
Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote: Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 16:18 schrieb Randy McMurchy: Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote these words on 08/05/06 09:03 CST: I am writing some scripts for my LFS build. I would abandon that effort until you know it works by simply following the book. People asking

Re: LFS Version 6.2 - Binutils-2.16.1 - Pass 1 - compilation fails

2006-08-06 Thread Chris Staub
Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote: Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 16:09 schrieb Chris Staub: More information is needed. What do you mean failed GCC build? Is this binutils pass 1 or pass 2? Well, as in the reference said: first pass Then, as I said before - what failed GCC build are you talking

Re: LFS Version 6.2 - Binutils-2.16.1 - Pass 1 - compilation fails

2006-08-06 Thread Chris Staub
Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote: Am Sonntag, 6. August 2006 13:11 schrieb Chris Staub: Then, as I said before - what failed GCC build are you talking about? Binutils is the first package installed, so you shouldn't have built GCC yet. What exactly are you referring to? The first try (with LFS

Re: Problem with building Perl-5.8.8 in section 6.2.2

2006-08-10 Thread Chris Staub
Don Clarke wrote: Thanks to everyone for the responses. I've solved the problem and I think I know what caused it and what the solution was. I think the problem was caused by running the following in the LFS: ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \ -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \

Re: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop.

2006-08-15 Thread Chris Staub
Юрий Деханов wrote: Problem with 5.11.1. Re-installation of GCC I cannot compile GCC. When I enter make command I get this error: make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop. Help me. You probably didn't run configure, or it failed with an error. --

Re: LFS 6.2 Chapter 6 step 6.9 glibc-2.3.6 configure can't link to gcc

2006-08-20 Thread Chris Staub
Mike Murfin wrote: Hi. When I run the configure script, it fails with the message: error: cannot compute suffix of object files In config.log, I have: configure:2361: checking for gcc configure:2377: found /tools/bin/gcc configure:2387: result: gcc configure:2631: checking for C compiler

Re: cannot execute /bin/bash : No such file or Directory exists

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Staub
yogesh prabhu wrote: Dear all, This is my first email to the groups with the error ... i am stuck atlast !! I had finished my LFS installation... compiled my kernel too... installed the grub then i rebooted with my beauty grub into my distro LFS 6.1 everything went well i

Re: package users: re-adjusting the toolchain

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: As what user should I re-adjust the toolchain in Ch. 6 of LFS 6.1.1? If you need to ask this, you shouldn't be using package users. Besides, the whole toolchain readjustment only affects stuff in /tools, so it doesn't make any difference what user you use. --

Re: package users: re-adjusting the toolchain

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Staub
Brandon Peirce wrote: Angel Tsankov wrote: For LFS 6.1.1 the instructions says Install the adjusted linker by running the following command from within the binutils-build directory: The make -C ld ... install command is different to the LFS 6.2 commands but is still manipulating (in 6.1.1

Re: package users: re-adjusting the toolchain

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Staub
Brandon Peirce wrote: Why root? Of course you can always achieve this with root, but that's kind of missing the point of package users technique, (and also violating principle of least privelege). I concede that the motivation for why you would use the package users technique in the first

Re: package users: re-adjusting the toolchain

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Staub wrote: You're not *supposed* to be using package users in chapter 5. It's only in chapter 6. The only package installed using package users so far should be glibc. From the hint: Build Chapter 5 exactly as explained by the LFS book. There is only one little change you have

Re: package users: re-adjusting the toolchain

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: You're not *supposed* to be using package users in chapter 5. It's only in chapter 6. The only package installed using package users so far should be glibc. Why glibc only?! What about Linux Libc headers and Man pages - the hint recommends to install them using PU?

Re: Binutils-2.15.91.0.2 - Pass 1

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Staub
Richard Caldwell wrote: Hi, I'm creating my first LFS system on Suse10.1 with book version 6.0(2nd edition). When running 'make install' for binutils-2.15.91.0.2 in chapter 5 I get the following error(s): /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/tools/lib/llibbfd.la' : Permission

Re: GCC-3.4.1-Pass1 problem

2006-10-01 Thread Chris Staub
Richard Caldwell wrote: Hi, I'm creating my first LFS system with a Suse10.1 host system using book version 6.0. I'm getting the following error when I run make BOOT_LDFLAGS=-static bootstrap * /tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:/usr/lib/libc.so: file format not recognized;

Re: Making the LFS from binaries in the host Linux

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Staub
Denis Silin wrote: Hello. Can I use in the LFS the compiler, libraries and other tools directly from my Linux, and not build them? Best regards, Alex I'm not sure what you mean. The whole point of LFS is to use the host system tools to build the LFS system. --

Re: package users: installing the linux package

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hello! I am using package users during an LFS installation and I wonder who should copy bzImage, System.map and .config to /boot: the package user used to build the linux package or the root user. In the former case should /boot be made an installation directory?

Re: problems in chapter 6

2006-10-15 Thread Chris Staub
Gijo wrote: Hi, I had some problems in chapter 6 (lfs6.2) and maybe someone can help me out, before i chroot, i did: echo 'main(){}' dummy.c cc dummy.c readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools' and got: [Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2] but after entering the chrooted

Re: Remake of LFS chapter 5

2006-10-17 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: compiling and installing everything went smooth, but I noticed I already have binaries when I issued the cp commands Ive been told to do. I figure I accidently left /tools untouched but thought that maybe the installation of the new binaries and libs would have the old

Re: unifdef in stable, not development?

2006-10-17 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive followed the guide so far using the packages of 6.2. In chapter 6.7 of the LFS book one should patch the headers with the unifdef. This doesnt apply to stable(6.2) right? ~djr If you're using 6.2, then you shouldn't even be seeing anything referring to unifdef. I

Re: Compiled OOffice - Now what ?

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Staub
Kevin Williams wrote: I tried searching thru' the forums/mailing lists of openoffice.org, I don't see any thread that is related to compiling openoffice. All the threads I see on openoffice.org are related to installing and setting up binary versions ! Fortunately enough, I stumbled upon a page

Re: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-26 Thread Chris Staub
Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:25:18AM -0500, Chris Staub wrote: No, it's not - it is completely unnecessary. $LFS/sources is only mentioned once in LFS (well, ok, twice...), and even then it's really just a suggestion - the source directory could be anywhere and called

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG) [SOLVED]

2006-12-02 Thread Chris Staub
Wit wrote: Wit wrote: Confirmed! I get the same results as you now. Executive summary: the text in the book can be interpreted to mean both commands (Configure and ./configure) should be run. I did that and the results caused the problem. The proper interpretation of the text is closer to

Re: No http/ftp program included in regular build?

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Staub
Colin Dean wrote: I recently finished a build of LFS 6.2, and quickly realized that there is no way to get the packages for BLFS or other packages from within a fresh built LFS environment. There's probably been discussion on this before, but I couldn't find anything when I search on

Re: edit makefile

2006-12-08 Thread Chris Staub
Arden wrote: In the 'more_control_and_pkg_man' hint, while installing Shadow, it suggests removing parts of a line in the makefile, what editor or command is available to do this? thanks, Arden --http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: edit makefile

2006-12-08 Thread Chris Staub
Arden wrote: On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Chris Staub wrote: Arden wrote: In the 'more_control_and_pkg_man' hint, while installing Shadow, it suggests removing parts of a line in the makefile, what editor or command is available to do this? thanks, Arden --http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: problems compiling gnome-print-0.37 because of machine type

2006-12-19 Thread Chris Staub
Arnie Stender wrote: Hi Ken, I'm running gnome-2 built from BLFS-svn-20060904 which is where I got the gnome-print from. Why did you think I was running gnome-1? Arnie That version of GNOME Print is in the list of GNOME 1.4 libs in BLFS. --

Re: extracting gcc-4.03.tar.bz2: no space left on device

2007-01-03 Thread Chris Staub
Max Tilford wrote: Hello I am running the LFS live CD 6.2 and following the book. I have gotten to chapter 5.4 without a hitch but when I try to uncompress gcc-4.0.3.tar.bz2 it produces a long string of errors saying cannot create directory '...' No space left on decice I am installing

Re: LFS 6.2 - 6.7.1. Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers

2007-01-15 Thread Chris Staub
Aleksandar Adam wrote: But you didn't tell us *what* error message you got, so nobody can give you a reasonable suggestion about what is wrong! Here comes output what went wrong: I used command: patch -Np1 -i ../linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0-inotify-3.patch | tee patch.txt and then I

Re: Proper choice of package management strategy

2007-01-18 Thread Chris Staub
bojster wrote: bojster wrote: Nadav Vinik wrote: The drawback is that you have to manually set files suid root (but on the other hand, it gives you more control over packages - you decide what should be suid) and that some packages need some tweaking, as their install process behaves

Re: jhalfs?

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Staub
Galaxy Travel wrote: How do you install this? Unpack the tarball and read the README. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: jhalfs?

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Staub
Galaxy Travel wrote: Unpack the tarball and read the README. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page I did that it says make menuconfig which I did then what? it dont tell

Re: NCURSES 5.6 BUG

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Staub
Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, at 08:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please specify what the bug is, and perhaps provide a link to the patch? I guess he is referring to include/MKhashsize.sh Particularly in the following variable. TABSIZE=`grep -v '^[ #]' $CAPS | grep -v ^$

Re: Udev Errors?

2007-02-14 Thread Chris Staub
Galaxy Travel wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Udev Errors? On 2/14/07, Galaxy Travel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having a couple

Re: first pass GCC bootstrap problem

2007-02-23 Thread Chris Staub
Nick Bowes wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:09 PM Subject: Re: first pass GCC bootstrap problem If it's your first time following the book, chances are that

Re: Coreutils - LFS 6.2

2007-02-25 Thread Chris Staub
Bartlomiej P. Lyson wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with running the test coreutils. My lfs version is 6.2. an example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /usr/sbin/useradd -m test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep test test:x:1001:1002::/home/test:/bin/bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

Re: Coreutils - LFS 6.2

2007-02-25 Thread Chris Staub
Bartlomiej P. Lyson wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with running the test coreutils. My lfs version is 6.2. an example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /usr/sbin/useradd -m test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep test test:x:1001:1002::/home/test:/bin/bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

Re: chroot chapter 6.6

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Staub
nick bowes wrote: Hi, I can't figure out what should happen in ch6.8. the first command your asked to run is make install but where should I run it from? should I be running it as root in the previously untared man-pages-2.42 dir? Sorry I know this should be obvious but as you will have

Re: Retrieving Packages from LiveCD after chroot

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Staub
John Rodenbiker wrote: Actually, it says Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stored somewhere that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. It goes on to say that a working directory will also be required and that $LFS/sources can work for both. The text does not

Re: 7.5. Configuring the setclock Script - no /etc/sysconfig

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Staub
Kai Ulrich wrote: Hey, in chapter I supose to create a /etc/sysconfig/clock file. by executing the comand cat /etc/sysconfig/clock EOF # Begin /etc/sysconfig/clock UTC=1 # End /etc/sysconfig/clock EOF i get the message, /etc/sysconfig/clock: No such file or directory

Re: GCC make install problem

2007-04-22 Thread Chris Staub
Bob Newell wrote: I am trying to build my LFS 6.2, and I am currently in section 5.4.1 (building GCC). So far I havent deviated from the book other than the mount point of my LFS sources. When I got to the make install command, here is what I get [EMAIL

Re: 6.9.1 Glibc-2.3.6 problems...

2007-05-29 Thread Chris Staub
Peter Santimauro wrote: After mkdir -v ../glibc-build and cd ../glibc-build, I tryed to run the configure script. I get the following as and output: ... the config.log says: ... configure:2631: checking for C compiler version configure:2634: gcc --version /dev/null 5

Re: 6.9.1 Glibc-2.3.6 problems...

2007-05-29 Thread Chris Staub
Peter Santimauro wrote: ls -l /bin/gcc returns lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 29 19:25 /bin/gcc - /tools/bin/gcc and ldd /bin/gcc /tools/bin/ldd: line 124: /bin/gcc: No such file or directory when under /tools/bin I ran 'ls | grep gcc' and got gcc gccbug i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Re: GCC pass 2

2007-05-29 Thread Chris Staub
jordan krohn wrote: I am on the second pass of gcc(5.11.1, p64) and i am having some problems. when i enter cp -v gcc/Makefile.in{,.orig} sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] true@' gcc/Makefile.in.orig gcc/Makefile.in it tells me no such file or directory. so where do i need to

Re: 5.7 Problems

2007-05-31 Thread Chris Staub
Spahn, Daniel wrote: Pete, I ran into this last week when I performed the installation. What I found was that I had to chown lfs:lfs the folders... also, you may need to re-check the chmod steps in the environment setup to make sure that directories are set as sticky, and that the LFS user

Re: building LFS gcc compilation problem

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all: This is my first post to the list, so let me say Hi to all and congratulation for such a great book, I allways think that build a linux system from point zero was a very dificulta task (I work with linux from 5 years ago), but your book is perfectly

Re: MD5SUMS File and script to read

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Staub
John Gnew wrote: Does anyone have a script that would read the MD5SUMS files and then verify the MD5s against each source file? John Isn't this what md5sum -c does? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: Binutils build and the user permissions

2007-07-23 Thread Chris Staub
kefir wrote: The binutils build as the lfs user fails: lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build$ time { ../binutils-2.16.1/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls make make install; } ... The $LFS directory listing and the permissions: lfs:/mnt/lfs$ ls -la total 36 drwxr-xr-x 5 root

Re: Error compiling binutils (chapter 6.11) with -O3 optimization flag

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Staub
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Hope this can be of some help. Maybe a note in the book ? Or maybe this is up to the user of the book to be aware of this ? I remember there were a few pages a while ago, in gcc, or glibc... to signal that optimization was know to break some packages... \bye I

Re: Error compiling binutils (chapter 6.11) with -O3 optimization flag

2007-08-02 Thread Chris Staub
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Le Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:23:15 -0400 Chris Staub [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : As for a note in the book - it already says on page 6.1 that compiling with optimizations can have unexpected results, and that the solution when you have problems with them is simply

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