On Tuesday 04 March 2008 00:38:53 DJ Lucas wrote: > Robert Daniels wrote: > > Ugh...just finished the core and now you want to throw new commands > at me?!?! ;-) I'd say hold on that for now, but if you want to slap > together a patch for KDE and do a full rebuild (or if you already > built it that way) to test the instructions, then we can get it there > for this release. I'm running with your patch verbatim, so just do > an 'svn up' on that copy of the book sources. I'm not going to > remove the note yet. > No, no, no. This is just something I think would be a textual improvement. I have built it this way before, and it does work, but there's no need to wait for a patch or push the release back or anything. Something to consider for the future.
> As to Gnome, it's build is much more fine grained, (read difficult > because it's not a few groups of big packages) and IIRC, packages > don't always follow the same rules regarding the configure switches. > It's *probably* not that simple for gnome, but I haven't tried it yet > either so I might be wrong. I'd also like to get the 2.20.3 update > done for 6.3, but it may not be possible unless we push the release > back once again. > I've never built Gnome, or looked at the instructions, except for a few packages used by other stuff, like gconf and vte. I wasn't sure if Gnome was also mostly built with a few common options. If a variable is not useful here, ignore the suggestion. > I know it's stable, it builds mostly with the same instructions, but > the build order has changed slightly and requires two more packages. > Really no time to properly test it. If you recall, I suggested a 6.3 > branch and a package freeze for tomorrow about a month ago..which > I'll bring up in another status thread. > > -- DJ Lucas I suppose I'd better get patches ready for K3b and KOffice soon then. I built them, used them, and they work. I just need to get measurements on build times, sizes, and whatnot. -- Robert Daniels -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
