On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:10:11PM +0200, Allard Welter wrote: > Hi, > > It has been about four years since my last build of (b)lfs. There are > reasons (I went walkabout, and the got a job). I haven't finished yet, > but here are some comments up to now. I have not gone through the > archives to check if any of these issues have been raised. Should any > be of my doing, resolved, reported or otherwise, I sincerely > apologise.
Some of these are known. One or two comments below. > > TeTeX: This package is no longer being maintained. There is no problem > as it stands, except that the check aborts because the packaged > sources are more than 5 years old. This is easily hacked. Maybe 'easily hacked' for you, to me it is totally incomprehensible, even when it works. Discussed on -dev recently, I think Randy will be upgradign the book to TeX Live soon. > > > QT: When configuring for an sql server, perhaps a hint to look in > qt-$version/plugins/src/sqldrivers is in order. > If you get yourself a wiki ID [ you probably need to speak to Bruce, we had spam issues until the privileges were restricted ] you can add that. > ghostscript: the --no-same-user option to tar is not recognised. Maybe > try --no-same-owner ?? I did chown -R 0:0. It was quicker than wading > through info tar. I've got the ticket for this. > > libvpx: doesn't find nasm. Explicitly use --as=nasm > I didn't have to do that. I've just retested on the machine where I installed nasm, and what is in the book works for me. > x264 wants yasm. I linked nasm to asm which compiles ok, I haven't got > round to checking if it works yet. Thinks for the report - looking at my own scripts, I've always used --disable-asm for x264 [ on x86_64 ]. I'll add a comment. > > aspell-dict: needs which > You still build without one or other variant of which ? Thanks for the report, it's such a basic part of the stack for most of us that it's hard to find what needs it. Again, I'll add a comment. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
