Re: [blfs-dev] New maintainer for URI (Perl module)

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/2/21 5:36 AM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello. It appears that the URI perl module has a new maintainer.  Version 5.08 of the URI module was released a couple of days ago, but is not listed at the site referenced in BLFS

[blfs-dev] New maintainer for URI (Perl module)

Hello. It appears that the URI perl module has a new maintainer. Version 5.08 of the URI module was released a couple of days ago, but is not listed at the site referenced in BLFS. A search at metacpan.org shows that the download location is here:

[blfs-dev] A couple of Mesa switches need changing

Hello. In the Mesa package there are -Dvalgrind=false and -Dlibunwind=false Both of these switches give out a warning that "false" is deprecated in favour of "disabled". It's not a big deal at the moment, but these two switches might give an error in a future build. Cheers, Ryan --

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] (I know it's the wrong list) Be careful of binutils 2.36

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 14:55 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2021-01-25 19:33 -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote: > I found that during the install phase the just installed ld won't > run against > the prior libctf which had not

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

Hello all. When I noticed that p7zip hadn't had a new release in nearly 5 years I checked to see if perhaps this package was picked up by someone else. Sure enough, I came across a fork of p7zip here: https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip/ The page has this under the "About" section: "A new

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

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: I'm using the development version of the book, 2020-11-24 I get these error messages: [2299/4643] Building C object projects/compiler-rt/...les/clang_rt.tsan-x86_64.dir/rtl/tsan_rtl_amd64.S.o FAILED:

[blfs-dev] btrfs-progs needs new location for its pkgconfig file

Hello all. The latest btrfs-progs now installs a pkgconfig file (libbtrfsutil.pc). With current build instructions, this file is installed in /lib/pkgconfig. To install this file to its proper location, the configure section must add "--with-pkgconfigdir=/usr/lib/pkgconfig" to the instructions.

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 03:11:02PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-08-31 07:49 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 01:20:52AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > wrote: > > On 8/31/20 1:10 AM, Ken Moffat

[blfs-dev] iptables-1.8.5 doesn't install "iptables-apply"

Hello all. Iptables doesn't install the iptables-apply program. This results in a dangling symlink "/sbin/ip6tables-apply" Reference: http://git.netfilter.org/iptables/commit/?id=d4ed0c741fc789bb09d977d74d30875fdd50d08b The fix is to edit iptables/Makefile.am: sed '/=

Re: [blfs-dev] Can't install sudo-1.9.0 as a package user

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 11:35, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: On 2020-06-01 10:58 +0100, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: > I use MSB's package user package management system and up til now it > has worked fine but I've come unstuck

[blfs-dev] cpio breakage with GCC 10

Hi all. The cpio package has breakage with GCC 10. Here's a link to the issue (Gentoo): https://bugs.gentoo.org/705900 The fix is rather easy: sed -i '/The name/,+2 d' src/global.c Cheers, --Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] shared-mime-info's "update-mime-database" will need to be run after install

Hello. One of the changes with the latest shared-mime-info package is that its "update-mime-database" program is no longer called during the install phase. Without the MIME data in the database, gdk-pixbuf (at least -- there could be others) will fail to build. I suggest either having the (as

[blfs-dev] Latest json-c breaks Cryptsetup

Hello all. The latest json-c breaks the cryptsetup package with the following: [...] In file included from lib/luks2/luks2_disk_metadata.c:24: lib/luks2/luks2_internal.h:61:10: error: conflicting types for 'json_object_get_uint64' 61 | uint64_t json_object_get_uint64(json_object *jobj);

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

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: 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

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

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: 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

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

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=/usr/lib SDL2_CFLAGS=/usr/include/SDL2 ./configure ...

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

On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: 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/

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

Hello everyone. The "cryptsetup" BLFS package is listed as version 2.0.6. The latest version is 2.3.0 The instructions for the build of cryptsetup don't need to be changed, but I did notice that the default cryptograhic backend is now OpenSSL, so the configuration switch

Re: [blfs-dev] gcc 9.1 instructions in BLFS

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: In the current gcc-9.1 instructions after 'make install' we have: mkdir -pv /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib && mv -v /usr/lib/*gdb.py /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib && chown -v -R root:root \

[blfs-dev] LLVM's dependency on libyaml

Hello all. On the LLVM page there's listed an optional dependency on libyaml. According to my logs (from the configuration phase) I get the following: [..] -- Could NOT find Python module yaml [..] I'm wondering if the dependency should be on the PyYAML Python module rather than on just the

[blfs-dev] Alternate location for apng patch for libpng

Hello. There's another location for the apng patch: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/files/libpng/libpng16/ I find this location better because it updates the patch quicker than the libpng sourceforce site. It needs a "-p0" instead of the traditional "-p1" when applying. Cheers, --

[blfs-dev] Gawk 5.0.0 breaks libgpg-error (patch included)

Hello all. The new gawk 5.0.0 breaks libgpg-error: [...] gawk: fatal: cannot use gawk builtin `namespace' as variable name make[2]: *** [Makefile:1617: errnos-sym.h] Error 2 [...] The problem's been fixed upstream, but until a new libgpg-error comes out I've included a patch that fixes the

Re: [blfs-dev] yaml-0.2.2

On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/29/19 6:42 AM, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote: I am using the Sys V version: make[1]: Entering directory '/sources/yaml/libyaml-0.2.2' make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'build'.  Stop You are supposed to be IN directory build.

[blfs-dev] Ignoring --enable-threadsafe : Unknown option (JS-52.2.1gnome1)

Hello. I noticed that BLFS has "--enable-threadsafe" as a configuration switch for the "JS-52.2.1gnome1" package. A harmless warning: Ignoring --enable-threadsafe : Unknown option Regards, -- Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenSSH using DESTDIR (ssh-keygen needs to be run after install)

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/6/19 5:12 PM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello all. I noticed that when building OpenSSH using the DESTDIR install, the "ssh-keygen" program fails to generate the host keys due to non-root access to the /etc/ssh

Re: [blfs-dev] librsvg needs "gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders" command if using DESTDIR

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/6/19 1:02 PM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: Hello all. I discovered that if librsvg is installed via the "DESTDIR" method, its svg loadable module info is not updated in the "loaders.cache" file. I discovered

[blfs-dev] librsvg needs "gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders" command if using DESTDIR

Hello all. I discovered that if librsvg is installed via the "DESTDIR" method, its svg loadable module info is not updated in the "loaders.cache" file. I discovered this when attempting to build the adwaita-icon-theme package. When trying to build the svg icons, I got flooded with "Can't load

Re: [blfs-dev] Is six really required for libtasn1?

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, On the libtasn1 page, the dependency on "six" has been added at revision 20311 (August 15th, 2018, by bdubbs)). But I do not see any reference to six (except in the word posix) in the libtasn1 build tree, and I do not any reference

Re: [blfs-dev] upower-0.99.9 download link

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, The UPower download link does not work for me. Regards, Wayne. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page The new link

[blfs-dev] Location changes of certain BLFS packages

Hello everyone. There are some packages in BLFS whose download locations should be updated. Here's a list of what I've come across: 1) URI (perl module) This module seems to be maintained by another developer: https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS/ The latest version of URI is

[blfs-dev] Poppler 0.73.0 and XPDF Headers

Hello all. Poppler 0.73.0 changed the XPDF headers switch (from the NEWS file:) ... build system: * Rename ENABLE_XPDF_HEADERS to ENABLE_UNSTABLE_API_ABI_HEADERS ... Indeed, when running the BLFS instructions I get the following: "CMake Warning: Manually-specified variables were not

Re: [blfs-dev] libuv-1.24.1

On Sun, 23 Dec 2018, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: On 23/12/2018 14:44, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2018, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: I think this Package needs looking at. It requires cmake to build, but cmake requires it as a dep? The configure needs to be changed

Re: [blfs-dev] libuv-1.24.1

On Sun, 23 Dec 2018, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: I think this Package needs looking at. It requires cmake to build, but cmake requires it as a dep? The configure needs to be changed back to  sh autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make make install Technically,

Re: [blfs-dev] gnutls-3.6.5

On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 2:30 PM Roger Koehler wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 2:24 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 12/15/2018 03:06 PM, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote: > > configure can't file libnettle for some reason. > >

[blfs-dev] parted-3.2 build breaks with glibc-2.28

: undefined reference to `minor' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status [...] The fix is rather simple: sed -i '/assert.h/a#include ' libparted/arch/linux.c Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http

[blfs-dev] v4l-utils fails with glibc-2.28 -- fix attached

: *** [Makefile:509: all] Error 2 [...] I've attached a patch that fixes the issue (taken from Fedora distro). Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com --- v4l-utils-1.14.2/lib/libv4lconvert/control/libv4lcontrol.c.orig 2018-04-29 18:42:05.534170391 +0100 +++ v4l-utils-1.14.2/lib

[blfs-dev] iptables-1.8.0 -- a couple of mistakes

n -v -sf ../../sbin/xtables-legacy-multi /usr/bin/iptables-xml Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-dev] GTK+3 no longer recognizes "--enable-gtk2-dependency"

uot;Installation of GTK+3" is no longer relevant. Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-dev] Btrfs-progs has a new library, libbtrfsutil.so

../../lib/$(readlink /lib/libbtrfsutil.so) /usr/lib/libbtrfsutil.so rm -v /lib/libbtrfsutil.{a,so} Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

[blfs-dev] HarfBuzz requires Graphite2 when building LibreOffice

stem harfbuzz." I suggest that LibreOffice be added to that list. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] json-c is required for cryptsetup

let the mailing list aware of these new dependencies. Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] Certs not working in current svn ?

, but it was the c_rehash program from OpenSSL that was the culprit. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-dev] OpenSSL 1.1.0h's c_rehash program breaks make-ca-0.7

15 and 16: my $dir = /etc/ssl; my $prefix = /usr; c_rehash from OpenSSL 1.1.0g has quotes surrounding "/etc/ssl" and "/usr" The missing quotes is the reason for the build error. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch

[blfs-dev] Latest e2fsprogs breaks btrfs-progs

error: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10281327/ There's a patch at the bottom that fixes the issue. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: [blfs-dev] Samba 4.8.0 requires libtirpc

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 23/03/2018 20:22, Ryan Marsaw wrote: Hello BLFS editors. Samba 4.8.0 requires libtirpc.  Without it, the configuration stage fails with the following: [...] Checking for libtirpc headers    : not found Checking

[blfs-dev] Samba 4.8.0 requires libtirpc

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Re: [blfs-dev] Re：Re: gmodule bad settings in glib2

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 22/03/2018 13:07, Ryan Marsaw wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, hykw...@sina.com wrote: Did you install gdk-pixbuf using the Meson build system by any chance?  If so, did you issue the following afterwards (as root user)? gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders

Re: [blfs-dev] Re：Re: gmodule bad settings in glib2

l gdk-pixbuf using Meson, which is not the build system used for that package in BLFS. I don't know if that makes any difference. I'm assuming you've installed shared-mime-info because it is a required dependency of gdk-pixbuf. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.l

Re: [blfs-dev] gmodule bad settings in glib2

On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 21/03/2018 20:21, Ryan Marsaw wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, Using the instructions in the book from March 19 for building glib-2.56.0, I end up with an empty variable "gmodule_supported" in the .pc file

[blfs-dev] Samba 4.8.0 requires rpcsvc-proto

egards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] gmodule bad settings in glib2

ersonally wouldn't know how to fix yours. I'm sure the above "fix" for my particular error is probably not the best way to handle it, but at least it gets my Gtk2 installed. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratc

Re: [blfs-dev] cryptsetup can use OpenSSL as a crypto backend

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 17/03/2018 19:12, Ryan Marsaw wrote: Hello BLFS editors. On the cryptsetup page is listed a numer of crypto backends to use with it (libgcrypt-1.8.2, Nettle-3.4, or NSS-3.36).  OpenSSL can also be used.  From the configure script

[blfs-dev] cryptsetup can use OpenSSL as a crypto backend

that OpenSSL works as a backend, since I don't use any of the other ones. Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] Minor suggestion for librsvg-2.42.2

from using the autotools method. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-dev] x264 recommends NASM, not yasm

Hello all. The x264-20180212 package in BLFS shows yasm as a recommended dependency, but x264 now uses NASM as its assembler. Even with yasm installed there's a "Found no assembler" message while configuring. Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.c

Re: [blfs-dev] libvpx-1.7.0 builds with NASM

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Ryan Marsaw wrote: Hello all. libvpx-1.7.0 builds successfully with NASM. Normally I'd use NASM over yasm for all BLFS packages, but as far I know the only package that needed yasm specifically was libvpx < 1.7.0 because of the broken build with NASM. It would app

Re: [blfs-dev] PulseAudio and Glibc-2.27

On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ryan Marsaw wrote: Hello. While building PulseAudio with the latest Glibc-2.27 I get the following error: [...] In file included from pulsecore/shm.c:48:0: ./pulsecore/memfd-wrappers.h:36:19: error: static declaration of 'memfd_create' follows non

[blfs-dev] PulseAudio and Glibc-2.27

://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/147648/ Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Marsaw rmar...@personainternet.com--- pulseaudio-11.1-orig/configure.ac 2017-09-05 06:46:23.0 -0400 +++ pulseaudio-11.1/configure.ac2018-02-04 14:46:52.647465714 -0500 @@ -603,6 +603,10 @@ AC_CHECK_DECL

[blfs-dev] Vala-0.38.5 needs updated sed substitution in configure.ca

Hello. Vala-0.38.5 needs an updated sed statement to reflect the changes in configure.ac: The updated substitution: sed -i '102d; 108,124d; 126,127d' configure.ac Regards, Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

[blfs-dev] Recommendation: replace docbook-xsl with docbook-xsl-nons (No Namespace support)

Hello. I'd like to recommend that BLFS use the no-namespace version of docbook-xsl (known as docbook-xsl-nons). Here's my reasoning: Samba uses xsltproc (from the libxslt package) to generate its man pages from XML documents. Even though the man pages get processed without any errors, I do

Re: [blfs-dev] Firefox 58 sound issues

On 01/19/18 11:16 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:34:04AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:28:46PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 01:07:07AM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote: > > > > > > Hi All > > > > > >

[blfs-dev] Samba 4.7.4 fails to build when compiled without Active Directory support

Hello BLFS editors: Building the latest stable Samba without Active Directory support (ADS) i.e. compiling with the switch "--without-ads" results in the following build error: . . [3385/3612] Linking default/source3/libads-samba4.so default/source3/libads/kerberos_keytab_63.o: In function

[blfs-dev] JSON-C-0.13 and parallel build

Hello. It appears that JSON-C-0.13 now builds properly with parallel processing. I no longer get the errors I did with the previous version when running with anything other than -j1. Regards, Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] winbindd boot script -- incorrect location of winbindd.pid

Hello. I noticed that in the boot script for the winbindd daemon there's a line that reads PIDFILE=/var/run/winbindd.pid The actual location of that file is /run/samba/winbindd.pid Regards, Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] Samba-4.7.3 build fails if docbook-xsl-1.79.1 is installed

On 12/28/17 10:47 AM, "Armin K." <krejzi@email.com> wrote: > > On 28.12.2017. 15:40, Ryan Marsaw wrote: > > > The error is with the docbook-xsl-1.79.1 package, which is described in > > better detail here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_b

[blfs-dev] Samba-4.7.3 build fails if docbook-xsl-1.79.1 is installed

Hello BLFS editors. When building Samba 4.7.3 (with the docbook-xsl-1.79.1 package installed beforehand) I get the following error: . . . [3495/3610] Generating manpages/smb.conf.5 runtime error: file file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1/lib/lib.xsl line 58 element choose

[blfs-dev] Firefox-57.0.1 build fails if /run/shm has incorrect permissions when building Python 2

Hello BLFS editors: First, a disclaimer: After I build my LFS system, I chroot into the new build right away to install my BLFS packages. I do not reboot beforehand. This is important when reading the rest of this message. Here's the issue: When attempting to build Firefox-57.0.1 I get the

[blfs-dev] Qpdf 7.0.0 no longer depends on PCRE

Hello BLFS editors. Qpdf 7.0.0 removed the dependency on PCRE. It's noted in the ChangeLog, and I can confirm that Qpdf builds successfully without PCRE since I no longer build the latter. Regards, Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] Cmake-3.10.0 and libuv-1.17.0

Hello BLFS editors. The release of CMake 3.10 made building with libuv more difficult than with previous versions, but not impossible. To build CMake 3.10 without system libuv, one needs only append the following to the last configuration option on the bootstrap line: --

Re: [blfs-dev] vte-0.48.3

I believe this has something to do with the generation of the signal marshallers. I got the same vte error after building the 2.53 branch of GLib. See this for more info: https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?id=fa3bc86008cfe517dbb05deb4dff0059f3749c95 Ryan On 08/27/17 06:08 AM, Christoph

[blfs-dev] libepoxy-1.4.1 is available

Hi. I noticed that there's a new version of libepoxy on the GitHub page. Version 1.4.1 has been available since March 2nd. Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-dev] Cups-2.2.3 does not need sed for cupsd.conf.in

Hello everyone. The release of Cups-2.2.3 fixed the issue with users not having installed MIT Kerberos beforehand. The sed that deletes the Kerberos-specific entries in conf/cupsd.conf.in is no longer required. Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] libdrm-2.4.75 not longer references pthread-stubs

Hello. Starting from libdrm-2.4.75 there are no more references to pthread-stubs. Therefore the sed that disables the dependency on the libpthread-stubs package is no longer required. Ryan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] libusb-1.0.21 and parallel build

Hi. Starting from libusb-1.0.21 (well, since the 1.0.21 release candidates really) a parallel build is now possible. I have an Intel Dual-Core E5300 processor and have not experienced any build errors with this version, which was not the case with libusb-1.0.20. Ryan --