On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39:43PM +0000, John Burrell wrote: > > > > > > Several things puzzle me about this: > > > > 1. What uses it ? (I haven't looked at gnome-extras, or even all of > > the core packages, only enough to build a desktop with the apps I > > use). > > Sorry, I don't keep logs (like you do) so I can't remember exactly. I > remember something complaining that I hadn't got it installed, but I don't > think it was obligatory.
It will come to light eventually :) > > > > 2. Wayne said it was ok on LFS-6.8. Gentoo are using it without any > > patches. So : what has changed ? > > > > I see it is now at 5.14. Looks like more testing for me ;-) > > Version 5.14 gives me the same error, viz. > mk-agen-texi FAILED: Cannot locate libopts.a > > I can patch 5.14 and see if it works. If it does, I'll send you the patch. > Some of the line numbers in the SUSE patch don't accord with the latest > version. > That's normal. At the moment I'm struggling with opal (ffmpeg changes broke it, the developer(s) seemed reluctant to take the fix but *may* have altered configure, except the most recent change is before the comment. I wouldn't care, but sf has broken downloading the attachment, and I'm reduced to pasting from the browser - with broken whitespace. Giving that another attempt, but it takes 10 minutes to get to the problem. > > > 3. Most puzzling for me, is how did you find this patch ? (google is > > increasingly useless for matching package/version/error-message > > these days, particularly when the package name matches many other > > usages). This is the first time I've managed to access > > anything from opensuse, and I still can't find a quick way to search > > for a package there, but I suppose I've got a start now, so thanks. > > > > I googled: Cannot locate libopts.a Odd, I thought I'd tried that. > > Some of the Gnome 3 stuff seems pretty flaky. For e.g. I can't get > gnome-terminal > to work reliably. Also some of the replacements for Gnome-Utilities don't work > for me. And you've already had an encounter with totem - mes condoleances. For me, the basic problem with totem is that it uses clutter and my hardware apparently isn't good enough. So, I stopped trying to test such things. I was able to exec gnome-shell and sit back watching mutter take ages to do anything, and playing a video in vlc looked as bad as totem on my previous build. Certainly, caribou seemed pretty useless (lowercase only, plus comma and period - shift changed the key caps but not the results, and some of the results had minimal relevance to the keys I'd clicked. Tried to retest it on metacity, but it told me I had to log out and back in (as it had the first time in gnome-shell), and I couldn't be bothered. But gnome-terminal appeared to work normally (backspace broken, but I think that's normal, I've certainly seen it before). Ooh, opal compiled :) I'd better finish reviewing it and sort out the patch. Then I'll take a look at autogen's dependencies. 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
