Re: [blfs-dev] Video problems

Ken Moffat wrote: I'm not sure about the hardware support messages. This is a nvida card (GeForce 210) on my -dev system. Wouldn't x264 give h264 support? I don't have any nvidia machines, but on the integrated GPU in the haswell I got libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vo_vdpau: vdpau

Re: [blfs-dev] Weirdnesses with desktop logins

Ken Moffat wrote: Just anecdotal comments - I have been ensuring that all my currently-maintained systems are updated to firefox-45. On my first test box, where I had so much fun with kde4, startkde no longer works. I can (happily) live with that. But on an older system on the same box, using

Re: [blfs-dev] JSON-C 0.12 Make

Victor Wren wrote: Going through the release version of BLFS7.9. I notice the fix for JSON-C dropping out of make with an "unused variable" warning in json_tokener.c. BLFS fixes this by disabling -Werror on the whole build. The day after 0.12 was released there was a commit for this that

Re: [blfs-dev] terminals

akhiezer wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 04:00:05 + From: Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] terminals On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 08:30:00PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would like to cut down the number of packages in BLFS. The maintenance burden is tremendous

[blfs-dev] terminals

I would like to cut down the number of packages in BLFS. The maintenance burden is tremendous and we have lots of duplication of capabilities. When it comes to terminals, we have: xterm gnome-terminal xfce4-terminal lxterminal qterminal konsole4 konsole5 I propose that we remove konsole4 and

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome-terminal

Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 12-03-2016 22:50, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: I'm trying to update the book to gnome-terminal-3.18.3. Using the current instructions it builds with no issues. However it won't run. I get: Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome-terminal

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 02:16:54PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 12-03-2016 22:50, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: I'm trying to update the book to gnome-terminal-3.18.3. Using the current instructions it builds with no issues. However it won't run. I get

[blfs-dev] LFS and BLFS Version 7.9 are released

comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-...@linuxfromscratch.org or blfs-...@linuxfromscratch.org. Registration for the mailing lists is required to avoid junk email. -- Bruce Dubbs LFS [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.9/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [blfs-dev] Weirdnesses with desktop logins

Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:55:56AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Just anecdotal comments - I have been ensuring that all my currently-maintained systems are updated to firefox-45. On my first test box, where I had so much fun with kde4, startkde no longer works

[blfs-dev] qtwebkit

Trolltech has released qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.6.0.tar.xz. (https://download.qt.io/community_releases/5.6/5.6.0/) It is used for libprocessui from libksysguard (I don't think it is required) in plasma and kf5 pim (which is not yet in the book) The build instructions are really non

Re: [blfs-dev] S-Lang 'make install' needs -j1?

ALZ (phyglos.org) wrote: Yes, doing "-j1" for all packages is a good choice, as it is running all available tests before a "release" build. Long build, but no doubts about how it was build. (I think LFS SBUs are also calculated for -j1) Yes with the exception of automake checks. In the book

Re: [blfs-dev] qtwebkit

Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:54:45PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Trolltech has released qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.6.0.tar.xz. (https://download.qt.io/community_releases/5.6/5.6.0/) It is used for libprocessui from libksysguard (I don't think it is required) in plasma and kf5 pim

Re: [blfs-dev] Weirdnesses with desktop logins

Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:07:57PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Interesting. I'm not sure if I built PAM on that system, but I am fairly sure that I have used startkde in the past, left it, and been able to get in - in fact, I do not recall the screen locker

Re: [blfs-dev] Weirdnesses with desktop logins

Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 05:30:54PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:07:57PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Interesting. I'm not sure if I built PAM on that system, but I am fairly sure that I have used startkde

[blfs-dev] A note on openssl changes

The latest version of openssl disables SSLv2 by default. This will cause other packages to break. I was upgrading wireshark and it failed because a Qt5 library required SSLv2. Fortunately a simple rebuild of Qt5 fixed the problem. Just a heads up that other packages that use openssl may

[blfs-dev] GTK Engines

I just noticed that we only reference GTK Engines-2.20.2 in the book at gtk+2 in a note that gnome-themes (not in the book) needs GTK Engines. I propose removing GTK Engines from the book and the parenthetical note in gtk+2 that references it. Any objections? -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] bump sqlite download link version

Tobias Stoeckmann wrote: Hi, during the latest sqlite update, the version was not updated. MD5 checksum was updated though, so it's just this simple patch. - - + + Thanks Tobias. The odd numbering scheme for sqlite means that we have two places to update for this package. I got

Re: [blfs-dev] JSON-C 0.12 Make

Victor Wren wrote: On 3/18/2016 13:24, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Victor Wren wrote: Going through the release version of BLFS7.9. I notice the fix for JSON-C dropping out of make with an "unused variable" warning in json_tokener.c. BLFS fixes this by disabling -Werror on the whole build.

Re: [blfs-dev] S-Lang 'make install' needs -j1?

ALZ (phyglos.org) wrote: In the book there are several "make -j1" for compiling or "make -j1 check" for testing clearly marked. However I haven't found any "make -j1 install" yet. This is what I found unusual in this package. Why would you ever want to do a parallel install? How much time

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS 7.9 missing dependency on GLibmm-2.46.3

Victor Wren wrote: I'm building a 32-bit version of BLFS on an Intel platform. I've spent most of the day trying to get a clean make check out of GLibmm, and it kept coming up with a fail on "giomm_tls_client/test". Mentions of that exact error in the BLFS mailing list archive say that the

Re: [blfs-dev] (small item): svn-20160323 + rel-7.9 : seamonkey reqd deps not in alphab order.

akhiezer wrote: - per subject; & cf firefox reqd deps. Re: [blfs-dev] (small item): svn-20160323 + rel-7.9 : seamonkey reqd deps not in alphab order. Please limit subject lines to about 70 characters. Thanks. p.s. Got someone here working through ((sizeable) subset of) new b/lfs books:

Re: [blfs-dev] (small item): svn-20160323 + rel-7.9 : alsa intro: 5 -vs- 6 .

akhiezer wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:20:23 + From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) Subject: [blfs-dev] (small item): svn-20160323 + rel-7.9 : alsa intro: 5 -vs- 6 . [ Ref: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/multimedia/alsa.html

[blfs-dev] kf5 version of kdepim

I've been trying to get the kf5 apps in the book to be about the same as we had for kde4. I've been able to do this with the exception of kdepim. In the latest release of kf5 apps, there are 187 tarballs. This includes a mix of a few kde4 packages, but mostly kde5 packages. I'm having

Re: [blfs-dev] kwayland needed for lxqt-libkscreen

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 27/03/2016 17:39, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: Trying to build LXQT with new libkscreen-5.6.0, I get: - CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:23 (find_package): Could not find a package configuration file provided by "KF5Wayland" wi

Re: [blfs-dev] kwayland needed for lxqt-libkscreen

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:17:10PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: I'll do that (I have to learn :-) Start with 'svn cp' and just edit the page. Also add to parent with include. I normally just use cp, so I don't know how much of the following

Re: [blfs-dev] Typo (introduction/changelog.html)

Yukio Shiiya wrote: Hi, I found a typo on the following page. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/changelog.html - [bdubbs] - Add a note that openssl does not support parallel tets. Fixes #7486. + [bdubbs] - Add a note that openssl does not support parallel test. Fixes

Re: [blfs-dev] Typos in the LXQT section

Victor Wren wrote: Looking at the SVN version (also 7.9, but that's history), the lxqt-kguiaddons page has the wrong title on the installation instructions. It says: "Installation of liblxqt Install liblxqt by running the following commands:" The next page, Solid-5.20.0, also says:

Re: [blfs-dev] Video problems

Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 03-03-2016 17:18, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 02-03-2016 01:05, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:13:03PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm not sure about the hardware support messages

Re: [blfs-dev] Chapter 9 Qca-2.1.1

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 04/03/2016 12:08, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 04-03-2016 07:03, Pierre Labastie escreveu: On 29/02/2016 00:04, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Lee Hancock wrote: hi, In the build instructions for Qca-2.1.1 it states "There are no packages in BLFS that use the Qt5 ve

Re: [blfs-dev] dependencies for LXQt

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 04/03/2016 17:16, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 12:10:46PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 04-03-2016 09:08, Pierre Labastie escreveu: (trimming severely) On 04/03/2016 11:36, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 04-03-2016 06:15, Pierre Labastie

Re: [blfs-dev] pciutils download

Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, It seems that ftp.kernel.org does not work for downloading pciutils. I succeeded with https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/pciutils-3.4.1.tar.xz, and was unable to use ftp. Should I change the download link on the pciutils page? I don't think so.

Re: [blfs-dev] oxygen-icons-15.04.3 source has been moved

Pierre Labastie wrote: or at least, the link given in the book should be changed: it is now http://download.kde.org/Attic/applications/15.04.3/src/oxygen-icons-15.04.3.tar.xz. If nobody objects, I'll make the change (but I am not sure because I have not built KDE4). I thought I had fixed

Re: [blfs-dev] LXQt needs setting QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 05/03/2016 23:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I ran startx with ck="ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session" exec $ck /opt/lxqt/bin/startlxqt and the system came up. The only problem now is that there is no logout option that I can find

Re: [blfs-dev] grep-2.23

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 06/03/2016 21:19, Bruce Dubbs wrote: The most recent version of grep is causing problems. If it processes a file that has a character that is not in the LANG, it stops processing and outputs "Binary file matches". This problem came up in bui

Re: [blfs-dev] LXQt needs setting QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 05/03/2016 21:59, Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, I tagged LXQt although I have one issue: For being able to input anything from the keyboard, I need to export QT_XKB_CONFIG_Root=/usr/share/X11/xkb before starting, whatever the method (startx, sddm or lxdm). The issue

Re: [blfs-dev] LXQt needs setting QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 06/03/2016 18:33, Pierre Labastie wrote: I also found that "mkdir /opt/qt5/share/X11 && ln -s /usr/share/X11/xkb /opt/qt5/share/" solves the issue. BTW, this is not true! It allows the "alt-f2" combination to work, but you cannot type anything in the window or in

[blfs-dev] grep-2.23

The most recent version of grep is causing problems. If it processes a file that has a character that is not in the LANG, it stops processing and outputs "Binary file matches". This problem came up in building lxqt as the .desktop files have a lot of characters for different languages. I

Re: [blfs-dev] dependencies for LXQt

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 05/03/2016 18:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: I realize I should have read again the thread starting at http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2015-November/031384.html. Sorry for duplicate. I think we should create a ticket and discuss

Re: [blfs-dev] Video problems

Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:13:03PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm not sure about the hardware support messages. This is a nvida card (GeForce 210) on my -dev system. Wouldn't x264 give h264 support? Armin gave me some links and I installed some nvidia

Re: [blfs-dev] Release progress

Tagging packages progress: lfs78 lfs79 2016-02-23 453252 2016-02-24 381322 2016-02-26 243445Thanks Ken! 2016-02-28 194496 2016-03-02 106584 Good progress. If possible I would like to get someone else to

Re: [blfs-dev] Video problems

Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 02-03-2016 01:05, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:13:03PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm not sure about the hardware support messages. This is a nvida card (GeForce 210) on my -dev system. Wouldn't x264

[blfs-dev] Ready for 7.9?

All BLFS pages have been tagged for 7.9. All 7.9 tickets, both LFS and BLFS have been resolved. Is there anything else we want to do before I release 7.9? If I don't hear anything, I will release both LFS and BLFS tomorrow (Tuesday, 8 March). -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] dependencies for LXQt

Pierre Labastie wrote: I realize I should have read again the thread starting at http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2015-November/031384.html. Sorry for duplicate. I think we should create a ticket and discuss there what to do (after release). I'll do that unless somebody

Re: [blfs-dev] Release progress

Tagging packages progress: lfs78 lfs79 2016-02-23 453252 2016-02-24 381322 2016-02-26 243445Thanks Ken! 2016-02-28 194496 2016-03-02 106584 2016-03-04 44646 Getting close to

Re: [blfs-dev] pciutils download

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 04/03/2016 22:41, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 04-03-2016 17:23, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, It seems that ftp.kernel.org does not work for downloading pciutils. I succeeded with https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/pciutils

[blfs-dev] FYI - Commits in this release cycle

fernando 378 bdubbs 114 pierre45 ken 39 igor 17 Chris 2 I thank all you have made changes. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-dev] Tickets

OK, we are finally caught up after the 7.9 release. It only took a month and about 137 commits. Right now there are only 4 tickets outstanding for the 7.10 target, all assigned. Of course that will change tonight when we run the currency checks. I still need to update LFS. Hopefully later

[blfs-dev] LFS Stable Systemd Version 7.9 is released

for the mailing lists is required to avoid junk email. -- Bruce Dubbs LFS [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.9-systemd/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.9-systemd/ [2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/ -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo

Re: [blfs-dev] Order problem for xfce

Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, When building XFCE4 according to the book and following the dependency chain, the order is: ... gtk2 statup-notification libxfce4ui perl-uri exo at-spi2-core at-spi2-atk adwaita-icon-theme gtk3 garcon But garcon's configure complains it does not find libxfce4ui-2.

Re: [blfs-dev] pciutils-3.4.1 make install minor issue

Paul J. Hentschel wrote: Hello. This is my first post to this list, so please let me know if anything about my email doesn't comply with list standards. The issue is in the make install commands. The first line has the character "i" in it, which causes error. "make PREFIX=/usr i \"

Re: [blfs-dev] GTK3 patch

Shaun Dennie wrote: No, I started on LFS/BLFS because I couldn't find a distro that worked how I'd like. So, I wrote a package manager and built an XFCE system based on BLFS. The black flashing windows on things like abiword, gnumeric, etc were very irritating but, otherwise, loosely

Re: [blfs-dev] More GCC6 annoyances in multimedia

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 03:04:30PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: John Burrell wrote: FAAC-1.2.8 and Cdrdao-1.2.3 need CXX='g++ -Wno-narrowing' on configure. I also had to add --without-mp4v2 with FAAC to get configure to pass. Also with AudioFile-0.3.6 I had to add CXXFLAGS

Re: [blfs-dev] More GCC6 annoyances in multimedia

John Burrell wrote: FAAC-1.2.8 and Cdrdao-1.2.3 need CXX='g++ -Wno-narrowing' on configure. I also had to add --without-mp4v2 with FAAC to get configure to pass. Also with AudioFile-0.3.6 I had to add CXXFLAGS="-fpermissive" to configure to get it to compile. Not sure why I still include

Re: [blfs-dev] Installation of Oxygen-icons5

Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi list, The current instructions for oxygen-icons5 install the icons in /usr/share/icons/oxygen5, but the index.theme file is installed in /usr/share/icons/oxygen. This has the result that the oxygen icons are not displayed in the DE, although the icon theme exists. I

Re: [blfs-dev] GTK3 patch

Shaun Dennie wrote: Hello, I've only been watching this list for about a week so, I apologize if this is not the right place to post this: Yes, this is the right place. The version of GTK3 in the current stable BLFS book (and, indeed, even later revisions of GTK+-3.18) has a subtle bug

Re: [blfs-dev] VLC-2.2.3 systemd dev book

Paul J. Hentschel wrote: Ken, I had already built clang when I built llvm for Mesa, so it wasn't a problem to try it. This is my first BLFS build. Kind of a practice run to see if I could make things work. I wanted to try building VLC with your script but I couldn't get past the 3rd sed

Re: [blfs-dev] gstreamer problem

Douglas R. Reno wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 03:24:25AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 07:39:53PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I've now tried gst-play, looks like a libva p

Re: [blfs-dev] gstreamer problem

Ken Moffat wrote: Thanks for looking. The specific problem is with parole and gstreamer-vaapi : do you have both of those on your nvidia system, and if so, does parole work on wmv, mp4, mov or mkv files ? No, I haven't put xfce on the dev syste, I've got an nvidia_drv_video.so, but not a

Re: [blfs-dev] gstreamer problem

Ken Moffat wrote: And I do not know what a "success" message from vainfo will look like. $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 0.38.1 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /opt/xorg/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38 libva

Re: [blfs-dev] Spelling error

Emanuele Rusconi wrote: Hi, I caught a spelling error in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/textweb.html The text says "their principle method" but should be "their principal method" (or maybe "primary", so nobody gets confused :) ). Thanks. Will be fixed at next update.

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: [blfs-support] btrfs package

Douglas R. Reno wrote: Forwarded from blfs-support - Found it in my Spam folder. Douglas R. Reno -- Forwarded message -- From: "spiky" Date: May 16, 2016 1:59 PM Subject: [blfs-support] btrfs package To: "BLFS Support List"

Re: [blfs-dev] qt-5.6 issues

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 04:14:48PM +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: This "-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks" addition is the same as that for OpenJDK. I understand it removes some too agressive optimization. It seems that only qtwebengine needs that, and not the whole Qt, so I

Re: [blfs-dev] qt-5.6 issues

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Adding a separate page seems reasonable/ It worked OK for qtwebqt. But that might end up with both pages calling themselves qt throughout the book. I do not understand this comment. The new

Re: [blfs-dev] qt-5.6 issues

Pierre Labastie wrote: On 15/05/2016 11:35, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 14/05/2016 17:03, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 04:14:48PM +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: This "-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks" addition is the same as that for OpenJDK. I understand it removes some too

[blfs-dev] ffmpeg and texlive

Mostly for Ken, but if anyone else has any ideas, please feel free to comment. I'm trying to update ffmpeg. The build is not a problem, but we offer optional instructions to build pdf and ps docs. The basic command is 'texi2pdf -b $DOCNAME.texi' whrere DOCNAME is something like

[blfs-dev] Fwd: Re: Qt4/Webkit

Moving to -dev Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Qt4/Webkit Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 21:13:13 -0500 From: Douglas R. Reno <renodr2...@gmail.com> To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> On May 3, 2016 12:35 PM, "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wr

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg and texlive

Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 04:17:01PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Mostly for Ken, but if anyone else has any ideas, please feel free to comment. I'm trying to update ffmpeg. The build is not a problem, but we offer optional instructions to build pdf and ps docs. The basic

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg and texlive

Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 02:17:16AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: And despite those timestamps, the texlive version in /opt is newer: --- /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex2016-02-24 10:11:43.909791977 + +++ /opt/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex

Re: [blfs-dev] GCC 6 annoyances

Douglas R. Reno wrote: Qtwebengine will be interesting. I don't have LXQt in systemd, so I don't have Qupzilla. I was considering adding it though. I wonder if we just have to force it to use C99/C++98 like we have to for other packages. When I build Qt5 tomorrow (I hope), I will try that and

Re: [blfs-dev] GCC 6 annoyances

Pierre Labastie wrote: Shouldn't we add an entities , and add those to the package descriptions when tested? That's a good idea. We did it with gcc5. I'm not sure though that we need to differentiate between built and tested. I'm pretty confident that gcc5_checked is enough. This

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: Re: Qt4/Webkit

Pierre Labastie wrote: I confirm that GCC-6 is not easy to work with: OpenJDK would not build with it. I do not have CLANG and have no motivation to build it. Furthermore, for OpenJDK, the variables CC and CXX are not honoured! What I have done (as root): mv /usr/bin/gcc{,.orig} cat

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: Re: Qt4/Webkit

DJ Lucas wrote: On 05/04/2016 04:05 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: I confirm that GCC-6 is not easy to work with: OpenJDK would not build with it. I do not have CLANG and have no motivation to build it. Furthermore, for OpenJDK, the variables CC and CXX are not honoured! What I have done (as

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: Re: Qt4/Webkit

Douglas R. Reno wrote: On May 5, 2016 11:21 AM, "Ken Moffat" <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 09:40:55PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Moving to -dev Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Qt4/Webkit Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 21:13:13 -0500 From:

Re: [blfs-dev] Thoughts on plasma

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 12:15:10AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I omitted them because they do not provide anyhing useful to BLFS. I agree that plasma seems to be a bunch ow eye candy. KDE does have some very useful programs like kdenlive and konsole

Re: [blfs-dev] qt-5.6 issues

Ken Moffat wrote: Last week I uploaded a patch for qtwebengine. Since then, qt5 has been updated to note that only QupZilla (instead of nothing) uses qtwebengine. BUT: I want to add the patch to the book, so that anybody else who builds QupZilla can get the damned thing to build. Meanwhile,

[blfs-dev] Thinking about a new LFS Live CD/iso

I've been thinking thinking about a new Live CD/Rescue CD based on LFS. It would be much less ambitious than the old one that included an X implementation. What I had in mind is a base LFS system with the following: dhcpcd wget ssh/ssl which links screen mc gptfdisk gpm LFS HTML LFS sources

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-dev] Thinking about a new LFS Live CD/iso

Julius ter Pelkwijk wrote: Hi, I would certainly add some "rescue-tools" in there too, like memtest and hard drive diagnostics. A malware scanner is also handy to have (in case someone hijacked their harddrives and encrypted everything), rsync, ddrescue, an ntfs partition reader, maybe

Re: [blfs-dev] Thinking about a new LFS Live CD/iso

Douglas R. Reno wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: Douglas R. Reno wrote: I have had that idea for a long time actually. I would add stuff like pciutils, usbutils, hdparm, sg3_utils, ntfs-3g, parted, etc. to make it a more complete t

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-dev] Thinking about a new LFS Live CD/iso

2016 04:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been thinking thinking about a new Live CD/Rescue CD based on LFS. It would be much less ambitious than the old one that included an X implementation. What I had in mind is a base LFS system with the following: gptfdisk Current fdisk tools in util-li

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-dev] Thinking about a new LFS Live CD/iso

Chris Staub wrote: (sending again, to both lists this time) On 04/18/2016 04:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been thinking thinking about a new Live CD/Rescue CD based on LFS. It would be much less ambitious than the old one that included an X implementation. What I had in mind is a base LFS

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-dev] Thinking about a new LFS Live CD/iso

dueff...@uwe-dueffert.de wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been thinking thinking about a new Live CD/Rescue CD based on LFS. It would be much less ambitious than the old one that included an X implementation. What I had in mind is a base LFS system with the following

Re: [blfs-dev] Openssl

Emanuele Rusconi wrote: I just tried a "make -j1 install". Same problem: I get some empty dynamic libs unless I discard the sed command that skips the static ones. I don't know what to say. PROGRAM=openssl-1.0.2h ./config --openssldir=/etc/ssl \ --prefix=/usr \

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS *.ent entity dupes/diffs

Peter Marquardt wrote: I hope this is the right place to report, correct me if I'm wrong. TL;DR: latest svn repo of BLFS *.ent has duplicate/conflicting ENTITY definitions The latest svn/blfs/systemd tree has duplicate ENTITY defs in {packages,gnome,general}.ent . I don't know if this has

[blfs-dev] libinput

I am in the process of updating libinput and have a couple of issues I'd like to discuss. First, several months ago I moved libinput into xorg drivers. Upon review, that may have been a mistake. There is nothing in Xorg that uses it. The references in the book are:

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r17603 - in trunk/BOOK: . general/prog introduction/welcome x/installing x/lib

Armin K. wrote: On 23.07.2016 21:04, Douglas R. Reno wrote: Armin K. wrote: On 23.07.2016 20:59, Douglas R. Reno wrote: Armin K. wrote: On 21.07.2016 23:59, via blfs-book wrote: Author: renodr Date: Thu Jul 21 14:59:16 2016 New Revision: 17603 Log: Added seds to subversion, libva, and

Re: [blfs-dev] libinput

Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 17:05 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I am in the process of updating libinput and have a couple of issues I'd like to discuss. First, several months ago I moved libinput into xorg drivers. Upon review, that may have been a mistake. There is nothing

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r17603 - in trunk/BOOK: . general/prog introduction/welcome x/installing x/lib

DJ Lucas wrote: That symlink dates back to when 64bit Linux was first introduced to LFS, and made a good deal of sense at the time. The toolchain used to be a PITA WRT changing the default lib search paths. Not so much anymore. We should probably take a look at that on next release cycle, make

Re: [blfs-dev] vlc

Douglas R. Reno wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Paul Hentschel wrote: On 06/06/2016 03:02 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi Bruce On 06/06/16 20:48, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been trying to remove qt4 from the book. Right now I'm working on vlc. There is a new release, 2.2.4, but I've had to find a lot

Re: [blfs-dev] vlc

Paul Hentschel wrote: On 06/06/2016 03:02 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi Bruce On 06/06/16 20:48, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been trying to remove qt4 from the book. Right now I'm working on vlc. There is a new release, 2.2.4, but I've had to find a lot of patches to make it work with both qt5

Re: [blfs-dev] vlc

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 01:06:40PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Checking, CONFIG_HZ=1000 seems to be the default, at least on my systems. I have never set it directly that I recall, but I generally start on a new system with 'make defconfig' and that sets it for me. If someone

Re: [blfs-dev] vlc

Paul Hentschel wrote: My system also defaulted to CONFIG_HZ=1000 and I don't have issues playing DVDs on my gcc5.3 vlc-2.2.3 system. Now, as a follow up to my original issues, for a test I built the latest git vlc (3.0.0-git) on that system (gcc5.3) and the issues with the mpeg-2 files and

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r17603 - in trunk/BOOK: . general/prog introduction/welcome x/installing x/lib

DJ Lucas wrote: On 07/24/2016 06:03 PM, Chris Staub wrote: For CLFS Pure64, we don't use the symlinks, and most packages install just fine into {/usr,}/lib without trying to create a "lib64" directory. They usually don't try installing anything into "lib64" unless specifically told to, so it

Re: [blfs-dev] Mesa: ltmain.sh seems to be moved

Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 06:04:29PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I added the sed for ltmain.sh-12.0.1 because it is used unconditionally. But it breaks my build (I fail on any error, except when running certain conditional local options) because the file

Re: [blfs-dev] small fix

Julien Lepiller wrote: Hi, In the chapter 'Beyond BLFS', you say about Archlinux: "enter the package name in the 'Keywords' box, select the package name, select one of the 'SVN Entries' fields, then select the PKGBUILD to see how they build this package, or look at any patches.". The name of

Re: [blfs-dev] PAM now fails to build docs with links

Ken Moffat wrote: I've been adding PAM to my desktop builds for a while. By the time I get to that point I've already built links, docbook, xslt. Until now that has built without problems, although it has not built the docs (I don't have w3m), so e.g. a couple of months ago I got

Re: [blfs-dev] Fonts

Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 11:13:11PM -0400, Paul Hentschel wrote: On 08/13/2016 06:36 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: With reluctance, yes. But the link to fireflysung is dead. I'll think about rewording that whole part of the page for 7.10. Do you have a new link? I downloaded it

Re: [blfs-dev] Fonts

DJ Lucas wrote: On 08/12/2016 08:13 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: 2.2.2 A few linux-oriented fonts come in tarballs, but many others come in zip files - we should mention using unzip. And we should warn people th at some of them extract in to the current directory. Yes, general rule of thumb,

[blfs-dev] Package Freeze

As of right now, LFS is in a package freeze. I will try to put out 7.10-rc1 later today. BLFS is in a package semi-freeze. We will finish the packages with open tickets, but new tickets will, by default, be assigned to the 7.11 milestone. If there is any new package you really feel we

Re: [blfs-dev] Fonts

Ken Moffat wrote: Proposal (to address parts 2 to 4) __ I suggest that we ought to provide a new page with general coverage of TTF/OTF fonts, replacing the Xft Font Protocol section and listing alternate modern fonts for CJK languages and otherwise not going

Re: [blfs-dev] Mesa: ltmain.sh seems to be moved

Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 08:40:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 06:04:29PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I added the sed for ltmain.sh-12.0.1 because it is used unconditionally. But it breaks my build (I fail on any

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