Re: Issues with Xorg and GCC4

2005-07-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: Compiling Xorg with GCC4 apparently results in a messed-up video driver for certain hardware (like mine, for example). It seems libvgahw.a has a problem that causes all the other consoles on my system to go blank when X starts. I see that there is a fix for it - I keep

Re: Circular Dependencies

2005-07-30 Thread NP
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: c) Has anyone a handy process for scanning the book for items with no dependencies? No, but here is my method to build a package without missing the required and desired optional dependancies : 1. Open a browser and clear the history. All links

Re: Circular Dependencies

2005-07-30 Thread DJ Lucas
NP wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: c) Has anyone a handy process for scanning the book for items with no dependencies? No, but here is my method to build a package without missing the required and desired optional dependancies : 1. Open a browser and clear the history.

Re: questions about locale

2005-07-30 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:57 +0200, Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: 1) Who installs this, and missed it in my system? X? I could not find any clues scanning the topmost levels of the LFS+BLFS books for the term locale. Individual packages install their own locale files - if you look further

Compiling Ruby - make segfaults

2005-07-30 Thread Lennon Cook
When compiling ruby as per the book, I get the following error: ./lib/mkmf.rb:291: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux] make: *** [all] Aborted Is this a known problem? Is there any workaround/solution? -- Lennon Victor Cook --

Re: questions about locale

2005-07-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: I have been lucky enough to have everything to do with local characters just work for many a year... But now I find myself having to look into this locale-thing. My emacs will display special Norwegian characters in X for older files. But it simply ignores keypresses on

Re: questions about locale

2005-07-30 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Ken Moffat wrote: My guess is that you've used a different combination of options, or standard options in an unexpected context (x86_64) and X isn't smart enough to realise where it put things. To make things even worse, at some stage I decided to add a /local/ to all things I

Re: Issues with Xorg and GCC4

2005-07-30 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Chris Staub wrote: Compiling Xorg with GCC4 apparently results in a messed-up video driver for certain hardware (like mine, for example). It seems libvgahw.a has a problem that causes all the other consoles on my system to go blank when X starts. I see that there