Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7 on CentOS-6.6

AND IF I remember correctly YACC will be installed when you install one of the other programs. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7 on CentOS-6.6

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Chris Staub wrote: > On 01/02/2016 05:53 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: > >> Running the Ch4 prereqs I find the following deficiencies: >> >> yacc links to bison:yacc not found <--- easily fixed >> gawk >= 4.0.1: GNU Awk 3.1.7 >>

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, William Harrington wrote: > > run the following, your interpreter may be wrong or missing: > > readelf -e /tools/bin/ls | grep interp > ~$ readelf -e /tools/bin/ls | grep interp bash: /tools/bin/readelf: No such file or directory bash:

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

znew igawk strip root@debian:/home/lfs# On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:20 AM, William Harrington <kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: > On Thu, November 5, 2015 12:39, Michael Havens wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, William Harrington < > kb0...@berzerkula.org>

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

> > > > Have you done something simple like got $PATH wrong - e.g. have you > incorrectly put a space after the first colon, such that it's only looking > in /tools/. , and skipping /bin > > > What do you get from: > > echo $PATH > ~$ echo $PATH /tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin > Also, when doing

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Thanos Baloukas <baloukast...@sch.gr> wrote: > On 04/11/2015 10:17 μμ, Michael Havens wrote: > >> Okay, I do not know what I did but some commands work (cd) and some >> don't (cp, tar, mv). >> > > Just a <<cp, tar, mv don't

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Pat Barnes <pat.bar...@charter.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 15:22 -0500, Michael Havens wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > I think maybe a

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

I think maybe a recompile from the section after glibc is in order. I say the chapter after because it appears as if gibc compiled correctly. Not hearing any responses by tomorrow I will assume the is agreement with my plan. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

> > >> All of the GLIBC_PRIVATE lines seem to me like you are attempting to use >> LTO. Are you using LTO? >> >> You are only one person out of many who can't build a complete system >> without many errors which you can easily search the last ten years of >> archives from many mailing lists. the

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think maybe a recompile from the section after glibc is in order. I say > the chapter after because it appears as if gibc compiled correctly. Not > hearing any responses by tomorrow I will assume t

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

Thanks. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

I didn't deviate from the book though. I followed their instructions to the tee. On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:07 PM, William Harrington wrote: > On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:19:32 -0600 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > the complete makelog is found: > > > > > >

[lfs-support] 5.33

Good afternoon. I am on section 5.33 . Here is what I enter into the computer: #scp bmike1@192.168.0.2:/home/bmike1/Documents/LFS/7.8/build/5.33build.txt $LFS/sources;exit #chmod 777 $LFS/sources/5.33build.txt; chown lfs $LFS/sources/5.33build.txt;su - lfs #cd $sources;./5.33build.txt tar xf

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Well the lines like > > /tools/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined reference to > `__getrlimit@GLIBC_PRIVATE' > > tell me that something is wrong with your glibc install. It is missing a > library. > > $ cd /usr/lib > $

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

Okay, I decided to, before the recompile, to verify my make log. I couldn't find the given error. I am not sure what I should do know! Should I recompile glibc? I re-ran the verification program and it did complete so now what? lfs@debian:/mnt/lfs/sources$ echo 'int main(){}' > dummy.c

Re: [lfs-support] 5.33

My su is to chmod/chown the file I scp from the main computer to the lfs computer. On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 04:10:52PM -0500, Michael Havens wrote: > > Good afternoon. I am on section 5.33 . > >

[lfs-support] 5.23

I just discovered that the logs for 5.23 were not created.is this because it may have created the logs in the directory that the -C flag refered to? #5.23 tar xf gettext-0.19.5.1.tar.xz cd gettext-0.19.5.1 cd gettext-tools EMACS="no" ./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-shared ( make -C

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

I think I do. > > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why

Re: [lfs-support] 5.10

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > Two solutions: > - Use ln -sf (force) > - remove the link command from your script... > Thank you Pierre force option it is. As for my first run having already created it not really. It ran for lie 10 seconds

[lfs-support] Another round of LFS

Yes, you are correct when you mentioned I have done LFS before but never successfully. The reason I gave up in the previous try is the computer I was sshing with blew up and so I had to put make the LFS machine my main computer. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --

[lfs-support] export

I want to make it easy to get to a certain directory. Why doesn't it retain $LFS/sources ? root@debian:~# cat /root/.bash_profile export LFS=/mnt/lfs export sources=$LFS/sources root@debian:~# su - lfs lfs@debian:~$ cat ~/.bash_profile exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash

Re: [lfs-support] export

The $LFS is set. I'm trying to set another variable sources=$LFS/sources. it refuses to stay set. lfs@debian:~$ cat ~/.bash_profile exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash export LFS=/mnt/lfs export sources=$LFS/sources lfs@debian:~$ exit exit root@debian:~# su - lfs

Re: [lfs-support] export

What in the world? I could swear I read that it wen into bash_profile! -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in

Re: [lfs-support] export

okay. I'm not sure but I think I created nano /root/.bash_profile . Should I delete it or does it matter. I don't think it matters. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If possible, it'd be better to make a difference between the source files >> (configure, *.c, etc) and the source packages (usually compressed tar >> archives). You have to remove all

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

okay... I will rm binutil and . As for the source directory: you don't mean $LFS/sources ? I think you mean the directories created during the build. On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Craig Garner wrote: > >> Whenever you change a setting on the host, when testing host

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:49 PM, William Harrington <kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: > On Mon, October 26, 2015 14:06, Michael Havens wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> > > wrote: > > > >> What you have to d

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

> > > configure:4339: gcc -V >&5 > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V' > gcc: fatal error: no input files > compilation terminated. > > I looked in the compile log but '-V' does not show up on lin 4339 nor does > it appears elsewhere in the file. > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > the same

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

I just found out about the gcc and probably the g++ errors (though I could find nothing to verify that idea): Citing this: - http://serverfault.com/questions/580489/configure-error-c-compiler-cannot-create-executables-while-build-ruby-from-sou gcc -V is a way of selecting a specific gcc

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

> > > Hastebin your log http://hastebin.com/ > > Use: > /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/libgcc/config.log > > We can find the error rather quickly if you post the actual config.log. > What's wrong with pastebin??f http://pastebin.com/hBDE6XGf http://hastebin.com/ocatakaduf.vbs

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

at 10:23 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/libgcc/config.log > http://hastebin.com/jeqocobisa.vbs > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>> Hastebin

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

> > > Well, I've never seen one like that. Looks like something on line > 106 of /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/./gcc/as > > I assume that at this point that 'as' file must be a > script. Perhaps it is trying to exec a variable. Is it a script ? > If so, what is the hunk which includes line 106 ? >

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > What you have to do is work out in which directory configure was last > run, i.e. identify the *newest* config.log file and then search for > 'cannot compute suffix of object files'. Use less or vim to search, > e.g.

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

I followed the instruction yet the compile still will not complete. compile log: http://pastebin.com/Bsri0v4n I looked through the compile log and the only errors I could find not associated with code was: checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

> > > Take it slowly, at this point the main things you need to do are to > learn (the cp / tar business), and then to remember what you learn. > Ken, could you recommend something to read? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > thank you for taking the time to help. > from what you've said seems to imply I need to compile binutilities again. > so: > > > Now we'll compile 5.5 again and see where I wind up! -

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thank you for taking the time to help. >> from what you've said seems to imply I need

[lfs-support] section 5.4

You know I was wondering why I didn't have the kind of trouble with 5.4 that I am having with 5.5 so to make sure everything ran correctly I: lfs@debian:/mnt/lfs/sources$ tail 5.4compilelog make[5]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/ld' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

ty/testsuite' make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/libiberty' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-target'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build' GOOD it appears to have run successfully. On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...

[lfs-support] suggestion

when I first began playing with LFS I was instructed to script my build so that is what I do. I was also instructed to build it on a virtual machine but because you can get recycled computers from universities I decided to build lfs on one of those instead (I got an optiplex 755 for less than

[lfs-support] section 5.5

Okay, my build failed. Here are the commands I entered 1. #5.5 2. tar -xjf gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2 3. cd gcc-5.2.0 4. cp ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz . 5. cp ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz . 6. cp ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz . 7. tar -xJf ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz 8. mv -v mpfr-3.1.3 mpfr 9. tar -xJf

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael Havens wrote: > >> when I first began playing with LFS I was instructed to script my build so >> that is what I do. I was also instructed to build it on a virtual machine >> bu

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> You don't need to copy since you are extracting from the source >>> directory. >>> >>> So then you untar the files in $LFS/sources? > from $LFS/sources : tar -

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

tar -xf gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2 cd gcc-5.2.0 cp ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz . cp ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz . cp ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz . tar -xf ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz mv -v mpfr-3.1.3 mpfr tar -xf ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz mv -v gmp-6.0.0 gmp tar -xf ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz mv -v mpc-1.0.3 mpc --

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Craig Garner <craigcgar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> >&g

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

> > >>> You don't need to copy since you are extracting from the source >> directory. >> >> So then you untar the files in $LFS/sources? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

> > bash version-check.sh > > bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release > > /bin/sh -> /bin/dash > > [Did you notice that you have dash (that's spelled with D as in dog > instead of B as in boy)? -- jl] > I did notice it but I didn't get a error so I figured all was well. What do you suggest I do to fix it

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

So please, what about this is wrong: tar -xf gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2 cd gcc-5.2.0 cp ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz . cp ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz . cp ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz . tar -xf ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz mv -v mpfr-3.1.3 mpfr tar -xf ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz mv -v gmp-6.0.0 gmp tar -xf ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz mv -v mpc-1.0.3

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

> > Yes, but you have three meaningless cp commands in your script. Part of > the LFS goals is to teach how to visualize what the commands are doing. > You are not doing that yet. Why do you think the cp commands are needed? > They are not in the book. > But the book says to 'Unpack each

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

hahaha... I get it! cp ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz . copy a file in a directory above cp ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz . cp ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz . tar -xf ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz mv -v mpfr-3.1.3 mpfrun tar a file in a directory above tar -xf ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz mv -v

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

\ --enable-languages=c,c++ ( make 2>&1 | tee ../5.5.compile.log && exit $PIPESTATUS ) && echo GOOD make install here are the compile/config logs: http://pastebin.com/Bsri0v4n Could you possibly show me what to look for and how to learn how to fix it

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

Sorry about the top post. It was not my intention to do so. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

I did check it and installed missing programs > > > What is the output of version-check.sh? You did check that, didn't you? > I did check it and installed missing programs bash version-check.sh bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release /bin/sh -> /bin/dash Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Debian)

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

> > > The ../ tells it to use the package 1 dir up. You are just making extra > copies that don't even get extracted. > > sorry it took so long to understand. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: [lfs-support] section 5.5

google seems to be messing up. you asked about version-check.sh? I did check it before beginning and installed some missing programs. : I did check it and installed missing programs bash version-check.sh bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release /bin/sh -> /bin/dash Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Debian)

Re: [lfs-support] Recompilation of kernel (was: all done)

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: That's right. Assuming SATA, one of these should be set: # SATA SFF controllers with BMDMA CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y # CONFIG_SATA_MV is not set # CONFIG_SATA_NV is not set # CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE is not set #

Re: [lfs-support] all done

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: The error is in grub.cfg - I suspect you have not copied the lfs kernel to the debian /boot partition. So, if the lfs kernel is on sda6 along with the lfs system, try set root='hd0,6' but ONLY do that in

Re: [lfs-support] all done

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: It's finding the kernel, so the grub problem is solved. The build of the kernel is wrong for your system. It can't find the drivers needed for mounting the root directory. Try:

[lfs-support] Recompilation of kernel (was: all done)

Fernando hijacked the thread but I need to start a new one anyways. So I need to recompile the kernel because some options are needed for my hardware(?). Well, that is kinda vague instructions. Well, here is a link to lshw for the box I am installing lfs on:

Re: [lfs-support] all done

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I can't work with this right now with just the terminal. I'll need to wait until after I get my gui computer working again. Sorry Sorry about the top posting. Working with Lynx as my browser I couldn't put my gmail

Re: [lfs-support] all done

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: okay I got the GUI computer going again. So I type in: pico /boot/grub/grub.cfg and the very first lines say: # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using

Re: [lfs-support] section 9.3

Before BLFS. I'm installing gpm and these are the errors make and make install gives me. Now it seems that (after googling 'fatal error: gpm.h: No such file or directory') that there is no problem but I need to verify this. Upon looking at this closer that is all I need to ask about.

Re: [lfs-support] section 9.3

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:03 AM, akhiezer lf...@cruziero.com wrote: From lfs-support-boun...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Sun Sep 7 10:58:22 2014 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 10:58:01 +0100 From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) To: LFS Support List lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Subject:

[lfs-support] all done

well, I reboot the system and the only OS I had the option to install was debian. I guess this means I need to do it again. Or maybe I installed grub incrrectly. hmm. :-)~MIKE~(-: -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] all done

Right now I have my GUI computer packed away (taking it to my Dad's and we're going to try to get the keys that aren't working fixed tomorrow) so I can't make this email pretty (I'm using Lynx now). Right now I am on the Linux from Scratch host machine. Bruce, grub.conf? What do I need to

Re: [lfs-support] all done

I can't work with this right now with just the terminal. I'll need to wait until after I get my gui computer working again. Sorry. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: [lfs-support] section 9.3

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 2:25 PM, akhiezer lf...@cruziero.com wrote: Bear in mind too that your lfs build environment is inside a chroot, and so won't see all of the host-os filesystem. You (basically) need to get the 'lynx2.8.8rel.2.tar.bz2' file into a directory that can be seen from within

[lfs-support] LFS 8.4

I'm in the step in which they talk about the boot partition and grub. I have a couple of questions about the boot partition before I proceed: Do all Linux distos look for a boot partition first or else how does this work? The instructions say to modify fstab. Here is the current fstab for lfs:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 8.4

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com wrote: You don't actually need a separate boot partition. What the instructions are referring to is whatever partition GRUB should go to to find your kernel and other files. This could be a separate partition mounted on

Re: [lfs-support] section 8.5

you solved my problem. I needed to scp to user root. I should have figured that out! :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:02 PM, akhiezer lf...@cruziero.com wrote: From lfs-support-boun...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Sat Sep 6 20:35:23 2014 From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com Date

[lfs-support] section 9.3

:-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:02 PM, akhiezer lf...@cruziero.com wrote: From lfs-support-boun...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Sat Sep 6 20:35:23 2014 From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:38:17 -0700 To: LFS Support List lfs-support

Re: [lfs-support] section 8.3

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:51 PM, akhiezer lf...@cruziero.com wrote: From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:40:06 -0700 To: lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [lfs-support] section 8.3 . . grep -E 'error|fail' {make,install}.fail

Re: [lfs-support] differences between en_US, en_US.iso88591, and en_US.utf8

It used to be. For modern glibc, I have no idea. Why not just use the extra six characters and specify en_US.UTF-8 ? en_US.UTF-8? Really? I was thinking the right thing to do was to use en_US.iso88591 because en_US locale is it's alias. So, you are saying to use en_US.UTF-8? --

[lfs-support] success is in my sights!

I have been trying to do Linux from Scratch for 2 years now (I created about 8 virtual machines to do so) and have NEVER progressed beyond chapter five. Well, I got a computer to dedicate to my LFS build and it took me two weeks to get to chapter 7. This is so cool! :-)~MIKE~(-: --

Re: [lfs-support] 6.52

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 8/24/2014 2:59 AM, Michael Havens wrote: Not only does your top posting irritate everyone on the list, it now appears as though you don't want to do any research whatsoever for every question you have

[lfs-support] 6.52

I am in section 6.52 and I get a host of failures that don't seem to have been queried of before so searching the archives didn't help. root:/sources/kmod-16# cat make.fail|grep -i fail Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'all-recursive'

Re: [lfs-support] 6.39 autoconf

I suppose it is all good then. 'tail check.fail' gave me the output you describe. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Havens wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: The complete set

Re: [lfs-support] 6.40 automake

thanks :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Douglas R. Reno renodr2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, XFAIL in this case means Expected Failures. These are normal and are perfectly fine. Douglas R. Reno -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] 6.40 automake

What is XPASS then? I would think it was eXpected PASS; but the number next to it is zero. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: thanks :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Douglas R. Reno renodr2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike

[lfs-support] 6.34 bc

I compiled bc and ran what they told me to run to test the package. as they recommended I redirected the output to a file but when I cat check.fail|grep fail The output was similar to this: Total failures: 1 Percent failed: .50 repeated thirty times with different numbers (mostly '0')

[lfs-support] 6.39 autoconf

Now I don't know if this is a bad fail or not; i looked at the chapter again to see if this was expected or not but it doesn't seem to be. Here are the fails: 1 root:/sources/autoconf-2.69# cat check.fail|grep fail 2 GNUmakefile:106: recipe for target 'abort-due-to-no-makefile' failed 3

Re: [lfs-support] 6.39 autoconf

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Now I don't know if this is a bad fail or not; i looked at the chapter again to see if this was expected or not but it doesn't seem to be. Here are the fails: --snip-- Most of them were expected but I don't know what

[lfs-support] 6.9

Well. I was looking through the 6.9 commands and realized I was missing some stuff so I decided to restart the glibc compile. One of the things I missed was looking at the check log. grep Error glibc-check-log 1- make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/libio/tst-ftell-partial-wide.out] Error 1

Re: [lfs-support] 6.9

:-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Havens wrote: Well. I was looking through the 6.9 commands and realized I was missing some stuff so I decided to restart the glibc compile. One of the things I missed was looking

Re: [lfs-support] 6.9

bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: You don't see all the errors mentioned on all systems. In your case, you didn't see them, but others have reported the errors in the past. And all is good now. Thanks! -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] 6.9.2 time zone questions

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose I could just configure it as mountain time (though we don't observe daylight savings in AZ). :-)~MIKE~(-: Well that's a fine how-d-do! I just tried to configure it as mountain time and got the same errors

Re: [lfs-support] 6.9.2 time zone questions

:-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose I could just configure it as mountain time (though we don't observe daylight savings in AZ). :-)~MIKE~(-: Well that's

[lfs-support] linux from scratch 6.6

I started over. I am now at the section where we remove the 'I have no name!' prompt. The instructions are to start a new shell. Well I guess that is okay but the way I am doing this is: I have two computers. One I am building LFS on and the other I am building LFS from via ssh. SO I start a

Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems.

, 04 Aug 2014 07:55:46 +0100 From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) To: LFS Support List lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems. From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 15:22:37 -0700 To: LFS Support

Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems.

It was mentioned that I might want to restart at the beginning of chapter 6. Please, what do I need to rm -rf to do that? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems.

I think the warning should be there and/or else (as I was told) a note informing users to script their build should be put there. You know... it just occurred to me, I started a build let it run about 15 minutes, then realized I forgot to do something and so stopped it. Then I fixed what I forgot

Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems.

I am in section 6.9 (glibc) so I have progressed no further than what I am asking about. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:28 PM, akhiezer lf...@cruziero.com wrote: From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:08:16 -0700 To: LFS Support List lfs-support

Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems.

'? To tell you the truth I did this originally in gedit and then scp the file to /sources but the resulting error was the same. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I am in section 6.9 (glibc) so I have progressed no further than what I am asking about