Re: JDK-1.5.0

2005-04-17 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > Also checking berkelydb now since I had no idea whether the problem > still exists. Just checking back, but no change necessary to db except that passing LIBSO_LIBS and LIBXSO_LIBS to make is no longer necessary. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/b

JDK-1.5.0

2005-04-17 Thread DJ Lucas
Okay guys, fop appears to be good now and blfs.pdf looks good. I'm reworking the OOo to install the large jdk-1.5 patch, and testing again. Also checking berkelydb now since I had no idea whether the problem still exists. Anyone have any additional objections that have not been discussed yet? I

Re: LessTif - A Window Manager?

2005-04-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: > I choose mwm, hands down. It is much easier to work with. Just because > you don't use the window manager portion of the package, Matt, doesn't > mean that others don't. :-) > > I really don't have a preference on where the package is located in > the book, however. I just

Re: libgnomeprint instructions

2005-04-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/17/05 17:58 CST: > Yes but libgnomeprintui has a required dependency of libgnomeprint. I've been thinking about this, and perhaps the easiest thing to do is just substitute " then" for the "," in the list of depends. Then, folks would install them in the requir

Re: libgnomeprint instructions

2005-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > it probably doesn't need an immediate fix. Agreed. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: libgnomeprint instructions

2005-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Actually, the instructions say that libgnomeprintui, not libgnomeprint > is the dependency. Yes but libgnomeprintui has a required dependency of libgnomeprint. > There is a huge difference here. Much of GNOME will need to be > installed to satisfy the dependency. Perhaps

Re: libgnomeprint instructions

2005-04-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/17/05 16:29 CST: > I'm trying to install libgnomeprint-2.8.0.1. As a prereq for gnumeric. > I have not installed gnome. The instructions say: > > ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \ > --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --disable-gtk-doc >

Re: libgnomeprint instructions

2005-04-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/17/05 16:29 CST: > I'm trying to install libgnomeprint-2.8.0.1. As a prereq for gnumeric. > I have not installed gnome. The instructions say: Actually, the instructions say that libgnomeprintui, not libgnomeprint is the dependency. There is a huge difference

Re: libgnomeprint instructions

2005-04-17 Thread Jeremy Utley
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm trying to install libgnomeprint-2.8.0.1. As a prereq for gnumeric. I have not installed gnome. The instructions say: ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \ --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --disable-gtk-doc But ORBit-2.0 is not listed as a dependency. Wh

libgnomeprint instructions

2005-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm trying to install libgnomeprint-2.8.0.1. As a prereq for gnumeric. I have not installed gnome. The instructions say: ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \ --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --disable-gtk-doc But ORBit-2.0 is not listed as a dependency. When I execute:

Re: LessTif - A Window Manager?

2005-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > "The primary objectives have been to develop the widget code of the > LessTif Toolkit. Intermittently, the window manager (mwm) and the > combination of UIL compiler and libMrm are being worked on." I agree with Matt. In this case the primary purpose of the package is as

Re: NVidia drivers (was Re: kde gl screensavers)

2005-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Is it a good idea to add manual installation of those NVidia drivers (and > possibly fglrx, I can provide instructions) to the book, so that future > readers don't step onto this problem? OK. Send me what you have so I can review your proposal. I'm not familiar

Re: Heads up - gcc-4.0

2005-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > If you've any problems with the approach above, let me know. No. Your approach seems great. We don't get dunned with gcc-4.0 issues and both lfs and blfs get appropriate input. Thanks for the heads up. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-

Re: LessTif - A Window Manager?

2005-04-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
M.Canales.es wrote these words on 04/17/05 11:21 CST: > Why not to add a mwm page in window managers like we already do in graphipcal > browsers for Konqueror or in the mail/news clients pages for Kmail/Knode? Excellent suggestion, Manuel. Something like, "The LessTif package includes a Motif cl

Re: LessTif - A Window Manager?

2005-04-17 Thread M.Canales.es
El Domingo, 17 de Abril de 2005 18:10, Randy McMurchy escribió: > I really don't have a preference on where the package is located in > the book, however. I just wanted to throw this out, in case there > were others that were thinking the same thing. I'll defer to your > opinion and the fact that

Re: LessTif - A Window Manager?

2005-04-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 04/17/05 10:42 CST: > The only thing I have at the moment that uses Lesstif is `xpdf', and > that certainly doesn't care about the window manager portion of Lesstif :-) Well, to counter this, I'll say that at the moment on a system I am building up, I have th

Re: LessTif - A Window Manager?

2005-04-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: In my opinion, the LessTif package belongs in the X Window Manager section of the book, and not the X Libraries section. LessTif includes the mwm Motif compatible window manager. Surely, we should move the instructions, right? What is Lesstif? http://www.lesstif.org/FAQ.html#

LessTif - A Window Manager?

2005-04-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I'm finished with the LessTif update, but want to pass something by. I didn't receive any comments about the test suite instructions, so I'll just do what I think is best. However, I have another question. In my opinion, the LessTif package belongs in the X Window Manager section of the

NVidia drivers (was Re: kde gl screensavers)

2005-04-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I figured out what happened. I installed the Nvidia binary drivers. It > overwrote: Is it a good idea to add manual installation of those NVidia drivers (and possibly fglrx, I can provide instructions) to the book, so that future readers don't step onto this problem? --

Heads up - gcc-4.0

2005-04-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi guys, Just thought I'd let you know that work on getting gcc-4.0 into the LFS book will be going on in a new branch of the LFS repo. In an attempt to reduce the number of support queries you may well get as a result of this, I'll be putting a big fat warning on the gcc related pages saying

Re: Some questions to can start my work (long)

2005-04-17 Thread M.Canales.es
El Domingo, 17 de Abril de 2005 01:11, Randy McMurchy escribió: > Doesn't matter to me. My question is, why do you want to go through > all this work, for something that won't be seen by anyone after the > book is rendered in either PDF or HTML or otherwise? It just seems > like you're going to an

Re: [Fwd: Re: Some questions to can start my work (long)]

2005-04-17 Thread M.Canales.es
El Domingo, 17 de Abril de 2005 01:52, Bruce Dubbs escribió: > You are suggesting dropping the . Is that something that has > to be done for all or can we just do that as time allows? Dropping the and adding in files creation command. > Again, this looks like a huge task. I do not doubt that

Re: hal and dbus

2005-04-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jeremy Utley wrote: Randy - both of these are strictly cmmi installations - their configure scripts will pick up deps just fine. I can take a look for the deps for you guys, if you like. I started looking into this, but soon got distracted unfortunately. As you're probably already aware, Jeremy,

Re: kde gl screensavers

2005-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Utley wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>Jeremy Utley wrote: > >>>Having the Mesa 3d libs installed will break hardware 3D-rendering >>>always - whether it be DRI-based, NVIDIA drivers, or ATI's FireGL >>>drivers. People will be limited to software 3d rendering. >>Thanks Jeremy. I can confi