pete wrote:

> After building Xorg-7.6, which included D-BUS-1.2.24, an error message 
> was generated on bootup and
> shutdown  because in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 20 there is no 
> such file as /lib/lsb/init_params.
> The error is probably because I have not built LSB-Tools, but for now I 
> have just commented out
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 20.

Yes, that is in the errata for 7.0 and has been fixed in svn.

> Libpng-1.5.5 failed make check, but it did not fail the actual tests, it 
> failed on checking the highest ordinal number
> used in png.h. The extra numbers which cause the errors are added to 
> png.h by the patch!

Yes, but that is a test suite problem only.

> My next target was to build a Window Manager.
> I have used Icewm-1.3.5 previously on earlier BLFS builds, but it would 
> not build now because it needed gdk-pixmap.
> Built libjpeg-8c, LibTIFF-3.9.4, gdk-pixbuf-2.24.0 and then icewm-1.3.5 
> successfully.
> 
> Tried to build idesk-0.7.5, but it required imlib2-1.4.4 which would not 
> build with libpng-1.5.5. There appears to be
> a lot of work involved in making imlib2-1.4.4 compatible with 
> libpng-1.5.5, so I have decided not to build
> idesk-0.7.5 for now.

I haven't gotten that far yet.  Thanks for the heads up.

> Building Bluefish-1.0.7 requires GTK+-2.20.1 which requires ATK-1.30.0.
> Building ATK-1.30.0 failed because glib 2.30.1 has removed G_CONST_RETURN.
> The latest version of atk (which does not use G_CONST_RETURN) is 
> atk-2.2.0, so tried this version.
> Building GTK+-2.20.1 failed because of libpng-1.5.5 errors similar to 
> those found with imlib2-1.4.4, so try GTK+-2.24.7.
> Built ATK-2.2.0, GTK+-2.24.7 and then Bluefish-1.0.7 successfully.

Welcome to the bleeding edge.  :)

> My next target is to build Firefox, Thunderbird and Internet access.

Thanks for the info.

   -- Bruce
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