Re: Openquicktime library

2005-09-23 Thread David Ciecierski
I would like to remove this package from BLFS (...) It is a dead project. No new stable release in over 4 years. Googling for the Openquicktime package (looking for a GCC4 patch) > pretty well came up with nothing except references to the LFS project. Yeah, although I'm pretty new to (B)LFS,

Re: [RFC] Structure of Part III

2005-09-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Torsten Vollmann wrote: > Hi. > > I would like to discuss the structure of part III - general libraries and > utilities seen from a dependency meeting point of view. > > I know it is not quite possible to arrange the whole book in a way that you > can go through it step by step and be able to c

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2005-09-23 Thread s . biswas
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Re: [RFC] Structure of Part III

2005-09-23 Thread Jeremy Byron
David Ciecierski wrote: simply using ctrl+f find in FF I can get to the required package much faster than going through the list. This is true regardless of the ordering in the book; the central point is by what criteria the chapters (and packages) should be ordered (if at all). I think th

Re: [RFC] Structure of Part III

2005-09-23 Thread David Ciecierski
>> I know it is not quite possible to arrange the whole book in >> a way that you can go through it step by step and be able >> to compile all packages this way, but at least part III has >> some room for optimization. I guess that could be nice. I remember it took a while to get used to jumping

Re: [RFC] Structure of Part III

2005-09-23 Thread Jeremy Byron
Torsten Vollmann wrote: I know it is not quite possible to arrange the whole book in a way that you can go through it step by step and be able to compile all packages this way, First of all chapter 12 is sorted alphabetically, which is mainly a good thing and LFS does this, too - where possi

Re: NTP bootscript causes long boot-times

2005-09-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: I think it depends where you go for your timeservers - on my server (normally up, modulo hardware changes and kernel crashes) I've commented out the 'ntpd -gqx' with a note that I was getting an 'already running message' (gcc-3.4.3, ntp-4.2.0). Works fine like this. That

Re: NTP bootscript causes long boot-times

2005-09-23 Thread Andrew Benton
Matthew Burgess wrote: I think the solution is to move the initial time-sync operation out of the bootscript and into the configuration section of NTP (obviously with enough explanation as to why we need to do this and why it should be a one-time operation, but faulty hardware like a dodgy CMOS

Re: NTP bootscript causes long boot-times

2005-09-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: Hi folks, I've just built ntp (version 4.2.0a due to the gcc-4 fixes I need), and installed the bootscript from blfs-bootscripts-2005-09-10. The ntp bootscript takes anywhere between 17 seconds and 51 seconds to complete, dependent on which server

RE: [RFC] Structure of Part III

2005-09-23 Thread David Fix
> This solves a lot of requirements but I'm aware that at least > MC, librep and > perl-modules are affected due to not met requirements this > way. Nevertheless > I think it would be gained more than lost... I think Torsten is on the right track here. :) Good one. :) Dave -- htt

NTP bootscript causes long boot-times

2005-09-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, I've just built ntp (version 4.2.0a due to the gcc-4 fixes I need), and installed the bootscript from blfs-bootscripts-2005-09-10. The ntp bootscript takes anywhere between 17 seconds and 51 seconds to complete, dependent on which servers I've configured in /etc/ntp.conf. This is

[RFC] Structure of Part III

2005-09-23 Thread Torsten Vollmann
Hi. I would like to discuss the structure of part III - general libraries and utilities seen from a dependency meeting point of view. I know it is not quite possible to arrange the whole book in a way that you can go through it step by step and be able to compile all packages this way, but at

Re: extra-prompt.sh

2005-09-23 Thread Torsten Vollmann
Hi. I commentet out the export line in the script but still PROMPT_COMMAND is set and used... Only commenting out the PROMPT_COMMAND line helps Could it be the export isn't needed at all? Sadly I'm not so deep into bash programming but always thought things not exported don't make it beyond the s

Re: Gnome-2.12.0 Yelp issue

2005-09-23 Thread Kevin Jordan
On 9/20/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > For folks that have built (and are using) GNOME-2.12.0, do you > experience any problems with Yelp? I'm noticing issues with it > crashing. > > Of course, I tried to get cute when I compiled the package and use > the --enable-man a