Re: Problems installing Xorg 7.4
José Carlos Carrión wrote: Obviously the problem is in Xorg and not in BLFS team. Anyone knows why this applications (many of them have been in X from many years ago and are very useful like xdm) have been «dropped» from X11R7.,4 official distro? I'm browsing in deep in the Xorg site but I couldn't find it. Xorg is targeting Linux distributions. Most of the dropped apps are never installed by a distribution, this includes bdftopcf and twm, though we've left those two in BLFS because they are still needed to build and test the system. Most of the dropped apps are still perfectly valid, and continue to be developed. They are just not a part of the 'official' Xorg distribution as they are not needed/used by Linux distributions. Though I haven't tested, the existing instructions are probably good for any of the apps that were dropped between versions. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Problems installing Xorg 7.4
DJ Lucas wrote: José Carlos Carrión wrote: Obviously the problem is in Xorg and not in BLFS team. Anyone knows why this applications (many of them have been in X from many years ago and are very useful like xdm) have been «dropped» from X11R7.,4 official distro? I'm browsing in deep in the Xorg site but I couldn't find it. Xorg is targeting Linux distributions. Most of the dropped apps are never installed by a distribution, this includes bdftopcf and twm, though we've left those two in BLFS because they are still needed to build and test the system. Most of the dropped apps are still perfectly valid, and continue to be developed. They are just not a part of the 'official' Xorg distribution as they are not needed/used by Linux distributions. Though I haven't tested, the existing instructions are probably good for any of the apps that were dropped between versions. DJ, I think it would be good to have that information in the book's introduction to Xorg. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Problems installing Xorg 7.4
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Most of the dropped apps are still perfectly valid, and continue to be developed. XDM is no longer being supported, which I find disappointing. Somebody is still maintaining TWM, though, which is cool. -- William Tracy afishion...@gmail.com -- wtr...@calpoly.edu Vice President, Cal Poly Linux Users' Group http://www.cplug.org I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, frequently mis-attributed to Voltaire -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Problems installing Xorg 7.4
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:43 AM, William Tracy afishion...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Most of the dropped apps are still perfectly valid, and continue to be developed. XDM is no longer being supported, which I find disappointing. Somebody is still maintaining TWM, though, which is cool. I'm pretty sure xdm is being maintained, but it's just not part of the Xorg release. All the distros have it available, so things do get fixed now and again. It probably won't receive any new features, though. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xdm/log/ -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Problems installing Xorg 7.4
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Dan Nicholson dbn.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure xdm is being maintained, but it's just not part of the Xorg release. There was a thread on the Xorg development list (I can't find it now) that I probably misinterpreted. I'm glad to see that commits are still happening there. :-) -- William Tracy afishion...@gmail.com -- wtr...@calpoly.edu Vice President, Cal Poly Linux Users' Group http://www.cplug.org I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, frequently mis-attributed to Voltaire -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Problems installing Xorg 7.4
Bruce Dubbs escribió: DJ Lucas wrote: Xorg is targeting Linux distributions. Most of the dropped apps are never installed by a distribution, this includes bdftopcf and twm, though we've left those two in BLFS because they are still needed to build and test the system. Most of the dropped apps are still perfectly valid, and continue to be developed. They are just not a part of the 'official' Xorg distribution as they are not needed/used by Linux distributions. Though I haven't tested, the existing instructions are probably good for any of the apps that were dropped between versions. DJ, I think it would be good to have that information in the book's introduction to Xorg. Thanks a lot to all of you for the info. It seems like Xorg's folks think the life it's impossible beyond KDE/GNOME. I'm a unix user from «the old days». I love LFS because it provides me the freedom of writing «my rules». My rules are : X+xdm+OpenMotif+xterm (I'm hopely waiting add a «OpenCDE» to this sum). I don't need and I don't want neither KDE nor GNOME. It seems XFree86 respect this freedom of mine. I propose to mention XFree86 in the BLFS book X Window System Environment introduction like BLFS 6.2 did in the past. Anyone has followed the XFree86 way and may advertise me of the problems along it? Thanks in advance. J.C. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Problems installing Xorg 7.4
On January 9, 2009 07:29:51 pm José Carlos Carrión wrote: Anyone has followed the XFree86 way and may advertise me of the problems along it? I last built 4.7.99.26 last July using a 2.6.26 kernel. My notes are a bit sketchy, but it looks like the only thing I had to do was run the following seds (I forget where I found the info, google somewhere...) sed -i 's:^.*asm.*$:# define PAGE_MASK (~(getpagesize() - 1)):' \ lib/Xxf86dga/XF86DGA.c sed -i 's:^.*asm.*$:# define PAGE_MASK (~(getpagesize() - 1)):' \ lib/Xaw/OS.c sed -i 's:^.*asm.*$:# define PAGE_MASK (~(getpagesize() - 1)):' \ programs/xedit/lisp/lisp.c sed -i 's:^.*asm.*$:# define PAGE_MASK (~(getpagesize() - 1)):' \ programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c sed -i 's:IOPL_MASK:X86_EFLAGS_IOPL:;s:IF_MASK:X86_EFLAGS_IF:' \ programs/Xserver/hw/tinyx/vesa/vm86.c According to my logs I went on to build kde-3.5.10 and used the system for a over a month. Anyhow, I've since moved on to xorg. It takes a little more work to build (at least by hand,) but the control and understanding gained has been worth it. Best of luck, Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Openssl install problem
I've compiled openssl on my new system, but for some reason it will only install the /etc files and the /usr/share files. I am using DESTDIR to check things first before installing into the normal locations. I've been trying to figure out why the other files don't get installed. Any suggestions? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
