Re: [blfs-support] File /missing.xml

2013-12-22 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/22/13 20:14, Dan McGhee wrote: This is an instance of when the Package Users system really helps. During my creation of a system backup, I found this file. It apparently got put there by the libxml2 installation. And in the file that lists all the files, and their locations, of an

Re: [blfs-support] JSON-C fails to build

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/21/13 10:54, Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/21/2013 01:40 AM, Chris Staub wrote: This happened again for me with cdparanoia, which also, as the book says, does not support a parallel build. I'm not sure how to set, change or remove these flags. Dan There's almost certainly something in your

Re: [blfs-support] JSON-C fails to build

2013-12-20 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/20/13 13:09, Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:41 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm building JSON-C as a dependency for PulseAudio. It fails to build with: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -std=gnu99 -D_GNU_SOURCE

Re: [blfs-support] Building Thunderbird

2013-12-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/05/2013 02:22 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/05/2013 01:20 PM, Armin K. wrote: On 5.12.2013 18:31, Dan McGhee wrote: In preparing for Firefox, the book, BLFS SVN, gives the procedure for linking it agains XULrunner. (And I hope this isn't a mis-print, but that the build time for Firefox

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support archives redirection not working!

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/31/2012 01:30 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: One ends up in the LFS main page. Yeah, I see the same thing with other LFS mailing lists. I don't know what's going on, but I assume it probably has something to do with the pipermail issue being discussed on lfs-dev. --

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Staub
Do you, personally, see an actual problem with the open BLFS index, search for name of package like Firefox, click and go down dependencies approach? I know that's exactly what I did when *I* was a newbie, and it worked fine. I don't build a ladder to get to one fruit, I build a platform

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-25 Thread Chris Staub
Yes, I'd agree with that. Broadly speaking, what I think people want are either specific applications like Firefox which we cover along with the dependencies, or broader packages like Gnome or KDE which we cover as entire sections. In what way is the current system not adequate? Isn't the

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-support (no subject)

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/22/2012 01:11 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: I am a newer at LFS, and I seek to success; but I need help; I made my LFS - kernel and Isucceed but i face difficulties about the BLFS; because I don`t know which programs- packages i should download. I used to download using wget [webpage] command;

Re: [blfs-support] Cannot get network interface to start

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/07/2012 06:14 PM, Kyle Brennan wrote: Hi, I’ve just completed my first LFS build, and upon moving on to the BLFS book, I quickly realized that although the messages during boot indicate that the network adapters are coming up fine, the network was, indeed, not up. I’ll paste my

Re: [blfs-support] Adjusting pkg-config path...

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/03/2012 11:15 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: How do I adjust the path? I'm trying to install gnome specific packages to /usr/gnome, because I'm low on space and because I was hoping to be able to jerk gnome out easily if I need to. See the BLFS page that describes what to do when

Re: [blfs-support] Google Gadgets

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/01/2012 11:06 PM, brown wrap wrote: Has anyone tried installing Google Gadgets? It is listed and an optional package under KDE-Workspace. The project says it has been discontinued and the last update was in 2010. What about it? Are you having problems installing it? --

Re: [blfs-support] Which version of systemd do I need?

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/19/2012 09:46 PM, brown wrap wrote: I started LFS back at 7.0. I finished that, and then started on BLFS. I got sidetracked and let it sit since January of 2012. I picked it up again a few week s ago, and now I see things are up to 7.2. Halfway through X11, I had to reinstall lots of it.

Re: [blfs-support] Errors trying to build seamonkey

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/18/2012 12:24 PM, brown wrap wrote: I have met the prerequisites for building seamonkey, and the build runs for quite a while, but ultimately fails. I searched here for errors in building seamonkey, but there isn't anything recent. Here is the error I get:

Re: [blfs-support] Errors trying to build seamonkey

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/18/2012 12:45 PM, brown wrap wrote: OK, here are a few more lines: /usr/local/src/X11/KDE/comm-release/mozilla/gfx/thebes/gfxPlatform.cpp: In member function 'virtual mozilla::RefPtrmozilla::gfx::SourceSurface gfxPlatform::GetSourceSurfaceForSurface(mozilla::gfx::DrawTarget*,

Re: [blfs-support] Problems installing libdrm and mesa in /usr

2012-11-17 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/17/2012 01:26 PM, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: Those options are no longer available for mesa-9.0.1. I managed to fix the error though, by editing a makefile adding -I/usr/X11/include. After this I ran into a different error when running make install, where the linker couldn't find three

Re: [blfs-support] Guidance On BLFS Package Dependencies

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/09/2012 01:26 PM, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: Hi, I'm soon going to start building BLFS for the 2nd time -- this time on my new system -- and I'd like some guidance on package dependencies. I'm building the development version of LFS right now. The first time around I found by trial

Re: [blfs-support] In which package is xorg macros?

2012-11-06 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/06/2012 10:15 AM, brown wrap wrote: I finished LFS in December of last year, and then started the X11 install in January. I got side tracked on other project and now would like to finish the X11 installation. Last night in trying to proceed, I got an error that said I needed a later

Re: [blfs-support] In which package is xorg macros?

2012-11-06 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/06/2012 10:44 AM, brown wrap wrote: That is what I guess, but after installing the latest version of util macros, I am still getting an error that says I need version 1.8 of xorg macros. At least that is what I recall seeing, I am not in from of the machine currently. What do you mean

Re: [blfs-support] System Still Will Not Mount Non-LFS Disks

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Staub
On 10/30/2012 08:34 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: I still can't get the LFS build to recognize hard drives other than the one it's built on. Here is some output upon booting up: Immediately after booting up, I did these commands: root [ ~ ]# mount /mnt/debian mount: mount point /mnt/debian

Re: [blfs-support] System Still Will Not Mount Non-LFS Disks

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Staub
On 10/30/2012 11:07 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 10/30/2012 9:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: root [ ~ ]# mkdir -p /mnt/debian /mnt/fedora root [ ~ ]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/debian [ 7007.133976] EXT3-fs (sdb2): error: unable to read superblock mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad

Re: [blfs-support] Header file lcms.h Missing from lcms-1.19

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Staub
On 10/25/2012 03:13 PM, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: I tried to install libmng-1.0.10, which requires lcms-1.19, which I had previously installed. Make failed with a notice that lcms.h could not be found. Some net searching indicates that there is a very long-standing problem with lcms.h being

Re: [blfs-support] Installing mouse-test in GPM

2012-10-18 Thread Chris Staub
On 10/18/2012 12:43 PM, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: Having nearly completed installing LFS 7.2 on my home computer (I have not yet tried booting into it), on the advice at the end of the LFS book I'm installing a variety of BLFS software to make my life easier when I do boot LFS. I'm doing

Re: MySQL and More Control/Package Users Package Mgmt

2010-06-20 Thread Chris Staub
On 06/20/2010 06:31 PM, Timothy Rice wrote: Dear BLFSers, Then we get to (the tail of): http://ms.unimelb.edu.au/~trice/install.log It appears that mysql would like to rm a file that it isn't supposed to be playing with, namely some file called 'dir'. However, the install log isn't

Re: URGENT help!!

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Staub
On 06/10/2010 11:38 PM, Alex Santamaria wrote: Hi everybody I'm from Ecuador, I'm a LFS and BLFS' fan, so My friend and I built our own Linux distro based on LFS and BLFS We finished this work with genome and all our favorite and necesary packages, but we have a big problem, We want to burn an

Re: GLibc-2.11.1

2010-04-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 04/05/2010 01:14 AM, stosss wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:40 PM, James Richard Tyrertyr...@acm.org wrote: I made the error of updating my GLibc to 2.11.1 and my GCC to 4.4.3 and all HELL (DLL HELL that is) has broken loose. :-( The major problem appears to be with various locale

Re: Kdebase-3.5.10

2010-03-30 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/30/2010 08:07 PM, Baho Utot wrote: Book: Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version svn-20100221 I am getting this on the KDE_PREFIX=/usr ./configure --prefix=$KDE_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc/kde \ --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking checking for glXChooseVisual in -lGL...

Re: DHCP client vs. PAM

2010-03-27 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/27/2010 04:51 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote: I upgraded Linux-PAM using the instructions in BLFS SVN and my DHCP client quit working. If I run (as root): dhclient nothing happens. If there is something in the BLFS SVN that covers this, I have missed it. Have to admit that

Re: Xorg.conf modules

2010-03-26 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/26/2010 11:16 PM, brown wrap wrote: I built the modules I thought were needed for Xorg.conf. My XORG_PREFIX is /usr/X11. After the drivers were built they were placed in: /usr/X11/lib/X11/modules/drivers/ Is that correct? In trying to run Xorg -configure I get missing output

Re: Trying to compile Xorg Libs

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/03/2010 11:30 PM, brown wrap wrote: I am trying to build the Xorg Libraries according to the order in the book, and using the script supplied. In the log file I point to, it keeps comming up with errors that it was looking for one version and found another. I am using the

Re: Trying to compile Xorg Libs

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/04/2010 12:02 AM, brown wrap wrote: You didn't specify what $XORG_PREFIX and $XORG_CONFIG you're using, but judging by that output it seems it is /usr/X11. I would guess you've probably missed the stuff on the Xorg Intro page about updating $PATH and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Here are my

Re: Trying to compile Xorg Libs

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/04/2010 12:12 AM, Chris Staub wrote: Here are my two variables: root [ /blfs/libxml2-2.7.6 ]# echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/share/pkgconfig root [ /blfs/libxml2-2.7.6 ]# I don't see /usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig. I would guess that's

Re: Trying to compile Xorg Libs

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/04/2010 01:22 AM, brown wrap wrote: These are my tar files: root [ /usr/local/xc/lib ]# ls -lt |grep tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66828 Mar 3 17:06 xproto-7.0.16.tar.bz2 Do pkg-config --modversion xproto. What's the result? --

Re: BLFS-6.4RC1 or any

2010-02-16 Thread Chris Staub
On 02/16/2010 03:18 PM, stosss wrote: I don't like the moving target either, but I have seen that it does not change all that much. Some times there are no changes for several days. Even if there are changes every day they might not be changes in the package version but changes in the text

Re: BLFS-6.4RC1 or any

2010-02-16 Thread Chris Staub
On 02/16/2010 06:20 PM, stosss wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas a.hat...@gmail.com wrote: I have never done anything on the lines of working with XML source files and creating a HTML file. Is there instructions that show how to take these XML files and

Re: BLFS svn book Shadow-4.1.4.2 question about a page note

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/31/2009 05:25 PM, stosss wrote: At the bottom of the page for shadow in the BLFS svn book latest and earlier versions. Is this note talking about a step that was done or needs to be done? Note ENV_SUPATH is no longer supported. You must create a valid /root/.bashrc file to provide a

Re: BLFS svn book Shadow-4.1.4.2 question about a page note

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/05/2010 03:58 PM, stosss wrote: I don't think it's in any way unclear, but I'll explain anyway... ENV_SUPATH is an option in /etc/login.defs, specifying the default PATH for the root user. However, the Shadow page in BLFS assumes you are rebuiding Shadow with PAM support, and if you

Re: BLFS svn book Shadow-4.1.4.2 question about a page note

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/05/2010 05:16 PM, stosss wrote: It looks like you're overthinking things and reading more into what's on the page then what's there. It's referring to exactly what is done on that page - configuring Shadow to use PAM. In particular, it follows up on the previous note about the regular

Re: BLFS svn book Shadow-4.1.4.2 question about a page note

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/05/2010 09:47 PM, Simon Geard wrote: Reading that, I think he's actually got a fair point. The intended meaning is that if you were previously using ENV_SUPATH to give root a different PATH from ordinary users, you would now need to do so by modifying root's login scripts. But if you

Re: BLFS svn book Shadow-4.1.4.2 question about a page note

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/05/2010 11:34 PM, stosss wrote: Note: The ENV_SUPATH option used to modify root's default path does not work with PAM. If you are using this option, you'll need to set the path in root's login scripts instead. This one is clear. Note: The ENV_SUPATH option used to modify root's

Re: iptables-1.3.8 BLFS book svn-20100105 compile error

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/06/2010 12:11 AM, stosss wrote: The configuration for iptables-1.4.6 is a lot different then iptables-1.3.8 I tried iptables-1.3.8 three times with the same error result each time. I am going to try iptables-1.4.6 unless someone has a good reason why I should not just yet. I am going

Re: Xorg7.5/libs and PKG_CONFIG_PATH

2009-12-30 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/30/2009 09:13 PM, lux-integ wrote: Greetings, I am attempting to compile Xorg7.5. I have XORG_PREFIX as /usr/X11R7.5. The protocols go in $XORG_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig. I then try to install the libraries. If I set a $PKG_CONFIG_PATH envar the configure scripts complain of

Re: man-db-2.5.5 never installed

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/15/2009 07:47 AM, Fernando Oliveira wrote: --- Em ter, 15/12/09, stoto...@gmail.com escreveu: As everybody here knows, I am not very experienced LFS/BLFS user, but I remind having this same problem and the cause was that Groff package had not been properly installed. The

Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/15/2009 09:28 PM, al...@verizon.net wrote: Hello, In the process of building Xorg-7.5 (from 7.4) I stumbled upon something odd. For a couple of packages their 'pc' files ended up in '/usr/share/pkgconfig' instead of the tried and true '/usr/lib/pkgconfig'. Specifically, in

Re: lynx with SSL

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/11/2009 07:08 PM, Sean Porterfield wrote: From: Guy Dalzielkrendosha...@dementedfury.org On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:57:46PM -0500, Sean Porterfield wrote: Any hints on how to get this working? I've tried --with-ssl and --with-tls but I still get Alert!: This client does not contain

Re: concerning compiling xorg-7.5

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/08/2009 10:32 AM, lux-integ wrote: the blfs(dev) bookseems to suggest that 'sections' of xorg is compiled as root (for example from section=proto (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/xorg7.html ) there is no mention of becoming root to install and the normal user has

Re: lynx with SSL

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/08/2009 10:57 PM, Sean Porterfield wrote: Any hints on how to get this working? I've tried --with-ssl and --with-tls but I still get Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs. config.log includes: cf_cv_have_ssl=yes cf_cv_header_path_ssl=/usr/include/openssl

Re: /root/.bashrc

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/15/2009 09:09 PM, Jason Ash wrote: Hi, I just installed Shaddow with PAM and Cracklib support following the instructions in BLFS V 6.3. At the end of this Web page, it says, ENV_SUPATH is no longer supported. You must create a valid / root/ . bashrc file to provide a modified path for

Re: KDE dosen't display any applications

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Staub
William Immendorf wrote: ..echg... can someone please give me some help? Please? William Repeating that you need help does not make anyone more likely to do so. In fact, given your past behavior as well as how you're continuing to act, I'd be surprised if anyone ever does. --

Re: different shadow vs. in lfs-6.4 and blfs-6.3

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Staub
Vitorio Okio wrote: Hi folks, I built my very first LFS following the latest stable LFS-6.4 book. Correspondingly I installed Shadow-4.1.2.1 version. Now I've started working with BLFS book and it contains instructions for re-installing (after PAM installation) only for Shadow-4.0.18.1

Re: A Question of 'How to Think' ...

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander Haley wrote: Well, I managed to pull off LFS 6.4 using the package users package management strategy. And I started in on BLFS ... and I ran into an interesting 'snag' which I solved (by reading the wiki) but, I'd like some feedback on how folks think about these kinds of problems.

Re: root vs user. installing firefox

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Staub
Ralph Porter wrote: I just finished KDE...YEA, now working on my first application, Firefox. Open question I guess. Should 1. I first create a new user and install firefox and dependencies under the user. 2. Install dependencies as root and install firefox under the user. 3. Install all

Re: Mesalib Problems

2008-12-14 Thread Chris Staub
Alvaro Morais wrote: Hey! I'm having some problems compiling MesaLib I'm making a multi-lib box, and I already installed X libs both 64 and 32 compilations. I have: /usr/lib/libX11.a /usr/lib/libX11.a /usr/lib64/libX11.a /usr/lib64/libX11.a The version of MesaLib I'm trying to

Re: help wirt gtk-2..14.3 and jasper problem

2008-12-11 Thread Chris Staub
b-vol wrote: Greetings I am having a spot of bother with compiling gtk-2.14.3. Problem is outlined below:_ but both jasper and jbigkit are installed:- bash-3.2# ls /usr/local/lib/libjasper* /usr/local/lib/libjasper.a /usr/local/lib/libjasper.la bash-3.2# bash-3.2# ls

Re: Window manager without x server: follow INX path?

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Staub
David Kuntadi wrote: No. I am suggesting a chapter in BLFS to create complete desktop environement without x. David BLFS already has plenty of packages listed that don't need X. The main problem is that different users have different definitions of complete desktop environment. It's up

Re: Window manager without x server: follow INX path?

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Staub
David Kuntadi wrote: Recently I have managed to run links -g (graphical links) and I just allow read and write for all for /dev folder to all as work around. Um, workaround for what? But when I tried INX, definitely it is a huge task for me to make similar setup on top of lfs:

Re: Window manager without x server: follow INX path?

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Staub
David Kuntadi wrote: Below is my response to both Ken and Chris. On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Chris Staub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kuntadi wrote: Um, workaround for what? links -g do not have write access to /dev/fb0, and requires to run as root. BLFS is just a guide

Re: root password on LFS live CD x86-6.3-r2145

2008-09-11 Thread Chris Staub
Kevin Barlow wrote: Greetings, I normally use an updated lfs 6.1.1-3 and hALFS with updated packages. I’m trying 6.3-r2145 for the first time with jHALFS 2.3.1 for the first time. I’ve configured jHALFS ad setup an unprivileged user and SU’d into it. After it downloads the book info

Re: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 Segmentation Fault

2008-08-02 Thread Chris Staub
DJ Lucas wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: Googling reveals many reasons for segmentation faults and a similar situation for me three years ago. I solved it by installing fontconfig as root--I use the more_control package system. I'm more experienced now (?) and want a fix instead of a

Re: How to configure which-2.19 to work with update-pciids

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Staub
John Frankish wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. I'm not at my lfs/blfs machine right now, but it goes something like this: $ update-pciids error - cannot find wget or curl Note that wget and which are in /usr/bin/ and wget works fine when used directly - curl is not installed.

Re: How to configure which-2.19 to work with update-pciids

2008-06-11 Thread Chris Staub
John Frankish wrote: Hi, I have lfs-6.3 installed and parts of blfs-6.3rc2 (nice job BTW). I had no problems compiling wget-1.10.2, pciutils-2.2.3 and which-2.19, but I cannot figure out how to configure which so that update-piciids (or update-usbids, etc) can find wget - note that wget

Re: DHCP Client

2008-01-26 Thread Chris Staub
Matthew Plumb wrote: I've followed the instructions for the setup of DHCP Client and am getting the following error on boot: /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services/dhclient: line 24: /sbin/dhclient: No such file or directory I checked and, sure enough, this file does not exist. There

Re: cups ideas

2007-12-26 Thread Chris Staub
Dan Nicholson wrote: On Dec 23, 2007 5:39 PM, Olaf Grüttner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: installing cups on my system was easily done with the blfs instructions, many thanks. But I had problems configuring. I found out that my kernel didn't include the parallel port support and printing support

Re: GPM-1.20.1 : error - undefined reference to `ceilf'

2007-11-17 Thread Chris Staub
David Van Mosselbeen wrote: Hi, There's a problem to compile gpm-1.20.1 on LFS (svn) and fails on: synaptics.c:(.text+0x1777): undefined reference to `ceilf' synaptics.c:(.text+0x17b8): undefined reference to `ceilf' The whole error output can be found on [1]. There's a patch

Re: Errors with compressdoc script

2007-11-07 Thread Chris Staub
Chris wrote: I get the following when i run compressdoc --bz2 root:/sources/blfs/blfs-bootscripts-20060910# compressdoc --bz2 /usr/sbin/compressdoc: line 160: COMP_METH: command not found Probably mistyped that line somehow, though I don't know what you put. It should be COMP_METHOD=

Re: kernel headers success

2007-10-11 Thread Chris Staub
Barry Loo wrote: From blfs version 6.2: Installation of Cdrtools Note Installation of Cdrtools will fail if raw kernel headers are found in /usr/src/linux either as actual files or a symlink. As of the Linux 2.6 kernel series, this directory should no longer exist because appropriate

Re: kernel headers success

2007-10-11 Thread Chris Staub
Barry Loo wrote: To clarify, I'm only refering to _B_lfs, not _L_fs. Blfs (both the current stable and development version) says the following under the installation instructions for cdrtools (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/cdrtools.html): I know you are talking

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a point of personal preference, I also don't much like info. I'd prefer not seeing that solution. It seems to be being left behind anyhow. Man-pages seem to be the choice of everyone but FSF/GNU, with HTML coming on strong, and XML waiting in the wings. The

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Chris Staub
Walter Barnes wrote: From: Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] First thing to note is that what's in LFS isn't supposed to be a feature complete system. It tries to create a general development system for you to build on. So, if links needs to be part of your base install, you shouldn't feel

Re: Error while compiling Control Center-2.14.2 about xft

2007-10-04 Thread Chris Staub
Shayin C K wrote: 'Fudging' helped me cross the configure hurdle, but got struck up with make. It asked for: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgstinterfaces-0.10 I don't remember installing that either. A search in BLFS also failed to provide any such file. I guess it must be part of some other

Re: Urgent : big doubt about Xorg prefix

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Staub
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Hi. I'd like to correct a possible error as soon as possible : in the SVN BLFS book, Xfree is installed in /usr/X11R6, but in the Xorg instructions, it is said that you have the choice for XORG_PREFIX between /usr or /opt (and every other thing, if you dare). Is

Re: Save_As dialog problem (gtk2?)

2007-06-13 Thread Chris Staub
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:20:07AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Just a stab, but what version of libX11 did you use? libX11-1.1.2 has a bug in it. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/browser/trunk/packages/Xorg-lib/libX11-1.1.2-bug11222-1.patch Actually, I used

Re: Little note on psmisc

2007-04-21 Thread Chris Staub
Tijnema ! wrote: Hi, I know, this doesn't belong here, but i'm too lazy to search for the right list. As i have a very simple note. In section 6.49.2. Contents of Psmisc, it says Installed programs: fuser, killall, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree) But oldfuser isn't there, while it

Re: Little note on psmisc

2007-04-21 Thread Chris Staub
Tijnema ! wrote: On 4/21/07, Chris Staub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, this isn't the right list. But I'll answer anyway... I see oldfuser in the list of Psmisc programs, in both the stable book - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/psmisc.html

Re: BLFS 911

2007-03-29 Thread Chris Staub
Raul Taveras wrote: Hello, im not sure how this works or if im doing the right thing so please let me know. About 4 months ago i built my own lfs, i was a newbie at the moment so as you can imagine i went through hard times. Now, i have a little more experience on the matter and i

Re: XFree86 Questions

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Staub
randhir phagura wrote: Hi Tijnema !, Well, that is not exactly the answer to my question. The question is how does one install 'Xf86' into /usr/X11R6? I want to install it there but there is nothing shown in the 'configure/install' commands given in the book, which can facilitate this. As

Re: package x11?

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Staub
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 2/27/07, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install xorg, following the current stable version of the BLFS book. I'm using /opt/xorg as $XORG_PREFIX. I can't install the libraries: snip checking for OLDX... configure: error: Package

Re: Midi setup problems

2007-02-22 Thread Chris Staub
Nik Davis wrote: I'm trying to use a program that needs MIDI support, but I get this message when I try and run it: ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory I think that I need to configure udev to set this up, but I'm not sure on

Re: Xorg Configuration Error (Solved)

2006-12-03 Thread Chris Staub
Ellis Wilson wrote: Worked great, thanks a lot Jeff. I had assumed that since BLFS stated If you've installed the X Window System in any prefix other than /usr, as the root user, add /usr/X11R6/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file and run ldconfig. I didn't need to do those steps because I installed

Re: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-26 Thread Chris Staub
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Hi. I've been an LFS user for quite a long time now, and there's one thing (only ONE thing !) I don't like in the books : I'm used to put all the packages I download in a directory just above /sources (namely /sources/LFS or /sources/BLFS), and when I install a package,

Re: cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 won't configure

2006-11-02 Thread Chris Staub
Arden wrote: Hi, using blfs book 20061012, when attempting to build cyrus-sasl-2.1.21, I get; ./configure --prefix=/usr --syscconfdir=/etc \ I'm a little confused as what to do. I need some help. Arden Assuming that's exactly what you typed, you typoed the --sysconfdir option. --

Re: normal user cannot start x

2006-11-01 Thread Chris Staub
Tinow ME wrote: hi all I just finished installation of xorg. The root startx ok, but when I log in as a user other than root and startx it fails and appears: === Fatal server error: PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.

Re: gtk+ make test fail

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Staub
Arden wrote: after make check of gtk+-2.8.20 build I get; (lt-floatingtest:27134): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: FAIL: floatingtest == 1 of 1 tests failed What does this mean? what should I do? Arden You're probably running the GTK testsuite from a text console, not

Re: how to copy/paste

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Staub
Tijnema ! wrote: just select the text with your mouse, then press both LMB and RMB at the same time and it pastes where u have the cursor placed tijnema That's in X (well, it's either both buttons or the middle button, if you have one). In a text console, you just press the right button to

Re: dev book issue

2006-08-20 Thread Chris Staub
Arnie Stender wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Team, While trying to compile kdelibs-3.5.2 I had compiled the required aRts-1.5.2 but since I am running gnome I was not looking for a complete KDE but just enough to compile k3b. The configure failed because it said

Re: Cannot Compile Xorg

2006-08-19 Thread Chris Staub
Jay Mazzetta wrote: I used jhalfs-1.0 to install LFS 6.2 without any problems, but when I try to compile Xorg I get the following errors: 'fbCompositeSolidMask_nx8x0565mmx': fbmmx.c:758: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long' fbmmx.c:818: warning: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'

Re: aRts vs libarts

2006-08-01 Thread Chris Staub
Paul G Rogers wrote: I'm preparing to install KDE-3.4.3 on my new LFS-6.1.1 system. The KDE website has a requirements page that says it needs libarts=2.3.8. I've found downloaded a tarball for libarts-2.3.11. Unpacking kdelibs, I find it's asking for aRts. I know from a prior installation

Re: Problems with audio

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Staub
Mark Priestley wrote: Looks like it first appears in 2.6.12 as Intel HD Audio (NEW). So to return to my original question, isn't there a small hole in the {B}LFS books? I installed from the stable LFS book v6.1.1, which uses kernel version 2.6.11.12, which doesn't support Intel HD Audio.

Re: Problems with audio

2006-07-10 Thread Chris Staub
Mark Priestley wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Mark Priestley wrote: I've been building my first {B}LFS system on and off for the last few months, and it's been great. In general I've found the instructions awesomely clear and complete, and with the aid of Edgar Alwers' hint got my laptop

Re: Problems with audio

2006-07-08 Thread Chris Staub
Mark Priestley wrote: $ mpg123 some.mpg Can't open /dev/dsp A previous post directed me to 7.4.4 in the LFS book, and I created /etc/modprobe.conf with the suggested install command. No change. Then I read the earlier bits in 7.4.2, which appear to suggest that with udev the

Re: Fontconfig 2.3.2 and jw: No parser available ... FIXED!

2006-07-08 Thread Chris Staub
Matthew Carson wrote: Right, don't whinge like a little girl. which, of course another fine BLFS example. Is it in the BLFS manual ? The DocBook-utils BLFS instructions DO say that which is a required runtime dependency - it even provides a link to the which installation page in BLFS.

Re: Building OpenOffice 2.0.3

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Staub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need a bit more info. What command line options did you pass? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/windows/openoffice/OOC680_m7$ ./bootstrap . LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh dmake No - on the configure command. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: Gnome-panel error

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Staub
David Barron wrote: I'm working my way through the Gnome install in the BLFS development book and I ran into a problem with gnome-panel. This confused me because I had installed the libxml2 package before anything else. I did some checking in google and found others had encountered the same

Re: Gnome-panel error

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Staub
David Barron wrote: Yes, I saw that. I must say I found it a bit misleading since the first mention of Python is in regard to running the test suites. Also a note in the instructions for gnome-panel might be in order as well. Thanks The libxml2 instructions do already say that several

Re: Real player installation

2006-07-06 Thread Chris Staub
Naga Gangadhar Reddy wrote: Hi friends, When I tried to install real player ,I found the following error ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `GLIBCPP_3.2' not found (required by ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin) ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version

Re: cd rom

2006-06-29 Thread Chris Staub
Naga Gangadhar Reddy wrote: Hi all, Iam unable to use cd rom in lfs. can any one please tell me how to configure lfs for the cdrom to work. regards naga gangadhar Please specify what problem you are having. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: firefox compilation, some quirks

2006-06-28 Thread Chris Staub
Andrey Voropaev wrote: I didn't believe Alexander when he said no one reads the font configuration section. Now after about the 5th email this month were someone failed to configure their fonts, I believe him. Please read this section.

Re: problem whith KDE.3.5.2 and xorg 6.8.2

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Staub
Nik Davis wrote: On 6/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is the Errors log when KDE start: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! this is the Errors log when

Re: Screen goes and stays black upon issuing `Xorg -configure`

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Staub
Angel Tsankov wrote: I've been following the Xorg build instructions and have built Xorg in /usr. After the build, I restarted the system and found that the /etc/ld.so.conf file looked like this: /usr/local/lib /opt/lib i.e. the file had not been changed as a result of building Xorg.

Re: ALSA - can only use as root - How do I fix this?

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Staub
rblythe wrote: I have ALSA installed and as root I am able to speaker-test and play default .wav files located in /user/share/sounds/alsa. When I try to do any of this as a normal user, I get a lot of errors (sorry, the error list was too long to write down by hand and I am e-mailing from my

Re: firefox compilation, some quirks

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Staub
Andrey Voropaev wrote: Just in case, decided to share some expirience in building firefox. First of all, the list of extensions for firefox may cause the compilation problems during build. Looks like some of those extensions expect more packages to be installed. So, after a bit of struggle I've

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