Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-b...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org: [blfs-book] RFC: Adding advisories chapter to the editor's guide.]

2021-04-19 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:21:14PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 4/19/21 1:09 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 09:44:19PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 4/18/21 5:36 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > >

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-b...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org: [blfs-book] RFC: Adding advisories chapter to the editor's guide.]

2021-04-19 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 09:44:19PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 4/18/21 5:36 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > - Forwarded message from Ken Moffat via blfs-book > > - > > > > Arghh - I sent this to -book. > > > > Date: Sun, 1

[blfs-dev] [blfs-b...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org: [blfs-book] RFC: Adding advisories chapter to the editor's guide.]

2021-04-18 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
- Forwarded message from Ken Moffat via blfs-book - Arghh - I sent this to -book. Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:03:22 +0100 From: Ken Moffat via blfs-book To: blfs-b...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Cc: Ken Moffat Subject: [blfs-book] RFC: Adding advisories chapter to the editor's guide

Re: [blfs-dev] Failure commiting to blfs-book

2021-04-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:24:13AM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi all > > When trying to push my changes to git, I got following error: > > timtas@dalglish:~/src/blfs-git$ git commit -a > [trunk 8355679be] Upgrade to curl-7.76.1. > 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

[blfs-dev] KDE patches for QT

2021-04-06 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
I saw on phoronix that kde have set up repos for their patches. There was a suggestion that these are patches kde devs have sent upstream. Top level is at https://invent.kde.org/qt although navigating is slightly strange - somehow I managed to get to https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt?page=1 which is

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

2021-04-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:54:26PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > 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 > >

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

2021-04-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:09:48PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > However, there might be a lfs/blfs policy regarding preference for cmake > > > that I am not aware of? > > > > If the upstream has a recommendation, just follow the upstream. Otherwise, > > for > >

Re: [blfs-dev] icewm FTBFS

2021-03-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 09:36:16PM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 18:42 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 04:16:33PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > In theory plugins should hav

Re: [blfs-dev] icewm FTBFS

2021-03-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 04:16:33PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > In theory plugins should have been working for years, and nothing in > that area has changed, but exceot for icewm I don't use lto because > packages that should benefit from the longer build (mozilla > p

Re: [blfs-dev] icewm FTBFS

2021-03-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:33:45AM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 00:31 +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:16:18AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Trying to bring up a new system (packages current as of a day

Re: [blfs-dev] icewm FTBFS

2021-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:16:18AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > Trying to bring up a new system (packages current as of a day > ago), I got as far as icewm. > > My previous build used icewm-2.1.2, this attempt was using 2.2.1. > I also note that cmake is now 3.20.0, and that

[blfs-dev] icewm FTBFS

2021-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
Trying to bring up a new system (packages current as of a day ago), I got as far as icewm. My previous build used icewm-2.1.2, this attempt was using 2.2.1. I also note that cmake is now 3.20.0, and that I was initially adding more options: -DCONFIG_LIBRSVG=on \

[blfs-dev] efibootmgr url ?

2021-03-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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 that the tarball is downloaded as 17.tar.gz. At various

Re: [blfs-dev] firefox and the mozilla/plugins symlink

2021-03-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 06:35:12PM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:11:58 -0500 Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > I'm getting ready for next week's release of firefox-78.9.0 by > > measuring the build using the current candi

[blfs-dev] firefox and the mozilla/plugins symlink

2021-03-20 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
I'm getting ready for next week's release of firefox-78.9.0 by measuring the build using the current candidate. Looking at our instructions, since 'time immemorial' (ok, more exactly for 3 years, but in our terms that is eons ago) we've had: mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Re: [blfs-dev] Stuck trying to build qtwebengine git on glibc-2.33.

2021-03-16 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:03:10PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 07:25:36PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > Currently running a manual build to make sure it does now complete, > > and hoping that I'm not again fille

Re: [blfs-dev] Stuck trying to build qtwebengine git on glibc-2.33.

2021-03-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 07:25:36PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > Currently running a manual build to make sure it does now complete, > and hoping that I'm not again filled with false optimism. > Turns out I *was* filled with false optimism, failed (as before)-

Re: [blfs-dev] Stuck trying to build qtwebengine git on glibc-2.33.

2021-03-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 03:09:30AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:58:23PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:50:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:25:51AM -0500, Marty

Re: [blfs-dev] Stuck trying to build qtwebengine git on glibc-2.33.

2021-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:58:23PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:50:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:25:51AM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 08 Ma

Re: [blfs-dev] Stuck trying to build qtwebengine git on glibc-2.33.

2021-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:50:34PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:25:51AM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:16:51 -0500 Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > Output for

Re: [blfs-dev] Stuck trying to build qtwebengine git on glibc-2.33.

2021-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:25:51AM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:16:51 -0500 Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > Output for the failing target follows (some lines are very long), > > any clues, please ? > > > > TIA.

[blfs-dev] Stuck trying to build qtwebengine git on glibc-2.33.

2021-03-08 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
People who read -book will have seen that I'm trying to build the git version of qtwebengine, because the non-commercial release of 5.15.3 is probably a month or more away but webengine has the usaul crop of backported chromium fixes. When I started, my build failed fairly quickly and I suspected

[blfs-dev] QtWebengine and glibc-2.33, was Re: [blfs-support] Blank text on some sites with fresh build of falkon

2021-02-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 02:07:57AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: [ originally to -support, now copying -dev, looks like glibc-2.33 with qtwebengine is the problem ] > This has got me flummoxed. > > I use falkon as my secondary browser for (amongst other things) > lwn.n

[blfs-dev] Security Advisories now live

2021-02-06 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
The new pages for Security Advisories are now live. To see the BLFS advisories, go to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/read.html and follow the links in the Current Stable paragraphs (svn, systemd). For editors, the advisories are common to svn and systemd and are in the www repo, at

Re: [blfs-dev] Security Advisories, v2 - revised prototypes

2021-01-31 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 09:16:36PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 09:07:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:39:05AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 1/31/21 7:57 AM, Ken Moffat

Re: [blfs-dev] Security Advisories, v2 - revised prototypes

2021-01-31 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 09:07:34PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:39:05AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 1/31/21 7:57 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > Perhaps add Date: Severity: Critical/High/Unce

Re: [blfs-dev] Security Advisories, v2 - revised prototypes

2021-01-31 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:39:05AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 1/31/21 7:57 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > Current links: > > > 2. The revised details for 10.0 are at > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/advisories/10.0.html with short

Re: [blfs-dev] Security Advisories, v2 - revised prototypes

2021-01-31 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 01:57:35PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > REvised links at end of this post. > Sorry, duplicate post. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] Security Advisories, v2 - revised prototypes

2021-01-31 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
REvised links at end of this post. On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 03:16:53AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 09:55:10AM +0800, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 11:37, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev > > wrote: > > > > >

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

2021-01-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 09:55:10AM +0800, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 11:37, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev > wrote: > > > > I'm thinking the format will be something like the following (not > > necessarily what I originally suggested). >

[blfs-dev] perl.com stolen

2021-01-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
A few days ago I read in a link somewhere that perl.com had been stolen and appeared to be parked for sale, as squatters do. This sounded merely annoying, and I can't find the original link. Today I looked at the latest URI release and saw that it changed perl.com to example.com in tests and

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

2021-01-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 02:18:19AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 07:14:37PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev > wrote: > > So at last it is up for review at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/advisories/ - unfortunately, I > thought I'd fixed

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

2021-01-29 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 07:14:37PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > I've minimally started to hack on a page covering the 60+ items > since 10.0 was released (14 in January up to last night by my > current counting) to see how it looks. Still feeling my way. > What I can'

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

2021-01-29 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:59:19AM -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > 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 > >

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

2021-01-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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 released. For changes to the books I would create a

[blfs-dev] mozilla ./mach configure

2021-01-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
When firefox started to require the use of mach to build it, the help it provided when failing to use the old comands said to run 'mach build', so I've been using that. This week, when looking at thunderbird in AUR I noticed that now uses './mach configure' followed by './mach build'. The

Re: [blfs-dev] Errors accessing wiki.linuxfromscratch.org

2021-01-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:11:47AM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 08:50 +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Since a couple of days, I'm experiencing connect issues to > > wiki.linuxfromscratch.org. Is this a known issue, or is the

[blfs-dev] Security Advisories

2021-01-06 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
We are getting better at noticing packages which have been updated for vulnerabilities, but I find out current layout (Security Vulnerabilities listed under Errata for our latest release) awkward: as I understand it, we add to the end of the list unless there is an earlier update for this package

Re: [blfs-dev] icewm-2.0.0 fails to configure with the book's commands

2021-01-06 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 05:56:51PM +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 1/6/21 5:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 1/6/21 10:27 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 1/6/21 5:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > On 1/6/21 9:58 AM, Tim

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

2021-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 10:20:51PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:50:14PM +0000, 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 wro

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

2021-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 05:29:53PM -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > 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 Dub

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

2021-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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, Pierre Labastie via blf

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

2021-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 18:21 +, Ken Moffat via bl

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

2021-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 18:21 +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > some of you may have noticed that I have an aversion to gtk-doc (I'm > > getting over it).  This was t

Re: [blfs-dev] 2020-09-03" Pango-1.46.0: Cairo is "Recommended" but seems to be Required

2021-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 07:57:01PM +0800, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: > Been working against the BLFS Version 2020-09-03, so Pango 1.46.0 > but BLFS Version 2021-01-01 with Pango 1.48.0 has the same text. > > I read, > > Pango Dependencies > > Required > > Fontconfig-2.13.1 (must be

[blfs-dev] cogl autoreconf

2020-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
I've got as far as checking cogl in the packages needing autoreconf (might as well do them all whilst on a system where gtkdocize is made unavailable) - not surprisingly, gtkdocize gets needed more in gnome packages. Among these is cogl, but in this case autoreconf is a legacy from when we used

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

2020-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 03:46:58PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/30/20 1:18 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > > I think you can start gnome without a dm, by putting "exec gnome- > > session" in .xinitrc. Now how to only start gnome-shell, I am not sure. > > This is

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

2020-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 08:18:16PM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 18:21 +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > some of you may have noticed that I have an aversion to gtk-doc (I'm > > getting over it).  This was t

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

2020-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
Hi Guys, some of you may have noticed that I have an aversion to gtk-doc (I'm getting over it). This was triggered by occasional uses of autoreconf now needing gtkdocize. That first hit me in polkit with the patch for elogind, but my memory suggested that the patch has in the past been added or

Re: [blfs-dev] gtkmm3-3.24.3 issues

2020-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:33:22PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/28/20 9:04 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > First, comment on gtkmm3 - the book does not have '..' in the > > meson command. Seems unusual, Im using e conventional '..'. > > > &

[blfs-dev] gtkmm3-3.24.3 issues

2020-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
First, comment on gtkmm3 - the book does not have '..' in the meson command. Seems unusual, Im using e conventional '..'. Second, a question: why are the docs for this package so important ? The book passes -Dbuild-documentation=true and later installs the docs. But that requires doxygen which

Re: [blfs-dev] polkit-0.118 ftbfs

2020-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 07:05:29AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/26/20 11:30 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > Using polkit-0.118 and our > > polkit-0.118-fix_elogind_detection-1.patch, autoreconf fails with > > current versions of everything. &

[blfs-dev] polkit-0.118 ftbfs

2020-12-26 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
Using polkit-0.118 and our polkit-0.118-fix_elogind_detection-1.patch, autoreconf fails with current versions of everything. In my script I use autoreconf -fiv instead of just autoreconf -fi, so this maybe shows a little more detail than the book's version: (the first part looks ok) autoreconf:

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-25 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 05:05:43PM +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 12/25/20 4:04 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:56:59PM +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > As a new

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:56:59PM +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi all > > As a new release of my favorite DE is out and it's christmas, I thought I > give it a go. > > In short: An upgrade from 4.14 as in blfs svn works seamlessly, in the exact > order as already in the book. > >

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

2020-12-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:07:29AM +0100, 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

Re: [blfs-dev] Bad kf5 URL ?

2020-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:39:36PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/11/20 12:04 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > More generally, our releases are frozen at a point in time, and > > subject to errata. If a url becomes unusable, do we not fix that &

Re: [blfs-dev] Bad kf5 URL ?

2020-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:03:05AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/11/20 12:40 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 02:43 +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > Yes I've been bitten by that when trying to build LXQt. Note th

[blfs-dev] Bad kf5 URL ?

2020-12-10 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
I must have been evil in a previous existence, because I'm not trying to use jhalfs to build kde. In kf5 I stopped the build after a bit over an hour because nothing was happening. The log said: URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy --2020-12-11 02:14:37--

[blfs-dev] libsoup and sysprof

2020-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
For those who don't read -support: I've just hit a problem, initially reported earlier this month by Christopher Gregory, where libsoup built with meson-0.56.0 fails to link to static sysprof. That was supposedly fixed in meson by https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/7930 but rebuilding

[blfs-dev] Updating node.js, was Re: llvm in /opt

2020-11-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 05:43:00PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:43:49AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 11/10/20 6:43 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > Not directly related to this, but I've had various problems trying >

Re: [blfs-dev] llvm in /opt

2020-11-10 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:43:49AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 11/10/20 6:43 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm just about to build llvm 11 as in current blfs, and wondered if it > > would be better to install it in /opt/llvm11, instead of /usr. > > > >

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

2020-11-02 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > In LFS, we can make the symlink to p3. For p2 in BLFS, we will use 'make > altinstall'. Everything else would be for non-python packages that either > use p2 or create a p2 module. > I've now completed my build

Re: [blfs-dev] icu68 breakage

2020-11-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:10:40PM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > The fix is simple: replace TRUE by true and FALSE by false wherever it is > needed. > The requirement is pervasive. I have 3 packages that needed changes. The > qtwebengine touches a lot of files. > The one I had

Re: [blfs-dev] icu68 breakage

2020-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 12:47:54AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 06:56:19PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > On 10/30/20 6:15 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > This comes from encoding.c >

Re: [blfs-dev] icu68 breakage

2020-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:10:40PM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > The fix is simple: replace TRUE by true and FALSE by false wherever it is > needed. > The requirement is pervasive. I have 3 packages that needed changes. The > qtwebengine touches a lot of files. > The one I had

Re: [blfs-dev] icu68 breakage

2020-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 06:56:19PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > 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. > > > &

[blfs-dev] icu68 breakage

2020-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I./include -I./include -pedantic -Wall

Re: [blfs-dev] Rebuilding gst-plugins-base after installing Qt

2020-10-29 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 06:21:11PM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:02:02 -0500 Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 02:36:06AM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 27 O

Re: [blfs-dev] Rebuilding gst-plugins-base after installing Qt

2020-10-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 02:36:06AM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:00:15 -0500 Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > (Cc: to support if I remember, in case anyone else hits this) > > > > Starting to upgrade my systems for whatever has c

[blfs-dev] Rebuilding gst-plugins-base after installing Qt

2020-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
(Cc: to support if I remember, in case anyone else hits this) Starting to upgrade my systems for whatever has caused today's gstreamer releases. Most are still running 9.1 with 1.16.2. Normally I build gstreamer well before qt, but trying to upgrade has changed that. In gst-plugins-base it

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

2020-10-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 04:15:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > When we find something like that, couldn't we use: > > grep -rl '#!.*python' | xargs sed -i > > '1{s/p

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

2020-10-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:22:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > Is there an official python recommendation for that, to quote at > > them, please ? > > That's a good question, but I would also like to see if there is a survey of > the major distros on the subject. I know arch has

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

2020-10-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > Reluctantly, I have to go with a python symlink.  Out of the more > > than 48000 tests in clang-11.0, one uses /usr/bin/env/python. > > > > When we find something like that, couldn't we use: > grep -rl '#!.*python'

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

2020-10-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:27:51AM -0500, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > On October 23, 2020 10:15:09 AM CDT, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev > wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev > >wrote: > >> > Reluctantly, I have to

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

2020-10-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 07:00 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 04:44:19PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:24:52PM +0800

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

2020-10-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 04:44:19PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:24:52PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2020-10-22 16:14 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:25:59AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs

Re: [blfs-dev] sysprof and libsoup

2020-10-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 03:32:07PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > 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 >

[blfs-dev] [lfs-...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org: [lfs-dev] Problems with scour]

2020-10-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
Sorry, posted to lfs-dev, lemme try again. - Forwarded message from Ken Moffat via lfs-dev - Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:01:16 +0100 From: Ken Moffat via lfs-dev To: lfs-...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Cc: Ken Moffat Subject: [lfs-dev] Problems with scour Reply-To: LFS Developers

[blfs-dev] sysprof and libsoup

2020-10-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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 ? Anyway,for the current build I went along with the recommendation and added it, plus libdazzle. But building libsoup did not go smoothly:

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

2020-10-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:24:52PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-10-22 16:14 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:25:59AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 10/22/20 12:56 AM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > &g

Re: [blfs-dev] gtkmm3 needs cairomm-1.14

2020-10-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 02:46:43PM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > Actually, apart from cairomm, the C++ GTK stack has not been updated, > so gtkmm3 and pangomm require cairomm-1.0 (whose last release is > cairomm-1.14). > > I got an error while building gnome-system-monitor because

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

2020-10-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:25:59AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 10/22/20 12:56 AM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > On October 21, 2020 10:48:39 PM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > > wrote: > > > On 10/21/20 10:06 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > In LFS,

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

2020-10-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:06:45PM -0500, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > As to the convenience link in /usr/bin, I'd look to remove it and tell > > people that they can alias the bare "python" if they really, really need > > to, but that they have to make the choice to do so: the system

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

2020-10-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 08:12:18AM +0800, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 00:26, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > wrote: > > > > Currently we have /usr/bin/python -> python2. Is it time to change that > > to python3? > > Probably a bit too drastic a view, but should we even

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

2020-10-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:53:27PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 10/21/20 12:06 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > On October 21, 2020 11:25:42 AM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > > wrote: > > > Currently we have /usr/bin/python -> python2. Is it time to change > > > that > > >

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

2020-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 05:03:54PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 10/15/20 4:51 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 03:59:32PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:14:56PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wro

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

2020-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 03:59:32PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:14:56PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 04:17:50PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 2020-10-14 02:45 +0100, Ken Moffat

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: Re: mupdf

2020-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:21:13PM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 11:52 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 10/14/20 11:43 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:11:13AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via bl

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: Re: mupdf

2020-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:11:13AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 10/12/20 10:15 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:41:37PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > > wrote: > > They seem to be using system JBIG2DEC, JPEGXR, and GUMBO w

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

2020-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:14:56PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 04:17:50PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2020-10-14 02:45 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:21:39AM +0100, Ken Moffat

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

2020-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 04:17:50PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-10-14 02:45 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:21:39AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:15:30PM +0100, Ken Moffat

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

2020-10-13 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:21:39AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:15:30PM +0100, 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 se

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

2020-10-13 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:15:30PM +0100, 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 > t

Re: [blfs-dev] mupdf

2020-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:41:37PM -0500, 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

[blfs-dev] llvm-11 and rust

2020-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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 'should' build with older llvm). I've just started a fresh

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

2020-10-07 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:17:49AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 10/7/20 10:38 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > 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

Re: [blfs-dev] js78 and jemalloc

2020-09-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:48:27AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-09-21 17:59 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:07:18AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev > > wrote: > > > > > > On 9/21/20 9:36 AM, Ken Moffat vi

Re: [blfs-dev] js78 and jemalloc

2020-09-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:07:18AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > 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

[blfs-dev] js78 and jemalloc

2020-09-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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 internal memory allocator used in JS78. jemalloc causes

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