[lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Richard
Hello experts, I am attempting my first LFS build; which will (hopefully) be 7.4, built on a host system of slackware-14. All went well up until chapter 6. I am unsure as to whether or not the errors in the glibc fall into the acceptable variety or not. glibc appeared to build well enough.

[lfs-support] Configuring and Installing GRUB for {,U}EFI

2013-10-28 Thread Dan McGhee
GRUB is the next package in Ch. 6 that I will be building. I'm going to have to deviate from the book to do this since I have a GPT hard drive and want to maintain it as is. This means installing GRUB with EFI enabled. From looking at ./configure --help in the GRUB source tree, I think that

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 28/10/2013 14:07, Richard a écrit : [...] Any advice would be welcome. I cannot tell you much about what the tests. Are you sure they did not run to completion? I am also assuming that glibc is one of the packages that can safely be installed to a fake root - then tarballed 'slackware

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard wrote: Hello experts, I am attempting my first LFS build; which will (hopefully) be 7.4, built on a host system of slackware-14. All went well up until chapter 6. I am unsure as to whether or not the errors in the glibc fall into the acceptable variety or not. glibc appeared to

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring and Installing GRUB for {,U}EFI

2013-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: GRUB is the next package in Ch. 6 that I will be building. I'm going to have to deviate from the book to do this since I have a GPT hard drive and want to maintain it as is. This means installing GRUB with EFI enabled. NO, it doesn't. EFI is the replacement for the BIOS,

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Richard
On Mon, 28/10/13, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I have inferred from the book that 'cputimer1' and 'run-conformtest' might be 'acceptable' failures, but I was surprised that the test suite ended mid-way. It didn't. It finished running. Aha! I see. So I just misinterpreted

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:07:32PM +, Richard wrote: Hello experts, I am attempting my first LFS build; which will (hopefully) be 7.4, built on a host system of slackware-14. All went well up until chapter 6. I am unsure as to whether or not the errors in the glibc fall into the

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Richard
On Mon, 28/10/13, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I have inferred from the book that 'cputimer1' and 'run-conformtest' might be 'acceptable' failures, but I was surprised that the test suite ended mid-way. Why do you think it ended mid-way ? Your output from the make

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:25:02PM +, Richard wrote: I think I neglected to shut down the networking on the host system - so the posix tests did not fail. I did not realise that network isolation was a requirement. I do not have that machine with me here at work - so I will check

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:25:02PM +, Richard wrote: I think I neglected to shut down the networking on the host system - so the posix tests did not fail. I did not realise that network isolation was a requirement. I do not have that machine with me here at work - so I