Re: [blfs-dev] My current TODO list

2013-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Comments apply to the versions on the right: Thanks for the input. -- Bruce On 06/26/2013 10:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: /acl/acl-2.2.51.src.tar.gz 2.2.52 /freetype/freetype-2.4.12.tar.bz22.5.0 /glib/glib-2.34.3.tar.xz

[blfs-dev] Current packages

2013-06-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've just finished a new build of a substantial (about 230 packages) part of BLFS. After I finished and got a working system, I decided to go back and check the sources' websites to see if the packages we have are current or not. In many cases, we are current but there are quite a few cases

Re: [blfs-dev] Current packages

2013-06-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've just finished a new build of a substantial (about 230 packages) part of BLFS. After I finished and got a working system, I decided to go back and check the sources' websites to see if the packages we have are current or not. In many cases, we are current

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg configuration (xorg.conf, xorg.conf.d, etc) also keyboards

2013-06-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Anyway, with nouveau I _have_to_ put a minimal Device section into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and specify nouveau as the driver. I tried putting something similar in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ along with the evdev and keyboard conf files but it was ignored. So, my assumption

[blfs-dev] VLC and FLAC

2013-06-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I ran into a problem when building VLC with FLAC enabled. Upon investigation, I found the FLAC headers in /usr/include/{FLAC,FLAC++}, but /usr/lib/pkgconfig/flac.pc has: prefix=/usr exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib includedir=${prefix}/include Changing that last line to

[blfs-dev] warnings from gcc-4.8

2013-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Just a heads up. I've been doing a large number of builds with the most recent lfs-svn in the last few days. gcc-4.8 has made several warnings a part of -Wall -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-value -Wunused-variable -Wunused (=all of the above) What these do is

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg compound sections

2013-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:22:30PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I think updating the file proto-7.7.md5 without changing the name is a stealth update. We probably need to change the file name to something like proto-7.7-1.md5 and then update to -2, -3, etc when updating

[blfs-dev] xorg drivers glamor

2013-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
1. Do I need the Glamor EGL driver? My system has NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E Series] video. 2. If I do need it, it fails for me at autoreconf: configure.ac:44: error: must install xorg-macros 1.8 or later before running autoconf/autogen Where do we get xorg-macros 1.8? The

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg drivers glamor

2013-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:18:54AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: 1. Do I need the Glamor EGL driver? My system has NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E Series] video. Almost certainly not - required for radeon South Islands, optional for radeon from R300 to Northern

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg drivers glamor

2013-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Martin Ward wrote: On 21/06/13 18:31, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:18:54AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: 1. Do I need the Glamor EGL driver? My system has NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E Series] video. Almost certainly not - required for radeon

[blfs-dev] glib version

2013-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been doing a complete rebuild the last couple of days and have been getting a huge number of warnings from glib. Updating to 2.36.3 seems to have fixed the problem. The issue is really gcc-4.8 so it only affects those using lfs-svn. Even though I'm using automake-1.13.4, the current glib

[blfs-dev] xorg compound sections

2013-06-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
When updating my development system I've run into an issue with xorg compound sections like the Xorg Protocol Headers. I had a previous install and had proto-7.7.md5, but saved that and created a new one from the book. A diff gives: diff proto-7.7.md5 proto-7.7.md5.save 24c24

[blfs-dev] binutils data

2013-06-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've noticed some things about binutils lately. I suppose it is just getting bigger and more complex, but the SBU time for it on my system is now 124 seconds with the build size 401 M. Looking back, I see: SVN-20130616 124 sec 401M binutils-2.23.2 gcc-4.8.1 LFS-7.3 113 sec 412M

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg configuration (xorg.conf, xorg.conf.d, etc) also keyboards

2013-06-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: In current BLFS we don't do much to configure xorg, but when we do we seem to have a mixture of /etc/X11/xorg.conf (drivers) and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (testing and configuration). For some years I've been using ${XORG_PREFIX}/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ which is what I though

Re: [blfs-dev] VLC and D-Bus

2013-06-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: Hello, I'd like to move D-Bus from required to recommended dependency. Since I don't use D-Bus on my systems, is there any other package in the book which requires VLC compiled with D-Bus support? Just to comment, I'd like ot point out that some packages, e.g.

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11279 - in trunk/BOOK: . general/graphlib gnome/platform x/lib xfce/apps xsoft/office xsoft/other

2013-06-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 06/06/2013 06:08 PM, Armin K. wrote: On 06/06/2013 06:02 PM, Igor Živković wrote: On 06/06/2013 05:53 PM, Armin K. wrote: On 06/06/2013 05:44 PM, Igor Živković wrote: I'm aware of dependency chain. If the big red note on Harfbuzz page is not enough we can simply add

[blfs-dev] ruby-2.00 md5sum

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
When updating the file repository on anduin, the checksum I got for ruby-2.00 does not match the book. Book: 0672e5af309ae99d1703d0e96eff8ea5 Repo: 2f54faea6ee1ca500632ec3c0cb59cb6 Which is right? If the repo is right, please update the book. -- Bruce -- A: Because it messes up the

Re: [blfs-dev] ruby-2.00 md5sum

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 06/02/2013 09:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: When updating the file repository on anduin, the checksum I got for ruby-2.00 does not match the book. Book: 0672e5af309ae99d1703d0e96eff8ea5 Repo: 2f54faea6ee1ca500632ec3c0cb59cb6 Which is right? The one in the book

Re: [blfs-dev] RFC: Which GNOME packages to remove and which ones to keep?

2013-05-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: From my quick look, this is what I came with. I want to keep the following packages in the book - none of them has hard dep on Systemd. Everything looks reasonable. If issues arise, we can always add it back. D11197 x/lib/gtkmm3.xml This is the only thing

Re: [blfs-dev] Tag LFS 7.3 (built or executed properly)

2013-05-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando wrote: Have you missed (# 8. above) lame? Yes I did. Fixed. Also, please do some trimming with the reply. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] desktop-file-utils-0.21 empty page links

2013-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando wrote: Desktop entries Broken: http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec Apparently now at: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ XDG Base Directory Broken: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/basedir-spec Apparently now at:

Re: [blfs-dev] Tag LFS 7.3 (built or executed properly)

2013-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando wrote: Em 22-05-2013 19:57, Fernando escreveu: Em 22-05-2013 15:27, Fernando escreveu: Em 22-05-2013 15:07, Fernando escreveu: Em 17-05-2013 20:43, Fernando escreveu: Em 16-05-2013 18:26, Fernando escreveu: I am building (very, very slowly) some packages in SVN 7.3. As you may

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenSSH-6.2p1

2013-05-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: mkdir test/etc mkdir test/etc/ssh test/usr/sbin/sshd -t -f test/etc/ssh/sshd_config Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key sshd: no hostkeys available --

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenSSH-6.2p1

2013-05-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: On 05/23/2013 08:01 PM, Fernando wrote: [putolin] But the book does not use DESTDIR, so, the editors do not support it, at least not for openssh. So, I believe you are suggesting the addition of some comments about DESTDIR install? No, just adding to the text if it

Re: [blfs-dev] LFS Server Upgrade

2013-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Hi guys, The hosting company where the new server is located is going through a round of upgrades including physical hardware relocation to their new facility. This means our server will need to be powered down for a while (estimated two hours or less but their total

Re: [blfs-dev] Tag LFS 7.3 (built or executed properly)

2013-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando wrote: Em 17-05-2013 20:43, Fernando escreveu: Em 16-05-2013 18:26, Fernando escreveu: I am building (very, very slowly) some packages in SVN 7.3. As you may have noticed, I am not that organized, so instead of making a list in text, if you do not mind, I will be replying to this

Re: [blfs-dev] A proposal

2013-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: I'd link to the actual post under http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev with my suggestions of obvious cleavage lines to break BLFS into separate books, but the mailing list archive is 404. Try searching

Re: [blfs-dev] A proposal

2013-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: On 05/14/2013 12:03:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Rob Landley wrote: I'd link to the actual post under http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev with my suggestions of obvious cleavage lines to break BLFS into separate books, but the mailing list archive is 404

Re: [blfs-dev] A proposal

2013-05-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: A systemd blfs branch would be fine since we already have systemd lfs branch. Do you want to create it or do you want me to do it? Either way is OK. There is no need to reference it anywhere on the main site - just an initial announcement should be fine. OK. We can always

Re: [blfs-dev] A proposal

2013-05-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: The GNOME/GTK+ Project packages are becoming outdated and newer package that are adjusted for them seem to be more or less failing with older ones (See several NetworkManager threads on blfs-support). On the other side, I use Systemd and my system isn't anymore compatible

Re: [blfs-dev] LFS 7.3 packages

2013-05-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi, I've just grepped all the packages tagged lfs72_built. I tested some of them on lfs 7.3. It results so far: Don't you mean lfs72_checked? The only ones I see that are lfs72_built are: reiser.xml blueman.xml x7driver.xml (Wacom) I'll go on my tests soon to

Re: [blfs-dev] LFS 7.3 packages

2013-05-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Oh I'd be pleased to have rights to commit and be fully part of blfs team. You should have that now. I still work on other projects for blfs I have already mentioned here (lfs72_checked, updates, accessibility, etc.). I also subscribed to trac to handle tickets

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenSSL build failure with parallel make

2013-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 05/05/2013 12:41 PM, Igor Živković wrote: Hello, since OpenSSL fails to build with parallel make maybe a patch or at least a note about is warranted in the book: https://raw.github.com/Alexpux/Qt-builds/master/patches/openssl/openssl-1.0.1-parallel-build.patch Compile

Re: [blfs-dev] Colour me disappointed.

2013-04-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: At some time in the past few months I was planning to upgrade ImageMagick, but the then-current release failed one of my tests. Specifically, display /path/to/first-file.jpg /path/to/second-file.jpg In a good version, this displays the first file, and then lets me

Re: [blfs-dev] libpng 1.6 and firefox

2013-04-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: After upgrading to libpng-1.6 the compilation step for firefox-20.0.1 completes without problems. However, when building the installer, the process fails with: ... /sources/mozilla-release/firefox-build-dir/dist/bin/xpcshell: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [blfs-dev] amarok and libmysqld

2013-04-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 04/27/2013 07:03 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm trying to build amarok and it can't find -lmysqld. Looking at my build of mysql, I did apply the embedded_library_shared-1.patch, but it does not seem to build libmysqld. Just on a hunch I edited the main CMakeLists.txt

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11158 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/welcome kde/core

2013-04-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rthom...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: rthomsen Date: Sat Apr 27 14:17:59 2013 New Revision: 11158 Log: Fix akonadi with mysql 5.6. Should we be looking at switching to MariaDB? It supposed to be drop-in compatible with mysql-5.5. My feeling is that it would be more

[blfs-dev] amarok and libmysqld

2013-04-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm trying to build amarok and it can't find -lmysqld. Looking at my build of mysql, I did apply the embedded_library_shared-1.patch, but it does not seem to build libmysqld. Just on a hunch I edited the main CMakeLists.txt and added ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(mysqld) and rebuilt. That seems to have

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3844: ALSA driver 1.0.27

2013-04-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
BLFS Trac wrote: #3844: ALSA driver 1.0.27 -+-- Reporter: bdubbs@… | Owner: blfs-book@… Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: current Component: BOOK | Version:

Re: [blfs-dev] mpg123 --disable-static

2013-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I'm just going through my desktop build, to see which updated versions I've missed. On mpg123-1.15.3 I see we use --disable-static but I haven't been using that for recent versions. A quick DESTDIR test shows that only .la and .so libs are installed, at least on my

Re: [blfs-dev] mkinitramfs does not work with the latest lfs

2013-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nathan Coulson wrote: /etc/udev/udev.conf does not exist, I'll have to investigate if udev.conf exists any more, but that line may just need to be deleted. /bin/killall should be /usr/bin/killall I don't understand that. It's in /bin on my system. The initramfs doesn't have /usr. It's

Re: [blfs-dev] libreoffice-4.0.1.2 withought cups

2013-03-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: Without wishing to 'hijack' a thread, or resume a possible controversy, could the present policy on required/recommended/optional classification of dependencies, be clarified, please, if possible? Thanks. I know there's been some contrary opinion in the past about what each

Re: [blfs-dev] NetworkManager and systemd

2013-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: After using wicd for a long time, due to not being able to get NetworkManager to function on lfs a while back, I decided to give NM another chance on a systemd and KDE system. First, if not building with iptables, a --without-iptables switch is needed to successfully

Re: [blfs-dev] known to build on 7.3

2013-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:28:50AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: It was helpful to have the list in alpha order. The book has been updated, but I help off for now on the following. (apart from ImageMagick, where I don't have that version and didn't like the current versions

Re: [blfs-dev] Packages built on lfs-7.3

2013-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: I can tell you that mutt, fetchmail, procmail, libnl, gnutls, wpa_supplicant, and screen build on lfs-7.3. Thanks. I've update my sandbox and will commit later today. Reports like this save me a lot of time. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] colord

2013-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Sami Tarazi wrote: It is probably a bug in 0.1.30 as 0.1.31 builds per instructions with no problems, The book has been updated to 0.1.31 so it looks like we are good. Thanks for the report. -- bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] sqlite download location

2013-03-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nathan Coulson wrote: http://sqlite.org/sqlite-autoconf-3071600.tar.gz give me a 404, should be http://sqlite.org/2013/sqlite-autoconf-3071600.tar.gz That appears to be fixed now. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] Qemu an LFS

2013-03-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been working on qemu and have been able to generate a (compressed) image of LFS 7.3 (Actually SVN-20130319) that is small enough for most to download. It's only a little bigger than the kernel. I've put that file and a readme on anduin. http://anduin/sources/other/basic.img.xz.readme.txt

Re: [blfs-dev] colord

2013-03-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Sami Tarazi wrote: colord seems to require libsystemd_login with the present instructions but compiles successfully when adding --disable-systemd-login to configure Do you have systemd installed? If so, that's not the lfs standard: I didn't need that switch. From my log: Package systemd

Re: [blfs-dev] colord

2013-03-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Sami Tarazi wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Sami Tarazi wrote: colord seems to require libsystemd_login with the present instructions but compiles successfully when adding --disable-systemd-login to configure Do you have systemd installed

Re: [blfs-dev] Rendering LFS/BLFS books

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: I have cloned the svn repositories for the BLFS and the LFS books. I have then rendered both LFS and BLFS books. I have found some things I would like to bring to the table. 1.The BLFS book places the finished book in a totally different sub directory. I am suggessing

[blfs-dev] Goffice

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Why is there two pages for goffice, GOffice-0.10.1 and GOffice-0.8.17? The dependencies are different, but I don't think that's enough. the intro paragraphs are identical. At a minimum there needs to be a note about this. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev

Re: [blfs-dev] Goffice

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 03/18/2013 08:50 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Why is there two pages for goffice, GOffice-0.10.1 and GOffice-0.8.17? The dependencies are different, but I don't think that's enough. the intro paragraphs are identical. At a minimum there needs to be a note about this. One

[blfs-dev] virtualization and remote access

2013-03-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I just updated the book to qemu-1.4.0 and now I'd like to be able to run the virtual systems that can be created on a remote system. Using qemu, running a text interface is pretty straight forward with ssh, but I'd also like to run multiple graphical interfaces for testing. Starting a system

Re: [blfs-dev] known to build on 7.3

2013-03-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 07:52:22AM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: Hiho, in another thread there was the info that comments about packages built against LFS-7.3 would be of interest. I have so far: Here's my contribution. Unfortunately, a few

[blfs-dev] BLFS Packages that need LFS-7.3 checks - Summary

2013-03-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
By directory 19 xsoft 24 xfce 38 x 10 server 9 pst 32 postlfs 25 networking 70 multimedia 99 gnome 36 general/genlib 22 general/sysutils 10 general/genutils 11 general/graphlib 21 general/prog lfs-73 complete 217 -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] known to build on 7.3

2013-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 07:52:22AM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: Hiho, in another thread there was the info that comments about packages built against LFS-7.3 would be of interest. I have so far: Here's my contribution. Unfortunately, a few of the versions I built have

Re: [blfs-dev] known to build on 7.3

2013-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: Thank you Thomas. I'll update the book today. -- Bruce in another thread there was the info that comments about packages built against LFS-7.3 would be of interest. I have so far: which bc pcre popt gpm ed sudo openssl openssh curl libidn wget ntp dhcpcd

Re: [blfs-dev] known to build on 7.3

2013-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thomas Trepl wrote: Thank you Thomas. I'll update the book today. in another thread there was the info that comments about packages built against LFS-7.3 would be of interest. I have so far: OK, the book has been updated. It would make it easier for me if you didn't

Re: [blfs-dev] known to build on 7.3

2013-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 13/03/2013 19:13, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : It is just one more, but it is a long test: I successfully built and used GCC on LFS 7.3. Thanks. It will be a part of the next update. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: [blfs-dev] 1st attempt

2013-03-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi, At http://demo.accelibreinfo.eu/dotconf.tar.bz2 you will find my 1st attempt of xml file. I add thus dotconf 1.0 to the book. It's a dependency of speech-dispatcher (I'll finish soon), speech-dispatcher is a dependency of orca. It helps too for brltty. It

Re: [blfs-dev] First steps

2013-03-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi, Here are some packages which build against lfs 7.3: dhcpcd, python3.3, Thanks. alsa-lib, alsa-utils Just updated. (the http URL is however wrong, only ftp works) I noticed that too, but didn't update yet. I think that the http://gd.tuwien.ac.at site is

Re: [blfs-dev] Broken Links for packages

2013-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Treah Blade wrote: Hello; I was not sure if anyone had noticed that these two packages in the book for building Xorg 7.7 were not working. xcb-util-image-0.3.9 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/xcb/xcb-util-image-0.3.9.tar.bz2 xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.8

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11086 - in trunk: BOOK/networking/netprogs BOOK/postlfs/config bootscripts/blfs/init.d

2013-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
kre...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: krejzi Date: Sun Mar 10 14:07:50 2013 New Revision: 11086 Log: Fix samba to install all pkgconfig files and modify samba instructions to match systemd units. Have you looked at updating to Samba 4? -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] Various contributions are bkout coming

2013-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: I'm about finishing my lfs-7.3 and I'll build blfs against it. That's very good. Thanks. I'm going, during the process, to work in parallel to contributing to the project. For example, I'll send an blog article about quvi this week. Just now, my questions

Re: [blfs-dev] Various contributions are bkout coming

2013-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: ken [ instead of 'ĸen', since you have trouble dealing with that obsolete greenlandic glyph :-) ] I used to have that problem, but I figured it out in the seamonkey configuration. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3823: qemu 1.2.0/ texinfo 5.0 failure

2013-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 03/09/2013 12:27 AM, BLFS Trac wrote: #3823: qemu 1.2.0/ texinfo 5.0 failure I recommend you replace qemu-kvm with qemu. qemu-kvm has been merged into qemu package which is now at 1.4.0. OK, I'll take a look at that. -- bruce --

[blfs-dev] Xorg for LFS-7.3

2013-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I just finished building Xorg for LFS-7.3 and it seems to be OK so far. I am using the nouveau drivers and that loads fine. I only built the evdev, vesa, and nouveau drivers, but I suspect the others will build fine and run with the appropriate hardware. LFS-7.3 tags for other drivers have

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg for LFS-7.3 [solved]

2013-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I do have one question about the kernel. During boot, it switches to a framebuffer device. I'd prefer that it not do that and just stay in the startup 80x25 character text screen. I can disable the framebuffer by passing 'nomodeset' on the kernel command line

Re: [blfs-dev] [BLFS Trac] #3821: Xorg-7.7 Testing and Configuration: Broken Links

2013-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce, I see you've now got this. In case it makes a difference, I've now identified that AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni is uming and AR PL Zenkai Uni is ukai. Listed at [http://www.font.su/fonts/index.html]. Download is [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Download] OK.

[blfs-dev] Notes on mesalib

2013-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I like to install xorg and related programs in /opt. I noticed that the instructions for several packages have changed so that only /usr is presented. For mesalib, I found that a couple of extra commands are needed. I suspect they are not using pkgconfig properly. For the main build, I

Re: [blfs-dev] The changelog hates us

2013-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: The wget-list in the most recent 7.3 release is also access denied right now. Fixed. I have a restrictive umask and that keeps the permissions too restrictive when copying files. I just loosened it up. By the way, having a readme in that directory point to:

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenSSH

2013-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Treah Blade wrote: Hello guys thought I would share this little tidbit of information that I happened across. I apologize if someone else has mentioned it already. Anyway I was building Wget and used the option to include openSSL and it reported that that library was not there. Well that was

[blfs-dev] gperf

2013-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
In the instructions for gperf, we have If desired, create a text version of the documentation by issuing the following command: makeinfo -o doc/gperf.txt --plaintext doc/gperf.texi The problem is that doc/gperf.texi is broken by texinfo-5.0. We need sed -e '/1131/s/itemx/item/'

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] Files in BLFS svn missing on anduin

2013-03-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 03/03/2013 11:36 AM, bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Missing bluefish-2.2.4.tar.bz2 Missing libreoffice-4.0.0.3.tar.xz Missing libreoffice-translations-4.0.0.3.tar.xz Missing pidgin-2.10.7.tar.bz2 Missing thunderbird-17.0.3.source.tar.bz2 Missing transmission-2.77.tar.xz

Re: [blfs-dev] The changelog hates us

2013-03-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: On 03/01/2013 11:17:31 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Armin K. wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/changelog-2012.txt Again 404 ... OK, It's back. I'll try to investigate why. It may have something to do with web site updates. The directory was last changed Jan 25 so

Re: [blfs-dev] The changelog hates us

2013-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/changelog-2012.txt Again 404 ... OK, It's back. I'll try to investigate why. It may have something to do with web site updates. The directory was last changed Jan 25 so it's been missing since then. -- Bruce --

[blfs-dev] LFS-7.3 is released

2013-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 7.3. It is a major release with toolchain updates to binutils-2.23.1, glibc-2.17, and gcc-4.7.2. In total, 31 packages were updated from LFS-7.2 and changes to bootscripts and text have been made throughout the

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3821: Xorg-7.7 Testing and Configuration: Broken Links

2013-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Comment (by ken@…): OK, the further details : I've been analysing the coverage of my fonts since December (I had too many!) and eventually decided to produce an example pdf for each, to show the coverage (most writing systems), or (for CJK) to show the glyphs which are likely to be

Re: [blfs-dev] Xulrunner-18.0.1 installed files ownership

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: CC'd to BLFS-Dev On 2/24/2013 2:39 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote: Hi I installed Xulrunner-18.0.1/Firefox-18.0.1 today. Xulrunner installed most directories and files under unprivileged user's ownership. If no one else has noticed that, then I must have done something

Re: [blfs-dev] Xulrunner-18.0.1 installed files ownership

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/24/13 17:38 CST: Randy, I 'm not 100% sure the problem is in the tarball. Many times I'll do make DESTDIR=/tmp/pkgname install and the user will be me, not root. If you did that as the root user, then the package is broken. I see

Re: [blfs-dev] JSON-C commit

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On 20/02/13 23:51, Randy McMurchy wrote: Wayne Blaszczyk wrote these words on 02/20/13 06:10 CST: If I do a svn update, it says its at revision 10963. Is this correct? Sorry for my other posts as I am being stupid this morning. Please disregard. You indeed updated

[blfs-dev] LFS-7.3 planning

2013-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've added ENTITYs for tagging packages for LFS-7.3. If editors would check packages against LFS-7.3-rc1, I think the tags could be used now. It's very unlikely that there will be any significant changes to -rc1 in the stable release. If building an existing package, the only change needed

[blfs-dev] LFS-7.3-rc1 is released

2013-02-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 7.3-rc1. This is the first release candidate on the road to LFS-7.3. It is a major release with toolchain updates to binutils, glibc, and gcc. In total, 31 packages were updated from LFS-7.2 and changes to

Re: [blfs-dev] kdelibs

2013-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, If someone could confirm the following, it would be appreciated. I had to set LIBRARY_PATH=/xorg/prefix in order for kdelibs to perform make install. Without it the build fails right at the beginning with a bunch of message about cannot find -lSM, -lICE, -lX11,

Re: [blfs-dev] kdelibs

2013-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/17/13 19:23 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: I had to set LIBRARY_PATH=/xorg/prefix in order for kdelibs to perform make install. Without it the build fails right at the beginning with a bunch of message about cannot find -lSM, -lICE, -lX11

Re: [blfs-dev] Large commit

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I just ran my script that cleans up extraneous spaces from blank lines and at the end of lines in all the .xml files. The commit will probably not show up in -book as it is large. Editors (or anyone with a sandbox of current SVN trunk) ensure you do an 'svn up'

Re: [blfs-dev] Large commit

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/11/13 12:55 CST: I just ran my script that cleans up extraneous spaces from blank lines and at the end of lines in all the .xml files. If you use Vim to edit the book's .xml, you can add the following lines to your /etc/vimrc file

Re: [blfs-dev] Large commit

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matt Burgess wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 21:45 +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: If you use quilt, it usually signals spaces at the end of lines when doing 'quilt refresh'. Indeed, it does. However, that assumes that a) one is using quilt and b) your patch touches a file that contains the

Re: [blfs-dev] Permissions problem with BLFS patches

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: In the BLFS patch download directory - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/ - every patch is coming up Access Denied. I would guess there must be some permissions issue there (stray chmod -r or something similar?). Unless someone has changed it since your post,

Re: [blfs-dev] Proposition for the GCC page

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, Here is a patch to update the GCC page, since part of it is presently inaccurate. It also reintroduces ADA, and adds GO, for completeness. I can make a more complete patch (Changelog entry) if necessary. Pierre, can you please create a ticket at

Re: [blfs-dev] Higgs Server

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I cannot access BLFS SVN at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/. Can anyone confirm this? Also, the source code history in Trac has not made updates for 3 weeks. Is this because that area of Trac has not been merged? When it is fixed, will commits

Re: [blfs-dev] Does xterm work for UTF-8 ?

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Ken Moffat wrote these words on 02/10/13 13:04 CST: configure:14508: checking for usable Xft/fontconfig package configure:14534: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNARROWPROTO=1 -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DOSMAJORVERSION=3 -DOSMINORVERSION=8 -I/usr/include/freetype2

Re: [blfs-dev] Higgs Server

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: What about the Trac updates to the source code? I don't understand your question. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] Higgs Server

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/10/13 15:12 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: What about the Trac updates to the source code? I don't understand your question. From the Trac Active Tickets (looking at the current bug list), click on the top toolbar where it says Browse

Re: [blfs-dev] Proposition for the GCC page

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: I think the out of memory error are tcl errors, not gcc. Amazingly, I have less unsupported tests than you in gcc (and many less XPASS or FAIL), but more unsupported tests in g++. I also have many more results for gfortran (see attached file). But, the results which

Re: [blfs-dev] Proposition for the GCC page

2013-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: I have 6GB of RAM and 6GB swap file so memory is not the problem. It's stack size that is the problem and we can't set ulimit as normal user iirc ... In LFS, ulimit is increased before make -k check. Yes, but that's specific to each bash instance. I suppose one could do

Re: [blfs-dev] Inkscape build

2013-02-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure how many build Xorg outside of the /usr hierarchy, but I do and it really doesn't cause any issues. However, the build of inkscape choked at the very end when it links all the object files into the inkscape binaries with a cannot find -lX11 message

Re: [blfs-dev] Inkscape build

2013-02-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:26:28 -0600 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure how many build Xorg outside of the /usr hierarchy, but I do and it really doesn't cause any issues. However, the build of inkscape choked

Re: [blfs-dev] DejaVu Fonts Instructions

2013-02-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: So, I _guess_ that .conf files are sometimes important. For DejaVu with recent fontconfig, that doesn't seem to be the case. I took a look at some of the .conf files. The contents tell us what they do. For example: match target=font test name=family

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