Re: [blfs-dev] Error building firefox 63.0

2018-10-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 10/25/18 12:53 AM, dueff...@uwe-dueffert.de wrote: Hi, On Thu, 25 Oct 2018, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Just tried to build firefox 63.0 and got the following error: so far I fail to build FF63 too (while 62.0.3 was fine)... This is with gcc 7.3.0 and the system_graphite2_harfbuzz-1

[blfs-dev] Error building firefox 63.0

2018-10-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Just tried to build firefox 63.0 and got the folllowing error: -12:10.16 /lgl-bld/firefox-63.0/js/src/vm/JSContext-inl.h:180:73: error: no ‘void JSContext::checkImpl_63(int, const Head&, const Tail& ...)’ member function declared in class ‘JSContext’ 12:10.16

[blfs-dev] thunderbird-60.3.9

2018-11-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Just in case anybody wondered: unlike firefox, thunderbird seems to work fine with icu 63.1, just compiled and tested it. Bye Tim -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] From xfce4-xkb-plugin to rustc, layering?

2018-11-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 11/1/18 7:47 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: Hello, I found lxqt-0.13 working very well within LFS-8.3, and I think team should reconsider its decision about it. Within a private email exchange with Bruce trying to make the point, he told me "LXQ dependencies are cumbersome, I

[blfs-dev] gvfs seems to need --libdir=/usr/lib

2019-01-16 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I ran into strange problems when updating gvfs to 1.38.1. It turned out that the problem was that the lib stuff got installed into /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib. gfvs was then not working Now, this might well be the because I'm still on glib 2.58.0, but in any case, adding

Re: [blfs-dev] gvfs seems to need --libdir=/usr/lib

2019-01-16 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 1/16/19 6:13 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 1/16/19 11:09 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I ran into strange problems when  updating gvfs to 1.38.1. It turned out that the problem was that the lib stuff got installed into /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib.  gfvs

[blfs-dev] openldap 2.4.47

2018-12-20 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Just started to build openldap 2.4.47 and it seems that there are quite some "interesting" changes: - There is no slapd in /usr/sbin/ anymore, it is instead in /usr/lib - All slap.. stuff in /usr/sbin now link to ../lib/slapd Therefore, the init scriptm which expects /usr/sbin/slapd

Re: [blfs-dev] openldap 2.4.47

2018-12-20 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all On 12/20/18 11:54 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all Just started to build openldap 2.4.47 and it seems that there are quite some "interesting" changes: - There is no slapd in /usr/sbin/ anymore, it is instead in /usr/lib - All slap.. stuff in /usr/sbin now link

[blfs-dev] ffmpeg 4.0.2 does not compile with fdk-aac 2.0.0

2018-12-11 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all Just got the time to do some catch-up and then noticed that ffmpeg 4.0.2 does not compile with fdk-aac 2.0.0. The problem is described at: https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac/issues/93 and ffmpeg git has some patches. I created a patch using the current git versions of

Re: [blfs-dev] Possible issue with firefox-66 and alsa

2019-03-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 3/21/19 12:19 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi Ken On 3/21/19 12:36 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 04:14:50PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 09:37:44PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On that machine, build 3 built

Re: [blfs-dev] Possible issue with firefox-66 and alsa

2019-03-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi Ken On 3/21/19 12:36 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 04:14:50PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 09:37:44PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On that machine, build 3 built ok and generally worked - except that attempting to

[blfs-dev] Creating an empty bridge with /lib/services/bridge

2019-03-12 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all On my lan/wlan routers, I currently use a bridge interface br0 for use of the wlan access point that also includes the physical ethernet interfaces. This all runs nice and well. In order to implement an unprivileged guest network, I want to add another bridge, called br1, to which

Re: [blfs-dev] Possible issue with firefox-66 and alsa

2019-03-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 3/21/19 12:50 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/21/19 12:19 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi Ken On 3/21/19 12:36 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 04:14:50PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 09:37:44PM +, Ken Moffat

Re: [blfs-dev] Possible issue with firefox-66 and alsa

2019-03-21 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 3/21/19 7:23 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:35:36AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 3/21/19 6:19 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: I just noticed on my development system, where nothing has been used for about nine hours, that pulseaudio

Re: [blfs-dev] Is initd-tools supposed to be in the systemd book?

2019-05-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 5/1/19 2:08 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, initd-tools is for managing bootscripts in /etc/rc?.d. Shouldn't it be removed from the systemd book? Pierre Yes, I'm quite sure they are not needed there. I couldn't live without them anymore, but then, I'm not using systemd. For

Re: [blfs-dev] Is initd-tools supposed to be in the systemd book?

2019-05-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 5/1/19 5:41 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On 01/05/2019 16:24, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 5/1/19 7:08 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, initd-tools is for managing bootscripts in /etc/rc?.d. Shouldn't it be removed from the systemd book? Pierre Hi

Re: [blfs-dev] Is initd-tools supposed to be in the systemd book?

2019-05-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 5/1/19 10:52 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On 01/05/2019 20:38, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 5/1/19 5:41 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: On 01/05/2019 16:24, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 5/1/19 7:08 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Hi, initd

Re: [blfs-dev] Is initd-tools supposed to be in the systemd book?

2019-05-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 5/3/19 9:09 AM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: On May 1, 2019 5:30:13 PM CDT, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 5/1/19 10:52 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: Well, I didn't know that systemd could use sysv bootscripts... So my question is irrelevant. OTOH, this package needs

[blfs-dev] forget about: "pacrunner in glib-networking-2.60.2"

2019-05-05 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I should sometimes investigate a bit more before wasting other people's time. pacrunner indeed is built due to libproxy, which I didn't have before, so all is clear and correct now. Sorry for the noise Tim -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] pacrunner in glib-networking-2.60.2

2019-05-05 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I wanted to upgrade glib-networking from 2.56.0 to 2.60.2 and noticed that, apart from the gio modules, there now is also a binary called /usr/libexec/glib-pacrunner along with a /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gtk.GLib.PACRunner.service Both of these files are not described in blfs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] curl-7.65.1-fix-dns-segfaults-1.patch regarding issue #12208

2019-06-28 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 6/28/19 7:01 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: On 6/28/19 11:26 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 05:54:07PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I have created a patch according to issue #12208 and also added and commited it to: svn+ssh

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.14

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

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] firefox-69.0 ftbfs

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

Re: [blfs-dev] firefox-69.0 ftbfs

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

Re: [blfs-dev] firefox-69.0 ftbfs

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

[blfs-dev] thunderbird-68.0

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

Re: [blfs-dev] thunderbird-68.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[blfs-dev] incorrect mupdf 1.16.1 patch?

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] rustc and DESTDIR

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

[blfs-dev] curl-7.65.1-fix-dns-segfaults-1.patch regarding issue #12208

2019-06-28 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I have created a patch according to issue #12208 and also added and commited it to: svn+ssh://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/trunk/curl/curl-7.65.1-fix-dns-segfaults-1.patch I'm not quite sure how to proceed now. It is not (yet) at

[blfs-dev] evince dependencies

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

[blfs-dev] Failure building evince-3.34.1

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

[blfs-dev] Some Samba-4.11.0 questions

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

[blfs-dev] pycairo and $DESTDIR

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

Re: [blfs-dev] pycairo and $DESTDIR

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

Re: [blfs-dev] evince dependencies

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

[blfs-dev] elogind and pam

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

[blfs-dev] Question about elogind

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

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and pam

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

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and pam

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

[blfs-dev] invalid command explanation for talloc?

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

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

Re: [blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

2020-04-09 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 4/9/20 7:07 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 01:23:24PM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all I noticed that I do get quite different build sizes for thunderbird than other maintainers, so I thought I will give a few infos about how I build thunderbird

[blfs-dev] About thunderbird build size

2020-04-09 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I noticed that I do get quite different build sizes for thunderbird than other maintainers, so I thought I will give a few infos about how I build thunderbird. Maybe this helps to find out what's going on here. du -hs /lgl-bld/thunderbird-68.7.0/ reports 4.2G

[blfs-dev] Question about updating BLFS Boot Scripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[blfs-dev] symbol versioning in openssl

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

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

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

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

2020-09-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/4/20 5:03 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 9:27 AM Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev <mailto:blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org>> wrote: On 9/4/20 8:26 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 9/4/20 12:36 AM, Tim Tassonis via bl

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

2020-09-04 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 9/4/20 8:26 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/4/20 12:36 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/4/20 2:12 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 12:44:31AM +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 9/3/20 10:29 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote

[blfs-dev] VLAN support in BLFS network scripts

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

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

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

[blfs-dev] new libnsl 1.3.0 not in book

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

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

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

[blfs-dev] Disabling expensive nss tests

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

[blfs-dev] Building Firefox with clang 10

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

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

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

[blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

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

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

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

Re: [blfs-dev] Berkeley DB library locations

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

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

2020-12-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all When re-building pam version 1.5.1, I noticed that it links against bdb, because I had installed bdb since my last pam build. As I'm not really fond of including bdb in all installations using pam, I found out that by specifying --enable-db=no at configure time, pam will be build

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

2020-12-01 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/1/20 5:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/1/20 7:48 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all When re-building pam version 1.5.1, I noticed that it links against bdb, because I had installed bdb since my last pam build. As I'm not really fond of including bdb in all

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

2020-12-02 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/1/20 11:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/1/20 3:02 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/1/20 5:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/1/20 7:48 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all When re-building pam version 1.5.1, I noticed that it links against

[blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all As a new release of my favorite DE is out and it's christmas, I thought I give it a go. In short: An upgrade from 4.14 as in blfs svn works seamlessly, in the exact order as already in the book. Apart from many bug-fixes and enhancements. there are just minor changes to the build:

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/25/20 1:52 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 12/24/20 4:56 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all As a new release of my favorite DE is out and it's christmas, I thought I give it a go. In short: An upgrade from 4.14 as in blfs svn works seamlessly, in the exact order

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-24 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/25/20 4:04 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:56:59PM +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all As a new release of my favorite DE is out and it's christmas, I thought I give it a go. In short: An upgrade from 4.14 as in blfs svn works seamlessly

[blfs-dev] llvm in /opt

2020-11-10 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
Hi all I'm just about to build llvm 11 as in current blfs, and wondered if it would be better to install it in /opt/llvm11, instead of /usr. The reason I'm asking is that llvm seems to be updated quite often and I'm not sure about the compatibility of different versions with mesa, rustc and

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce 4.16.0 status report

2020-12-25 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 12/25/20 4:04 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:56:59PM +0100, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: Hi all As a new release of my favorite DE is out and it's christmas, I thought I give it a go. In short: An upgrade from 4.14 as in blfs svn works seamlessly

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

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

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

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

[blfs-dev] elogind and rootless X

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

[blfs-dev] Error building libxslt-1.1.34

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

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

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

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