Re: [blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:45:19PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Anybody here using audacity ? If so, do you have any idea what the secret is for making the local help show up, please ? I've downloaded audacity-manual-2.0.5.zip and installed it (help/ directory) in /usr/share/audacity

Re: [blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:48:36PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: Are there any specific dependencies for Audacity that aren't generic (Generic being GTK or QT)? I use it all the time on my Windows PC but now that I know it exists for Linux I am interested on trying it on my LFS box. Douglas

Re: [blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:27:14AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: The docs, as noted, unzip as a help/ directory and it looks for that in /usr/share. Hit the full-stop too soon there. It looks in /usr/share/audacity/. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http

[blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
Anybody here using audacity ? If so, do you have any idea what the secret is for making the local help show up, please ? I've downloaded audacity-manual-2.0.5.zip and installed it (help/ directory) in /usr/share/audacity, but firing up the program still fails to open it. I suspect that I

Re: [blfs-support] rpcbind-0.2.1 build fails

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:35:59AM +1000, Ian Macdonald wrote: Ken, That seems to be the problem. My LFS build is 7.4 and the glibc-2.18 configure options did not include --enable-obsolete-rpc (but did copy the headers to /usr/include). I'm guessing that means libtirpc installs because

Re: [blfs-support] rpcbind-0.2.1 build fails

2014-04-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 06:22:54AM +1000, Ian Macdonald wrote: Hi, I am trying to build rpcbind-0.2.1 from the current book but make fails with undefined references to key_encryptsessions_pk key_gendes cbc_crypt ecb_crypt getnetname getpublickey

Re: [blfs-support] libreoffice-4.2.2, java, jdbc and postgresql questions

2014-04-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 03:20:37PM +0100, lux-integ wrote: I noticed the above blfs recipe has these switches --disable-postgresql-sdbc \ --without-java From memory, postgresql and java are among the default options. Most BLFS users probably don't build either of them, or want them.

Re: [blfs-support] Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:41:16AM +0100, lux-integ wrote: openssl is a package one generally installs early in the distribution-build process. To upgrade to say openssl-1.0.1g --(a) does one need to yank out the old say openssl-1.0.1 and install the new 1,0,1g and if so would

Re: [blfs-support] Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:55:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:41:16AM +0100, lux-integ wrote: openssl is a package one generally installs early in the distribution-build process. To upgrade to say openssl-1.0.1g --(a) does one need to yank out the old

Re: [blfs-support] Graphite2-1.2.4 make check no target check

2014-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:02:21PM +0100, Robin wrote: make test works Thanks ISTR someone (probably Fernando, or else Pierre) fixed this in the last couple of weeks in the -svn book. Mea culpa. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce --

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:21:34AM -0500, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: This is a stretch, but I should mention I compiled BLFS/X with an older kernel than I used in compiling LFS. I found I booted to a blank screen after compiling LFS with the 3.13.13 kernel so I reverted to my LFS/BLFS

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:15:05PM -0500, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: My BLFS 7.5 xterm displays a “sh-4.2#” prompt. My xterm prompt in BLFS 7.4 is “/ ” and “PS1=”\w “ is in my BLFS 7.5 /etc/bashrc file. In addition to the wrong prompt, I can't “source” scripts, and receive “file not

Re: [blfs-support] Building Poppler

2014-03-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 01:06:34PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Meanwhile, I just found that CMake build system was introduced in 2008, so, I am wondering why devs in the book kept considering only autotools build. I've seen a comment about problems with glib-side developers of poppler

Re: [blfs-support] Not able to start the Xorg.

2014-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:08:56AM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, There is one more driver to try: Xorg Fbdev Driver-0.4.4 This one is meant to be if all else fails it should start the server unless you have not installed ALL of the software excluding the other

Re: [blfs-support] NPAPI-SDK-0.27.2

2014-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:20:04PM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, With the npapi sdk there is only three .h files and an index.html page included in the unpacked archive. The instructions state to run configure and make install. I have created the directory that

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea again!!!!!

2014-03-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 01:01:18PM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, Well this is ridiculous. I have reached the point after a few days of installing the systemd 7.5 version of LFS, and going through the configuration of quite a number of other packages following BLFS 7.5

Re: [blfs-support] Solution for twm complaining about lacking fonts

2014-03-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:24:26PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, When we install xorg following the BLFS_7.5 stable book, when you first start x using the startx command, it will complain bitterly about the ISO fonts are lacking and it will NOT

Re: [blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: Hi- Been using LFS/BLFS as my main system for almost 8 years now, recently did my 6th build; so thanks! This one has the feature that text on-screen sometimes (infrequently) becomes garbled to the point of

Re: [blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:35:01 + Hi- The versions are mostly current. (I built basically the svn, and it was within the last month.) Cairo is 1.12.16. One thing that isn't so current is xorg; I basically built a

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: Hello! I follow this instruction to build Cyrus SASL-2.1.26: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/cyrus-sasl.html make -j1 results in a link error about PIC: libtool: link: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:37:22PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: Hello! I follow this instruction to build Cyrus SASL-2.1.26: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/cyrus-sasl.html make -j1 results in a link

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 10:47:01PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: On 03/07/2014 10:04 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: And looking back, we had CFLAGS=-fPIC at the end of configure in BLFS-7.4, but without an explanation. It fell out in r12739 when Fernando applied a fix from Armin. The fPIC seems

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:59:03PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I see that in a later mail you pointed to a patch. I _like_ patches (easy to see if they still apply - if in any doubt use 'git apply') but BLFS prefers to use simple things like sed, so I assume

[blfs-support] Missing icons in gnome apps

2014-02-27 Thread Ken Moffat
In testing various gnome apps for 7.5 (e.g. epiphany and evince), I've noticed that the icons on the application window don't appear, I just get little red 'X's on a white square. This used to work, and in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini I've got the following in '[settings]' : gtk-theme-name =

Re: [blfs-support] Missing icons in gnome apps

2014-02-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:33:26PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 27-02-2014 17:09, Ken Moffat escreveu: In testing various gnome apps for 7.5 (e.g. epiphany and evince), I've noticed that the icons on the application window don't appear, I just get little red 'X's on a white square

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice: NO audio on some pps files

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:58:20PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: Hello everybody, libreoffice-4.2.0.4 Built per BLFS Development Book v2014-02-21 with --disable-gstreamer-0.10 --enable-gstreamer gstreamer-1.2.3 (with base-, good- and bad-1.2.3) gst-plugins-ugly-1.2.3 (main suspect, according

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice: NO audio on some pps files

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:56:54PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: Hi Ken: Ken: ... where do you get this watermelons.pps file ? I got it in the mail sometime ago. Pretty nice. About 7 MB. Some Germans(?) painting watermelons Christmas-egg style. If you want a copy, let me know where to

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice: NO audio on some pps files

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:18:36AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Also, please note that I was lying when I said I build LO against gstreamer-0.10 : I now see that I disable 0.10. But for my usages (no slides to play, writer and calc don't lend themselves to audio) the difference is moot. People who

Re: [blfs-support] Recommended Display Manager for BLFS

2014-02-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:55:09AM +, Douglas R. Reno wrote: Hello, This is probably not the right list to report this, I realize that. According to http://osdir.com/ml/plasma-devel/2014-01/msg00208.html and

[blfs-support] iptables-1.4.21 install broken

2014-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
I'm seeing the following when I try to install of 1.4.21 : libtool: install: (cd /building/iptables-1.4.21/libiptc; /bin/sh /building/iptables-1.4.21/libtool --tag CC --mode=relink gcc -Wall -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wshadow

Re: [blfs-support] iptables-1.4.21 install broken

2014-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:53:16PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: Seems like failure in this part: for file in ip4tc ip6tc ipq iptc xtables do mv -v /usr/lib/lib${file}.so.* /lib ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/lib${file}.so) /usr/lib/lib${file}.so done Either your scripts still

Re: [blfs-support] Texmaker : Pdf Viewer (embedded) display diagonal?line across page

2014-02-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:17:41AM +, Dan Shved wrote: Magnus Larsson k.magnus.larsson at tele2.se writes: [ in case anyone is wondering, Magnus asked this on 24th January. I'll keep a chunk of his post for context ] Dear blfs-support at linuxfromscratch.org Texmaker : Pdf Viewer

[blfs-support] Cups and the usblp kernel driver

2014-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
I'm intending to change the cups page in the book, to remove the Note which says: | There is a conflict between the Cups libusb backend and the usblp | kernel driver. If you want to use Cups with libusb, do not enable | USB Printer support in your kernel. But since most people don't read

Re: [blfs-support] Can not compile XULrunner

2014-01-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:17:10PM +0100, Niels Terp wrote: I will try to look further into this, but if you - or anybody else - happen to know if there is a general problem with CFLAGS when compiling with RPM, I would appreciate any input you may be able to give me ! Best regards Niels

Re: [blfs-support] CMake Compilation Errors

2014-01-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:09:25PM -0600, Douglas R. Reno wrote: Hello, LFS Version: 7.3 BLFS Version: 7.4 Stable Brief Hardware Description: 256mb RAM, Intel Pentium III 800Mhz (Dell Latitude C800) I am having issues compiling Cmake. No special environmental variables or anything.

Re: [blfs-support] Destdir installation question

2014-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:46:56PM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: Note that some BLFS instructions in the book needs some tweaks in order to work proper when installing via DESTDIR. Some packages do not take care about DESTDIR but uses INSTALL_ROOT or even do not care about DESTDIR at all. I

Re: [blfs-support] Destdir installation question

2014-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 10:12:57AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I don't know what I_R is, but my approach is similar to Ken's, I only use DESTDIR when checking things for the book. I got fed up with typing INSTALL_ROOT in full, and wrongly assumed I_R would be understood

Re: [blfs-support] Python vs Python Modules in MesaLib and libxml2 - BLFS 2013-03-18

2013-12-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:51:42AM +, eddie james wrote: The instructions are a tad ambiguous to a soft mind such as my own. After google for 3 hours, I looked into the exploded libxml2 directory and saw files related to python. I then did ./configure --help and noticed the --with-python

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

2013-12-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:09:30PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Thanks, Bruce. I'm so locked in on getting sound that I didn't think about that until after I responded to Armin. First, I built and did a DESTDIR install as me, then a DESTIR and a final install as root. Then used chown to get the

Re: [blfs-support] Trying to Decide Which Qt

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 01:10:54PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: What, if any, functional loss will I experience by not installing Cups right now? If I wait to build Cups will I have to rebuild Qt-5.2.0 For qt-5 I cannot comment, and for qt-4 I've always built cups before qt. The reason for

Re: [blfs-support] Setting Up unix charset in Samba Configuration File

2013-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:46:09AM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: LC_ALL=en_US locale charmap - ISO-8859-1 LC_ALL=en_US.iso88591 locale charmap- ISO-8859-1 LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 locale charmap- UTF-8 So far as I understand, US English installations work with either of

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:26:24PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I still think my suggestion of checking every key will identify if any of the keys are being garbled in the kernel, and therefore if this is a kernel

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: In my previous reply I included an invalid-unicode symbol, code U+FFFD displaying as reverse-video question mark : � : if you read the mail on the LFS

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:43:28PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: This gets weirder and weirder. Most of us don't have a stock of different motherboards to play with, and I've no experience in this area. I think

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:01:00PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Your LatArCyrHeb font has two, possibly three, characters which match a white square. If you manage to prove that it is a kernel video problem, can you please loadkeys LatGrkCyr-8x16 and repeat the test. I'm guessing you will get

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:11:00PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? Neither has LC_ALL set

Re: [blfs-support] Suggestions on Desktop Environment

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:26:25AM +, akhiezer wrote: TLDR: *if* using a Desktop Environment ('DE'), then I'd _suggest_ XFCE for = medium-power machines, KDE for ~ medium-power machines, and GNOME for ... er, I guess if you know/want GNOME. I found kde slow on my 8GB AMD phenom (4

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:38:12PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ? I've built LFS using ALFS scripts and didn't change anything regarding fonts... should I

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:41:26PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Alexey Orishko wrote: At least LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and non-us keyboard are working file with Ubuntu... I wonder what's wrong with my LFS setup... utf-8 (Unicode ), iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Other things to consider: What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? Using 'showkey' [ in a tty ], find the values for the Backspace and Del keys - on a regular 102-key keyboard mine are 14 and 111 - then use

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:46:56PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: When I try, I get Crypt error. I go that yesterday when I locked an account, but it went away when I unlocked it. I think it just means bad password, but there is an issue there that it gives the wrong message. I suspect

Re: [blfs-support] Lots of problems with Firefox

2013-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 02:45:28PM -0500, Richard wrote: I have recently installed LFS 7.4, and I have also installed various packages from the BLFS book that are identified as compatible with LFS 7.4. Umm, *everything* in BLFS should work on LFS-7.4 ! One of the packages I installed was

Re: [blfs-support] Proprietary Radeon Driver

2013-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:17:53AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to use the proprietary driver from ATI. I'm

Re: [blfs-support] /dev/fb0 not being created on boot

2013-11-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:33:25AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Richard Melville wrote: I've just configured a new 3.12 kernel and now /dev/fb0 is not being created, despite all the necessary configurations being built into the kernel. This means that I can't get a decent resolution in the

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:56:14AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: I got the following messages on boot: Starting wpa_supplicant on the wlan0 interface then shifted to kernel messages ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00 lib_request_ firmware: Info-loading firmware file 'rt329.bin' (could have been 3290)

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:27:06PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: I'm glad I thought of that. I'm tired of configuring kernels. Have done eight since Friday. yuk. Yeah, sorting out new machines is fun. You and Bruce are going to have to buy new hardware to check out all of this EFI stuff.

Re: [blfs-support] Problems Compiling Gimp, Gegl and Babl

2013-11-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:36:56AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 16-11-2013 08:51, Alan Feuerbacher escreveu: *===*===*===*===*===* babl-0.1.10 installed without a hitch, but put all of its libraries and such in babl-0.1 rather than in babl.

Re: [blfs-support] Problems Compiling Gimp, Gegl and Babl

2013-11-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 11/16/2013 11:37 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Alan Feuerbacher wrote: ... babl-0.1.10 installed without a hitch, but put all of its libraries and such in babl-0.1 rather than in babl. That is correct. Gimp should be

[blfs-support] make-4.0 testing : completed

2013-11-12 Thread Ken Moffat
I've now completed my test builds of everything in BLFS using make-4.0. For the second build there is nothing related to make to report. So, the new version of make went more smoothly than I had anticipated. Full results (list of the most recent versions of everything that I built, plus the

Re: [blfs-support] CUPS and Mavericks

2013-11-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:13:30PM +0100, Pol Vangheluwe wrote: I use an Apple PowerPC 7500 as print server on my local network (IPP). It runs LFS-6.8 (I know - a bit old…) with CUPS-1.4.5. I could print without any problem from my iMac under OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) but this is not the

Re: [blfs-support] CUPS and Mavericks

2013-11-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 06:50:51PM -0800, Walter P. Little wrote: I didn't realise that osx on ppc was still upgradeable! It's not. 10.6 and up has been Intel only. I think the OP is talking about two computers - an old (system 7 era) PPC that is running Linux instead of Mac OS (a

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:36:07AM +, John Frankish wrote: How would I go about using strace to check where the xorg-server is looking for 10-evdev.conf? Using strace -o log_file Xorg -nolisten tcp , Xorg beings to start up, but then stops with the error: ... xf86OpenConsole

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:59:11AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Distros mostly use NetworkManager - my only use of wifi on a pc is my netbook, which uses NM [ and what a pain it is - it decided the passphrase for my router had changed, now I have to type it in every time it wakes up

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:03:09AM +, John Frankish wrote: 10-evdev.conf is at /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d and verified to be the same as the 32-bit install, which works. I'm not sure I follow that : did you verify the file's contents or it's location match ? Both

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 07:17:22AM +, John Frankish wrote: It's a bit hard to diagnose when you use /usr/local/lib (it *always* gets harder to build things correctly, e.g. PKG_CONFIG_PATH needs to be set), and *my* modules are all in /usr/lib/X11/modules/{,drivers/,input/} because

Re: [blfs-support] at-spi2-core-2.10.1 build fails

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:39:31PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 03-11-2013 13:58, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: John Frankish wrote: Ref: Beyond Linux(r) From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01, at-spi2-core-2.10.1: The build fails with CC libatspi_la-atspi-value.lo CCLD

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 04:52:35PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: ĸen, Sometimes I have some libtool complaints. Fox example, dozens of the kind: libtool: relink: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/../../../libcairo.la' seems to be moved I gave up removing the .la,

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 05:16:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: First question, does anyone know if it's even possible to do this in chroot? I have never had much luck building BLFS packages in a non X situation. Therefore, it's easier for me to build in chroot until Xorg is installed.

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:47:07PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 03-11-2013 21:13, Dan McGhee escreveu: On 11/03/2013 05:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 05:16:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: First question, does anyone know if it's even possible to do this in chroot

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:13:25PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: On 11/03/2013 05:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: Actually, if at all possible I'd use a wired network while building (faster downloads) and when first booting. In my house it is possible. But I don't have a 20 ft cable

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:35:10PM +, John Frankish wrote: Do you have somthing like: [25.470] (II) LoadModule: evdev in the log? If not, It might be that you forgot to compile the evdev driver. (see Xorg drivers page). No, I don't have anything like LoadModule:

[blfs-support] firefox-25.0 on LFS-7.0

2013-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat
I've spent the day rebuilding firefox on all of my desktops that I regard as supported. Most of the x86_64 systems were no problem, but my oldest is LFS-7.0 and on that it failed while building js/src/vm/Debugger.cpp - /scratch/working/mozilla-release/js/src/vm/Debugger.cpp:2674:1: error:

[blfs-support] mpg123 and libtool .la files

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
I just got round to doing some more use-testing of my current build (for packages newer than what I built before) and hit a problem with mpg123 : ken@ac4tv ~ $mpg123 /sources/sounds/randall-preamp-channels/Plexi-TexasDirt.mp3 [module.c:144] error: Failed to open module alsa: file not found

Re: [blfs-support] mpg123 and libtool .la files

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:17:17AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I just got round to doing some more use-testing of my current build (for packages newer than what I built before) and hit a problem with mpg123 : ken@ac4tv ~ $mpg123 /sources/sounds/randall-preamp

Re: [blfs-support] mpg123 and libtool .la files

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:37:22PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:17:17AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I just got round to doing some more use-testing of my current build (for packages newer than what I built before) and hit a problem with mpg123

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:27:26PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch is not on anduin.linuxfromscratch.org, well I can not find it Does http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nss/ work for you ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce --

[blfs-support] Building with make-4.0

2013-10-26 Thread Ken Moffat
As I have mentioned, I'm testing make-4.0 against the packages in the BLFS books : 3.82 gave problems with a few (gstreamer, one of its plugin packages, and I think one other package) and 4.0 has a few backward-incompatible changes/fixes. This is only a test to check that the packages build and

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:09:44AM +0200, thorsten wrote: Am 10/12/13 03:03, schrieb Ken Moffat: /me resolves never to touch squid with the proverbial barge-pole. ĸen Hello Ken, just a curious question: what do you dislike about squid? And which alternative do you use? Thanks

Re: [blfs-support] Compiling PyPy?

2013-10-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:18:49PM -0500, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone compiled PyPy on BLFS 7.4? I compiled Python and libffi using --with-pydebug and --enable-debug respectively and attempted to compile from pypy/goal with: python ../../rpython/bin/rpython --opt=mem

Re: [blfs-support] Compiling PyPy?

2013-10-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:28:10AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Will leave it running for a while, I'm still up (sorting out what fits where in my make-4.0 testing) so it can have an hour or two. It stalled: [translation:ERROR] assert not self.finished_helpers [translation:ERROR

Re: [blfs-support] How to clean up /usr/lib/

2013-10-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12:47AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: alex lupu wrote: Hi Bruce, ... 921939 2012-03-27 12:51 libjpeg.so.8.4.0 425541 2013-09-30 12:05 libjpeg.so.8.0.2 16 2013-09-30 12:05 libjpeg.so.8 - libjpeg.so.8.4.0 16 2013-09-30 12:05 libjpeg.so -

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:48:27AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:31:17PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: I'd also forgotten that kde/cmake tells you very little that is useful about how it is trying to link things. And I forget things from 4½ years ago. Thread at http

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: After looking at the kde apps I have installed : konsole (always starts with a small font), I haven't found that to be true. Even if I had, I can edit the profile to use any font, size, and color scheme I

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:35:14PM +0200, Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-10-15 21:38, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: okular (can display everything _except_ PDFs in this build) I have no problem viewing PDFs

Re: [blfs-support] kde - hopefully, my final comment

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:53:05PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I had overlooked that one of the kde packages in the book fails to configure for me. It's libkcddb. I wasn't intending to install it ('/' is all-but-full), only do a DESTDIR on another filesystem, but I'd

Re: [blfs-support] kde - hopefully, my final comment

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:54:47AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: This is interfering with my sleep - went to bed, couldn't sleep, thinking about this. The answer was, eventually obvious (and the hint was where I said re kdelibs that I'd hardcoded everything to /usr. For this one I'd done

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:33:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: The configuration I use for Qt is: ./configure -confirm-license \ -opensource \ -release \ -prefix /opt/qt-$VERSION \

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:31:17PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: I'm putting everything in /usr, so I now have -prefix /usr through to -translationdir /usr/share/qt4/translations as in the book's Method 1. I don't have -plugin-sql-sqlite, all the other options appear to be the same. So

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:24:29AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: I was ploughing slowly through the desktop packages, looking for problems with make-4.0. But I've come to a halt in kdelibs : [ 14%] Building CXX object kdeui/CMakeFiles/kdeui.dir/widgets/kcapacitybar.o /scratch/working/kdelibs

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Glad you were right - I've just posted that this seemed unlikely to be the error, but if it builds then you are sorted. /me resolves never to touch squid with the proverbial barge-pole. Slept on it, decided that since I am

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:38:19AM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: On 10/12/2013 10:18 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Glad you were right - I've just posted that this seemed unlikely to be the error, but if it builds then you are sorted

[blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat
I was ploughing slowly through the desktop packages, looking for problems with make-4.0. But I've come to a halt in kdelibs : [ 14%] Building CXX object kdeui/CMakeFiles/kdeui.dir/widgets/kcapacitybar.o /scratch/working/kdelibs-4.11.1/kdeui/widgets/kcapacitybar.cpp: In member function ‘void

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:11:59AM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: On 10/10/2013 11:35 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:09:09PM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile Squid 3.3.9 from Source and I keep getting the error checking size of size_t

Re: [blfs-support] exiv2 failure with make -j4 - a race ?

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 05:21:10AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I tried building it with -j1 and everything is fine, so this is just a Heads Up that there seems to be a race here. We do mention this, in general, in LFS in the section 4.5 (About SBUs) note. Perhaps we

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:59:12AM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: Did a search for those items you asked and this is what it comes up with. I copied from what looked like the last good entry above it to where it started talking about cached variables. Hopefully something useful in there?

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:42:15PM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: On 10/11/2013 02:40 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:59:12AM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: This looks like most of the program fragment. I think any useful error messages come between the line where it said

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:03:57PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Casey Daniels wrote: Okay so I'm a little confused as to where we stand on this issue is it a dead end and there is no support, or is it just going to take time for you to look into something? This is a package where none of

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: On 10/11/2013 05:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Casey Daniels wrote: here is what maybe Ken might be looking for, I have to look into the library it names My original thought was that's right, but on looking a bit more closely

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:59:33PM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: its missing libnfnetlink.so.0, which installs in /usr/local/lib, I created a symbolic link from the /lib and everything is fine. Casey Glad you were right - I've just posted that this seemed unlikely to be the error, but if it

[blfs-support] exiv2 failure with make -j4 - a race ?

2013-10-10 Thread Ken Moffat
I'm testing things with make-4.0 in case there are any issues. So far, the only problem has been in glibc. I've now got as far as exiv2, and was surprised to see how it failed when I built it with make -j4 : libtool: compile: g++ -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wall

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