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

2021-04-15 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/15/21 1:38 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: 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

[blfs-dev] Failure commiting to blfs-book

2021-04-14 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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(-) timtas@dalglish:~/src/blfs-git$ git push fatal: remote error: access denied or

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

2021-04-12 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 to glib 2.68.0, which lead to lxdm/X not starting

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

2021-04-12 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 to glib 2.68.0, which lead to lxdm/X not starting anymore. /var/log/lxdm.log reports: MESA-LOADER: failed

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

2021-04-12 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/12/21 11:35 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 to glib 2.68.0, which lead to lxdm/X not starting

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

2021-04-12 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 to glib 2.68.0, which lead to lxdm/X not starting anymore. /var/log/lxdm.log reports: MESA-LOADER: failed

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

2021-04-12 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
to investigate further, but for the moment, I would advise people to stay away from glib 2.68.0, at least on qemu vm's running X. Bye Tim -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Hohlstrasse 400 c/o Baubüro Insitu 8048 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org

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

2021-04-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/1/21 11:47 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2021-04-01 10:52 +0200, 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

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

2021-04-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 benefits of cmake over autotools from a builders

Re: [blfs-dev] vala-0.50.4 breaks dconf-editor build

2021-03-18 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 3/17/21 2:55 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 14:44 +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, I inadvertently removed dconf-editor from my system (when recompiling dconf, because dconf-editor and dconf are on the same page, and so are in the same package

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

2021-03-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 comment, I added one, I hope that's ok. Wasn't meant to

Re: [blfs-dev] Gparted page seem to have outdated information

2021-02-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 2/2/21 1:11 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 2/1/21 5:46 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just installed gparted for the first time as in the SVN book (version 1.2.0) and it seems that the part about root privileges seems to be outdated. I installed gparted without

[blfs-dev] Gparted page seem to have outdated information

2021-02-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I just installed gparted for the first time as in the SVN book (version 1.2.0) and it seems that the part about root privileges seems to be outdated. I installed gparted without any helper stuff and it seems that the provided org.gnome.gparted.policy already does the trick: when I

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

2021-01-23 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 1/23/21 10:16 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 21:20 +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 1/23/21 6:43 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 11:10 -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 1/23/21 11:06 AM, Tim Tassonis

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

2021-01-23 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 1/23/21 6:43 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 11:10 -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: 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

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

2021-01-23 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
as a suggestion to the libwebp or the gdk-pixbuf page? Bye Tim -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Hohlstrasse 400 c/o Baubüro Insitu 8048 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

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

2021-01-22 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 1/22/21 4:55 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: 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

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

2021-01-22 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 gegl-0.46 (that's what I did), or can anyone run gimp with

[blfs-dev] minor issue on sane page

2021-01-22 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all SANE-1.0.29 seems to link against elogind when present and not specifically told to not do so by specifying --with-systemd=no Since I don't know what the consequences of elogind support for sane are, I did set that. Maybe one then needs some polkit/dbus magic and the whole group

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

2021-01-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Since a couple of days, I'm experiencing connect issues to wiki.linuxfromscratch.org. Is this a known issue, or is the problem on my side? Bye Tim -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

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

2021-01-06 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Compile works for me with:    -DCONFIG_GDK_PIXBUF_XLIB

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

2021-01-06 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 1/6/21 5:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 1/6/21 9:58 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Compile works for me with:    -DCONFIG_GDK_PIXBUF_XLIB=ON \    -DCONFIG_IMLIB2=OFF \ CONFIG_GDK_PIXBUF_XLIB does not turn off CONFIG_IMLIB2 by itself and will still give

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

2021-01-06 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Compile works for me with: -DCONFIG_GDK_PIXBUF_XLIB=ON \ -DCONFIG_IMLIB2=OFF \ CONFIG_GDK_PIXBUF_XLIB does not turn off CONFIG_IMLIB2 by itself and will still give an error. Is it ok if I update the page accordingly? I'm on 10.0 up until here, now! Bye Tim --

Re: [blfs-dev] Error building libxslt-1.1.34

2021-01-05 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 1/5/21 11:34 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 09:58 +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I am stuck at building libxslt-1.1.34, getting the following error: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2

[blfs-dev] Error building libxslt-1.1.34

2021-01-05 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I am stuck at building libxslt-1.1.34, getting the following error: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd doc/xsltproc.xml:8: warning: failed to load external entity

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

2020-12-30 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/30/20 4:06 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 15:29 +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I now seen to have everything in place for elogind and rootless X, however, just calling startx still does not seem to work. I get the following error on startx

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

2020-12-30 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/30/20 4:06 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 15:29 +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I now seen to have everything in place for elogind and rootless X, however, just calling startx still does not seem to work. I get the following error on startx

[blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

2020-12-30 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I now seen to have everything in place for elogind and rootless X, however, just calling startx still does not seem to work. I get the following error on startx on the console: [ 382.428] (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied) If I just call X vt7 I

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

2020-12-29 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/29/20 4:01 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/29/20 6:52 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just went through building xorg with elogind/dbus support until xinit, as in the book. I then still had to chmod u+s $XORG_PREFIX/libexec/Xorg in order to get X running

[blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

2020-12-29 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I just went through building xorg with elogind/dbus support until xinit, as in the book. I then still had to chmod u+s $XORG_PREFIX/libexec/Xorg in order to get X running. So just to make sure I did not fuck up anywhere: is this still expected behaviour with elogind? I assume the

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-25 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 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

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 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

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/25/20 1:52 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/24/20 4:56 PM, 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

[blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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. Apart from many bug-fixes and enhancements. there are just minor changes to the build:

Re: [blfs-dev] Berkeley DB library locations

2020-12-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/3/20 10:18 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: In some cases PAM may use Berkeley DB libraries.  We should probably change the bdb build to move the libraries to /lib: ... ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr  \   --libdir=/lib  \  <-- added  

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

2020-12-02 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/1/20 11:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/1/20 3:02 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/1/20 5:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: 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

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

2020-12-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/1/20 5:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: 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

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

2020-12-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 --enable-db=no at configure time, pam will be build

[blfs-dev] llvm in /opt

2020-11-10 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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. The reason I'm asking is that llvm seems to be updated quite often and I'm not sure about the compatibility of different versions with mesa, rustc and

[blfs-dev] elogind/polkit/dbus circular dependencies

2020-10-06 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I'm in the process of building BLFS 10, which is the first time that I will have to build elogind. I'm currently a bit lost regarding the circular dependencies in this case, is this the correct order: 1. build X libraries 2. build dbus, without elogind 3. build elogind 4. build

[blfs-dev] Disabling expensive nss tests

2020-10-02 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all When building nss 3.57 and waiting ages for the tests to be compiled, I checked the Makefile and found out that, by adding NSS_DISABLE_GTESTS=1\ to the make command, the build time can quite drasctically be reduced, as compiling (not even running) the tests seems to

Re: [blfs-dev] new libnsl 1.3.0 not in book

2020-09-25 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/25/20 8:39 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just noticed that although there was a new release of libnsl, version 1.3.0, released on Jul 6, it is not in the book, nor is there a ticket for it. I have downloaded and successfully built it on a fresh lfs 10.0 system

[blfs-dev] new libnsl 1.3.0 not in book

2020-09-25 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I just noticed that although there was a new release of libnsl, version 1.3.0, released on Jul 6, it is not in the book, nor is there a ticket for it. I have downloaded and successfully built it on a fresh lfs 10.0 system, with minor modifications to the instructions from 1.2.0: -

[blfs-dev] symbol versioning in openssl

2020-09-08 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Maybe a bit off-topic, but a while ago, the BLFS book had instructions on how to build openssl with symbol versioning, so openssl-1.0 and openssl-1.1 can be mixed. As openssl-1.0 is out now, this seems to have been removed, but maybe somebody still remembers the instruction. I now

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

2020-09-07 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/4/20 5:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/4/20 8:35 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: [snip] I assume that ppp gets some kind of revival due to some ISP's requiring it for fiber connections.  Therefore I'd vote for de-archiving the package. It now even has systemd suppport

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

2020-09-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/4/20 5:03 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 9:27 AM Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev <mailto: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 bl

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

2020-09-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 04, 2020 at 12:44:31AM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/3/20 10:29 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote

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

2020-09-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/4/20 2:12 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 12:44:31AM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/3/20 10:29 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 21:47 +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/1/20 7:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs

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

2020-09-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/3/20 10:29 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 21:47 +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/1/20 7:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/1/20 12:24 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all As one of Switzerland largest ISP's requires pppoe

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

2020-09-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/1/20 7:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/1/20 12:24 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all As one of Switzerland largest ISP's requires pppoe with vlan tagging for fiber connections, I wondered if vlan tagging could get supported in the network scripts. As I found out

[blfs-dev] VLAN support in BLFS network scripts

2020-09-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all As one of Switzerland largest ISP's requires pppoe with vlan tagging for fiber connections, I wondered if vlan tagging could get supported in the network scripts. As I found out via https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VLAN, one can create a tagged VLAN using ip link add link

[blfs-dev] Building Firefox with clang 10

2020-07-14 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Due to fact that my currently quite outdated gcc toolchain fails to compile latest firefox, I tried to build firefox with clang10. In case anyone wants to try this, too, I found out that you can run into problems with c++ libraries built with clang or gcc, I think the root problem

Re: [blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

2020-04-09 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/9/20 8:08 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/9/20 12:46 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/9/20 7:07 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 01:23:24PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I noticed that I do get quite different build sizes

Re: [blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

2020-04-09 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/9/20 7:07 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 01:23:24PM +0200, 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

[blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

2020-04-09 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
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 /lgl-bld/thunderbird-68.7.0/ reports 4.2G

Re: [blfs-dev] Question about updating BLFS Boot Scripts

2020-04-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/4/20 7:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/4/20 5:09 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all As dhcpcd 9.0.0 changed the location of its pidfile(-s), the /lib/services/dhcpcd bootscript has to be updated. I did this, but I dont know how then to prepare the needed tar.xz

[blfs-dev] Question about updating BLFS Boot Scripts

2020-04-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all As dhcpcd 9.0.0 changed the location of its pidfile(-s), the /lib/services/dhcpcd bootscript has to be updated. I did this, but I dont know how then to prepare the needed tar.xz package. Can anybody tell me how to go about this? Bye Tim --

Re: [blfs-dev] dhcpcd-9.0.0 privilege separation: what uid shall be used

2020-04-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 11:00 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 09:56 +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I'm about to give the new dhcpcd 9.0.0 a go, which has quite an important change: it does privilege separation now. This means that an unprivileged user has

[blfs-dev] dhcpcd-9.0.0 privilege separation: what uid shall be used

2020-04-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I'm about to give the new dhcpcd 9.0.0 a go, which has quite an important change: it does privilege separation now. This means that an unprivileged user has to be created and that user needs to have access to /var/lib/dhcpcd I thought of doing something similar to openssh: install

Re: [blfs-dev] v4l-utils and SDL2 (may require setting flags)

2020-03-31 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi Ryan On 3/30/20 8:50 PM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello all. When building v4l-utils per BLFS instructions I get the following at the configure stage: [...] checking for SDL2... no [...] The only way I could get v4l-utils to recognize SDL2 was to set SDL2_LIBS and SDL2_CFLAGS:

[blfs-dev] Some Samba-4.11.0 questions

2019-11-12 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I just built samba 4.11.0 and while the book says to require Python-2.7.17, the Release Notes say it requires python3. From the Release Notes (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.11.0.html): Python2 support --- Samba 4.11 will not have any runtime support

[blfs-dev] invalid command explanation for talloc?

2019-11-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I just tried to build Talloc-2.3.0, using the mentioned --extra-python=PYTHON option. However, this does not seem to be supported anymore: waf: error: no such option: --extra-python Or am I missing something? If nobody objects, I'll create a ticket and remove that option from the

Re: [blfs-dev] pycairo and $DESTDIR

2019-11-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 11/12/19 3:40 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 11/11/19 6:20 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all Has anybody tried to install latest pycairo with DESTDIR While python2 setup.py install --optimize=1 --root=$DESTDIR works, both python2 setup.py install_pycairo_header

[blfs-dev] pycairo and $DESTDIR

2019-11-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Has anybody tried to install latest pycairo with DESTDIR While python2 setup.py install --optimize=1 --root=$DESTDIR works, both python2 setup.py install_pycairo_header --root=$DESTDIR python2 setup.py install_pkgconfig --root=$DESTDIR fail, with error: option --root not

Re: [blfs-dev] evince dependencies

2019-11-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 11/4/19 4:57 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 11/3/19 7:40 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all After detecting that evince 3.34.1 does not build with the required depencies, I digged  in a bit more and found  out the following: As both  GNONE  and gentoo recommed appstream

[blfs-dev] evince dependencies

2019-11-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all After detecting that evince 3.34.1 does not build with the required depencies, I digged in a bit more and found out the following: As both GNONE and gentoo recommed appstream-glib as solution, I found out that: /usr/share/gettext/its/appdata.loc

[blfs-dev] Failure building evince-3.34.1

2019-11-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I tried to build evince-3.34.1 by the book and get the following error: GEN evince-pdfdocument.metainfo.xml /usr/bin/msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for evince-pdfdocument.metainfo.xml.in make[3]: *** [Makefile:922: evince-pdfdocument.metainfo.xml] Error 1 After digging around,

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and pam

2019-10-22 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 10/22/19 9:21 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On 22/10/2019 00:15, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 10/22/19 12:09 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:31:25PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just studied the elogind page, where

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and pam

2019-10-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 10/22/19 12:09 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:31:25PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I just studied the elogind page, where it says that I should modify /etc/pam.d/system-session, to include the elogind stuff. I'm a bit reluctant to do so

[blfs-dev] elogind and pam

2019-10-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I just studied the elogind page, where it says that I should modify /etc/pam.d/system-session, to include the elogind stuff. I'm a bit reluctant to do so, as I've got several systems running as servers and routers, with no graphical user interface and no dbus present. As I

[blfs-dev] Question about elogind

2019-10-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Sorry if this is an already answered question, but I found no clear answer on the list. I have noticed the inclusion of elogind in BLFS and so far, I did not care about it, as it seemed a Gnome thing and I'm using Xfce. But as I'm going to do an all new build of everything soon, I

Re: [blfs-dev] New uid for fetchmail ?

2019-10-13 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 10/14/19 2:17 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: For a long time, fetchmail has warned about running as root. For 6.4.1 I'm inclined to try running it as user fetchmail and group nogroup. But that raises the question of which uid to assign. Looking at /postlfs/users.html (or

Re: [blfs-dev] Name for the localed daemon

2019-10-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 10/3/19 10:50 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On 03/10/2019 21:45, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 10/3/19 1:56 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: I'm going to try to become "upstream" for the standalone localed daemon. I think I'll take the openrc implementation rather than

Re: [blfs-dev] rustc and DESTDIR

2019-10-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 30 September 2019 19:23:04 Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all, so far i have built a nice Xfce system avoiding python2, gtk2 and rustc at all and Xfce-4.14 builds/runs fine without gtk2. For librsvg i use the old non-rust version 2.40.20 which still works pretty well - ok, i

Re: [blfs-dev] incorrect mupdf 1.16.1 patch?

2019-09-20 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/21/19 1:19 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/20/19 5:04 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all When trying to upgrade mupdf to the latest release an checking the linked libraries, I stumbled across error due to missing libmupdfthird.so libmupdfthreads.so libmupdfpkcs7.so

Re: [blfs-dev] incorrect mupdf 1.16.1 patch?

2019-09-20 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/21/19 12:44 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 12:04:53AM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all When trying to upgrade mupdf to the latest release an checking the linked libraries, I stumbled across error due to missing libmupdfthird.so

[blfs-dev] incorrect mupdf 1.16.1 patch?

2019-09-20 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all When trying to upgrade mupdf to the latest release an checking the linked libraries, I stumbled across error due to missing libmupdfthird.so libmupdfthreads.so libmupdfpkcs7.so it turns out that mupdf-1.16.1-shared_libs-1.patch on line 32 to 34 sets the names to: +THIRD_LIB =

Re: [blfs-dev] lsb-tools and initd-tools

2019-09-10 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 10 September 2019 19:51:22 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/10/19 12:36 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I noticed that initd-tools is gone from BLFS and seems to have been replaced by lsb-tools. I also noticed that BLFS bootscripts have been updated with tons of fixes

[blfs-dev] lsb-tools and initd-tools

2019-09-10 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I noticed that initd-tools is gone from BLFS and seems to have been replaced by lsb-tools. I also noticed that BLFS bootscripts have been updated with tons of fixes for dependency information, so thanks for all the work on that! However, I noticed that lsb-tools is implemented in

Re: [blfs-dev] Storing settings of gtk3 applications in a non-gnome (xfce4) desktop enviromnent

2019-09-10 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/10/19 6:32 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On 10/09/2019 17:49, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all After installing yad, a  gtk3 shell-script dialog implementation, I finally decided to solve my long-standing issue of some applications (evince) complaining about GLib-GIO

[blfs-dev] Storing settings of gtk3 applications in a non-gnome (xfce4) desktop enviromnent

2019-09-10 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all After installing yad, a gtk3 shell-script dialog implementation, I finally decided to solve my long-standing issue of some applications (evince) complaining about GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other

Re: [blfs-dev] firefox-69.0 ftbfs

2019-09-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/3/19 7:44 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:56:11PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/3/19 2:43 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:19:46AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Looks as if dbus-glib should now be required

Re: [blfs-dev] firefox-69.0 ftbfs

2019-09-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/3/19 7:44 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:56:11PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/3/19 2:43 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:19:46AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Looks as if dbus-glib should now be required

Re: [blfs-dev] firefox-69.0 ftbfs

2019-09-03 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/3/19 2:43 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:19:46AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:08:09AM +0200, gabriele balducci via blfs-dev wrote: Looking at fedora, https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firefox/tree/master they seem to

Re: [blfs-dev] thunderbird-68.0

2019-08-28 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 8/28/19 4:52 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/28/19 6:10 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all Despite the current freeze, I have taken the thunderbird ticket, as I just can'r wait to get my hands on the new version... I will of course not update the page until I'm told

[blfs-dev] thunderbird-68.0

2019-08-28 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Despite the current freeze, I have taken the thunderbird ticket, as I just can'r wait to get my hands on the new version... I will of course not update the page until I'm told to, but will try to build the new version and note the changes needed. Having started now, I can already

[blfs-dev] alsa-plugins-1.1.9 does not use ffmpeg

2019-08-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I just did a huge audio/video update extravaganza on my system and realized that alsa-plugins-1.1.9 does not seem to use ffmpeg anymore. This does not really change any instructions on the book, only that the optional dependency to ffmpeg should be removed. If nobody has a

Re: [blfs-dev] XFCE4 Settings (Upstream report) crashes with multiple displays

2019-08-20 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 8/20/19 3:26 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/19/19 8:17 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: Good evening folks, I noticed something in my Google Highlights app on my phone that looked interesting: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15816#c8 It referenced a bug in

Re: [blfs-dev] Warnings about unsafe paste in xfce terminal (4.12)

2019-08-14 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 8/14/19 7:24 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: For the last couple of days, I've been running xfce and using xfce-terminal (old 4.12). And a lot of the time, when I try to paste something I get pop-up warnings: Warning: Unsafe Paste Pasting this text to the terminal may be dangerous

[blfs-dev] xfce 4.14 update notes (Ticket 12389)

2019-08-13 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi again I've just closed the ticket 12389: xfce 4.14 and I think compiling xfce 4.14 like it is now in the book is correct. However, I might have missed some new optional dependencies and some that don't exist anymore. What I did change, apart from just the version bumbs: - added an

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.14

2019-08-13 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 8/14/19 12:08 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/13/19 4:44 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/13/19 11:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/13/19 3:29 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/13/19 9:57 PM, Thomas Trepl wrote: Am Dienstag, den 13.08.2019, 19:58 +0200

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.14

2019-08-13 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 8/13/19 11:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/13/19 3:29 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/13/19 9:57 PM, Thomas Trepl wrote: Am Dienstag, den 13.08.2019, 19:58 +0200 schrieb Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev: Hi all For anybody using xfce4  as their desktop, I wanted to share

Re: [blfs-dev] mousepad 0.4.2 and gnome monospace font

2019-07-31 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 7/31/19 10:01 AM, hykwok1--- via blfs-dev wrote: 2. For Gnome, the default font name of "Monospace font" is "Source Code Pro". (Reference: https://github.com/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/blob/master/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.interface.gschema.xml.in) The font can be downloaded from:

Re: [blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.8.0 and rustc 1.35.0 success

2019-07-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 7/12/19 1:08 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 7/11/19 5:28 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:39:23PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all As you can see in my mail headers, I now managed to compile thunderbird-60.8.0 with rustc 1.35.0, using

[blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.8.0 and rustc 1.35.0 success

2019-07-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all As you can see in my mail headers, I now managed to compile thunderbird-60.8.0 with rustc 1.35.0, using the following two sed commands: sed -i -e '/#!\[deny(missing_docs)\]/d' servo/components/style/lib.rs sed -i -e 's/#!\[deny(unsafe_code, missing_docs)\]/#!\[deny(unsafe_code)\]/g'

Re: [blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.8.0 fails to build with rustc 1.35.0

2019-07-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 7/11/19 8:02 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:34:48AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 11:32 AM Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: Hi all Just wanted to let you know that thunderbird

Re: [blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.8.0 fails to build with rustc 1.35.0

2019-07-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 7/11/19 6:38 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Tim, dear Douglas, On 7/11/19 6:34 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 11:32 AM Tim Tassonis wrote: Just wanted to let you know that thunderbird seems not to build out of the box with rustc 1.35.0. I'm currently looking

Re: [blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.8.0 fails to build with rustc 1.35.0

2019-07-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 7/11/19 6:53 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 7/11/19 6:38 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Tim, dear Douglas, On 7/11/19 6:34 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 11:32 AM Tim Tassonis wrote: Just wanted to let you know that thunderbird seems not to build

Re: [blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.8.0 fails to build with rustc 1.35.0

2019-07-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 7/11/19 6:38 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Tim, dear Douglas, On 7/11/19 6:34 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 11:32 AM Tim Tassonis wrote: Just wanted to let you know that thunderbird seems not to build out of the box with rustc 1.35.0. I'm currently looking

[blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.8.0 fails to build with rustc 1.35.0

2019-07-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Just wanted to let you know that thunderbird seems not to build out of the box with rustc 1.35.0. I'm currently looking for solutions/patches, seems that ubuntu has something. If anybody has seen a patch regarding "fix-missing-docs-error", I'd welcome any pointers, of course. The

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