Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg-7.7-1 upgrade (Was: Xorg-7.6-2 upgrade)

2012-07-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br wrote: With much respect, IMHO, as Xorg is not anymore monolithic, i.e., is modular, it would be good keeping doing upgrades, for example, once a month, as several distros do upgrades continuously. Just to let you know,

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg Applications

2012-07-13 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:53:38AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:10:01 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: But I agree that some apps can be dropped by some people :) Another

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:43:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Good spot.  I do not have CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV set.  LOL - I

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Dan Nicholson dbn.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:43:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Bruce

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get xorg to start up and have some strange problems. I build xorg on /opt/xorg.  On my x86_64 system, there is no problem with xorg 7.6.  On both systems I get: (==) ModulePath set to

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg, libdrm, etc

2012-06-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/14/12, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: Since there is no sign of a Mesa 8.1 or later release at the moment, perhaps I should commit that patch for the radeon driver ? Just FYI, here's a release plan that was discussed last month.

Re: [blfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/1/12, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Now that pkg-config is returning to the LFS book, it's time to consider how we deal with people using the current and previous LFS releases (i.e. 7.1 and 7.0) which are without it. I'll begin by suggesting that,

Re: [blfs-dev] freeglut

2012-05-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/16/12, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a problem with freeglut and xorg being in /opt/xorg. I get: /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -I../../../include -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -export-dynamic -o CallbackMaker CallbackMaker-CallbackMaker.o

Re: Python2 vs Python3

2011-11-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Oct 30, 2011 12:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I have added Python2 to the book for backward compatibility.  When both versions 2 and 3 are built, the executables are: 2     9501 /usr/bin/python 1       16 /usr/bin/python-config - python2.7-config 2     9501

Re: Xorg package order

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:24 PM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 02/09/2011 04:56 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:26:40PM -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:23:32 -0600, Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com   wrote: Going thru xorg for the first time

Re: Xorg package order

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:26:40PM -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:23:32 -0600, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Going thru xorg for the first time in a while. Are Xorg Utilities really

Re: Xorg-7.6-1 update is complete - please review

2011-01-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 02:06:39PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: I am going to revert the changes for the configuration sections for now and leave the old in place with an added note. As far as the Mesa

Re: Xorg-7.6-1 update is complete - please review

2011-01-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 05:21:01AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:  I'm more interested in how useful, or not, it turns out to be. Maybe

Re: Xorg-7.6-1 update is complete - please review

2011-01-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Thomas Trepl tho...@equinox.homelinux.org wrote: Hi DJ, seems to work but I had two issues on the way so far: * libX11:  ./configure tells me that --without-xcb would be a unrecognized option; later it failes cause it isn't installed Correct. The non-xcb

Re: Xorg plans (Was: Re: problem with groff 1.21)

2011-01-13 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:12 PM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 01/12/2011 05:45 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:  I've no idea where BLFS is going in the move to 7.6 - my (old) radeons work well in everything except mesa-demos, but then I no longer build a lot of the old things (many of

Re: Xorg plans (Was: Re: problem with groff 1.21)

2011-01-13 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:06:32 -0800 Dan Nicholson dbn.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious why you want to get rid of the demos. Surely everyone goes to glxinfo and glxgears to see if 3D is working, right? Nope. Just

Re: expat parser

2010-12-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, jon pub...@pitchblende.org wrote: Hello All, I don't know if this is worth mentioning but I've been playing with the expat library and I managed to write something that pulls build instructions from the LFS xml. It's not clean or ready but is anyone thinking

Re: A git test drive

2010-12-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: On 12/7/10 7:05 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: It mentions something about pre-generated swig wrappers in the subversion tarball at http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracSubversion, though they still recommend that

Re: Update to pixman?

2010-11-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, I would like to update the version of Cairo in the book to the most recent version. Unfortunately, this requires that the book's version of pixman must also be updated (0.18.4). Mostly directed to DJ and

Re: What D-Bus version should we target?

2010-11-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, If our target for BLFS is LFS-6.7, what version of D-Bus should we put in the book? The BLFS book's version of D-Bus is way behind in version updates, but I know there is compatibility issues with the

Re: A git test drive

2010-10-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:30:43PM -0400, linux fan wrote: FYI I like git. I'll share my curiosity in case anyone is curious about git.  [...] The second thing I tried was to use git-svn to grab a copy of the

Re: X-windows encodings directory (bug/nitpik)

2010-10-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: encodings puts encodings directory in ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11 in all cases except for the completely unguessable --with-encodingsdir. It is supposed to first honor --with-fontrootdir. In the abscence of that, it is

Re: Xorg future

2010-09-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 09/26/2010 03:23 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:06 PM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 09/23/2010 06:33 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:  With my essentially-LFS-6.7 desktop I'm noticing

Re: Xorg future (Was: Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm)

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:06 PM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 09/23/2010 06:33 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:  With my essentially-LFS-6.7 desktop I'm noticing that if I have firefox open on one desktop, and something else in the same area on another, when I go back to firefox it

Re: ntp init script

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: On 8/23/10 6:10 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: What if the ntp server provided is down like in the 2nd entry above

Re: libxcb

2010-05-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk wblas...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Any reason why there is a $datadir variable used? There is no explanation to what it should be set to. If there is not objections, I'll change it to /usr/share, or should it be $XORG_PREFIX/share? By single

Re: Drop old packages (pan - gnet)

2010-04-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Lars Bamberger maill...@herr-der-mails.de wrote: Hi, rebuilding my system and came across something: pan-0.14.2 is in the book. That was released in 2003 and depends on Gnet-2.0.7. Gnet itself is deprecated with the release of GLib 2.22.0. (See

Re: Unzip 6.0 fails to compile under 64-bit systems with the instructions in the book

2010-02-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: William Immendorf wrote these words on 02/19/10 16:24 CST: Trying the instructions in the book (with a LFS 6.6-rc1 base system), using make -f unix/Makefile linux, on a 64bit Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz system, I get

Re: The State of Xorg

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, Mostly to DJ, FYI for everyone else. Especially for Dan out there lurking! unlurkYes?/unlurk. What is the state of the current Xorg installation in BLFS? Is it close to what is going to be released in

Re: Xorg lib problems

2009-12-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM, ALIP BUDIANTO rabbit8...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:00 AM, treah blade treah.bl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:49:04 -0900 ALIP BUDIANTO rabbit8...@gmail.com wrote: SOmeone

Re: One more X.org fix:

2009-11-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 11/08/2009 01:38 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: On 11/08/2009 01:10 PM, William Immendorf wrote: What happened to gccmakedep, imake, lndir, and xorg-cf-files? They work with LFS 6.5, and they are all required for NAS and other

Re: Linux Standards Base

2009-10-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking at LSB and in running a couple of basic checks find that we have some missing libraries and programs in LFS/BLFS to get to compliance.   The discussion below is only a start.  There may be more needed

Re: Xorg-7.5 very soon (Was: Re: KDE4)

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Thomas Trepl tho...@equinox.homelinux.org wrote: Hi, next time, when Xorg-7.5 will be out, I'll update to the latest version of KDE4.  I hope that this will solve a problem i have with X or/and KDE4 when enabling all those animations and gimmicks in kwin (like

Re: xcb-proto: Where does it belong?

2009-09-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:56 PM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: This is a weird one, as no other packages are separated into three packages, besides those in Xorg.  libxcb and xcb-util  belong in general libraries and general utils respectively, but where do the protocol headers

Re: xorg/*7.4.{wget,md5} files

2009-09-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:  OT, I still get amused when firefox 3.5.3/3.0.0.14 come up for the first time (I share /home between old and new builds, and switch between them) and tells me to update the adobe plugin becasue it is unsafe - as

Re: GNOME 2.26.3

2009-09-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wblas...@bigpond.net.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DJ Lucas wrote: stuff delete/ Unfortunately, it seems that there are a few bad assumptions in the Gnome autoscripts that didn't used to be there, and these should

Re: GNOME 2.26.3

2009-09-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:16 AM, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 09/08/2009 04:45 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: Anyway, I did several experiments, and I don't see that the XDG* exports in the gdm boot script actually do anything. I also tried putting the variables into the various

Re: xf86-video-geode build failure [64bit]

2009-09-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Ken Moffatzarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/9/6 Nathan Coulson conat...@gmail.com: on xf86-video-geode, on a LFS multilib, GCC 4.4.0 I have the following durango.c: Assembler messages: durango.c:203: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'

Re: Trouble configuring xorg on a 64-bit system

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on X today and have all the applicable packages installed. The problem is that I can't get it to start properly. I keep getting the message: FATAL: Module fbcon not found Below are excerpts of files

Re: Trouble configuring xorg on a 64-bit system

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on X today and have all the applicable packages installed. The problem is that I can't get it to start

Re: Trouble configuring xorg on a 64-bit system

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: Yeah, that's the one. If I recall, this FATAL is not really the one bringing down X. Ah, now I remember. The FATAL: Module fbcon not found is actually coming from modprobe since you have fbcon built

Re: Xorg Libraries

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:28 PM, DJ Lucasd...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 08/30/2009 12:36 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Let me know how you wnat to handle things and I'll set it up. Well, as Guy pointed out, we are not really building 7.4 anymore. Stability with the original 7.4 was sketchy,

Re: lesstif

2009-08-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Guy Dalzielkrendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:57:01PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I believe that Print.h comes with printproto. Where do we install that?  It's not in proto-7.4.md5. It's available from

Re: Xorg-server-1.6

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM, DJ Lucasd...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 08/10/2009 08:30 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: After minimal review, following on the two distros' examples, I'm thinking we should move to 1.6. Ok, for anyone that want's to test early, here is my list of updates, do keep

Re: Lesstif tests require Xorg-apps

2009-08-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Matthew Burgessmatt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:27:07 +0100, Guy Dalziel krendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 07:07:23AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: make[3]: Entering directory

Re: Xorg-server-1.6

2009-08-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:30 PM, DJ Lucasd...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Guy, how is that combination of Mesa-7.5 and xorg-server-1.6 working out for you?  Are you pretty confident in it?  After minimal review, following on the two distros' examples, I'm thinking we should move to 1.6. If so,

Re: Xorg version

2009-08-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Guy Dalzielkrendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 07:20:43PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Interesting. It's not using the Xlib CFLAGS. I wasn't involved in the merging of egl into mesa and it's had some silly build issues. This should be set

Re: GConf and dbus question

2009-08-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Randy McMurchyra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Wayne Blaszczyk wrote these words on 08/02/09 00:04 CST: Hi, I've noticed that the GConf installation places the org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.conf file into /etc/gnome/version/dbus-1/system.d. I don't know enough on

Re: Xorg version

2009-08-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Guy Dalzielkrendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:47:08AM +0100, Guy Dalziel wrote: module I'm assuming it's ready. I had problems with Mesa 7.5 but 7.4.4 compiled and works just fine, and there were no problems with the latest LibDRM.

Re: Xorg version

2009-08-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Guy Dalzielkrendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:30:23PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Any chance you could post the part of the build log that fails? I do most of the maintenance for mesa's build. Sure, see attached. What jumps out

Re: Xorg version

2009-07-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Guy Dalzielkrendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:24:18AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I don't see how this can be detected automatically.  In my case I have two monitors.  How can it detect what the orientation is?  Which screen is on the

Re: Xorg version

2009-07-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:54 PM, DJ Lucasd...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Guy However, the patch DJ's referring to is in the xserver-1.6 series if you decide to go that route. I think most of the distros are using the 1.6 server

Re: Xorg version

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Randy McMurchyra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Guy Dalziel wrote these words on 07/29/09 14:22 CST: Do we know what version of Xorg we're goint to use yet? I'm assuming it will be all the latest stuff. If I'm going to compile stuff against it, then I'll need

Re: Xorg version

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Guy Dalzielkrendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:13:22PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: I'm confused. How can you say X has not been touched in years? I didn't say X hasn't been touched in years, I said most of it hasn't. You simply

Re: FreeGLUT vs. MesaGLUT

2009-07-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM, DJ Lucasd...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: FreeGLUT hasn't had a commit since September of 2006 and the Mesa GLUT provides what is needed. I haven't even tried to build freeGLUT.  Does anybody still use it?  Ouch, the licensing note is still correct: Actually,

Re: Use of Mesa in Xorg

2009-05-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Guy Dalziel krendosha...@gmail.com wrote: Under Xorg Applications the use of MesaLib-7.2 is listed as recommended. However, xdriinfo will not compile without it and attempting to disable mesa in xdriinfo does not appear to work. I'm sure there was a way to

The time has come

2009-04-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
Hi everyone, I'm sure those of you that are actively involved in LFS have noticed that my participation has been non-existent for quite some time now. So, this should probably not shock anyone, but I think it's time that I step away from my duties as an editor for LFS and BLFS. I still enjoy

Re: Using DESTDIR with native Python Installations

2009-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, I've not tried real hard yet, but I'm stumbling a bit on how to figure out how to use DESTDIR in native python packages that use the syntax 'python setup.py' for installation. You're looking for python

Re: Linux-PAM include system-auth

2009-02-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, I thought I had the include syntax down for the Linux-PAM conf files, but I'm still a bit lost. More and more I'm seeing (this from an installed file from the PolicyKit package): auth       include    

Re: Common root CA certificates

2009-02-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: DJ Lucas wrote these words on 02/22/09 00:00 CST: Following on from a discussion on the distro package dev list, we will require a distro specific root CA certs file for OpenJDK/IcedTea when it reaches a point

Re: Common root CA certificates

2009-02-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/23/09 14:17 CST: Java wants a file containing the certificates of trusted root certificate authorities (CAs) for SSL/TLS. Amongst other things, this list of root CAs is how

Re: static libraries

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Robert Connolly rob...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Shadow's libshadow is only used by the Shadow utilities. No other package links to it. We almost never run two of Shadow's utilities at the same time, so despite multiple programs using the same library

Re: static libraries

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/12/09 15:29 CST: In some cases, an application can be very sensitive to a specific library and you would not want to change the underlying library without changing the

Re: X locks computer.

2009-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas a.hat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On a recent Lfs build (a copy of a middle December) I've installed (with no problems) the latest Xorg release 7.4 by following book instructions. But when I've tried to log in X, I've faced some

Re: X locks computer.

2009-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas a.hat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, at 08:40 Dan Nicholson wrote: The graphics locked, too, or just the input devices stopped responding? Usually if the computer locked, it's the graphics device getting wedged. Can you ssh

Re: X locks computer.

2009-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas a.hat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, at 11:54 Dan Nicholson wrote: Could you attach the log and your xorg.conf from a failed run? Thanks. Could you try this patch? It's against 1.5.3. -- Dan From

Re: xorg depends on openssl?

2009-01-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:05 PM, bob foltrigg bob.foltr...@gmail.com wrote: I think the first thing most people install is ssl/ssh so you c/an ssh into the box and run additional builds from another workstation that has a gui. I believe that with the advent of all these virtualization

Re: Xorg-server and evdev driver

2008-12-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:22 AM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: Guys..got a little issue with xorg and the evdev driver in Gnome. I have a Logitech keyboard (standard 105 US layout + multimedia keys with function lock). This issue has been reported several times as

Re: Xorg-server and evdev driver

2008-12-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Nathan Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:22 AM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: Guys..got a little issue with xorg and the evdev driver in Gnome

Re: xorg-server and pixman

2008-12-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:26 AM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hello, I know there has been a lot of discussion on Xorg lately, so sorry if this is bringing up a known issue, but xorg-server also appears to require pixman now. The instructions in BLFS svn break for

Re: Packages to update

2008-11-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Nathan Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xrandr-1.2.3 I've dropped this too as part of stop building example applications I never use. This one I actually use in my xrandr to setup my dualscreens for fluxbox. Yeah, I actually think you're making a mistake on

Re: Packages to update

2008-11-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:49 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. I build everything that is part of the official release, for the purposes of testing the for addition to the book. Everything checks out so far except for 5 video driver packages previously mentioned. Vermilion I'm

Re: Packages to update

2008-11-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:18 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:49 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. I build everything that is part of the official release, for the purposes of testing the for addition to the book. Everything

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-11-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 11/05/08 10:59 CST: --with-mesa-source doesn't do anything anymore since AIGLX just uses the swrast dri driver instead of building it's own GLX stack. Pretty sure that's in the 1.5

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:37 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: Just FYI, possibly related, I'm getting some screen artifacts with a Radeon 9600 IIRC (R200 according to xdriinfo) using the default xinitrc. Set DRI and Excel to False and it goes away. To reproduce, move the

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a current wget list for the Xorg-7.4 packages? Working through it because I need it now. BLFS is so far behind and I'm using such a new cut of LFS that I don't even want to

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x74]# head -n 11 /media/lfs/sources/logs/227-mesa { llog -p time { ./configure ${XORG_CONFIG} --enable-xcb make make install ln -s -v ${XORG_PREFIX}/include/GL /usr/include } llog Mesa-7.2 } 21 |

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:24 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of what I have in my current wget files, these are not in the list of the official release: UTILS: gccmakedep-1.0.2 is not in the list imake-1.0.2 is not in the list lndir-1.0.1 is not in the list xorg-cf-files-1.0.2 is

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:24 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of what I have in my current wget files, these are not in the list of the official release: UTILS: gccmakedep-1.0.2 is not in the list

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:15 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess we'll see how it does. XCB is intended to replace Xlib right? Absolutely, but it just hasn't gotten as much exposure as xlib-xcb. For instance, there's also an xcb backend for cairo, but it was in pretty sore shape

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:24 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: Yeah, I argued that xclock and twm should stay since that's the default xinitrc. The counter argument was then let's remove startx, so I think this is a compromise. LMAO. Yeah, that be great...everyone

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:31:33PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:24 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of what I have in my current wget files, these are not in the list of the official release

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a current wget list for the Xorg-7.4 packages? BLFS is so far behind and I'm using such a new cut of LFS that I don't even want to try building until I get a decent list of 7.4 packages. I can

Re: Xorg-7.4

2008-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:53:39PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:33:05PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Built it for the first time yesterday (I'm still on gcc-4.2.4, but I doubt that matters for any of

Re: qtdir

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Robert Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there's a mistake in the x/qt.html page: export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt shouldn't that be QTDIR=/usr ? Not for Qt3. Qt expects to find a flat directory containing all its files, like if you were in /opt. We setup

Re: dbus version mismatch

2008-07-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Guy Dalziel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently when trying to compile dbus-glib, a dependency of HAL, I was met with the error 'configure: error: DBus development libraries not found'. Review of the configuration file revealed that it is in fact looking for a

Re: Freetype-2.3.7 update in 6.3?

2008-07-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:57 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Thanks for the details. I can't reproduce the failure to build bdftopcf with what I think is a now slightly old 6.3 system (libXfont-1.2.8, bdftopcf-1.0.1) with the upgraded freetype. I'm unsure where to

Re: Freetype-2.3.7 update in 6.3?

2008-07-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:57:40PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Thanks for the details. I can't reproduce the failure to build bdftopcf with what I think is a now slightly old 6.3 system (libXfont-1.2.8,

Re: X.Org scripted installation / Proprietary ATI driver

2008-06-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:35 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: Perhaps this text is easier to understand and explains the purpose a little better: Additionally, because of the large number of repetitive commands, you are encouraged to partially

Re: X.Org scripted installation / Proprietary ATI driver

2008-06-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:07 PM, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: The usefulness of xcursor-themes is definitely pretty minimal, but I hadn't seen it be totally deprecated upstream. Did I miss something? No, I simply meant that xorg-data goes and xcursor-themes gets

Re: BLFS-6.3

2008-05-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How --enable-final works: It's just another way of compiling (it cats all the source and headers into one file and compiles that (hence the .all_cpp file in the error)). Usually it compiles a bit faster. FWIW, the

Re: Akode and ffmpeg

2008-05-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Robert Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now another question: I'm not familiar with working with branches, and that's not something I saw covered in the editor's guide. I figure I go ahead and commit to trunk, but how do I go about getting this merged to the

Re: make pdf fails

2008-05-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/10/08 18:39 CST: Are there problems besides that? See what happens on your end when you run the 'test-links' target. For me, it stops after validating. I know that one used to work

Re: make pdf fails

2008-05-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Trepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, when i do a make pdf i get copy bash-3.2$ make pdf Validating the book... Generating FO file... warning: failed to load external entity tmp/blfs-pdf.xml unable to parse tmp/blfs-pdf.xml make: ***

Re: make pdf fails

2008-05-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to mention that the 'test-links' target in the Makefile is hosed as well. I can't help but think the last change fixed *something*, but broke more somethings along the way. It looks like a copy and paste error

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote these words on 05/08/08 11:53 CST: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:50:44PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: Actually, I just ran across another one...and it's fixed now...I think. auxfiles/firefox-2.0.0.14-mozconfig.

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/08/08 13:11 CST: I'm sorry this has inconvenienced you so much, but it addresses a real problem. It doesn't inconvenience me as I know how to create a .mozconfig file on my own

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never looked at it like that. Again, very valid. Looks like I need to svn co those auxfiles. My sandbox is just 'BOOK' and I've never needed to update the auxfiles so never co them. Ah, now I see why you didn't like it. I

Re: [BLFS Trac] #2369: Listing libedit as dependency

2008-05-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message for -Dev archive purposes only. Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]): Replying to [comment:5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I will concur that it appears safe enough to reference the library as a valid dependency

Re: LFS - DESTDIR Style (minor update)

2008-04-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Cc: to BLFS-Dev Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/31/08 10:44 CST: Bruce Dubbs wrote: The implication of going to DESTDIR for LFS would imply doing the same for

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