Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Staub
1. At the end of the Editors section, there is a page for Others Editors - this should be Other Editors. 2. For most packages it says to Install [package] by running the following commands: followed by Now, as the root user:. It would be more accurate to say Build [package] by running the

Re: Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Staub
Bruce Dubbs wrote: 3. A few package instructions say Run the following command[s]. - ending with a period instead of a colon, which I think would be more grammatical correct. I don't even know how important this is, but I thought I'd point it out anyway. :) It would be nice to point out which

Re: Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 08/01/05 12:18 CST: And in copying-and-pasting that line I just noticed there are 2 spaces between root and user... I don't see this when I copy and paste. And, actually, it is almost impossible for the HTML to contain multiple spaces in the regular text

Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
This is for the trunk and 6.1 branches. In the Installation section, the line sh INSTALL should be sh install.sh -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/01/05 12:35 CST: This is for the trunk and 6.1 branches. In the Installation section, the line sh INSTALL should be sh install.sh Hmmm. I don't see this error. In my installation the INSTALL file is the only one in the directory. I don't even have

Re: Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Staub
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Chris Staub wrote: 1. At the end of the Editors section, there is a page for Others Editors - this should be Other Editors. Fixed. Thanks. 2. For most packages it says to Install [package] by running the following commands: followed by Now, as the root user:. It would

Re: Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/1/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/01/05 12:35 CST: This is for the trunk and 6.1 branches. In the Installation section, the line sh INSTALL should be sh install.sh Hmmm. I don't see this error. In my installation the

Re: Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Staub
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Chris Staub wrote: 2. For most packages it says to Install [package] by running the following commands: followed by Now, as the root user:. It would be more accurate to say Build [package] by running the following commands: and Now, as the root user, install [package]:.

Re: Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/01/05 12:52 CST: Sorry for the noise, I installed version 1.69.x instead of 1.68.x. Guess they changed the script name? Will look into it later. They may have. Docbook packages have weird filenames sometimes as they used to try to be compatible with old

Re: Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 08/01/05 12:53 CST: I just thought of this...I know that the whole section is supposed to be about installing the package, but there is already a large Installation of [package] heading above the section - it seems a bit redundant. The heading makes it

Re: Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread M.Canales.es
El Lunes, 1 de Agosto de 2005 21:03, Tushar Teredesai escribió: ill be released 1.69.1. Damn, I have to downgrade. I wish maintainers would start having version numbers that made sense :( In the RELEASE-NOTES.txt file: As with all DocBook Project dot zero releases, this is an experimental

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: However, I think you misunderstood the purpose of my message. No. I understood it completely, I was just making sure you knew about the link while I thought some more about your ideas. :-) I'm not so much looking for advice on *how* to get things to build, I'm more

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/01/05 14:08 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: One idea I have is to create a GCC4 branch of BLFS and as packages are confirmed (or instructions updated to work) they are added into this branch. That sounds like a good plan to me. Whatever you guys decide to

Re: Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Tushar Teredesai wrote: I wish maintainers would start having version numbers that made sense :( They do, Tush. They all make complete sense to the various maintainers :) In all fairness, at least the DocBook-XSL maintainers state that .0 releases are unstable:

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 08/01/05 14:20 CST: If I understood your plan 'a placeholder in place of the real instructions' in a branch, then many, probably working, packages will be ommitted. Of course, a user could just nip over to 6.1, but why make him bother. Can't we do a

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 08/01/05 14:21 CST: It wil be fine to create a branch for gcc-4.0, but we must also maintain gcc3 instructions. I believe that LFS 6.2 is still going to be gcc3 based. Right. That's why I felt a branch was best in this case. We can create GCC-4.x instructions

Re: BLFS 6.1-pre1

2005-08-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wrong list! -- Bruce Bruce Dubbs wrote: OK, BLFS 6.1-pre1 is on line at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/6.1/ The tarball is at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/blfs-book-6.1-html.tar.bz2 The 6.1 patches and bootscripts are in place in the same directory.

Speed up Qt build using precompiled headers

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Schafer
Hi It might be worth mentioning that Qt can be built using precompiled headers to speed up the build. PCH became available in GCC-3.4.x. I just did some rough testing on a box here and the savings are substantial: - without PCH 37m12.245s - with PCH 22m37.763s Simply add `-pch'

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/1/05, Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote: Based on my past experience with gcc upgrade, I plan to stay away from gcc-4.x till a 4.1 release :-) So a branch sounds good to me. Tushar, you're at least the second person I know of that's stated the same

BLFS-6.1-pre1

2005-08-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) Team is pleased to announce the release of BLFS 6.1 Prerelease 1. This book is the complement to Linux From Scratch 6.1 and provides build and installation instructions for over 360 Open Source packages, including X Windows, KDE, and Gnome. The book can be

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/01/05 17:47 CST: I was more worried about pacakes that won't compile with gcc-4.x or worse will 'mis-compile'. Oh, that's no problem. Just make sure the griddle is hot enough and you don't over-mix the batter. Makes perfect pancakes every time! Uh

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/1/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/01/05 17:47 CST: I was more worried about pacakes that won't compile with gcc-4.x or worse will 'mis-compile'. Oh, that's no problem. Just make sure the griddle is hot enough and you don't

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/01/05 18:04 CST: Looks like someone is hungry :) Time for a snack. Sigh And here I was thinking that *everyone* knows who Emily Littela is. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/01/05 18:09 CST: Sigh And here I was thinking that *everyone* knows who Emily Littela is. Misspelled her name. Emily Litella. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Litella -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3]

vulnerable package

2005-08-01 Thread Archaic
Don't know how you want to handle this during package freeze, but compress::zlib is updated to 1.35 to match the recent zlib-1.2.3 fixes. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs --

Re: vulnerable package

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 08/01/05 21:52 CST: Don't know how you want to handle this during package freeze, but compress::zlib is updated to 1.35 to match the recent zlib-1.2.3 fixes. Sounds to me like it needs to be fixed. Thanks for tip. I'm on it. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version