[Clfs-dev] Updates for this coming week

[William Harrington]

On Nov 10, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Martin Ward wrote:

> On 10/11/13 21:05, William Harrington wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> This week I plan to test changes and commit changes to the book  
>> regarding Martin Ward's findings and moving check to temp-system.
>>
>> I also will be checking config.cache variables to make sure they  
>> are valid or not needed. Although I think the ones that get guessed  
>> to yes we may want to make sure they are yes and not guessed. Any  
>> input on that?
> i left a few as guessed, didn't seem to alter things, but after some  
> thought setting them to yes, would probably be a good idea
I think that would be best. Having variables guessed isn't ideal.
>>
>> Updating check, texinfo, automake, make, tzdata, adding the  
>> binutils 2.23.2 update branch patch, update check, adjust some  
>> package commands because of the updates.
>> This is probably a good time to update iproute2 to 3.12.0
> must be pending as i couldn't find it still at 3.11 on https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/
That will be in the future, probably not too far off.
>> and update to Linux 3.12.0.
>> May update eglibc 2.18 with the latest revision, but it isn't too  
>> critical.
> yes agreed, think their was only a couple of nptl changes on ppc
> eglibc needs a small adjustment to recognise make 4.0, but after  
> that it builds fine
Have that covered

We also have kbd 2.0.1 and branch updates for mpfr to add. I'll be  
working the easier stuff first to get those out of the way and then  
tackle the more time consuming edits.

>>
> martin

Sincerely,

William Harrington