Re: [blfs-dev] libxkbcommon needs either an option or doxygen

2019-10-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 10/23/19 3:27 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: When compiling libxkbcommon with SVN book instructions, I get: - Program doxygen found: NO meson.build:495:8: ERROR: Problem encountered: Documentation requires doxygen which was not found. You can disable the documentation w

[blfs-dev] librsvg-2.46.3

2019-10-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
I had trouble with librsvg (again). When I tried to build version 2.46.3 (with rustc-1.37.0), I got: GISCAN Rsvg-2.0.gir Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 99, in from giscanner.scannermain import scanner_main File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/

Re: [blfs-dev] build sudo for a new system

2019-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 11/2/19 1:47 AM, hykwok1--- via blfs-dev wrote: When I tried to build sudo (1.8.29) for a new system, "make install" reported fail because the file "/etc/sudoers" was missing. So I had to create this file before I executed "make install". I am not sure this problem is related this change or

Re: [blfs-dev] build sudo for a new system

2019-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 11/2/19 11:06 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 11/2/19 1:47 AM, hykwok1--- via blfs-dev wrote: When I tried to build sudo (1.8.29) for a new system, "make install" reported fail because the file "/etc/sudoers" was missing. So I had to create this file before I executed "make install". I am not sur

Re: [blfs-dev] build sudo for a new system

2019-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 11/2/19 11:35 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 11/2/19 11:06 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 11/2/19 1:47 AM, hykwok1--- via blfs-dev wrote: When I tried to build sudo (1.8.29) for a new system, "make install" reported fail because the file "/etc/sudoers" was missing. So I had to create this file before

Re: [blfs-dev] Failure building evince-3.34.1

2019-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 11/3/19 4:00 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: 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-pd

Re: [blfs-dev] evince dependencies

2019-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
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-glib as solution, I found out that: /usr/share/get

Re: [blfs-dev] Unexpected __pycache__ directories being created during certain package installs

2019-11-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 11/17/19 8:39 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 17/11/2019 à 11:45, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev a écrit : Hi All, I have just noticed that with all my builds, there are __pycache__ directories being installed all over the place. As an example, when I installed totem, it created /us

Re: [blfs-dev] Deficiencies in our unzip build

2019-12-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/1/19 5:12 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: This long epistle was going to be a note that Archive::Zip fails one of its tests in my build of LFS and BLFS from last night, but I now think that our build of unzip has been broken (for odd zip archives which include a file compressed with bzip

[blfs-dev] sassc and gtk+3

2019-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
I've been trying to update to the latest gtk+3, but have been getting massive failures during the regression tests. Upon investigation, most of the failures are due to a .css file generated by sassc. With some manual modification, the gtk+ tests are back to normal. This problem seems to occ

Re: [blfs-dev] sassc and gtk+3

2019-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/3/19 1:49 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 21:44 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I've been trying to update to the latest gtk+3, but have been getting massive failures during the regression tests. Upon investigation, most of the failures are due to a .css

Re: [blfs-dev] sassc and gtk+3

2019-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/3/19 4:04 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 03/12/2019 à 21:52, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev a écrit : On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 12:15 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 12/3/19 1:49 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 21:44 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I've

Re: [blfs-dev] mutter broken with meson-0.52+

2019-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/8/19 7:33 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: I did the bisection, and found that the commit which changed the behavior in meson is 3db6dcb3b85. I Filed an issue[1] with meson, but they may as well tell that mutter devs should change their meson.build files. For now, I suggest disabl

Re: [blfs-dev] blocaled-0.1 is released

2019-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/8/19 4:06 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, It is the first (beta?) release of blocaled. See https://github.com/pierre-labastie/blocaled/releases/tag/v0.1 I have also a patch for the book to use blocaled, but do not know what to do with it: - commit it: it should not hurt, I th

Re: [blfs-dev] $NINJAJOBS collides with a variable in QtWebEngine

2019-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/9/19 8:00 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 03:40:24PM -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/9/19 2:22 PM, Alain Dumont via blfs-dev wrote: Le 09/12/2019 à 20:20, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev a écrit : On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 04:19:12PM +0100, Alain Dumont

Re: [blfs-dev] mutter broken with meson-0.52+

2019-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/9/19 2:53 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 09/12/2019 à 21:33, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev a écrit : On Sun, Dec 8, 2019, 11:52 AM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev mailto:blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org>> wrote: On 12/8/19 7:33 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev

Re: [blfs-dev] mutter broken with meson-0.52+

2019-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/10/19 4:01 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 10/12/2019 à 16:50, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev a écrit : On 12/9/19 10:49 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 2019-12-09 22:45, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/9/19 2:53 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 09

Re: [blfs-dev] Testing without python2 : dead halt at JS60.

2019-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/15/19 10:16 AM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: On December 15, 2019 8:14:20 AM CST, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 08:57:09AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: On December 12, 2019 11:30:59 PM CST, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Going forward, perhaps we ne

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

2019-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/16/19 3:43 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: Good afternoon folks, This is more of an observation than anything else, nothing needs to be done yet and I haven't noticed any problems. I have a system running with the kernel 5.4 API headers (my i686 machine), and just built OpenSS

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

2019-12-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/17/19 10:17 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Actually, there is a PR at elogind: https://github.com/elogind/elogind/pull/142/commits/2b08527c0c939aebfd0ecd04a639cb6435c3f8ef I guess a sed should do. Note also that 241.4 is out. Looks like the currency script does not take it.

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

2019-12-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/17/19 11:20 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 12/17/19 10:17 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Actually, there is a PR at elogind: https://github.com/elogind/elogind/pull/142/commits/2b08527c0c939aebfd0ecd04a639cb6435c3f8ef I guess a sed should do. Note also that 241.4 is out. Looks li

[blfs-dev] Theme parsing error

2019-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
I'm getting a lot of warnings lately like: Gtk-WARNING **: 04:36:49.304: Theme parsing error: gtk-contained.css:388:37: Missing closing bracket for :not() Has anyone else seen these? I find gtk-contained.css in gtk+-3.24.13: gtk/theme/Adwaita/gtk-contained.css gtk/theme/HighContrast/gtk-

Re: [blfs-dev] Theme parsing error

2019-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/31/19 9:06 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 31/12/2019 à 12:00, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : I'm getting a lot of warnings lately like: Gtk-WARNING **: 04:36:49.304: Theme parsing error: gtk-contained.css:388:37: Missing closing bracket for :not() Has anyone else

Re: [blfs-dev] RFC: remove '..' in our meson commands

2019-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/31/19 1:20 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Hi: Now most of our meson commands contains a '..' but a few does not. Maybe we should remove all '..' in meson commands. Reasons: (1) '..' is unnecessary in meson command, with "mkdir build; cd build". (2) Sometimes we forgot to "mkdir bui

Re: [blfs-dev] Theme parsing error

2019-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 12/31/19 3:40 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 31/12/2019 à 17:50, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : On 12/31/19 9:06 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 31/12/2019 à 12:00, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : I'm getting a lot of warnings lately like: Gtk-WARNING *

Re: [blfs-dev] Theme parsing error

2020-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 1/1/20 10:37 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 31/12/2019 à 23:56, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : On 12/31/19 3:40 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 31/12/2019 à 17:50, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : On 12/31/19 9:06 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 31

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

2020-01-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 1/3/20 9:45 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 1/3/20 8:35 AM, Paul Menzel via blfs-dev wrote: Dear Beyond Linux From Scratch folks, The configuration instructions for SQLite [1] still enable the two-argument version of the fts3_tokenizer() interface. -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3_TOKENIZER=1 The c

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] Error in FreeType build steps

2020-01-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 1/18/20 4:21 PM, Max Coplan via blfs-dev wrote: Good evening, I have found a typo in the FreeType build instructions. How can I fix this error and contribute? What typo? -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Un

Re: [blfs-dev] intel iGPU CVE-2019-14615

2020-01-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 1/31/20 3:39 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:07:13AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:16:32AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: For intel GPUs, except GEN8 (Broadwell), this week's vulnerability is being covered at Phoronix.

Re: [blfs-dev] LSB-Tools-0.5 puts files in /usr

2020-01-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 1/31/20 4:36 PM, Joe Locash via blfs-dev wrote: The install of LSB-Tools puts 5 files in /usr. INSTALL, LICENSE, and the 3 man pages. Indeed. I see that. DJ, can you take a look? The code looks right to me, but in my log I have: $ grep copying LSB-Tools-0.5.log|grep -v lsbtools copying

Re: [blfs-dev] The "recent" Alan Coopersmith quote about the Xorg install location

2020-01-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 1/31/20 11:19 PM, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: I was just reading the Introduction to Xorg-7 Setting up the Xorg Build Environment section in BLFS 9.0 and, because I was thinking of putting all of Xorg stuff in its own hierarchy, noticed the passage that says: The common install

[blfs-dev] xterm-353

2020-02-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
The latest version of xterm has this in the NEWS file: * modify run-tic.sh to prefer development version of ncurses since changes to terminfo file in patch #345 rely upon bug-fixes in ncurses I do not think that it is good form to create a 'stable' release that relies on a development libra

Re: [blfs-dev] xterm-353

2020-02-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/2/20 12:52 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote: Hello Bruce, On Sun, 2020-02-02 at 10:50 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: The latest version of xterm has this in the NEWS file: * modify run-tic.sh to prefer development version of ncurses since changes to terminfo file in patch #345 rely

Re: [blfs-dev] icewm-1.6.4 fails to link icesh

2020-02-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/4/20 6:48 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: My first attempt to build icewm-1.6.4, but it failed early on (and the wonderful cmake kept churning on the other cores until the Error was way in the past and I thought it had failed silently until I tried to continue in the existing source. Unf

Re: [blfs-dev] LLVM-9.0.1 + glibc-2.31 Version-2020-02-04

2020-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/6/20 8:44 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, I was unable to successfully compile llvm-9.0.1 while having glibc-2.31 installed. ./projects/compiler- rt/lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_internal_defs.h:342:70: error: size '-1' of array 'assertion_failed__1131' is negative 342

Re: [blfs-dev] blfs-9.0 enchant 2.2.5 tar md5sum conflict

2020-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/8/20 11:01 AM, Chr. Clemens Lee via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, I got the following md5sum from: https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant/releases/download/v2.2.5/enchant-2.2.5.tar.gz 6ae5fec127e89ce99a3d66d8401be064 enchant-2.2.5.tar.gz The md5sum to expect according to the BLFS 9.0 book is: 03

Re: [blfs-dev] blfs-9.0 enchant 2.2.5 tar md5sum conflict

2020-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/8/20 4:44 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 10:50:08PM +0100, Chr. Clemens Lee via blfs-dev wrote: OK, thanks Bruce, I will proceed with 2.2.5 according to the book, as nothing bad has happened. However, you guys/girls might think about something better than md5sum

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

2020-02-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/9/20 1:25 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-02-09 11:21, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 09/02/2020 à 18:02, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev a écrit : On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 03:37:08AM -0500, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, I have strong indication openjdk-12.0

Re: [blfs-dev] LSB-Tools-0.6

2020-02-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/9/20 3:26 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: On 09/02/2020 21:15, spiky0011 wrote: Lfs systemd svn version, installed LSB-Tools-0.6 and when I run lsb_release I get an error lsb_release Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 94, in     key,val = pair.spl

Re: [blfs-dev] llvm-9.0.1 with clang

2020-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/10/20 12:24 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: Hi "System svn" I,m getting a make fail while trying to build clang in llvm. It gets through to about 1300 and fails, scrolling back I find an error. I have built llvm without clang and it succeeded, tried to rebuild llvm with clang on exsi

[blfs-dev] plasma and wayland

2020-02-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
I have updated plasma to version 5.18.0. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/kde/plasma-all.html The instructions for starting plasma are to add: dbus-launch --exit-with-session $KF5_PREFIX/bin/startplasma-x11 and this works fine on my system. In addition, plasma now has a versi

Re: [blfs-dev] wireshark 3.2.1 needs speexdsp-1.2.0

2020-02-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/13/20 10:10 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, Although this is not in book's optional dependencies, wireshark may use speexdsp if it is installed. But when speexdsp-1.2rc3 is installed, it fails with: [1925/2421] Building C object CMakeFiles/sharkd.dir/sharkd_session.c.o FAILED: C

Re: [blfs-dev] Dependency problem with firewalld

2020-02-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/13/20 11:17 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: When running configure for firewalld, I get: [...] checking for iptables... /sbin/iptables checking for iptables-restore... /sbin/iptables-restore checking for ip6tables... /sbin/ip6tables checking for ip6tables-restore... /sbin/ip6tab

Re: [blfs-dev] Dependency problem with firewalld

2020-02-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/13/20 11:35 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 13/02/2020 à 18:31, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : On 2/13/20 11:17 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: When running configure for firewalld, I get: [...] checking for iptables... /sbin/iptables checking for iptables

Re: [blfs-dev] ptlib broken by make-4.3

2020-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/14/20 4:14 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, I get: [LD] 2.#define [LD] 10-#define g++: error: 2.#define: No such file or directory g++: error: 10-#define: No such file or directory g++: error: .#define: No such file or directory g++: error: 11: No such file or directory g++: erro

[blfs-dev] Partial package freeze for BLFS

2020-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
Now that LFS-9.1-rc1 has been released, it is time to start tagging BLFS to test the packages there. There are about 850 packages that need to be built, tested, and tagged in BLFS. Here is the major rule of thumb for updates: If a package is already tagged, do not update it. Exceptions can b

Re: [blfs-dev] plasma and wayland

2020-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/14/20 2:44 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/02/2020 22:11, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I have updated plasma to version 5.18.0. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/kde/plasma-all.html The instructions for starting plasma are to add:   dbus-launch --exit-with

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

2020-02-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/15/20 9:00 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Though it's named "polkit-gnome", but now it's only used by XFCE and GNOME doesn't use it at all. gnome-shell has built-in polkit agent. It's not used by network-manager-applet? And, notification-daemon is not used by GNOME. Maybe we should

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

2020-02-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/15/20 10:03 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-02-15 21:51 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev: On 2/15/20 9:00 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Though it's named "polkit-gnome", but now it's only used by XFCE and GNOME doesn't use it at all. gnome-shell

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

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

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

2020-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/16/20 11:31 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 2/16/20 5:21 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 2/16/20 12:01 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: Hi folks, I know that we're in a semi-package freeze right now, so I wanted to ask a question about a package that'

Re: [blfs-dev] qemu configure

2020-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/17/20 8:19 PM, Joe Locash via blfs-dev wrote: When running configure for qemu --localstatedir=/var should be used otherwise /usr/var/run will be created and used. I will take a look at that. For state data, it probably should be just /run, but /var/run is a symlink to /run and that's OK

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

2020-02-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/18/20 3:29 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: Hi folks, [Note] Note This is a development version of the Nouveau driver which is needed to build properly with the latest xorg-server. I noticed that we have a note like the above in xf86-video-nouveau, but we seem to be usi

Re: [blfs-dev] What to do with vim for release

2020-02-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/18/20 4:09 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Right now, we have vim-8.2.0190 in LFS and vim-8.2.0024 in BLFS. I think blfs should be at least updated to the same patch level as lfs. But maybe we want to update both to a later patch... Thoughts? We should keep it at the same revision

[blfs-dev] 9.1 tagging status and request for help

2020-02-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
We are looking good for a March 1st 9.1 release. Right now there are about 315 packages left to tag. Many are spoken for, but I would like to ask for help in building/testing the following in the 9.1 environment: server/mail/exim.xml:&lfs90_checked; server/mail/dovecot.xml:&lfs90_chec

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

2020-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
I need to get dovecot and exim tested for release. I can build them, but do not want to install them over my existing system. Both build with caveats, so if someone can test in a 9.1 environment, I can update tag them. Caveats. dovecot: The sed sed -e "s;#include ;&\n#include ;" \

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

2020-02-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/22/20 10:40 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 21/02/2020 à 20:54, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev a écrit : On 2/21/20 12:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I need to get dovecot and exim tested for release.  I can build them, but do not want to install them over my existing

Re: [blfs-dev] 9.1 tagging status and request for help

2020-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/24/20 4:28 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 19/02/2020 à 09:59, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev a écrit : Le 19/02/2020 à 00:11, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : postlfs/security/firewalld.xml:    &lfs90_checked; postlfs/security/nftables.xml:    &lfs90_checked; I

[blfs-dev] Almost ready for the 9.1 release

2020-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
We are almost ready for LFS/BLFS 9.1. All tickets are closed and all BLFS packages tagged as ready. What is left is to tweak anything that might come up in the next couple of days. The current development versions of both LFS and BLFS will become the new stable versions of the books. Pleas

Re: [blfs-dev] Cryptsetup is at version 2.3.0 (book has 2.0.6)

2020-02-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/27/20 3:51 PM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello everyone. The "cryptsetup" BLFS package is listed as version 2.0.6.  The latest version is 2.3.0 The latest version at https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v2.0/ is version 2.0.6. Is there someplace else updatin

Re: [blfs-dev] llvm

2020-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 2/28/20 5:22 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: Bdubbs the sed in LLvm is only required if building clang, maybe a note on that to indicate. OK, I added a clarifying statement. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.htm

[blfs-dev] LFS and BLFS Version 9.1 are released

2020-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 9.1, LFS Version 9.1 (systemd), BLFS Version 9.1, and BLFS Version 9.1 (systemd). This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS. The LFS release includes updates to glibc-2.31, and binutils-2.34. A total

[blfs-dev] LFS and BLFS development versions are open for update

2020-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
Release complete. May the changes commence. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

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

2020-03-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/3/20 8:42 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Now samba requires python 3, and python 3 requires lsb-tools. I don't think these make any sense: * I can rebuild Python 3 (for upgrading) w/o lsb-tools. * I can build samba with Python 3 built in LFS, before I rebuilt Python 3. Should we remove

Re: [blfs-dev] several patches fixing build with -fno-common (for GCC 10) prepared

2020-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/8/20 10:49 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: GCC 10 will enable -fno-common by default. It would break some "legacy" (actually buggy IMO) code. I found some cases in the book with GCC 9 and -fno- common explicitly enabled. Patches uploaded to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~xry111/fno-co

Re: [blfs-dev] several patches fixing build with -fno-common (for GCC 10) prepared

2020-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/9/20 8:48 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 09/03/2020 à 14:46, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev a écrit : Le 09/03/2020 à 13:43, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : On 3/8/20 10:49 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: GCC 10 will enable -fno-common by default.  It would break some

[blfs-dev] Archive Seamonkey?

2020-03-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
We have a problem caused by rust. Seamonkey cannot be built with a version of rust later than 1.37 and librsvg now requires version 1.39 or later. As I see it we have the option of installing multiple versions of rust in /opt or archiving Seamonkey. I'm not sure what SM offers other than a

Re: [blfs-dev] "with parallelism=4"

2020-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/16/20 11:29 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: The more I edit, the more the phrase "with parallelism=4" grates. First, I don't really think it is good English or good American. In the days when everything was CMMI it could correctly be parsed as "when using make -j4" (assuming people were

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] The xc directory

2020-03-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/22/20 4:47 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: (Bcc to DJ in case he is not following everything on this list) Prompted by noticing yesterday that someone had a problem while trying to build mozjs60 and happened to be building that in the xc directory - In 'Introduction to Xorg-7' we say:

Re: [blfs-dev] Python multiprocessing checks in chroot

2020-03-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/22/20 9:25 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-03-23 01:44 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 09:12:18AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-03-22 21:34 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: # mount --bind /run /mnt/lfs/run I think it's dange

Re: [blfs-dev] Python multiprocessing checks in chroot

2020-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/26/20 10:22 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Now the book is handling the case "/dev/shm is a link to /run/shm" correctly and explicitly. Unfortunately it seems for the case "/dev/shm is *not* a link to /run/shm" the book is defective. I'm surprised that it didn't cause any problem build

Re: [blfs-dev] Python multiprocessing checks in chroot

2020-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/26/20 3:29 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Le 26/03/2020 à 21:19, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev a écrit : Le 26/03/2020 à 18:32, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit : On 3/26/20 10:22 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: Now the book is handling the case "/dev/shm is a link to /ru

Re: [blfs-dev] Python multiprocessing checks in chroot

2020-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/26/20 8:38 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-03-26 23:22 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:57:03PM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: (asking about only one item) If you do not do this, configuring will fail with a python traceback report ref

Re: [blfs-dev] Python multiprocessing in chroot, proposed note V2

2020-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/27/20 11:02 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: The thread Python multiprocessing checks in chroot is getting long and widening to cover how /dev/shm is treated in LFS. What I'd like to do is put the following note in the BLFS mozilla-derived packages where shm needs to be mounted when the p

Re: [blfs-dev] Python multiprocessing checks in chroot

2020-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/27/20 12:19 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 15:47 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: If you wish to change what is in LFS I'll leave that discussion/decision to those with a better understanding than I have. Agreed, we should have another thread for cha

Re: [blfs-dev] Modern rust is slow to install

2020-03-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/29/20 10:13 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:48:38AM +0100, Uwe Düffert via blfs-dev wrote: (changing the subject) Is there any special reason we would want to upgrade llvm but not rustc? Both are rather ugly packages with pretty long pretty similar build time

Re: [blfs-dev] Modern rust is slow to install

2020-03-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/29/20 12:56 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:30:39AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/29/20 10:13 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:48:38AM +0100, Uwe Düffert via blfs-dev wrote: (changing the subject) Is there any

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

2020-03-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 3/30/20 1:50 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: SDL2_LIBS=/us

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

2020-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 2:56 AM, 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 to be created and that user needs to have access to /var/lib/dhcpcd I thou

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

2020-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 9:35 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, According to me, kernel 5.6 is now "mainline" and stable. Is there something wrong with 5.6 such LFS SVN-20200401 is not including the 5.6 family?? My own point of interest with 5.6 is the time_namespace (for containers). Is 5.6.2

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

2020-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 12:41 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 4/3/20 11:47 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 10:18 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/3/20 9:35 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, According to me, kernel 5.6 is now "mainline" and stable. Is th

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

2020-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 11:47 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 10:18 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/3/20 9:35 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, According to me, kernel 5.6 is now "mainline" and stable. Is there something wrong with 5.6 such LFS SV

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

2020-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 1:25 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/3/20 7:18 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/3/20 2:56 AM, 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

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

2020-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/3/20 2:01 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote: On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 12:43 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/3/20 12:41 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 4/3/20 11:47 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 10:18 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/3/20 9:35

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

2020-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
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 package. Can anybody tell me how to go about this? F

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #13355: mozjs-68.6.1

2020-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/4/20 12:15 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-book wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 05:00:27PM -, BLFS Trac wrote: #13355: mozjs-68.6.1 -+- Reporter: xry111 | Owner: bdubbs Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: norma

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

2020-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/4/20 12:57 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: 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

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #13355: mozjs-68.6.1

2020-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/4/20 8:33 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 07:41:45PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 4/4/20 12:15 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-book wrote: [ Cc: -dev added ] I left it open because

Re: [blfs-dev] Names of SGML/XML/DocBook files

2020-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/9/20 12:03 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 23:05 +0800, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: I'd like to make a suggestion, as regards the names of the BLFS XML files for the SGML/XML/DocBook sections. I've just come to add some of the DocBook packages to my LFS/

Re: [blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

2020-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
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 for thunderbird than other maintainers, so I thought I

Re: [blfs-dev] Names of SGML/XML/DocBook files

2020-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/9/20 1:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 4/9/20 12:03 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 23:05 +0800, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: I'd like to make a suggestion, as regards the names of the BLFS XML files for the SGML/XML/DocBook sections. I've just come to add

Re: [blfs-dev] Names of SGML/XML/DocBook files

2020-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/9/20 10:11 PM, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 04:15, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: We rarely change these files, but I agree that the naming is confusing. I run into the problem at release time, but have never gotten to fixing it. I'll see if I can do

Re: [blfs-dev] Suggestion for small change to shell startup file commentary

2020-04-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/27/20 10:25 PM, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: A suggestion as regards the commentary within the examples for /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc. Text would be changed to have the filenames standing alone, rather than being run into the text, as well as to note that /etc/bashrc, which, altho

Re: [blfs-dev] Suggestion for small change to shell startup file commentary

2020-04-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/28/20 10:50 PM, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 12:21, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: Thanks for the input, but I like the way we have it now better. As far as sourcing /etc/bashrc goes, we do that in ~/.bashrc. If a user does not want to use it then its their

Re: [blfs-dev] Suggestion for small change to shell startup file commentary

2020-04-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/28/20 11:12 PM, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:55, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: Right now I'm leaning against setting up /etc/bash.bashrc by default, but it doesn't take away a choice. If the file is missing, then having bash look for it and n

Re: [blfs-dev] Sudo: expanding the explanation of the --with-passprompt Configure argument

2020-04-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 4/28/20 11:04 PM, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote: At present, the Book has this argument to configure --with-passprompt="[sudo] password for %p: " but doesn't explain the "%p", merely saying --with-passprompt: This switch sets the password prompt. which might leave the user

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome-shell bug

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

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome-shell bug

2020-05-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 5/1/20 9:49 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-05-01 10:07 -0500,Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 5/1/20 7:35 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: After upgrading to gnome-shell-3.32, it sometimes crashes. I searched gnome- shell repo with the stack backtrace info and found it&#

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