Re: [lfs-support] configure package texinfo 5.2 failure

2014-04-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Aislan de Sousa Maia wrote: I can't configure this texinfo package because it complaint Perl and Encode module. Here is my output when issue the command: ./configure --prefix=/tools and output: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /tools/bin/install -c checking whether build

Re: [lfs-support] configure package texinfo 5.2 failure

2014-04-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Aislan de Sousa Maia wrote: Here is the version-check's output: bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release /bin/sh - /bin/bash Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22 bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 /usr/bin/yacc - /usr/bin/bison.yacc bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. Coreutils: 8.13 diff (GNU diffutils)

Re: [lfs-support] gcc-4.9.0 changes

2014-04-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 24/04/2014 17:28, Frans de Boer a écrit : Ok, followed the advises from ticket #3552, now binutils chapter 6 reports failures: Running /sources-bss/binutils-2.24/ld/testsuite/ld-plugin/lto.exp ... FAIL: PR ld/12758 FAIL: PR ld/12760 FAIL: LTO 3 symbol FAIL: PR

Re: [lfs-support] missing systemd out

2014-04-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
TheOldFellow wrote: Am I right in thinking that ACL, ATTR are not needed if systemd is being avoided? What else has had to be added so that systemd compiles? I'm also avoiding d-bus and sysklogd as I have better alternatives. You may find

Re: [lfs-support] ACL check errors: are they important?

2014-04-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 22/04/2014 17:51, Hazel Russman a écrit : On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:42:58 +0200 Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: It seems that the bin group membership of the daemon user is not needed. Could you confirm? Confirmed. It is also not necessary to set real

Re: [lfs-support] missing coreutils-8.22-shuf-segfault-1.patch

2014-04-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: 2014-04-23 11:39 GMT+08:00 Armin K. kre...@email.com: On 04/23/2014 05:15 AM, xinglp wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/coreutils-8.22-shuf-segfault-1.patch not found. There's only

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.5 - Chapter 6 - glibc patch

2014-04-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
loki wrote: the patch for glibc in Chapter 6 is missing in the tar package as well as in the download links. I see that it is missing in the tarball, but which download link are you referring to? It does appear to be missing from the 7.5 md5sums and wget-list files also. I'll fix that

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.5 - Chapter 6 - glibc patch

2014-04-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
loki wrote: On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 15:41 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: loki wrote: the patch for glibc in Chapter 6 is missing in the tar package as well as in the download links. I see that it is missing in the tarball, but which download link are you referring to? It does appear

Re: [lfs-support] binutils 2.24 Pass-2 (Section 5.9 version 7.5)

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mcgroder, James wrote: Discovered the variable CC was set incorrectly for my second pass binutils build. I assume I can simply re-execute the build with the correct setting(s) or are there things I should physically delete 1st? And if just a re-build is OK, is this true in general? My

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.5 Chapter 6.61. Util-linux-2.24.1

2014-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
baho utot wrote: On 04/06/2014 09:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: baho utot wrote: On 04/06/2014 08:33 PM, William Harrington wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 7:20 PM, baho utot wrote: the configure should be: ./configure --disable-nologin as nologin was previously installed by shadow Does util

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.5 Chapter 6.61. Util-linux-2.24.1

2014-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
baho utot wrote: On 04/07/2014 08:03 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Do you want to submit a patch? Attached is the patch LOL. That's html. The book is in xml docbook. I'll see what I can do. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.5 Chapter 6.61. Util-linux-2.24.1

2014-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Immendorf wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: LOL. That's html. The book is in xml docbook. I'll see what I can do. I've looked at the patch briefly. I'm pretty sure that using rm to remove an executable is a bad idea in a system

Re: [lfs-support] how about auto create udev-lfs-xxx.tar.bz2 automatically

2014-04-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: in lfs-book, do the following job: local udevlfs=$(grep udev-lfs-version packages.ent); udevlfs=${udevlfs#*\}; udevlfs=${udevlfs%\*} local udevlfsver=${udevlfs##*-} sed -i s/VERSION=.*/VERSION=${udevlfsver}/ udev-lfs/Makefile.lfs mv udev-lfs ${udevlfs} tar -Scaf

Re: [lfs-support] udev-lfs-20140305.tar.bz2 not found.

2014-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/udev-lfs-20140305.tar.bz2 Yes, it should be 20140306. I fixed that last night. The on-line version of the book is correct as well as the svn source. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.5 Chapter 6.61. Util-linux-2.24.1

2014-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
baho utot wrote: On 04/06/2014 08:33 PM, William Harrington wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 7:20 PM, baho utot wrote: the configure should be: ./configure --disable-nologin as nologin was previously installed by shadow Does util-linux nologin binary overwrite shadow's? If so, that is

Re: [lfs-support] linuxfromscratch.org web site

2014-04-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:27:12 +0100 From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] linuxfromscratch.org web site Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:16:24 -0400 From: baho utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com To: LFS

Re: [lfs-support] SVN-20140331 section 7.2.1

2014-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: Refers to udev (systemd) and not eudev. The instructions on eudev don't include creating /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules only /etc/udev/rules.d/55-lfs.rules Is it okay to use udev instructions from LFS 7.5 to create the database? Yes, it is. It need the

Re: [lfs-support] SVN-20140331 section 7.2.1

2014-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: On 4 April 2014 15:25, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Robin wrote: Refers to udev (systemd) and not eudev. The instructions on eudev don't include creating /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules only /etc/udev/rules.d/55-lfs.rules Is it okay to use udev

Re: [lfs-support] SVN-20140331 section 7.2.1

2014-04-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: Refers to udev (systemd) and not eudev. The instructions on eudev don't include creating /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules only /etc/udev/rules.d/55-lfs.rules That whole part is under revision. It will probably be a week before it's ready. Is it okay to use udev

Re: [lfs-support] Brand new and confused. Mostly about the 7.5 book.

2014-03-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Al Szymanski wrote: I am just trying to figure out the overall smallest size of hard drive space needed for all of the partitions. My sums from the 7.5 book come to 80 Gig plus whatever space I want for /home . [ suggested partition sizes: root LFS 10Gig /usr/src 30-50Gig

Re: [lfs-support] Brand new and confused. Mostly about the 7.5 book.

2014-03-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I think we are all following Al in asking the wrong question ;-) Surely, the first question ought to be What partitions will suit _my_ usage ?. I agree. In my own builds, /sources is an nfs mount (and it contains in excess of 20GB : I pruned it last week, but it has

Re: [lfs-support] questions about chapter 5.5.1

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
wayne mcdanolds wrote: 1) I read it as the gcc pass 1 build just requires the in-tree sources of gmp, mpfr and mpc. Hello Rob, I agree with you about the compiling lfs (linux from scratch) from source. I have downloaded LFS v 6.3 and I am planning on compiling this. I haven't got the

Re: [lfs-support] LSF Package wget

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mcgroder, James wrote: Working through my 1st LFS build and wget seems to have missed some files listed in the wget-list file. I got the wget-list from ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs/lfs-packages/7.5/ wget-list ^ Is there a space here or

Re: [lfs-support] questions about chapter 5.5.1

2014-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
François Bissey wrote: Hi, I suspect it may be a case of to much knowledge is dangerous. Having some experience some experience is indeed a dangerous thing. in building cross compilers and bootstrapping systems in the past I found some elements in that chapter troubling enough to stop

Re: [lfs-support] 5.5 GCC-4.8.2-Pass 1 Error during Make

2014-03-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Joshua Petty wrote: Hello, First off, thank you for all the work that you guys put into LinuxFromScratch. I am at Chapter 5.5 at the step to make, but I keep getting errors that prevent me from moving forward. Below is post of the error. If there is more that you need please ask and I

Re: [lfs-support] /run directory: Maybe a bit off topic?

2014-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 09:59 -0400, baho utot wrote: I am working on RPM-LFS-7.5 which is LFS with the rpm package manager. I would like to adhere to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3 so my linux systems file system layout matches/closely matches my FreeBSD systems. When

Re: [lfs-support] /run directory: Maybe a bit off topic?

2014-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
baho utot wrote: Just trying to match what I have on my unix boxes. Even if it hasn't been updated doesn't mean it's not relavent. I understand adding /sys but /run makes no sense as it could have been /var/run which by the way IS in the standard. /var doesn't work if it is mounted

Re: [lfs-support] /run directory: Maybe a bit off topic?

2014-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:07:49 -0400 baho utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: I think there are not many folks that have that on a separate partition. That's really the only problem with using /var/run. Although I did toy with the idea of changing my system to

Re: [lfs-support] What are the SERVICES of ifconfig.eth0 but ip4-static for ppp?

2014-03-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Golam Md. Shibly wrote: cd /etc/sysconfig/ cat ifconfig.eth0 EOF ONBOOT=yes IFACE=eth0 #SERVICE=ipv4-static #IP=192.168.1.1 #GATEWAY=192.168.1.2 #PREFIX=24 #BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 EOF What are the SERVICES of ifconfig.eth0 but ip4-static for ppp? I tried: SERVICE=ipv4-dynamic

Re: [lfs-support] [spam] To post to this list, send your email

2014-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Linux Junky wrote: linuxjun...@gmail.com This is spam. Don't respond. The user registered and then unregistered. -- 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] [spam] To post to this list, send your email

2014-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Linux Junky wrote: Hi Bruce, I am not spam. Did i accidentally unregister my self? No but a message with that subject and content looks like it. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: [lfs-support] /etc/init.d/setclock start never run when we start to use eudev

2014-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: When we use udev (extracted from systemd) , this is a udev rule file for it. cat /etc/udev/rules.d/55-lfs.rules # /etc/udev/rules.d/55-lfs.rules: Rule definitions for LFS. # Core kernel devices # This causes the system clock to be set as soon as /dev/rtc becomes

Re: [lfs-support] /etc/init.d/setclock start never run when we start to use eudev

2014-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Mar 13, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: But does anyone have ippp or isdn devices any more? I don't even know what a dcbri device is. Spellcaster DataComm/BRI ISDN card devices Yeah, ippp and isdn devices still exist and people have them. OK, I'll add

Re: [lfs-support] test on Bc-1.06.95

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ronnie van Aarle wrote: Hello Support, I just compiled bc but after 'make' there still is no 'bc' binary executable in ./bc after make install the tests run, but not before. Did you log the install? It should have: /usr/bin/install -c 'bc' '/usr/bin/bc' That's what installs bc. --

Re: [lfs-support] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/read.html

2014-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: I was checking out the subject site. Clicking the read hints link produces an error: -- [an error occurred while processing this directive] Thanks. I fixed that, but it's pretty basic. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

[lfs-support] BLFS-7.5 is released

2014-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.5/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/7.5/ -- Bruce Dubbs LFS -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] LFS-7.5 is released

2014-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-...@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email. [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.5/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5/ -- Bruce Dubbs

Re: [lfs-support] Updates development?

2014-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: From last week until yesterday - Wednesday - there where several updates like linux-3.13.5, grep-2.17 and 18, psmisc-22.21, bash-4.3 and readline-6.3 and of course systemd-209. In todays online documentation update, all mentioned packages are not included. It tried to

Re: [lfs-support] Updates development?

2014-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: Oeps, how about continuity in case you are not able to extract udev for any given period of time? It's not particularly hard. Just use the old udev-lfs tarball, see where the problems are and update the Makefile. Generally it's just adding a couple of new files to

Re: [lfs-support] How can I fix the following errors which happen after extracting linux 3.10.10 package (chapter 8)

2014-02-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Yonas Zed wrote: i follow the instraction on LFS 7.4 to build my own distro using ubuntu 12.4,32 bits ...i run the ubuntu on vmware 9 by allocationg 42GB space for storage and 2GB memory ...core-i7 2.20GHz processor...is there a different installation process for 32 and 64 bit? or

Re: [lfs-support] creating binutils-build again

2014-02-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, Version 7.5-rc1 In 5.5. GCC-4.8.2 - Pass 1, the book reads mkdir -v ../binutils-build, then in 5.9. Binutils-2.24 - Pass 2, the book reads Create a separate build directory again: mkdir -v ../binutils-build. There is confusion about whether the binutils-build

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.5 rc1

2014-02-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
baho utot wrote: As I am working on my build scripts for building LFS and adding the RPM package manager. I need to check my work against some one elses builds to be sure that I haven't created a catastrophe for myself. Are log files avaliable from chapter5 and chapter 6 builds? If

Re: [lfs-support] DHCPCD not starting when booting up

2014-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: @Bruce, I did exactly as you have mentioned and it seems that only the scripts are in */etc/rc.d/rcS.d/* will get executed root:/# ls -l /etc/rc.d/rcS.d/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 17 10:36 S00mountvirtfs - ../init.d/mountvirtfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
loki wrote: Heya all. Need some help. I have an old lfs installation which is in production use, for the past 5-6 years. I guess it's version 6.3 or something since it has kernel 2.6 on it. It is time to install a new version on it. But there are the following problems: 1.) Since it is in

Re: [lfs-support] DHCPCD not starting when booting up

2014-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Yes id does included id:3:initdefault: root:/# cat /etc/inittab # Begin /etc/inittab id:3:initdefault: si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc S l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0 l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 2

Re: [lfs-support] DHCPCD not starting when booting up

2014-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: root:/etc# ps -e|grep log 1949 ?00:00:00 rsyslogd That's not a part of LFS. What deviations from the book have you made? You should have both syslogd and klogd. root:~# ls -l /etc/sysconfig/ total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186 Feb 17 10:56 clock

Re: [lfs-support] CLFS

2014-02-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:46, loki l...@pancevo.rs wrote: On the address http://www.cross-lfs.org/ I'm getting a Domain for Sale. Oh man! I should have bought it! Well it worked 7 hours ago. It's still around. Why don't you rename it to cross.linuxfromscratch.org or

Re: [lfs-support] CLFS

2014-02-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Feb 19, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Why don't you rename it to cross.linuxfromscratch.org or similar? No domain fees required. It would only require a new entry in the lfs dns server and maybe a few updates to the web pages. Need to contact Justin

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Website for sale

2014-02-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Douglas R. Reno wrote: Hello all, It appears that the domain www.linuxfromscratch.org is for sale. Just thought I would report it Domain Name:LINUXFROMSCRATCH.ORG Domain ID: D21865393-LROR Creation Date: 2000-03-08T14:13:49Z Updated Date: 2014-02-06T18:13:41Z Registry Expiry Date:

Re: [lfs-support] DHCPCD not starting when booting up

2014-02-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: @Pierre, I checked the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script it seems OK. And the run levels are 3, 4, 5 (as per the script). Also I checked in /etc/rc.d/rc.3 /etc/rc.d/rc.4 /etc/rc.d/rc.5 And there are symlinks to the network script. It seems like the network script

Re: [lfs-support] DHCPCD not starting when booting up

2014-02-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 18-02-2014 12:49, Pierre Labastie escreveu: Le 18/02/2014 16:26, Oshadha Gunawardena a écrit : Hi again all, I have completed my LFS build. And I wanted to install dhcpcd. So as in the BLFS I have followed every step and it seems everything went well *make

Re: [lfs-support] DHCPCD not starting when booting up

2014-02-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: @Bruce, When I checked there was already a rule, but I'm not sure if the address and other constants are correct or not You can check the address with `ip link show` or `ifconfig -a`. # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules #

Re: [lfs-support] DHCPCD not starting when booting up

2014-02-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: @Bruce It's strange I checked the address and it's correct. Furthermore all the other files are seems to be in place. But then why the dhcpcd isn't starting automatically? I'm thinking of writing a start-up script to solve this issue. They are not terribly long

Re: [lfs-support] /tools directory

2014-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
joel kammet wrote: Greetings. Working my way through my first build of LFS 7.4. I'm wondering, after building and installing all of the packages in Chapter 6, can the /tools directory be deleted? I see that find and strip are used in Section 6.65, but we have new copies of those in /bin

Re: [lfs-support] /tools directory

2014-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
joel kammet wrote: But why do you still use /tools/bin/ for bash, file, strip on page 202? Please don't top post. What is on page 202? We work from section numbers/names, not the pdf. The page numbers can change, sometimes radically during a nightly build. -- Bruce --

Re: [lfs-support] Fw: Re: /tools directory

2014-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
joel kammet wrote: Section 6.65, Stripping Again uses /tools/bin/bash when re-entering the chroot environment and then /tools/bin/find and /tools/bin/strip. I don't suppose it matters, but I was just wondering if there was any particular reason that you don't use the bash, find and strip that

Re: [lfs-support] systemd versus sysvinit

2014-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: Hm, the reason I posted it in the first place was just because I noticed that Bruce his name was attached to systemd - somewhere. I can't find it any more but still my question stands. That's just a svn version where the editor has not been updated yet. -- Bruce --

Re: [lfs-support] CLFS eudev vs LFS udev

2014-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: Hi guys, I have an old LFS 6.3 system I'm going to upgrade. I've noticed that LFS-7.4 and CLFS 2.1.0 have two different udev variants. A few questions related to that: - Will CLFS and LFS go different ways in package selection? (udev in particular) - Which one udev

[lfs-support] LFS-7.5-rc1 is released

2014-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5-rc1/ to read locally. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] CLFS eudev vs LFS udev

2014-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I'd recommend: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.5-rc1/ Any approximate date for a final release? The target is March 1st. There are a few issues with a new release for me

Re: [lfs-support] 6.40 automake-1.14.1 and flex-2.5.38

2014-02-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: On 02/15/2014 10:48 AM, Frans de Boer wrote: On 02/15/2014 01:38 AM, Armin K. wrote: On 02/15/2014 01:29 AM, Frans de Boer wrote: During a BSS rebuild I found that automake generates two errors which stop the auto build. It is introduced by flex-2.5.38, I tried the same

Re: [lfs-support] Basic Kernel Configuration

2014-02-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Hello there, I have been spending my time on LFS IRC for a long time now and have noticed that most users who come for help there get stuck at configuring their kernel. Thus, I have written a rather basic guide on how to configure the kernel to get your machine to boot for

Re: [lfs-support] 6.40 automake-1.14.1 and flex-2.5.38

2014-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 02/15/2014 01:29 AM, Frans de Boer wrote: During a BSS rebuild I found that automake generates two errors which stop the auto build. It is introduced by flex-2.5.38, I tried the same with flex-2.5.37 with no errors. Maybe automake needs static flex library which Bruce

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6 gcc problems

2014-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Change the Subject line when posting. lfs-support Digest, Vol 3067, Issue 1 is not meaningful. Prasad Kumbhar wrote: The result of the system requirement script is pasted below:- root@dragonk:/home/dragonk# bash version-check.sh bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release /bin/sh - /bin/dash Change

Re: [blfs-support] MC-4.8.11 requires S-Lang

2014-02-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Sergei Antonov wrote: Hello! I tried to build MC per this: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/mc.html And ./configure failed because of missing S-Lang. S-Lang is currently in Recommended section. I guess it has to be moved to Required. We assume that recommended

Re: [lfs-support] Getting FAIL msg in 6.17

2014-02-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Prasad Kumbhar wrote: I am right now on 6.17 and performed the commands given on the 6.17 but when i gave the command make -k check then i am getting the terminal full of FAIL msg some of them are shown bellow:- FAIL: gcc.target/i386/isa-6.c (test for excess errors) FAIL:

Re: [lfs-support] Errors in 6.13 - Binutils 2.24

2014-01-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 05:39:39AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:10:42AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:53:21AM +0200, Markku Pesonen wrote: The binutils testsuite creates detailed logs in binutils/binutils.log, ld/ld.log, and

Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] GRUB (x-post)

2014-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: On 01/28/14 12:13, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: Hopefully, I'm posting to the right list...my Duck-Duck-Go/Google-fu has finally abandoned me. My (B)LFS system is complete and screaming right along, except for one little issue...GRUB. I

Re: [lfs-support] Errors in 6.13 - Binutils 2.24

2014-01-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: The next messages are produced every single time I encounter this chapter: Running /sources/binutils-2.24/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/elf.exp ... FAIL: static preinit array FAIL: static init array FAIL: static fini array FAIL: static init array mixed What type of partition are

Re: [blfs-support] GRUB

2014-01-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: Hopefully, I'm posting to the right list...my Duck-Duck-Go/Google-fu has finally abandoned me. My (B)LFS system is complete and screaming right along, except for one little issue...GRUB. I had originally installed Mint 15 to be my host for LFS build. Mint's

Re: [lfs-support] Removed /etc During Chapter 6

2014-01-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Gruben wrote: Was in a hurry and not paying attention after completing the gcc install in Chapter 6 (6.17 on the website). Accidentally issued rm -rf /etc while chrooted in. It's a comical situation, but how far does this set me back? Like which chapter.section do I need to restart

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++4.8.1 compilation error also on 32-bits architecture

2014-01-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Enrique Larraia wrote: 2014/1/22 Pierre M.R. prousse...@sfr.fr Enrique Larraia wrote: Not sure how to check this. To be rude. I would edit gcc-build/libtool to add at line 1121: echo $PATH Yeah, this solved the issue. Now I figured out what was going on. On adding echo $PATH at the

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++4.8.1 compilation error also on 32-bits architecture

2014-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:23:26AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:53:03PM +, Enrique Larraia wrote: Your error was libtool: install: chmod 644 /tools/lib/libsupc++.a libtool: install: i686-lfs-linux-gnu-ranlib /tools/lib/libsupc++.a ../libtool:

Re: [lfs-support] Proposed Changes to LFS Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 03:50:47PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: Dear Development LFS Book Administrators: For development, you ought to post to lfs-dev, but you'll need to subscribe before you do that. The devs (primarily Bruce and Matt) might read this here, I'm not sure.

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc

2014-01-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Darryl Jackson wrote: Greetings, I am trying to get glibc installed on my system, so I can continue/begin LFS. I get the same error from Glibc versions 2-17, and 18. //home/william/Downloads/glibc-2.18/nis/nis_file.c:42: undefined reference to `xdrstdio_create' / Research says it

Re: [lfs-support] Static versus Shared libraries

2013-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 07:49:11 -0600 William Harrington kb0...@berzerkula.org wrote: After your whole build is done, you can use rm to remove them. There is actually a problem with libtool and just rm-ing a static library. I don't know the specifics of it, but

Re: [lfs-support] Static versus Shared libraries

2013-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: Dear reader, While building things again, I now start to wonder why LFS let almost every package installs a static library? Where are the static libraries used? After all, the down side of static libraries is that once linked into a module/program, any upgrade is not

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel file not found

2013-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 12/22/2013 09:02 AM, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: set root=(hd0,7) menuentry LFS6, Linux 3.12.1-lfs-7.2 { linux /boot/lfskernel-3.12.1 root=/dev/sda7 ro } menuentry LFS7, Linux 3.12.5-lfs-7.4 { linux /boot/lfskernel-3.12.5 root=/dev/sda6 ro } How is this? Spelling is

Re: [lfs-support] LFS and network aliases on ethernet ports

2013-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Geoff Swan wrote: Is it possible to add alias networks to an ethernet device in LFS-7.4? I was used to the old method of having ifconfig-eth0:1, etc with the alias network defined in this file, as for the ifconfig-eth0 file. However the alias files do not appear to be recognised on boot. I

Re: [lfs-support] LFS and network aliases on ethernet ports

2013-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Geoff Swan wrote: On 23/12/2013 11:03 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: Is it possible to add alias networks to an ethernet device in LFS-7.4? I was used to the old method of having ifconfig-eth0:1, etc with the alias network defined in this file, as for the ifconfig-eth0 file

Re: [blfs-support] Nettle Dependency

2013-12-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jason Yailm wrote: Dear Mr. Dubbs, In following the instructions for the installation of nettle, I realized that in order to create the libhogweed libraries, I needed gmp. As you can see here after the Now, as the root user: statement in the Installation of Nettle section,

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Dec 18, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib: line 53: 12058 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${grub_probe} -t fs $path /dev/null 21 Path `/boot/grub' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting.

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 02:08 PM, loki wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Are you trying to do this on a UEFI system? Dan Nope. I'm not even sure that this old rig is EFI capable :) And secondly I'm too lazy to learn it since for the servers that I use 4

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 04:09 PM, akhiezer wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:00:11 -0600 From: Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB [...] But, AFIK, the user must *make* the

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.9 - Glibc - interpreting errors

2013-12-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: Dear all, There was another thread in this form which did not yield the desired result. So, maybe I can revive it. Below is the output listing from the test in 6.9.1: make[1]: Target 'check' not remade because of errors. make[1]: Leaving directory

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 Chap 6.17 GCC-4.8.1 -- unexpected failures

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bob Elgie wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Unix User mailinglistacco...@yahoo.comwrote: Thank you, Seba, for spotting that. During Chapter 5 I did link sh to bash in the host. In Chapter 6, after the chroot, that link is invisible, isn't it? The only accessible shell is the bash in

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-12-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 11/25/2013 8:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 11/25/2013 11:50 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: r8169 71677 0 mii13527 1 r8169 Looking at the help in the kernel for CONFIG_R8169: Selects

Re: [lfs-support] 7.4 / 6.17. GCC-4.8.1 ... FAIL: g++.dg/asan/asan_test.C

2013-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Dec 9, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Ron Hartikka wrote: I should have said I came across that thread and other threads elsewhere about this error. As far as looking through the gcc-testresults mailing list:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 / 6.9 - Glibc - how to tell if error messages are benign or critical?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
frozen tuesday wrote: root:/sources/glibc-build# grep Error glibc-check-log make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/math/ test-float.out] Error 1 make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/math/test-ldouble.out] Error 1 make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/math/test-ildoubl.out] Error 1 make[2]: ***

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 / 6.9 - Glibc - how to tell if error messages are benign or critical?

2013-12-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
frozen tuesday wrote: Hello all -- I just ran make on Glibc in section 6.9. Using Linux Mint 15 on an Athlon XP 3200+ as my host system to build. When I ran the non-optional checks on Glibc using the commands: make -k check 21 | tee glibc-check-log grep Error glibc-check-log Grep

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:46:47PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: AMD-10-5745M Have you used the powernow-k8 driver and have SMP enabled? http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/X86_POWERNOW_K8.html Sincerely, WIlliam

Re: [lfs-support] Shadow tar file

2013-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: I noticed that the debian site can't be reached anymore and therefore the newest shadow tar can't be reached - if any. Does anybody knows where the latest shadow tar's can be found - beside the LFS site. http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shadow/ -- Bruce

Re: [lfs-support] 7.4 5.15. Ncurses-5.9 fails to make

2013-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ron Hartikka wrote: Hi Group, Things seemed to be going well and according to the book until ncurses. My host is Ubuntu 13.10 the rest of my info is below. Any ideas what is wrong? Not really. include/ncurses_def.h is definitely wrong. That's a generated file. The host requirements look

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.4

2013-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: Is it possible to build LFS-7.4 on x86_64 without the /lib64 symlink? I have tried to do so but libstd++ in the chapter 5 tool chain dies. I would like to build for x86_64 and have the same filesystem layout that i686 has ie without the lib64 directories I really don't know

Re: [lfs-support] Host System Requirements LFS 7.4 with Mageia 3

2013-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
a...@xfsmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm still new for LFS, I'm going too try it. I'm with Mageia 3 and this is on the host bash, version 4.2.37(2)-release /bin/sh - /usr/bin/bash Binutils: (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.23.51.0.8.20121218 bison (GNU Bison) 2.7

Re: [lfs-support] TLDP LFS Guide

2013-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lfs-support.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: I've started trying to use LFS 7.4. As usual with these things, I took a tangent and went looking for Internet references outside of www.LinuxFromScratch.org. Does anyone within the LFS project maintain The Linux Documentation Project LFS

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gordon Findlay wrote: That's kind of what confuses me about this whole issue... the degree to which discussions here and elsewhere get so heated and angry. It's obviously supremely important to some people - but I don't understand why, when to me it seems such a small thing. I teach

Re: [lfs-support] Interesting Names

2013-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: From reading that policy statement in the man page, I think my NIC should also be named enpXsY but it's eth0. That's because you ran the init-net-rules.sh script as a part of the udev installation. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: [lfs-support] 6.42. Diffutils-3.3, LFS 7.4, make install fails to install locale files

2013-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Taylor wrote: 6.42. Diffutils-3.3, LFS 7.4, make install fails to install locale files I noticed these messages in my install.err log for this package... /bin/sh: line 5: @mkdir_p@: command not found installing ca.gmo as /tools/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo I see you

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: From: Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:05:53 +1300 Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found . . But really, what's wrong with it? All the melodrama, talking about abominations and

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