Re: [blfs-dev] ca-certs: symlink to ca-bundle.crt ?

2018-11-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-11-02 02:11 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > At last, I've found out *what* was telling me that update-leap (from > ntp) was telling me to install Mozilla::CA because it could not find > the system's certificates. And no, it was not LWP-Protocol-https - > the deps listed in

Re: [blfs-dev] Trimming BLFS

2018-09-24 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-09-24 14:36 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > If I do not hear of any objections, I intend to start removing these > packages around October 1st. > > I'm also open to nominations for removal of other packages. > >-- Bruce > > btrfs-progs-4.17.1 > jfsutils-1.1.15 >

[blfs-dev] [systemd] Locale settings in /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh and /etc/locale.conf

2018-09-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
In LFS systemd book section 7.7 we create /etc/locale.conf as locale configuation file. But, in BLFS systemd book Chapter 3 section "The Bash Startup Files" we create /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh which sets up the locale for bash. Their settings may be inconsistent and confuse the users (I was

Re: [blfs-dev] [systemd] Locale settings in /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh and /etc/locale.conf

2018-09-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-09-26 16:52 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 09/26/2018 09:19 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > In LFS systemd book section 7.7 we create /etc/locale.conf as > > locale > > configuation file. But, in BLFS systemd book Chapter 3 section > > &quo

Re: [blfs-dev] Trimming BLFS

2018-09-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-09-25 15:44 +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On 9/24/18 9:36 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > Over the years, BLFS has grown a lot. There are over 1000 individual > > tarballs > > listed in the book. This creates a large maintenance burden. It is a rare > > week when

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-dev] systemd-239 testsuite assumes "/bin/touch"

2018-11-18 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-11-18 01:41 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > I'm not sure I agree agree. If I greo the systemd sources for > /bin/touch, the only places I see it is in man/systemd-run.xml and > test/test-execute/exec-basic.service. The later has a line: > > ExecStart=touch /tmp/a ; /bin/touch

[blfs-dev] Evince-3.30.2 and DESTDIR install

2019-01-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
If evince-3.30.2 is installed using DESTDIR method, /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled was not updated/created. We have to create/update it with glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas Should we add this into the page as a "Note"? -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace

Re: [blfs-dev] Kernel issues

2018-12-18 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-12-17 16:21 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > [0.316853] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for > regulatory.db failed with error -2 > > There are some things I found about something called regdb, but that > doesn't explain to me why the firmware isn't loading. > >

[blfs-dev] libjpeg-turbo: libjpeg.so.8 or libjpeg.so.62?

2018-12-20 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Hi all (esp. Bruce), I'm upgrading packages of one of my BLFS systems. When I was building libjpeg-turbo-2.0.1 I found the SONAME of libjpeg.so changed from libjpeg.so.8 to libjpeg.so.62. I didn't feel right about that and investigated a little. It turned out that in r20329 we changed the book

Re: [blfs-dev] libjpeg-turbo: libjpeg.so.8 or libjpeg.so.62?

2018-12-20 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-12-20 10:45 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/20/2018 06:44 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi all (esp. Bruce), > > > > I'm upgrading packages of one of my BLFS systems. When I was building > > libjpeg-turbo-2.0.1 I found the SONAME

[blfs-dev] systemd-239 testsuite assumes "/bin/touch"

2018-11-17 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
systemd-239 test suite fails in BLFS: > exec-basic.service: Executing: /bin/touch /tmp/b > exec-basic.service: Failed to execute command: No such file or directory We can list `touch` as "a Coreutils programs expected by BLFS packages to be in /bin", and move it to /bin in Sect. 6.54 (along with

Re: [blfs-dev] systemd-239 testsuite assumes "/bin/touch"

2018-11-17 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-11-17 18:39 -0600, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > On November 17, 2018 4:56:06 PM CST, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev < > blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > systemd-239 test suite fails in BLFS: > > > > > exec-basic.service: Executing: /bin/touc

Re: [blfs-dev] systemd-239 testsuite assumes "/bin/touch"

2018-11-17 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-11-17 18:39 -0600, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > On November 17, 2018 4:56:06 PM CST, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev < > blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > (along with `head`, `sleep`, and `nice`) > https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-gen

Re: [blfs-dev] Kernel issues

2018-12-19 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-12-18 15:11 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev: > I have figured out my original problem with loading the firmware for > my > wireless and bluetooth. It seems that the drivers for those were > not > enabled. Evidently I used the wrong base system when building the > kernel. > > I still

Re: [blfs-dev] Kernel issues

2018-12-19 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2018-12-19 10:37 -0600,Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > Also how do you set the regdom? Do you use iw? > > Adding the db is not enough. I don't know hos to set the regdom other > than with: > > # iw reg set US > > but I haven't built iw yet. iw works. And wpa_supplicant will set the

[blfs-dev] Update lfs-uefi hint

2019-03-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Hi Bruce, I just updated lfs-uefi hint to use latest packages. But I don't have permission to commit into hints repository. The new hint is attached. -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University USING GRUB ON UEFI AUTHOR: Dan McGhee, Kevin M. Buckley, and Xi

Re: [blfs-dev] RFC: remove `&&' in our instructions

2019-03-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-03-27 13:50 +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi, > > When making scripts from the book (either by copy/paste > or some use of xsltproc), the generated scripts have `&&' at > the end of each line. It allows to not execute the following > instructions if one instructions fail,

[blfs-dev] vsftpd: hard-coded absolute path to PAM module?

2019-03-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Hi all, In r17441 DJ added PAM support to vsftpd. But when I was installing it I found a hard-coded absolute path to PAM module: auth required /lib/security/pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny \ file=/etc/ftpusers \

Re: [blfs-dev] meson

2019-03-28 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-03-28 10:25 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > I stand by my opinion that this version of Meson should've been > Meson-1.0.0... I think they should actually rename 0.49.0 to 49.0.0, 0.50.0 to 50.0.0, etc. It seems I could build gnome just because of my blind luck (using a

Re: [blfs-dev] ghostscript-9.27

2019-04-08 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-04-08 05:50 -0600, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote: > This link doesn't work: > > https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs926/ghostscript-9.27.tar.gz Sorry for the stupid typo. It should be gs927/ghostscript-9.27.tar.gz. Fixed in r21438. -- Xi Ruoyao

Re: [blfs-dev] ghostscript-9.27

2019-04-08 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-04-08 22:15 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 19:53 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-04-08 05:50 -0600, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote: > > > This link doesn't work: > > > > > > https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/

Re: [blfs-dev] Two suggestions for BLFS

2019-02-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-02-27 11:34 +0800, hykwok1--- via blfs-dev wrote: > 1. AccountsService > > It is better to create a file such as "40-adm.rules" in "/etc/polkit- > 1/rules.d" with the following contents: > > polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) { > return ["unix-group:adm"]; > }); > > Then

Re: [blfs-dev] xterm log out

2019-02-21 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-02-20 17:33 -0600, Brendan L via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:43 PM Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev > wrote: > > > > > > I have to generate a new security patch for systemd-240 tonight. Do you > > have any clue what the relevant commit is that fixed this problem? If > > so,

Re: [blfs-dev] Can't compile glib-2.60.0

2019-03-14 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-03-14 14:55 -0500, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: > When I try to compile glib-2.60.0 I get: > > [1123/1152] Generating glib-gettextize-man with a custom command. > FAILED: docs/reference/glib/glib-gettextize.1 > /bin/xsltproc --nonet --stringparam man.output.quietly 1 --stringparam >

[blfs-dev] Add --enable-ipv6 for lynx?

2019-03-09 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
I use lynx in early stage of BLFS to view the book, and download some packages. The default build of lynx is IPv4-only. But in our university (for e.g.) the IPv6 traffic is significantly faster than IPv4. So I propose to add --enable-ipv6 in lynx configuration line, enabling IPv6 add adding no

[blfs-dev] Graphite2-1.3.13 test suite need FontTools for Python 3

2019-01-23 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Now Graphite2-1.3.13 test suite searches Python >= 3.6 and use it to run test suite. But the BLFS page still specifies "FontTools (Python 2 Module)". -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] Tuning: part 1 - making packages obey my CFLAGS

2019-05-31 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-31 07:12 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > The threatened details of the first part of my investigation into > the general subject of tuning (for packages which I normally build > on my desktop systems) are now uploaded to > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tuning/ - this is

[blfs-dev] Proposal: remove --with-system-nspr from mozjs configuration

2019-05-31 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Hi folks, Now we have --with-system-nspr in mozjs configure command. This introduced a hard dependency to NSPR. However, the upstream has switched the default on GNU/Linux to --enable-posix-nspr-emulation long long ago. We can just remove --with-system-nspr and use the default. This would

Re: [blfs-dev] harfbuzz-2.5.0 download url

2019-05-31 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-31 18:40 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi, > > The url does not work. The extension to the file should be xz rather > than bz2. Sorry for the mistake. Fixed at r21642. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r21631 - trunk/BOOK/gnome/platform

2019-05-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-29 21:49 +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On 29/05/2019 17:27, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 5/28/19 10:43 PM, xry111--- via blfs-book wrote: > > > > > Modified: trunk/BOOK/gnome/platform/libsecret.xml > > >

Re: [blfs-dev] Proposal: remove --with-system-nspr from mozjs configuration

2019-06-10 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-31 09:30 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 5/31/19 4:11 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Now we have --with-system-nspr in mozjs configure command. This > > introduced a hard dependency to NSPR. However, the upstream h

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r21576 - trunk/BOOK/networking/netlibs

2019-05-11 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-11 08:27 -0500, William Harrington wrote: > > On May 11, 2019, at 02:33, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev < > > blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > > > On 2019-05-11 08:04 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1

[blfs-dev] Update mozjs-60 version (?)

2019-05-11 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Hi folks, Now BLFS is using mozjs-60 package from ftp.gnome.org. But it's the "original" mozjs-60.1.0 without any update. Arch is now using latest mozjs-60.6.3, even Ubuntu is using a newer mozjs-60.2.3. I downloaded Firefox ESR 60.6.3 code and removed everything unrelated to JS engine I could

Re: [blfs-dev] [systemd] Add a warning about /run/nologin in shadow

2019-05-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-11 16:07 +,DJ Lucas via blfs-dev: > I had worked around this in LFS a long time ago. I created > /lib/systemd/systemd-user-sessions with nothing more than 'rm -f > /run/nologin' as it will be replaced when systemd is reinstalled in > BLFS. Is this no longer working? If not, the

Re: [blfs-dev] Update mozjs-60 version (?)

2019-05-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-11 08:58 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 5/11/19 1:29 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Now BLFS is using mozjs-60 package from ftp.gnome.org. But it's the > > "original" > > mozjs-60.1.0 without any upd

Re: [blfs-dev] [systemd] Add a warning about /run/nologin in shadow

2019-05-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-12 13:10 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2019-05-11 16:07 +,DJ Lucas via blfs-dev: > > Note that the root user can always login, regardless of /run/nologin. > > I think I've tried to use root but it didn't work... Let me retry. You're right. When I

Re: [blfs-dev] Update mozjs-60 version (?)

2019-05-11 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-11 09:33 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 5/11/19 1:29 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Now BLFS is using mozjs-60 package from ftp.gnome.org. But it's the > > "original" > > mozjs-60.1.0 without any upd

Re: [blfs-dev] [systemd] Add a warning about /run/nologin in shadow

2019-05-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-12 12:03 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 5/12/19 1:48 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-05-12 13:10 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 2019-05-11 16:07 +,DJ Lucas via blfs-dev: > > > > Note that the root use

[blfs-dev] Cheese-3.32.1 requires a patch to build with BLFS gstreamer-1.16.0

2019-05-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Hi folks, A recent change (r21510, adding -Dgst_debug=false) in BLFS book breaks Cheese: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/issues/27 The patch to fix this now can be downloaded at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/merge_requests/12.patch I've tested it but I don't have permission to

Re: [blfs-dev] Cheese-3.32.1 requires a patch to build with BLFS gstreamer-1.16.0

2019-05-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-05-04 08:56 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 5/4/19 2:33 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > The patch to fix this now can be downloaded at: > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/merge_requests/12.patch > > > > I've tested it but I don't have pe

Re: [blfs-dev] Critical Firefox and Thunderbird 0days

2019-06-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-06-26 12:22 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > [2]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-18/ [2] affects mozjs as well. Should we upgrade mozjs to 60.7.2 or provide a patch? -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University --

Re: [blfs-dev] Critical Firefox and Thunderbird 0days

2019-06-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-06-26 13:52 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 6/26/19 1:47 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-06-26 12:22 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > [2]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-18/ >

Re: [blfs-dev] Ken's tuning experiments, part 4

2019-07-10 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-07-10 19:22 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 01:08:30PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-07-09 23:11 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > Also, I had hoped to examine LTO (and I might take a stab at the > > &

Re: [blfs-dev] Critical Firefox and Thunderbird 0days

2019-06-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-06-27 03:28 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2019-06-26 13:52 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 6/26/19 1:47 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 2019-06-26 12:22 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > >

[blfs-dev] proposal: add gstreamer-1.16.0 buffer size reset patch

2019-08-18 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/commit/8a9b20a18b76bf9004f2f8004b4293e1ac7a48aa This patch fixes an issue causing test failure on 32-bit and potentially memory leaking on all platforms. On 32-bit it also breaks test suite of gst-plugins. I think we should fix this in 9.0.

Re: [blfs-dev] pango-1.44.5, version 2019-08-17, book adjustments (errata on my previous email, typo error)

2019-08-18 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-18 10:09 -0400, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: > Hello > > pango 1.44.5 was issued > (revert a broken change (causing crashes on OS X)) > > More important, meson configuration variables changed > > -Denable-docs is now -Dgtk_doc > -Dgir is now -Dinstrospection > > (this was

Re: [blfs-dev] ntfs-3g-2017.3.23

2019-08-11 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-11 09:33 +, spiky0011 via blfs-dev wrote: > Running configure on ntfs > > i get an ugly output at end of configure > > "config.status: executing libtool commands > /bin/rm: cannot remove 'libtoolT': No such file or directory" > > This dosn't seem to affect building, just looks

Re: [blfs-dev] What's left for the 9.0 release?

2019-08-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-30 09:20 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > All packages have now been tagged and all tickets closed for the 9.0 > release. What other things are remaining that we need to address before > the Sunday release? > >-- Bruce It seems #12448 and #12459 contain various security

Re: [blfs-dev] What's left for the 9.0 release?

2019-08-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-30 10:24 -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > On 2019-08-30 10:22, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-08-30 09:20 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > All packages have now been tagged and all tickets closed for the 9.0 > > > release. What other t

Re: [blfs-dev] What's left for the 9.0 release?

2019-08-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-30 23:44 +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote: > On 2019-08-30 10:24 -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > On 2019-08-30 10:22, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 2019-08-30 09:20 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > All packages have now been tagged and

Re: [blfs-dev] What's left for the 9.0 release?

2019-08-31 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-30 21:44 +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On 30/08/2019 17:44, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-08-30 10:24 -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > > On 2019-08-30 10:22, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > On 2019-08-30 09:20 -0500,

Re: [blfs-dev] Where are we with respect to keyboard settings in gdm (elogind book)

2019-08-29 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-29 09:19 -0600, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 8:55 AM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev < > blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > On 8/29/19 8:40 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > With the shortly coming release, I think it is

[blfs-dev] proposal: archive fuse2

2019-09-19 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Now gvfs-1.42 has been ported to use fuse3 and nothing depends on fuse2. Should we archive it? -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: [blfs-dev] PyGTK broken by pango-1.44.1

2019-08-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-05 03:14 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 06:17:56PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 8/4/19 6:13 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > > I'd like to start a discussion here on reverting Pango. > > > > > > > > > As noted in the comments section

Re: [blfs-dev] PyGTK broken by pango-1.44.1

2019-08-05 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-08-05 10:54 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2019-08-05 03:14 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > For bitmap fonts, mw preference is to cast them into the outer > > darkness, where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth! But > > for CJK and d

Re: [blfs-dev] rustc and DESTDIR

2019-09-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-09-30 12:37 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 9/30/19 12:25 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-09-30 19:22 +0200, Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > so far i have built a nice Xfce system avoiding python2,

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome tweaks 3.34

2019-09-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-09-30 10:52 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev write: > On 9/30/19 4:14 AM, hykwok1--- via blfs-dev wrote: > > GNOME TWEAKS 3.34.0 requires libhandy ( > > https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy) : > > > > GIR files and libraries from: > > > > GLib (>= 2.58) > > GTK+ 3 (>= 3.12) >

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome tweaks 3.34

2019-09-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-09-30 12:23 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 9/30/19 12:01 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-09-30 10:52 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev write: > > > On 9/30/19 4:14 AM, hykwok1--- via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > GNOME TWEAKS 3.34.0 req

Re: [blfs-dev] rustc and DESTDIR

2019-09-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-09-30 19:22 +0200, Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi all, > > so far i have built a nice Xfce system avoiding python2, gtk2 and > rustc at all and Xfce-4.14 builds/runs fine without gtk2. For librsvg > i use the old non-rust version 2.40.20 which still works pretty well - > ok, i

Re: [blfs-dev] rustc and DESTDIR

2019-09-30 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-09-30 12:57 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 9/30/19 12:40 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2019-09-30 12:37 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 9/30/19 12:25 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > On 2019-09-30 19:22 +0200, T

Re: [blfs-dev] Ken's tuning experiments, part 4

2019-07-09 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-07-09 23:11 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > I've now completed a real "tuning" run of my experiment (i.e. > specifying -falign-functions=32 -malign-data=cacheline because these > have been said to be beneficial for haswell processors, which is > what I have been using. > > Summary

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

2019-12-16 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-12-16 09:11 -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/16/19 3:19 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had 3 working BLFS builds of Gnome desktop over Sysv, but > > somewhere between > > one week ago and now, gdm got broken and does not start anymore > >

Re: [blfs-dev] Continued GNOME issues - can you guys reproduce?

2019-10-21 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-10-20 13:32 -0500,Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm having some really annoying issues with GNOME-3.34.1 on my > development machine. One of them is with the tweaks app. I've added > libhandy to my system (I'll add it to the book soon), but I get the > following

Re: [blfs-dev] Why is LLVM recommended for gst-plugins-bad?

2019-09-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-09-25 14:33 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 9/25/19 2:24 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > I tried to grep "llvm" and "LLVM" in gst-plugins-bad-1.16.1 source code > > tree. > > All references seem related to Mac OS, nothing

[blfs-dev] Why is LLVM recommended for gst-plugins-bad?

2019-09-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
I tried to grep "llvm" and "LLVM" in gst-plugins-bad-1.16.1 source code tree. All references seem related to Mac OS, nothing Linux. -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

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

2019-12-21 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-12-16 00:53 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > Indeed. The "patch" I found was 9800 lines. I haven't counted how > many lines are in my first attempt to update it. I have a severe > dislike of python, as is probably already apparent (the whitespace > issue) and I mostly find the

Re: [blfs-dev] llvm-9.0.1 seems to break rustc-1.37.0

2019-12-25 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2019-12-25 00:33 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 04:59:53PM -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 12/24/19 3:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:09:17PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > Arch have a patch

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

2020-03-03 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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 them, or explain why we need these strange

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

2020-02-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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 has built-in polkit agent. > > It's not

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-dev] Rendering XML sources: some entities not expanded

2020-02-23 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-02-24 10:22 +0800,Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: Wrong list. > Can anything think of a reason why, when I render the Book sources > locally, some entities don't render ? > > I've recently noticed this with the ssh-askpass section in the BLFS book > but have seen similar with the LFS

[blfs-dev] proposal: archive gnome-themes-extra

2020-02-14 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
The themes in gnome-themes-extra have been integrated into GTK+-3 long long ago. And, the only packages "depends on" it are gnome-shell and GTK+-3. I've tested them w/o gnome-themes-extra. I think we can remove it from the book. Or, remove those two false dependencies and let GTK+-2 optionally

Re: [blfs-dev] proposal: archive gnome-themes-extra

2020-02-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-02-15 01:32 -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2/14/20 10:03 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > The themes in gnome-themes-extra have been integrated into GTK+-3 long long > > ago. > > And, the only packages "depends on" it are gnome-she

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

2020-02-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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. And, notification-daemon is not used by GNOME. Maybe we should also move it somewhere. -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian

[blfs-dev] many docdir have no version number

2020-01-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Hi, I just tried a `ls /usr/share/doc | grep -v "\-[0-9]"`. It turns out many directory names w/o a version number. Most of these names are from Xorg libraries and applications, for example libX11. The remaining ones are (on my system): brotli gnome-session libnotify librsvg systemd We should

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

2020-01-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-01-01 00:14 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 03:20:33AM +0800, 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 comm

Re: [blfs-dev] Heads-up: new intel video driver, needs testing

2020-01-02 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-01-02 00:26 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > Apologies for breaking the thread, I thought I had _copied_ > Pierre's mail to my notes, and then I edited my note on microcode > to include the TLAs for Broadwell etc so that I could understand the > intel release notes next time, and

Re: [blfs-dev] Heads-up: new intel video driver, needs testing

2020-01-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-01-02 20:36 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 12:58:22AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 2020-01-02 00:26 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > I have a new Core i7-1065G7 laptop. The legacy libva-intel-driver just

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

2019-12-31 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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 build; cd build" and type the meson command in the

Re: [blfs-dev] Heads-up: new intel video driver, needs testing

2020-01-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-01-04 21:14 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-01-02 20:36 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 12:58:22AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 2020-01-02 00:26 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > &

[blfs-dev] evince: can not find kpathsea library

2020-01-06 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
To use kpathsea we've added: CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/texlive/2019/include" \ CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I/opt/texlive/2019/include" \ But they are not enough: configure:18489: checking for kpse_init_prog in -lkpathsea configure:18514: gcc -o conftest -O3 -march=native -mtune=icelake-client -pipe

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

2020-03-08 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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-common-patches/. I hope the upstream can fix these

Re: [blfs-dev] Gstreamer crashing X

2020-03-14 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-03-14 00:25 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi folks, > > Have any of you experienced X crashing with a SIGABRT anytime a program using > gstreamer attempts to run? I've been stuck on this all day while rebuilding my > workstation. I didn't. > I originally noticed this

[blfs-dev] build dvisvgm within texlive (again)?

2020-04-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
Now we can simple change --disable-dvisvgm to --enable-dvisvgm, to build dvisvgm shipped in texlive source code. So we can remove dvisvgm page completely. And, potrace is only used by dvisvgm, in texlive. If we keep --disable-dvisvgm in texlive then system potrace is not needed. -- Xi Ruoyao

Re: [blfs-dev] build dvisvgm within texlive (again)?

2020-04-13 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-04-14 04:54 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:30:43AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > Now we can simple change --disable-dvisvgm to --enable-dvisvgm, to build > > dvisvgm > > shipped in texlive source code. So we can remove dv

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-dev] gnome-shell failure building man page

2020-04-12 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
(move to blfs-dev since we're discussing BLFS packages) On 2020-04-13 10:45 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-04-13 12:01 +1000, Christoph Willing via lfs-dev wrote: > > gnome-shell-3.36.1 from svn Version 2020-04-11 fails with: > > > > [19/187] Generating gnome-extensions.1 with a

Re: [blfs-dev] [was:Archive Seamonkey] libreoffice

2020-03-16 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-03-16 02:50 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 02:19:03AM +0100, Uwe Düffert via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 15 Mar 2020, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > [...] after I've worked out why I cannot get > > > libreoffice to build ;-) > >

Re: [blfs-dev] proposal: add -DLLVM_BINUTILS_INCDIR=/usr/include for LLVM

2020-04-04 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-04-04 07:40 +0200, Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev wrote: > Am Freitag, den 27.03.2020, 22:13 +0800 schrieb Xi Ruoyao via blfs- > dev: > > It would make LLVM building system to build LLVMgold.so with Binutils > > headers > > installed in LFS, which is a linker plugin so

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

2020-03-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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 referencing a

[blfs-dev] proposal: add -DLLVM_BINUTILS_INCDIR=/usr/include for LLVM

2020-03-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
It would make LLVM building system to build LLVMgold.so with Binutils headers installed in LFS, which is a linker plugin so we can use "clang -flto hw.c". -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

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

2020-03-27 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-03-27 11:46 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 07:03:29AM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > Le 27/03/2020 à 00:22, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev a écrit : > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:57:03PM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev > > > wrote: > > > >

Re: [blfs-dev] Network-manager-applet and libnma split as well as package placement

2020-04-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-04-01 18:48 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > Good evening, > > While looking at #13243 and updating gnome-control-center, I noticed > that network-manager-applet has split it's library into "libnma", which > is what programs such as gnome-control-center itself will link to.

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

2020-03-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-03-26 09:41 +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > So my suspicion is that when we mount --bind /dev, we lose some permissions, > and those permissions are needed for FF. I'll have to try again without > /run/shm The problem is /dev/shm is a seperated tmpfs, instead of a normal

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

2020-03-26 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
t; > > > 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] new intel graphic driver

2020-04-24 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
In mesa-20.x the default dri driver for Intel Gen8+ (Broadwell and later) iGPUs has been changed to "iris" gallium driver, instead of the old "i965" driver. I've added "iris" to GALLIUM_DRV in mesa instruction. If you encounter any problem with it you can add "MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965"

[blfs-dev] gnome-shell bug

2020-05-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1230 and it seems

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome-shell bug

2020-05-01 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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's > > > &g

Re: [blfs-dev] new intel graphic driver

2020-04-24 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-04-24 14:00 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > On 4/24/20 9:52 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > > In mesa-20.x the default dri driver for Intel Gen8+ (Broadwell and later) > > iGPUs > > has been changed to "iris" gallium driver, instead of the o

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

2020-03-22 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
On 2020-03-22 21:34 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > # mount --bind /run /mnt/lfs/run I think it's dangerous: potentially harmful to the host. Some service running in the LFS chroot may overwrite the runtime directory of the service running on the host. -- Xi Ruoyao School of

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

2020-03-22 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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

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

2020-08-31 Thread Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
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 via blfs-dev wrote: > > > The download link works, but the download is > > >

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