Hi all,
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS Version 6.8-rc1. This is the first release candidate on the road to
LFS-6.8. It includes numerous changes to LFS-6.7 (including updates to
Linux-2.6.37, GCC-4.5.2, Glibc-2.13 and security fixes). It also includes
Hi,
I'm pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.6. This release
includes numerous changes to LFS-6.5 (including updates to
Linux-2.6.32.8, GCC-4.4.3, Glibc-2.11.1) and security fixes. It also
includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book,
improving both the
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:04:07 -0800 (PST), Marco Marzetta
aristarcoarchet...@yahoo.it wrote:
Hi, I finished building LFS. Now
looking through the manual I find BLFS to section 6.3 to install GCC
version 4.1.2, but in reality GCC is already installed with LFS in
paragraph 6.15 and in a version
Hi,
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS Version 6.6-rc2. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.5
(including updates to Linux-2.6.32.8, GCC-4.4.3, Glibc-2.11.1) and
security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory
material
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.6-rc1. This release
includes numerous changes to LFS-6.5 (including updates to
Linux-2.6.32.7, GCC-4.4.3, Glibc-2.11.1) and security fixes. It also
includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book,
improving
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:18:58 -0500, William Immendorf
will.immend...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I ran into a issue with Mod-python 3.3.1. The issue: It fails to build
under the new LFS 6.5 toolchain :-(. Just see the attached
log. Google was of no help.
I'm intrigued what query you
On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 06:43:28 -0600, Jim McConville j...@xmission.com wrote:
Because the compilation of
autofs-5.0.3 was done in the LFS-6.5 chroot environment the '/proc'
directory was not populated. To complete the compilation the computer was
rebooted into LFS-6.5 and the configuration and
Hi,
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS Version 6.5 Release Candidate 2. This release includes numerous
changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.2, GCC-4.4.1,
and Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on
the
Hi,
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS Version 6.5 Release Candidate 1. This release includes numerous
changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.1, GCC-4.4.0,
Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the
explanatory
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:25:38 +0100, Nicolas FRANCOIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I still don't know how to make a patch, I can't be
more specific
Nicolas,
Here's how to create a patch:
tar xf dvd+rw-tools-7.0.tar.gz
cp -a dvd+rw-tools-7.0 dvd+rw-tools-7.0.orig
cd dvd+rw-tools-7.0
#make your
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:31:19 -0400, Scott Castaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do have a question though, shouldn't I have been able to do this from
the LFS LiveCD? It kept coming back with errors of which I can't
remember right off hand I think no block devices found was being
reported when
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 22:08, Janesh Ramakrishnan wrote:
Here is the output of amixer. Does it look like something is going wrong
here ?
-bash-3.1# amixer set PCM 80%
What does the output of `amixer sget Master' show?
Matt.
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Ken Moffat wrote:
Debian has now forked cdrkit (get it from your local debian pool,
the diff on top of pre3 only affects some of the debian/ files).
I wonder how long it'll take them to clean it up? I suspect it'd be
quicker just starting from scratch (and just don't support anything that
Peter B. Steiger wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:50 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
Notice below there are several libs Firefox can't find. However,
it runs perfectly because it has internal knowledge of the whereabouts
of the libs.
Oof, what a terrible example I picked! That happens to work
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS 6.1.1. This release includes fixes for all known errata since
LFS-6.1 was released 4 months ago.
You can read the book online at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1.1/ or download it from
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The final release is planned for Wednesday 30th November.
Best regards,
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Doug Ronne wrote:
There is a chance this should go to the alfs list since that is where
I first ran into the trouble, but I got the error by hand too. During
the second pass of gcc, I get a bunch of errors and the first error
that shows up is with /usr/included/gmp.h (a huge pile of syntax
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
is there a separate ML for specifically cross-lfs questions?
thanks.
Yes, it was just recently created. See
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-lfs/ for details.
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Torsten Vollmann wrote:
Matthew Burgess wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
is there a separate ML for specifically cross-lfs questions?
thanks.
Yes, it was just recently created. See
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-lfs/ for details.
Is it run through the mail2news
Jasper Leemans wrote:
Should I be worried or just ignore the error, sda is it scsi or sata?
...anyway I don't have any of those, but I just don't like errors :-D
You can safely ignore the error. It's actually caused by us moving
coreutils' `test' binary from /usr/bin to /bin. The udev test
Paul Lewis wrote:
Hi,
I'm using LFS 6.1, and have come across a problem when I try to compile TCL
(version 8.4.9, as recommended by the book).
...
\.so\ ./../compat/strstr.c
./../compat/strstr.c: In function 'strstr':
./../compat/strstr.c:67: error: 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this
Henry Grefrath wrote:
Hi Tony,
I was hoping I could build a small system on this laptop. It has 32MB of
RAM and I setup a 75MB swap partition. The rest of the hard disk 1.2GB
is mounted as /mnt/lfs.
I think you might struggle with that, I'm afraid. Building just chapter
5 on an Athlon XP
jaca wrote:
Hello Jim,
Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5:21:01 PM, you wrote:
JG I just tested the Sparc64 multilib version. No problems here.
JG Can you verify /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow exist.
In addition to Jim's recommendations, also check your
Tushar Teredesai wrote:
As long as you are upgrading the toolchain packages (not downgrading)
everything should be ok, especially if they have the same major (and
minor version?)
I think glibc is still an exception here, though I wouldn't like to bet
any amount of money on that! I do,
Tushar Teredesai wrote:
I remember reading on the glibc mailing list that glibc is always
backward compatible, i.e. an application compiled for glibc-2.2 should
work on a glibc-2.3 system.
Yes, but have you actually tried to upgrade a glibc installation in-situ
(i.e. on the OS you're
Oliver Burtchen wrote:
the group cdrom is missing in /etc/group, but is used in the udev-rules
provided by lfs.
Thanks Oliver. I've entered this into bugzilla now (bug 1639), so we
can't forget about it!
Regards,
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Jaqui Greenlees wrote:
Ken Moffat wrote:
LSB - no. The LSB is for providers of binary
software, among other things it mandates RPM as a package manager,
really? I never saw a package manager requirement in
it.
Brian Burch wrote:
root:/# type -pa ld
/usr/bin/ld
root:/#
OK, so it's obviously there. Perhaps it's linked to something in /tools
that is no longer there (you're very courageous to have removed it
already!). What do `ldd /usr/bin/ld', `readelf -l /usr/bin/ld | grep
interpreter' and `ld
Ken Moffat wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of the book (6.1), there's a confusion on page 103: 'console'
and 'null' are mounted twice and 'console' with different modes (622
seems to be the correct choice).
The first pair of devices are what we need to start
Bernhard Reiter wrote:
bash: /tools/bin/ranlib: No such file or directory
but it IS there.
Does the FAQ help here at all?
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#any-no-such-file
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rick wrote:
I have finally managed to get to step 5.5, Installation of
Linux-Libc-Headers without any errors but now am stuck.
The instructions given on pg. 57 in Linux From Scratch ver
6.1 show performing a cp from (what I believe) is my
original partition...
cp -R include/asm-i386
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, is there a reason that sending mail from a gmail web client
is always blocked ? It says the it suspect that the subject
contains spam, even if is one word (like error).In fact,this message
is sent from telnet
Try turning off the Rich Formatting feature of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/mnt/lfs/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
warning: ld-linux.so.2, needed by /tools/lib/libc.so.6, not found (try using
-rpath or -rpath-link)
Something went wrong with your glibc installation.
Björn Schlögl wrote:
I actually do not follow the lfs books, but i try to compile a linux system
for myself. As a last resort i write to this mailing list:
Well, as you're not following LFS instructions I doubt anyone here will
be able to offer much help either. I'd strongly suggest using
chris coneway wrote:
So I go to the config log and the cofigure progam that
failed was confdefs.h program failed.
Hmm, you're missing some vital information here - what did config.log
complain about specifically when attempting to compile the failing program?
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Matt Sanchez wrote:
I tracked the build failure to gawk in the libgpg-error build scripts. I
went to the gawk ftp site, found a version 3.1.5, uninstalled gawk 3.1.4
from LFS 6.1, and built and installed gawk 3.1.5. When I tested the build of
libgpg-error (version 1.1), lo and behold it built.
Mark Twombley wrote:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on \
unknown-block(0,0)
I'm assuming that my SCSI driver didn't install but I'm not sure. I
can't use the shift-PgUp to see what was loaded and I can't see a log.
Did you compile your SCSI driver or your
Mark Twombley wrote:
Matt I realize you probably already know how to do this but just incase
someone else is following this thread I thought it might help them on how I
solved their own problems.
Indeed, thanks very much for the followup. It's amazing the number of
times I've scoured the
Paul Millar wrote:
'configure:error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile'
After which I think it would also say to take a look at config.log.
Does that provide any clues? If not, upload it and post a link to it
and we can take a look for you.
Cheers,
Matt.
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Seth Payne wrote:
chroot: cannot run command `/tools/bin/env': No such file or directory
Seth,
I realise you've sorted your problem now, but I thought I'd take this
opportunity to remind folks of our FAQ page, which just happens to
answer this question and many more too.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
The ability to play files encoded with FLAC is what you lose. I
don't think that is a very big deal.
It's certainly more than offset (IMO of course) by the diskspace one
gains by not having those massive FLAC files lying around :)
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S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
A quick question about the errata, should the versions in the book be
built and then upgraded to the recommended versions, or would the
initial build be done with the recommended versions?
I can't foresee any problems just building with the versions recommended
in
Jim Gifford wrote:
lots of stuff of only which 2 lines were his own
Jim, please please please, for the sake of everyone's sanity, can you
learn to trim your quotes please. Quoting Ken's *entire* email to add
just 2 lines is completely unnecessary.
Regards,
Matt.
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David Rosal wrote:
it seems that e2fsprogs installs identical files with different
names instead of simply symlink them.
snip
Is there any technical reason to make thinks like this?
Can I replace one of each couple of identical files by a symlink?
Some programs act differently dependent on
root wrote:
So, I use knoppix, which has a kernel
2.4.22-xfs.
Please re-read
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1/prologue/hostreqs.html.
Recent versions of knoppix come with a 2.6 kernel which can be booted
into using a boot parameter.
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Ken Moffat wrote:
For glibc, the _safe_ advice is always to rebuild the whole system :)
I can personally attest to that, having made the fatal error of doing a
'make install' from the wrong xterm and overwriting the host's libc.
Not even 'ls' coped with that tiny mistake!
Binutils and
Gerard Beekmans wrote:
steve crosby wrote:
Another option is to apply the FC2\3 workaround permanently - change
the book instructions to download, compile and use e2fsprogs from LFS
to create the LFS partition always, and never use the host tools.
Although that would work for all e2fs
Jens Olav Nygaard wrote:
Yep. I won't give up before it works as a non-module, this time...!
Would be a bummer having to have root on an old ATA when I have two
big new SATA-disks (with NCQ, no less!) ready to be raid0-striped... :-)
But as you mentioned the NV SATA driver in your prior
Daryn Neadow wrote:
Does anyone know why the version of binutils was dropped back for the just
released 6.1 version?
The last SVN version I was running was 20050608 and had binutils-2.16 in it
while the 6.1 version just released has 2.15.94.0.2.2?
It didn't drop back. The way we develop the
José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote:
Dear list members:
Anyone knows about the gentoo linux security advisor labeled «GLSA
200507-05 / zlib»?
Yep, we've fixed this in LFS-6.1-pre2 and also the devlopment (trunk)
version of the book.
But which are the programs of LFS and BLFS that are been
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS 6.1. This release includes a large number of package upgrades
(including Linux-2.6.11.12, GCC-3.4.3 and Glibc-2.3.4) and security
fixes (including the recently disclosed zlib vulnerability). It also
includes a large
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS 6.1-pre1. This pre-release for the upcoming final 6.1 revision of
the book includes a large number of package upgrades and security fixes.
It also includes a fair amount of editorial work on the explantory
material
Hi folks.
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#newline states that the
newline character is detected automatically, and an 'LF' should be
output for Linux/Unix systems. My tidied HTML files have DOS line
endings (CRLF), but I'm running it (and compiled it) on a Linux box so
the
Dan McGhee wrote:
Matthew Burgess wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
My question is this: After backing up the scripts I have changed in
both /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc.d/init.d, can I just run the
install commands for the udev packages and the bootscripts?
Yes, updating to lfs-bootscripts-3.2.2
steve crosby wrote:
From udev-047, udevd is capable of handling hotplug events from
modules, as well as devices, and knows to call the appropriate hotplug
rc script related to the module. (at module load, a hotplug event is
generated by the kernel, and calls whatever is defined as the hotplug
Dan McGhee wrote:
My question is this:
After backing up the scripts I have changed in both /etc/sysconfig and
/etc/rc.d/init.d, can I just run the install commands for the udev
packages and the bootscripts?
Yes, updating to lfs-bootscripts-3.2.2, udev-058 and the newer udev
rules file
steve crosby wrote:
just building now with udev-059. One change is that udevstart now
launches udev as a process (with a --daemon flag), so you can't umount
/dev without stopping that process (/dev is reported as busy), so we
might need to modify the Booting into LFS section.
Other than some
Alexander Darino wrote:
genmodes.o errors.o ../libiberty/libiberty.a
/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exist status
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#cannot-find-lc
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I finally got around to updating the SpamAssasin rulesets for the
mailing lists today (thanks to Jim Gifford for giving me explicit
instructions!).
I'd be interested to know if you:
1) Notice a significant decrease in the levels of spam on the lists
2) Continue to receive spam
Speek wrote:
It doesn't seem to work for me. I've tried it now with Crux 2.1 and
Slackware current as host systems. Maybe something has changed in
recent versions of tcl or expect?
OK, can you fall back to an earlier version of tcl then - tcl-8.4.9, for
example. There was an earlier report
ravi kumar wrote:
can anyone help me installing libstdc++ in
fedora core 2 linux.
Ravi, I think you've got the wrong mailing list. This is for the
discussion of problems related to installing a Linux system according to
the instructions given in the Linux From Scratch book (see
Ken Moffat wrote:
The repeated grep -v invocations sure burn up CPU cycles, but for me
its worth it to remove _most_ of the irrelevant changes. When I do this
for blfs on a running system there are still occasional irrelevant
changes, e.g. to /etc/ntp.drift, so use with care.
Ken, FWIW my
Chakkaradeep C C wrote:
has anyone installed X11 in LFS 6.0??...i just got this section of
Installing WindowMaker in LFS Hints section,
Please post to blfs-support instead.
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Chakkaradeep C C wrote:
hi,
i know it is told in BLFS,but if u see the hints section of LFS,it is
there?..am i making a mistake or it is BLFS??
Well, the general rule is that if the packages you are having problems
with are in the LFS book, then lfs-support is the right place to post
your
Andreas Fehr wrote:
Sorry, but I'm to lazy
to send a mail to subscribe, a mail to confirm, a mail with the bugs and
a mail to unsubscribe the dev-list.
You don't have to subscribe to the mailing lists to post (just ask the
spammers!). Not subscribing means that you'll have to request CC's of
HAUPT Clemens wrote:
snipped
a) Please don't respond to spam, other list members may have spam
filters meaning they never got the original. Your response may mean
they see the spam after all, otherwise they'll see a response to a
message they never received.
b) Did you really have to quote the
martin boehnert wrote:
sorry for sending this much output but i think the error is somewhere
between these lines...
no very much platform info and the segfault at the end of the snippet...
snip
configure:2176: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2182: ./a.out
martin boehnert wrote:
strace says the following before quitting
Sorry, I'll give you the sensible advice now:
'/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.15.91.0.2/libiberty/a.out'
Matt.
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martin boehnert wrote:
strace says the following before quitting
Sorry, I'll give you the sensible advice now:
No, really, I will!
'strace /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.15.91.0.2/libiberty/a.out'
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martin boehnert wrote:
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C
compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
Does `config.log' have anything useful to say?
Regards,
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developerman wrote:
I'm not found any information about this project at any other sites (not LFS
mirrors).
Please, answer: what is this project, can I build a system without it?
Erm, from 5.6: ...Linux-Libc-Headers Project, which was designed to
maintain an Application Programming Interface
Alexander V. Shepetko wrote:
/tools/bin/perl
bash: /tools/bin/perl: No such file or directory
My initial guess is that the toolchain stage messed up somewhere. What
does `ldd /tools/bin/perl` give? All the libraries listed should be in
subdirectories of /tools.
Regards,
Matt.
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. wrote:
26.03.2005 20:22 Matthew Burgess :
Check your perl installation from chapter 5.
Ok, now, when i compiling perl-5.8.4, i have following error:
It should be:
./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'
Make sure you type that bit in quotes properly - they're all
Donal Farrell wrote:
hi guys. i'm using LFS-6.0 and my problem is in chapter 5.34 (Perl
5.8.5) Everything has worked fine up to now. (Host system is SuSE9.1Pro)
I get the following error
makefile: line 917 *** missing seperator. stop
Pierre Mathé wrote:
../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/binutils/ar.c:148: undefined reference to `yyparse'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Assuming you're in chapter 5, does your host have bison and lex/flex
installed?
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