On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 07:46:08AM +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 02:51 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:10:35AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 03:25:20AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 10:50:50PM +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now to work out what to build ;-) > > > > > > > An interim report, mainly to highlight some "That hurts!" "Well, > > > don't do that, then." items. > > > > > > > After coming to a dead stop (or rather, dead apart from the progress > > bar) on kf5 [ see my post to blfs-dev if you care ] I'm coming to > > the conclusion that the pain from using jhalfs to find regressions > > in the book is probably not worth the effort for me. > > Jhalfs is not good for the kf5 page, nor for the plasma5 page. The > instructions in the script concerning the /opt links must be suppressed > when building for the first time (but not when rebuilding a newer > version). Also, the scripts do not perform the "cd" to BUILD_DIR (nor > does it create it), so this has to be added. And third, the "bash -e" > and "exit" in the script should be removed, because it does not work > (not sure exactly why) in a non interactive shell. Looks like the > standard input is lost. > > Adapting jhalfs to these two exceptional pages (similarly to the > special Xorg lib, apps, fonts pages) is on my TODO list, but not done > yet. >
Hi Pierre, In view of those helpful responses I might come back to kf5 next week. > > > > In case I don't reply any further, I'll mention here that blocaled > > does indeed need to be built in a booted xorg session, otherwise the > > locale gets screwed up (gnome-terminal fails to start, thinking it > > is in a non-UTF-8 locale, and the keymap was stuck on us instead of > > my intended en_GB). > > > > Hmm, I'd say that building blocaled should be possible in chroot, but > configuring it (at least the "gdbus" command) should be done on a > running machine, _before_ lauching Xorg (otherwise the keyboard > settings are not good). > > Pierre Technically, it was the install that failed. I did a DESTDIR install without problems, but when (in the script) I followed that by copying (cp -av) from the DESTDIR to '/' the problem occurred again. If I come back to gnome in the future I'll take a look at building it, with a DESTDIR install, much earlier. ĸen -- To say that it (his hair) was black and bound up in a ponytail is to miss the opportunity of using the term 'elephantine'. It was hair with personality. -- The Thief Of Time (about the monk, Sato). -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
