Re: [blfs-dev] Failure starting X/lxdm with glib 2.68.0

2021-04-12 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/12/21 5:18 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/12/21 11:53 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/12/21 11:16 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 09:46 +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just tried to upgrade my qemu virtual machine

Re: [blfs-dev] doxygen doc error

2021-04-05 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/3/21 12:02 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Trying to build doxygen docs by the book, I get: --- [ 81%] Generating language.doc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/sources/doxygen/doxygen-1.9.1/build/doc/translator.py", line 2018, in

Re: [blfs-dev] curl build with ./configure or cmake

2021-04-01 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/1/21 3:52 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just discovered that curl apparently now also optionally supports cmake as build system. Per official documentation however, ./configure still seems first choice, or at least as supported as cmake. As I personally don't see the

Re: [blfs-dev] Systemd patch in sysutils

2021-03-25 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/25/21 12:15 PM, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: The patch in the commands needs updating to fixes-2.patch instead of fixes-1 jb. Hi John, Thank you for reporting this! I've fixed it at r24401, and it should be present in the next render. - Doug --

Re: [blfs-dev] efibootmgr url ?

2021-03-24 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/24/21 12:46 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: The link in the book gives a 404. If I go to https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/releases I can use firefox to download 17 as efibootmgr-17.tar.gz from https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/archive/refs/tags/17.tar.gz, but if I use wget for

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS 10.0 systemd-units Broken Link

2021-03-17 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/17/21 4:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/17/21 2:40 PM, David Gherghita via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, In the "BLFS Systemd Units" section of the BLFS 10.0-systemd book, the link to download the archive [1] is broken. Navigating to the directory [2], I noticed that the version

Re: [blfs-dev] Commenting on assigned tickets (#14725: openssh-8.5p1)

2021-03-03 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/3/21 5:54 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just saw that openssh has a new version and as I wondered about the changes, I visited their page. While the corresponding ticket http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/14725 was already assigned but had no changes

Re: [blfs-dev] p7zip has been forked (and is actively maintained)

2021-02-05 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2/5/21 10:17 AM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 1/30/21 1:44 PM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello all. When I noticed that p7zip hadn't had a new release in nearly 5 years I checked to see if perhaps this package

Re: [blfs-dev] p7zip has been forked (and is actively maintained)

2021-02-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/30/21 1:44 PM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello all. When I noticed that p7zip hadn't had a new release in nearly 5 years I checked to see if perhaps this package was picked up by someone else. Sure enough, I came across a fork of p7zip here: https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip/

[blfs-dev] Critical security updates to glib2 and JasPer

2021-02-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hello everyone, Today, a critical 0day security vulnerability was discovered in glib2. This vulnerability has to do with the g_bytes_new and g_memdup functions, which are very commonly used in applications that use GLib. The vulnerability is an integer-overflow in the g_bytes_new function.

Re: [blfs-dev] Security Advisories, v2 [ long :-( ]:wq

2021-01-29 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/28/21 9:37 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: A little while ago I proposed separating out our Security Advisories. What I would now like to do is create an *extra* page in the www/ repo listing (and in a couple of mutt cases creating[1]) advisories from 1st September when BLFS-10.0 was

Re: [blfs-dev] libnfsidmap no longer needed for nfs-utils

2021-01-25 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/25/21 5:09 PM, Brendan L via blfs-dev wrote: Since I think, version 2.2.1 of nfs-utils, libnfsidmap has been merged into nfs-utils codebase. I believe libnfsidmap can be removed from the book. Hi Brendan, Thank you for the report! I've verified that the source tree is present in

Re: [blfs-dev] Suggestion to mention webp-pixbuf-loader either on libwebp or gdk-pixbuf page

2021-01-23 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/23/21 11:06 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all Hi Tim, When setting up my new xfce4 based system, I stumbled across webp-pixbuf-loader. It easily adds support for webp images in gdk-pixbuf-loader, which then automatically gets picked up by thunar, tumbler and ristretto and

Re: [blfs-dev] Postgresql init script

2021-01-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/21/21 10:43 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: FYI, we are currently using a mkdir for the pidfile in postgresql script. We have a mechanism in place for this outside of the init script (createfiles): echo "/run/postgresql dir 755    postgres  postgres" >>

Re: [blfs-dev] Gimp-2.10.22 fails with gegl-0.4.28

2021-01-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/22/21 5:50 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all After building and running gegl and gimp from the book, gimp failed to Gimp to launch, displaying a gegl:introspect error. This is also reported here: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27994 Maybe we should revert to

Re: [blfs-dev] Why do we patch polkit for elogind ?

2021-01-05 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/5/21 4:20 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:50:14PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:33:30AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 1/5/21 9:34 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:33:35PM +0100,

Re: [blfs-dev] Harfbuzz 2.7.4 meson build requires git

2021-01-02 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/1/21 6:55 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev wrote: Hi All, The current meson build instructions requires git. I get the following: Program g-ir-scanner found: YES (/usr/bin/g-ir-scanner) Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2) Build-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found:

Re: [blfs-dev] FriBidi-1.0.9 as a Required dependency of GTK+-3.24.22 seems superfluous

2021-01-02 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/2/21 1:15 AM, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: Appreciate that the various desktop environment dependency chains are a rat's nest but I just noticed that, in BLFS 10.0, FriBidi-1.0.9 is listed as a Required dependency for GTK+-3.24.22, as is Pango-1.46.0, however, FriBidi-1.0.9 is

Re: [blfs-dev] RFC: change the layout of Qt pages

2020-12-14 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/12/20 3:07 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Presently, in the book, we have two pages for the Qt library: one for full Qt, except we do not build qtwebengine, and another one for qtwebengine. This has a couple of drawbacks: - If a package needs only Qt core libraries, we require to

Re: [blfs-dev] systemd latest version 247.1

2020-12-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/4/20 11:16 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 04:04 +1100, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 09:17 -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/4/20 3:03 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev wrote: Hi Guys, Spent the last hour racking my brain

Re: [blfs-dev] systemd latest version 247.1

2020-12-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/4/20 3:03 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev wrote: Hi Guys, Spent the last hour racking my brain on why Gentoo, Arch, and Fedora had version 247.1 Turns out that they are pulling from https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable I didn't know this repository existed. Regards, Wayne. Hi

Re: [blfs-dev] Linux-PAM option --enable-db=no

2020-12-01 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/1/20 7:48 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all When re-building pam version 1.5.1, I noticed that it links against bdb, because I had installed bdb since my last pam build. As I'm not really fond of including bdb in all installations using pam, I found out that by specifying

Re: [blfs-dev] llvm-11.0.0 fails to compile

2020-11-25 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 11/25/20 6:39 AM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: I'm using the development version of the book, 2020-11-24 I get these error messages: [2299/4643] Building C object

Re: [blfs-dev] icu68 breakage

2020-10-30 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/30/20 6:15 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: I see we've already had one set of fixes for changes in icu68, I hope it is not going to trash a lot of things. I've been building libxml2 --with-icu for some time, that breaks: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc

Re: [blfs-dev] icu68 breakage

2020-10-30 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/30/20 6:15 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: I see we've already had one set of fixes for changes in icu68, I hope it is not going to trash a lot of things. I've been building libxml2 --with-icu for some time, that breaks: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc

Re: [blfs-dev] Libsoup-2.72.0 won't compile with brotli installed

2020-10-29 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/29/20 10:33 AM, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: Brotli has a -R parameter in each of its pkgconfig files and this causes libsoup to fail: [92/184] Linking target libsoup/libsoup-2.4.so.1.11.0 FAILED: libsoup/libsoup-2.4.so.1.11.0 , , , bject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so

Re: [blfs-dev] If P2 modules are built for PyYaml and Markupsafe, then recommend P2

2020-10-29 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/29/20 7:23 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 10/29/20 5:22 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: As the subject says... But another possibility is to not propose P2 modules at all for those packages. I'm almost sure nothing uses P2 modules for those packages: Markupsafe is here

Re: [blfs-dev] dbus needed for samba

2020-10-29 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/29/20 3:52 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: When building samba with required and recommended and dependencies (but without dbus installed) on a SysV machine, I get (configure output): - [...] VFS_STATIC: vfs_default,vfs_not_implemented,vfs_posixacl VFS_SHARED:

Re: [blfs-dev] sysprof and libsoup

2020-10-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/22/20 3:23 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: I saw that sysprof was now recommended for libsoup, and I thought I'd seen a post about that, but I can't spot it in my mail or by searching on google ? Some related info: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/14051

Re: [blfs-dev] python2 as default python?

2020-10-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/22/20 1:43 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 00:56 -0500, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: On October 21, 2020 10:48:39 PM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: On 10/21/20 10:06 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: In LFS, we

[blfs-dev] glib2 and European Daylight Savings Time

2020-10-19 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Good evening, Earlier today it was discovered that there are complications with the combination of tzdata2020b and glib2-2.66.2 that result in invalid times after European Daylight Savings Time ends on October 25th, 2020. This update should make it into the next render of the book as I just

Re: [blfs-dev] mupdf

2020-10-12 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/12/20 9:41 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I have been struggling today to get a satisfactory build of mupdf-1.18.0.  I can get it to build, but it also builds its own copies of curl, freeglut, freetype, harfbuzz, lcms2, ligjpeg, openjpeg, and zlib and links them into the

Re: [blfs-dev] llvm-11 and rust

2020-10-12 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/12/20 3:15 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: People might remember that I looked at llvm-11-rc1 in early August, and discovered that rustc-1.42.0 could not use it. I see that llvm-11.0.0 is now out, and the release notes for rust-1.47.0 say that it ships with llvm-11 (although it

Re: [blfs-dev] gobject-introspection should be recommended for harfbuzz

2020-10-07 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/7/20 2:38 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Usually, the first thing I do after building a new lfs VM, and the necessary tools to run jhalfs, is to build elogind first. In that case, jhalfs builds gobject-introspection early. This time, I've decided to ask jhalfs to directly

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome-terminal (SysV) book

2020-10-05 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/4/20 11:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 10/4/20 10:26 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-10-04 21:48 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 10/4/20 9:09 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-10-04 17:10 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 10/4/20 5:03 PM,

Re: [blfs-dev] sysv: postgresql boot script does not report an error if server cannot be started

2020-10-01 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 10/1/20 4:01 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: The postgresql boot script uses: su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/pg_ctl start -W -D /srv/pgsql/data \ -l /srv/pgsql/data/logfile -o "-i" ' to start the server. The problem is that the -W option prevents the

Re: [blfs-dev] js78 and jemalloc

2020-09-21 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 9/21/20 9:36 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: I'm now looking at js78 because firefox-78.3.0 is out. For the moment I'm still using js68, but I can at least compare the js build against 78.2.0. Looking at that, we have '--disable-jemalloc' with the explanation: This switch disables the

[blfs-dev] ZeroLogon vulnerability - Samba is affected and patched

2020-09-20 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
date to Samba-4.12.7 will appear in the next render of the book, and an errata entry has been published. Thank you, Douglas R. Reno LINKS: [1]: NVD - CVE-2020-1472 [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1472] [2]: CVE-2020-1472 | Netlogon Elevation of Privilege V

Re: [blfs-dev] Libsoup-2.70.0 does not build with brotli-1.0.9

2020-09-20 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 9/20/20 8:04 AM, NicP via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, While building BLFS-10.0 systemd stable version, libsoup-2.70.0 fails to build if brotli-1.0.9 is installed. The build stops with this message : unrecognized command-line option '-R'. This '-R' (obviousli erroneous) provides from one of

Re: [blfs-dev] glib-2.66.0 meson fallback and gtk-doc

2020-09-19 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 9/19/20 7:46 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev wrote: Hi All, Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but with the right conditions, glib-2.66.0 will install gtk-doc-1.32.1. On a fresh build box I had gtk-doc-1.32 installed, and was in the process of building glib-2.66.0 (for the second

Re: [blfs-dev] Linux-PAM (System V)

2020-09-16 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 9/16/20 8:40 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 19:14 -0400, Joe Locash via blfs-dev wrote: Linux-PAM will create /usr/lib/systemd/system/pam_namespace.service even when building on SystemV. This can cause packages like make-ca (because it checks for the

Re: [blfs-dev] VLAN support in BLFS network scripts

2020-09-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 9:27 AM Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > > On 9/4/20 8:26 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 9/4/20 12:36 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 9/4/20 2:12 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > >>> On Fri, Sep

Re: [blfs-dev] Request to add firefox-78.2.0 to BLFS-10.0

2020-08-25 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 8/25/20 8:00 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Release notes for latest firefox esr now available, three security issues were fixed. Can I add this to 10.0, please ? ĸen I know Bruce has to give the Final OK, but based off the security issues in that one (being able to spoof websites to

[blfs-dev] Request for permission to add 'libnsl' as a dependency of procmail

2020-08-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hello folks, Since Procmail is tagged already, I would like to request permission to add 'libnsl' as an optional dependency in procmail. I spotted this while working on my SysV system: cc -O   procmail.o cstdio.o common.o exopen.o goodies.o locking.o mailfold.o foldinfo.o misc.o pipes.o

Re: [blfs-dev] Inkscape FTBFS

2020-08-18 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 8/18/20 5:33 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:03:38PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 01:47:26PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/18/20 1:24 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits

Re: [blfs-dev] Inkscape FTBFS

2020-08-18 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 8/18/20 1:24 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: I build inkscape on this machine, with the same set of flags that I'm currently using, just under a week ago. But now on 10.0-rc1 it fails: cd /scratch/working/inkscape-1.0_2020-05-01_4035a4fb49/build/src && /usr/bin/c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

[blfs-dev] Requesting permission to fix Ruby for lchmod problems in glibc

2020-08-17 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, Since Ruby was tagged this morning, I'd like to ask for permission to fix the issue that I just encountered. First, some background information. In glibc-2.32, the glibc developers implemented a wrapper for lchmod() and fchmodat() for POSIX compatibility. Unfortunately, the

Re: [blfs-dev] pulseaudio-13.0

2020-08-11 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 8/11/20 12:23 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: Hi Just going through blfs on top of Lfs 20200810-systemd I get an error with pulseaudio-13.0 "In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/giochannel.h:33, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:54, from

Re: [blfs-dev] NSS Parallel Build is no longer possible

2020-06-27 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/27/20 7:24 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 07:58:52PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 11:57:04AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: Hi folks, While I'm working on updating the book to NSS-3.54, I wanted to let you guys

[blfs-dev] NSS Parallel Build is no longer possible

2020-06-27 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, While I'm working on updating the book to NSS-3.54, I wanted to let you guys know about the fact that parallel build is no longer possible. Here's some example output from my log before I deleted it and backed down to -j1:

Re: [blfs-dev] JS68 and firefox-78

2020-06-19 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/19/20 5:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 6/19/20 4:57 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:46:26PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 6/19/20 4:11 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Once firefox-78 is in, it will use python3.  JS68 is still

Re: [blfs-dev] a ttf font is required for cups-filters

2020-06-16 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/16/20 9:37 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: cups-filter-1.27.5 needs a font for its tests. The default one is DejaVuSans.ttf, but this can be changed with the --with-test-font-path switch. Normally this font is only used for tests, so shouldn't be required, but configure fails if

Re: [blfs-dev] LXDE logout menu items

2020-06-14 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/14/20 3:08 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 16:03 -0400, Joe Locash via blfs-dev wrote: polkit doesn't return a result if a user is in the wheel group so when a user logs out the options to shutdown, suspend, etc aren't displayed. Do you mean a regular user

Re: [blfs-dev] fix for building ncftp-3.2.6 with gcc-10

2020-06-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/4/20 5:29 PM, Joe Locash wrote: Doug, There is no need to apologize. I'm happy to help out in any way.  I didn't quote your reply but I'm curious about llvm playing a role in this. I also build it very early. The book states if  LLVM is compiled with clang support then ncftp will use

Re: [blfs-dev] fix for building ncftp-3.2.6 with gcc-10

2020-06-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/2/20 7:06 PM, Joe Locash via blfs-dev wrote: Subject says it all... sed -i 's/^Bookmark/extern Bookmark/' sh_util/gpshare.c Hi Joe, I'd like to personally apologize, I just discovered while rebuilding ncftp on another system that, because I install LLVM many packages before NcFTP,

Re: [blfs-dev] node: should we move to v14 ?

2020-06-03 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/3/20 11:57 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:59:59AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 6/3/20 6:57 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: I started writing this in the ticket for node-v12.18.0 (#13628), but the C++ scope errors when using system

Re: [blfs-dev] node: should we move to v14 ?

2020-06-03 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/3/20 6:57 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: I started writing this in the ticket for node-v12.18.0 (#13628), but the C++ scope errors when using system nghttp2 prompted me to go with 12.18.0 for the moment. And then I discovered that the same FTBFS occurred in 12.18.0, but right at the

Re: [blfs-dev] fix for building ncftp-3.2.6 with gcc-10

2020-06-02 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 6/2/20 7:06 PM, Joe Locash via blfs-dev wrote: Subject says it all... sed -i 's/^Bookmark/extern Bookmark/' sh_util/gpshare.c Hi Joe, Did you try building ncftp with the second method (built in statically), or the first one? When I built it last (a few weeks ago), I built it with the

Re: [blfs-dev] seamonkey-2.53.2, 2020-05-25 libvpx, rationnal?

2020-05-26 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 5/26/20 1:44 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote: On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 12:50 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 5/26/20 12:35 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, Trying to compile seamonkey-2.53.2 and beeing not successful. at first I was thinking about a gcc10 problem

Re: [blfs-dev] seamonkey-2.53.2, 2020-05-25 libvpx, rationnal?

2020-05-26 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 5/26/20 12:35 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, Trying to compile seamonkey-2.53.2 and beeing not successful. at first I was thinking about a gcc10 problem, but it is not the case. The error is within: mozilla/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/video_coding/codecs/vp9/vp9_i

Re: [blfs-dev] replacing transcode with handbrake

2020-05-20 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 5/20/20 11:28 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Transcode is an old, unmaintained, transcoder for video and audio. I've made a patch to allow building it with GCC 10, but I am not sure how to test it. So maybe time to drop it... At this point, I've discussed with D. Reno, who pointed

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome-shell bug

2020-05-01 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 5/1/20 7:35 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: After upgrading to gnome-shell-3.32, it sometimes crashes. I searched gnome- shell repo with the stack backtrace info and found it's https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2709 A patch is avaliable at

Re: [blfs-dev] new intel graphic driver

2020-04-24 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/24/20 6:48 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-04-24 14:00 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/24/20 9:52 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: In mesa-20.x the default dri driver for Intel Gen8+ (Broadwell and later) iGPUs has been changed to "iris" gallium drive

Re: [blfs-dev] new intel graphic driver

2020-04-24 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/24/20 9:52 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: In mesa-20.x the default dri driver for Intel Gen8+ (Broadwell and later) iGPUs has been changed to "iris" gallium driver, instead of the old "i965" driver. I've added "iris" to GALLIUM_DRV in mesa instruction. If you encounter any problem

Re: [blfs-dev] Latest json-c breaks Cryptsetup

2020-04-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/22/20 6:18 AM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello all. The latest json-c breaks the cryptsetup package with the following: [...] In file included from lib/luks2/luks2_disk_metadata.c:24: lib/luks2/luks2_internal.h:61:10: error: conflicting types for 'json_object_get_uint64'    61 |

Re: [blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

2020-04-09 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/9/20 6:23 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I noticed that I do get quite different build sizes for thunderbird than other maintainers, so I thought I will give a few infos about how I build thunderbird. Maybe this helps to find out what's going on here. du -hs

Re: [blfs-dev] linux kernel 5.6 stable SVN-20200401

2020-04-03 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 9:35 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, According to me, kernel 5.6 is now "mainline" and stable. Is there something wrong with 5.6 such LFS SVN-20200401 is not including the 5.6 family?? My own point of interest with 5.6 is the time_namespace (for containers). Is

[blfs-dev] Network-manager-applet and libnma split as well as package placement

2020-04-01 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Good evening, While looking at #13243 and updating gnome-control-center, I noticed that network-manager-applet has split it's library into "libnma", which is what programs such as gnome-control-center itself will link to. Network-manager-applet can be used in XFCE or LXDE to setup the

Re: [blfs-dev] rustc 1.39 broken with llvm 10?

2020-03-27 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/27/20 9:24 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Just built cmake 1.17, llvm 10.0? and trying rustc-1.39. Got an error: See attached log (with ~3300 lines cut). Sorry it is a little long, but it really looks like some LLVM header file is missing or API has changed. Has anybody seen this

Re: [blfs-dev] Systemd config info for bridgeutils

2020-03-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/22/20 6:10 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, Message for systemd devs: There is a "TBA" for bridge-utils configuration in the systemd book. Should I create a ticket? Or just remove that section? Pierre I'd say remove that section for now. I'm not certain on how to configure

Re: [blfs-dev] sdl-1.2 triggers gst-plugins-base

2020-03-18 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/18/20 8:57 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: As already mentioned (long ago), on this list[1], Gst-plugins-base doesn't build if sdl-1.2.15 is installed. I've experienced this recently too. The workaround is to pass -Dexamples=disabled, or to patch sdl-1.2.15 (or to not install

Re: [blfs-dev] Archive Seamonkey?

2020-03-18 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/15/20 5:53 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: We have a problem caused by rust.  Seamonkey cannot be built with a version of rust later than 1.37 and librsvg now requires version 1.39 or later. As I see it we have the option of installing multiple versions of rust in /opt or archiving

Re: [blfs-dev] Remove sawfish?

2020-03-18 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/10/20 1:58 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: I know it would not bring much (decrease the number of packages by 3), but removing sawfish from the book would allow removing also librep and rep-gtk... Also rep-gtk depends on gtk+-2, and I think we should try to eliminate all the

Re: [blfs-dev] Gstreamer crashing X

2020-03-14 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 11:21 AM Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 3:08 AM Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev < > blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > >> Le 14/03/2020 à 06:25, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev a écrit : >> > Hi folks, >

Re: [blfs-dev] Gstreamer crashing X

2020-03-14 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 3:08 AM Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > Le 14/03/2020 à 06:25, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev a écrit : > > Hi folks, > > > > Have any of you experienced X crashing with a SIGABRT anytime a program >

Re: [blfs-dev] Gstreamer crashing X

2020-03-14 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 1:31 AM Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > On 2020-03-14 00:25 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Have any of you experienced X crashing with a SIGABRT anytime a program > using

[blfs-dev] Gstreamer crashing X

2020-03-13 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, Have any of you experienced X crashing with a SIGABRT anytime a program using gstreamer attempts to run? I've been stuck on this all day while rebuilding my workstation. I originally noticed this while building Cheese. I normally use that to test my Webcam. When running the meson

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc-2.31 + util-linux-2.35.1 + hwclock (LFS-9.1 RC)

2020-03-05 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/5/20 3:20 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, hwclock --htctosys is not working anymore -->> hwclock: settimeofday() failed: Invalid argument I have hint about the fact it could be a glibc-2.31 related problem https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1311.msg9179.html

Re: [blfs-dev] strange dependencies: samba -> python3 -> lsb-tools

2020-03-03 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 3/3/20 8:42 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Now samba requires python 3, and python 3 requires lsb-tools. I don't think these make any sense: * I can rebuild Python 3 (for upgrading) w/o lsb-tools. This was instated when upgrading to Python-3.8 IIRC. When installing Python-3.8.0,

Re: [blfs-dev] gimp-2.10.16 : Do not use

2020-02-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2/22/20 9:38 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 2/21/20 5:29 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: A few hours ago I put gimp-2.10.16 into the book, after giving it some short tests re photo editing, help, and a brief test of using brushes.  Now that I'm checking my mailboxes I found

Re: [blfs-dev] gimp-2.10.16 : Do not use

2020-02-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2/21/20 5:29 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: A few hours ago I put gimp-2.10.16 into the book, after giving it some short tests re photo editing, help, and a brief test of using brushes. Now that I'm checking my mailboxes I found the following on gimp-dev: | On 2/21/20 8:57 PM, Ell via

Re: [blfs-dev] Need help testing dovecot and exim for BLFS-9.1

2020-02-21 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2/21/20 12:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I need to get dovecot and exim tested for release.  I can build them, but do not want to install them over my existing system.  Both build with caveats, so if someone can test in a 9.1 environment, I can update tag them. Caveats.

[blfs-dev] Note in xf86-video-nouveau

2020-02-18 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, [Note] Note This is a development version of the Nouveau driver which is needed to build properly with the latest xorg-server. I noticed that we have a note like the above in xf86-video-nouveau, but we seem to be using an officially released version. Can this be removed,

Re: [blfs-dev] LSB-Tools: symlink creation no longer needed

2020-02-16 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2/16/20 5:21 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 2/16/20 12:01 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: Hi folks, I know that we're in a semi-package freeze right now, so I wanted to ask a question about a package that's already been tagged. root [ /sources/LSB-Tools-0.6 ]# ln -sv

[blfs-dev] LSB-Tools: symlink creation no longer needed

2020-02-15 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, I know that we're in a semi-package freeze right now, so I wanted to ask a question about a package that's already been tagged. root [ /sources/LSB-Tools-0.6 ]# ln -sv /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /usr/sbin ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/sbin/install_initd': File exists

Re: [blfs-dev] proposal: move polkit-gnome to XFCE

2020-02-15 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2/15/20 9:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 2/15/20 9:00 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Though it's named "polkit-gnome", but now it's only used by XFCE and GNOME doesn't use it at all.  gnome-shell has built-in polkit agent. It's not used by network-manager-applet? As far as

Re: [blfs-dev] proposal: archive gnome-themes-extra

2020-02-14 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2/14/20 10:03 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: The themes in gnome-themes-extra have been integrated into GTK+-3 long long ago. And, the only packages "depends on" it are gnome-shell and GTK+-3. I've tested them w/o gnome-themes-extra. I think we can remove it from the book. Or, remove

Re: [blfs-dev] openjdk-12.0.2 + make-4.3 Version 2020-02-07

2020-02-09 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 2020-02-09 11:21, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 09/02/2020 à 18:02, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev a écrit : On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 03:37:08AM -0500, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, I have strong indication openjdk-12.0.2+10 can NOT be build while make-4.3 is installed

Re: [blfs-dev] Fixing alsa-tools to work with alsa-lib-1.2.1.2

2020-01-10 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/10/20 2:20 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: Hi folks, Earlier today, I attempted to build alsa-tools on my 32-bit machine. There's a few utilities in there that are used for patching the firmware for the HD Audio cards, as well as those which have proper Sound Blaster emulation

[blfs-dev] Fixing alsa-tools to work with alsa-lib-1.2.1.2

2020-01-10 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, Earlier today, I attempted to build alsa-tools on my 32-bit machine. There's a few utilities in there that are used for patching the firmware for the HD Audio cards, as well as those which have proper Sound Blaster emulation built in (this system has a Creative chipset that

[blfs-dev] libxcb test suite needs to be adapted to Check-0.13.0 API

2020-01-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, I was building libxcb a little while ago and noticed some errors from GCC that seemed to be related to API changes in Check. I found a pull request upstream (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=a667ec3e0cf5d9cd1d1715e3fff3328e353fae84)

Re: [blfs-dev] sqlite: Remove `SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3_TOKENIZER` from configuration

2020-01-03 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 1/3/20 8:35 AM, Paul Menzel via blfs-dev wrote: Dear Beyond Linux From Scratch folks, The configuration instructions for SQLite [1] still enable the two-argument version of the fts3_tokenizer() interface. -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3_TOKENIZER=1 The command explanations do not contain that.

Re: [blfs-dev] qt patch missing from repository (version 2019-12-24)

2019-12-25 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/25/19 4:43 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello According to me qt wayland patch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/qt-5.14.0-qtwayland_cursor_fix-1.patch Is missing altogether from site: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/ possible? Good

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE and Qt-5.14

2019-12-25 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/25/19 11:59 AM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: On 25/12/2019 17:55, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/25/19 11:52 AM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: On 24/12/2019 08:20, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, As reported on support, some of KDE frameworks are broken by QT

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE and Qt-5.14

2019-12-25 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/25/19 11:52 AM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: On 24/12/2019 08:20, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, As reported on support, some of KDE frameworks are broken by QT-5.14. I've found upstream fixes, so I am now sure that the fixes are needed. They can be done as sed. I think

Re: [blfs-dev] llvm-9.0.1 seems to break rustc-1.37.0

2019-12-24 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/24/19 3:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:09:17PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Arch have a patch for thunderbird, described as for rustc-1.39.0.

[blfs-dev] Notes on moving an installation of BLFS to another system

2019-12-18 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Hi folks, I just upgraded my workstation from an Intel Core 2 Duo to an AMD Phenom X4, and I figured I'd share some notes in case anyone else does this down the line (this is primarily commentary on Intel->AMD). It's a combination of a narrative and some random thoughts on the process.

[blfs-dev] HEADSUP: Deprecation of sys/sysctl.h header

2019-12-16 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
Good afternoon folks, This is more of an observation than anything else, nothing needs to be done yet and I haven't noticed any problems. I have a system running with the kernel 5.4 API headers (my i686 machine), and just built OpenSSH. While building OpenSSH, I noticed the following

Re: [blfs-dev] gdm does not start on recent Sysv builds

2019-12-16 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/16/19 2:18 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Sent from my WIKO WIM Le 16 déc. 2019 16:47, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev a écrit : On 2019-12-16 09:11 -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/16/19 3:19 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, I had 3 working BLFS builds

Re: [blfs-dev] gdm does not start on recent Sysv builds

2019-12-16 Thread Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev
On 12/16/19 3:19 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, I had 3 working BLFS builds of Gnome desktop over Sysv, but somewhere between one week ago and now, gdm got broken and does not start anymore (begins stating, but stops with a message "Oh no ! something has gone wrong, contact a

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