On 3/2/2014 4:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS Version 7.5.
[snip]
I would like to say that it pleases me that the LFS community is as
active as it is, and congratulations on another release of this fine
product. LFS is as
On 1/6/2014 9:49 AM, Pierre M.R. wrote:
The output of js/src/configure .. --enable-readline shows:
configure: error: No system readline library found.
My configure log shows:
checking for readline in -lreadline... yes
This is on a pure LFS-7.4 system using mozjs-17.0.0
config.log shows:
On 1/4/2014 5:36 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
Oh, and if anyone ever wants to do similar with glibc, ISTR the
variable it uses is INSTALLROOT without an underscore.
Actually it is 'install_root' (all lowercase) for GLibc. Works for me.
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Thanos Baloukas wrote these words on 03/03/13 02:18 CST:
On 03/03/2013 02:14 AM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
Hi
IIRC, the last time I installed audacious-plugins-3.3.3, the dependency
on libcdio-0.83
was enough for audacious to be able to play music CDs. Now on another
system with libcdio-0.90,
CC'd to BLFS-Dev
On 2/24/2013 2:39 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
Hi
I installed Xulrunner-18.0.1/Firefox-18.0.1 today.
Xulrunner installed most directories and files under
unprivileged user's ownership. If no one else has noticed that,
then I must have done something wrong.
You did nothing
On 2/24/2013 4:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:39:49PM +0200, Thanos Baloukas wrote:
Hi
I installed Xulrunner-18.0.1/Firefox-18.0.1 today.
Xulrunner installed most directories and files under
unprivileged user's ownership. If no one else has noticed that,
then I must
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/23/13 19:38 CST:
Armin, Randy, Ken, what do you think?
I do not use it. Perhaps some folks do, though. Can't hurt to update it with
Williams patch and keep it in the book. Bottom line is I really don't care
either way.
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William Harrington wrote these words on 02/23/13 21:37 CST:
This is a rough draft but any input is greatly appreciated to fix any
errors.
In which none have fixed errors if they are there, only attacked the
issue that the script has been updated. If I wanted to fix the book
I'd post to
Hi all,
Here's an FYI for those that were talking about stripping binaries:
root@rmlinux: /home/rml/build/inkscape-0.48.4 ls -l /usr/bin/ink*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142135802 Feb 9 08:05 /usr/bin/inkscape
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 139710678 Feb 9 08:05 /usr/bin/inkview
root@rmlinux:
alex lupu wrote these words on 02/01/13 19:43 CST:
Randy McMurchy wrote
I couldn't care less about the Chrome browser
Hi Randy:
You'll live to regret these reckless words. Soon :)
Sigh... regret...reckless (isn't that a bit, um, presumptuous)?
I have personal reasons for wanting
Fernando de Oliveira wrote these words on 02/02/13 11:10 CST:
Forgot to say that I used the new instructions including the patch, to
install VLC.
I could not find in the page an explanation for the necessity of the
patch, but do not remember if there are explanations for other patches.
alex lupu wrote these words on 02/01/13 17:53 CST:
Hello,
I was wondering if anybody would care to philosophize on
whether the Speech Dispatcher warrants some treatment in the BLFS book.
I see FreeTTS-1.2.2 alludes to Flite - Festival and Orca-3.6.3 to
Speech Dispatcher, so the basics would
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/01/13 18:07 CST:
I could care less about the Chrome browser.
That should be 'I could *not* care less about the Chrome browser'. :-)
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Thomas de Roo wrote these words on 01/29/13 05:13 CST:
Thanks for all the help. I gave up. :( After I managed to get through
the ./configure phase (I had to tweak the Makefile.am to produce working
Makefile.in files), make stops at errors in the libixion-code. I tried
the latest version
Thomas de Roo wrote these words on 01/28/13 09:41 CST:
On 01/28/13 16:33, Randy McMurchy wrote:
configure:16159: $? = 1
configure:16144: re-using the existing conftest.o
configure:16150: g++ -o conftest -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT
-DMDDS_HASH_CONTAINER_BOOST
-I/home/rml/build/libixion_0.3.0
Fernando de Oliveira wrote these words on 01/28/13 10:41 CST:
Forwarded from the BLFS Book Maintenance List list.
Sorry for top posting.
Thanks, Randy.
Though essentially the same thing Bruce said, here is what I do at the
completion of LFS. Simply modify the log file locations and
Thomas de Roo wrote these words on 01/24/13 08:45 CST:
Hello,
The instructions for installing cups-filters have invisable typos that
make copy-pasting of the commands fail:
My bad. Those somehow slipped in on my last commit to cups-filters. Fixed now.
Thanks for the report.
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Thomas de Roo wrote these words on 01/23/13 13:44 CST:
In the BLFS-book, GTK+-2 or -3 is listed as a requirement for Audacious.
Since version 3.3 that is no longer the case, it only builds with GTK+-3.
GTK+-2 users have to use the old 3.2-branch. I think GTK+-2 should be
removed from the
Thomas de Roo wrote these words on 01/23/13 15:46 CST:
See the System Requirements-remark of the 3.3 release:
http://audacious-media-player.org/news/16-audacious-3-3-released
As I mentioned before, when the book is updated to the 3.3.3 release (sometime
today) it will have the correct
On 1/18/2013 10:59 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
This is an interesting list. A new page in Chapter 2 or 3 may be a good
place to summarize these configuration items.
I agree; however, most of them only need to be done manually if you use
a non-standard installation method such as DESTDIR.
Hi all,
When I run 'make check' after compiling the glib-networking-2.34.2 package
it bombs with an error:
GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSetting schemas are instaled on the system
I have gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.6.1 installed and configure finds it
just fine. The package builds fine but as I
On 1/10/2013 7:00 AM, lux-integ wrote:
I dont know if I am uninformed but I get the impression that cyrus-sasl is not
being developed anymore.
What makes you think that? The Cyrus-SASL mailing lists are active and
have big name guys (Howard Chu, Henry Hotz) contributing patches, etc. to
the
On 1/6/2013 5:58 PM, Jim Michmerhuizen wrote:
I'm in the same position as Ken Moffatt was on 2012.08.21. Problems
with gudev in udev-lfs-188, and for the same reason: I'm trying to
build gudev so I can build colord for cups.
Well, I'm getting different error messages:
[snip]
I built
On 1/5/2013 4:30 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
Is there a pdf of the manual?
I would like to put it on my ebook reader.
No, we don't generate a PDF on a regular basis, but I could create one
and upload it so that you have access. However, do you *really* want a
1200+ page book on your ebook reader that
On 1/5/2013 5:10 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
I was looking for the edguide as a pdf, not the BLFS. I would be nice
to known if the ebook reader could handle the BLFS.pdf though.
I will create a PDF copy of the Editor's Guide for you. I will reply to
this post when I have it done.
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Baho Utot wrote these words on 12/28/12 17:49 CST:
In the Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-09-25
The K3b page has some info for RMLCopyDVD
The links are broken on the anduin server there doesn't seem to be an
svn repo for this either.
Is this project still alive?
Not really, it
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 12/21/12 09:20 CST:
Yes, the first time will be tedious and involve a lot of planning.
That's partly because there are now so many packages available.
Oh you're being too kind, Ken. I can sum up the two sentences I quoted with:
Dependency Hell!
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Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote these words on 12/15/12 19:55 CST:
Do you know if mutt can be used as utility to fetch mail via pop, sort,
and send mail? My purpose is avoiding any MTA server. Does a solution
exist?
Ken would be the one to ask about this as I think his current mail client
is Mutt
On 10/21/2011 7:20 PM, luxInteg wrote:
I would thus be grateful to
know from anyone on list experienced with kerberos and bind what are the
security implications of running dns on a kdc.
I have done exactly what you are looking to do. I feel that as long
as you set up Kerberos properly (I've
On 10/10/2011 8:38 AM, luxInteg wrote:
I know Python can be finnicky so is it necessary to yank out the installed
copy of Python-2.7.1 before installing that which was built with valgrind
or is installing over sufficient?
Either way would probably yield the same result; however, if I
On 9/5/2011 3:59 PM, Pol Vangheluwe wrote:
I don't see anything wrong here. BTW: I also built libpaper to avoid a
configuration warning - is not mentioned in BFLS.
Sure it is. It is listed as an optional dependency in the Ghostscript
instructions.
Though that doesn't explain why you can't
On 9/5/2011 6:58 PM, Andrew Benton wrote:
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:59:36 +0200
Pol Vangheluwepol.vanghel...@belgacom.net wrote:
I don't see anything wrong here. BTW: I also built libpaper to avoid a
configuration warning - is not mentioned in BFLS.
Maybe that's what you're doing that is
On 7/22/2011 6:24 PM, Fernando Oliveira wrote:
PS. The only place virtual or real I have to discuss compilation matters is
this list, so I apologize if something seems not appropriate.
No need to apologize. This list is the perfect place to discuss all
matters related to BLFS. Of course, if
Murdok Petrovsky wrote these words on 07/03/11 13:15 CST:
I'm trying to build a script for uninstall packages, for this i need
build a list with files and path of files installed, well my best
solution is use fakeroot or fakechroot, i don't want use make DESTDIR
install because some packages
On 3/26/2011 3:19 AM, Andrew Benton wrote:
As you can see, firefox.bin is linked to libpng14.so.14 so
--enable-system-png obviously works fine...
Actually, the output of ldd is quite meaningless for determining
if Firefox is using it directly. For example, if you compile GTK+
wit libpng, the
luxInteg wrote these words on 01/27/11 15:53 CST:
Can Python-2.7.1 be used with xorg-7.6?
or must the 2.6 series be used?
The reason we have/did not move to Python-2.7.x is because of the age
of GNOME that is in the book. There would be many incompatibilities
which would make it difficult.
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 01/27/11 15:14 CST:
The reason we have/did not move to Python-2.7.x is because of the age
of GNOME that is in the book. There would be many incompatibilities
which would make it difficult. Xorg isn't the issue.
I should have mentioned that I am building
Juan Antonio Moreno Carmona wrote these words on 01/16/11 05:45 CST:
git wants to put gitcore in /usr/libexec and, until now, no other package
installed files there. That directory does not exits and I think is against
FHS. What would be the most appropriate destination directory for that file?
luxInteg wrote these words on 01/09/11 09:49 CST:
I may be asking the imposible but I will ask anyway. Does any one of a way
to reveal seemingly 'hidden' preprocessor -D options for packages usig
the libtool/config.h wrapper?
Could you parse config.h, config.log or a Makefile for that
Mike Hollis wrote these words on 12/06/10 08:36 CST:
There was a discussion about adding a warning to the book about this
last year :
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-book/2009-November/027491.html
As well as a current ticket (#2999) in the Trac system to actually do it.
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Ken Moffat wrote these words on 12/05/10 16:45 CST:
Comments welcome.
Adobe Photoshop? :-)
Just kidding, Ken, I wish there was something I could provide that would
help.
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bendeguz wrote these words on 11/25/10 08:10 CST:
Thank you, here it goes:
To be honest, the .la files looked okay. I cannot figure out why only
you have to create the symlinks you did. I've included the same output
from my newest build (current book versions of PAM and Shadow). You'll
see the
Mike Hollis wrote these words on 11/23/10 15:57 CST:
I tried subversion-1.6.13 and got the same error.
Suggestions ?
I already have fixed this in my subversion-1.6.13 tree, I just haven't
made a patch. I know it is trivial. I just looked and I see that I
modified
Mike Hollis wrote these words on 11/23/10 15:57 CST:
I tried subversion-1.6.13 and got the same error.
Suggestions ?
There are 3 lines in build/ac-macros/berkeley-db.m4 that I changed in
my subversion1.6.13 tree. Make this change in three places in that file
and all should be good.
-
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 11/23/10 16:59 CST:
sed -i 's/4/5/' configure
That is a good fix for someone with a known BDB-5.1 installation (as we
know Mike's is), but it wouldn't work in the book.
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Mike Hollis wrote these words on 11/23/10 18:40 CST:
I'll try the macro edit.
Remember to run autoconf in the root of the subversion tree. Worked
great for me.
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[GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux
bendeguz wrote these words on 11/22/10 07:19 CST:
I had installed linux-pam, as it is suggested
in the book, and then rebuilt shadow.
the book says:
mv -v /lib/libpam{,c,_misc}.la /usr/lib: This command
moves the Libtool library files to /usr/lib as they
are expected to reside there.
Andre Keller wrote these words on 11/22/10 17:24 CST:
Hi
if you like to build gobject-introspection against python 2.7 you will
need to apply a patch like the one attached...
I just used a recent version of gobject-introspection and it worked fine
without a patch. I'll have to see how GNOME
bendeguz wrote these words on 11/22/10 15:22 CST:
Thank you, here it goes:
this is for PAM:
./configure --sbindir=/lib/security \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/Linux-PAM-1.1.3 \
--enable-read-both-confs
make
I did the post installation operations as it is
said
Andre Keller wrote these words on 11/21/10 20:15 CST:
I installed the ifconfig from net-tools as described in the blfs book.
I use a recent pull from CVS, if you need details how to do it just ask
I get:
r...@rmlinux: ~/build /sbin/ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu
Mike Hollis wrote these words on 11/18/10 15:25 CST:
The above ticket mentioned db-4.8.30 as a solution. I saw that the
ticket was recently updated , and followed the links and noted
db-5.1.19 was being considered but may have some issues with Cyrus-SASL.
I have a patch that will allow
Jim Michmerhuizen wrote these words on 11/15/10 09:59 CST:
The error appears in the fourth graybox on the Xorg Fonts page in
svn-20101016, and it's still there in svn-20101112:
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF
ln -svn
Allard Welter wrote these words on 11/15/10 05:10 CST:
Hi,
It has been about four years since my last build of (b)lfs. There are
reasons (I went walkabout, and the got a job). I haven't finished yet,
but here are some comments up to now. I have not gone through the
archives to check if any
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 11/15/10 10:36 CST:
You still build without one or other variant of which ? Thanks for
the report, it's such a basic part of the stack for most of us that
it's hard to find what needs it. Again, I'll add a comment.
Do you want me to address these? I've
Allard Welter wrote these words on 11/15/10 05:10 CST:
First some typos:
D-BUS-1.2.16: sed 's/possibly used with/possibly be used with/'
Fcron-3.0.4: sed 's/exiting/existing/'
Xorg Libraries: sed 's/Diable/Disable/'
kdelibs: sed 's/The usual building the API documentation/The usual
William Immendorf wrote these words on 11/15/10 10:43 CST:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Allard Welter allard.wel...@gmail.com
wrote:
x264 wants yasm. I linked nasm to asm which compiles ok, I haven't got
round to checking if it works yet.
This is why YASM should go into the book,
As
Ryosuke KUTSUNA wrote these words on 11/03/10 09:07 CST:
I'm try to build BLFS svn-20101028, Setting of docbook-xslt does not go
well. I output the following messages and stop.
-bash-4.1# xmlcatalog --noout --add rewriteSystem \
Baho Utot wrote these words on 04/10/10 11:05 CST:
What do I need to enable regular users to auto mount DVD/CD and USB drives?
I have HAL installed. Do I need any other packages?
Do you do *any* research on your own before just blindly throwing
out questions? Why I ask is you don't include
zzflop wrote these words on 04/08/10 08:21 CST:
I used --with-dbm=db4 and still no linked libraries. Tried
it twice and the second time with a fresh source tree.
You do have --enable-dbd in your configure command, right? I think it
is required as well. Here is my configure command. How much
zzflop wrote these words on 04/08/10 11:50 CST:
Maybe this is a problem with BDB instead of Apache. I used
book version of BDB but didn't run the test suite because of
the dire warnings and I didn't have the dependencies for the
test. However I just installed Sendmail and it uses BDB and
zzflop wrote these words on 04/07/10 09:50 CST:
I think I'll try the whole process again with Berkeley DB
installed and see how it goes.
Keep in mind that it is APR-Util that must be linked to BDB, else it
doesn't matter what you tell Subversion to do, it cannot and will
not use BDB.
I will go
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Then there is the question of the:
/opt/gnome/share/share/polkit-1/actions
Not sure how you came up with that one. I'm doing a GNOME build
(slowly) in /opt/gnome and I have /opt/gnome/share/polkit-1/actions.
Perhaps we used different versions or installation
Juan Antonio Moreno Carmona wrote these words on 03/21/10 14:20 CST:
I have found another mistake in the instructions:
install -v -m755 -d destdir/usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.6.22
cp -v -R sqlite-3_6_22-docs/* \
destdir/usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.6.22
Fixed. Thanks
Juan Antonio Moreno Carmona wrote:
The sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.22.tar.gz package doesn't contain any test
suite. We need download and build the complete sqlite-3.6.22.tar.gz
package in order to run the test suite.
I'm afraid we will just have to disagree about this one. Here is
information
Juan Antonio Moreno Carmona wrote:
BLFS svn-20100317
The instructions for the building and installing of openssl-0.9.8l
contains several errors.
This would be funny if it was not such a dumb mistake on my part.
Recently, I noticed that a command in the *OpenSSH* instructions
had been removed
brown wrap wrote these words on 03/12/10 09:55 CST:
In trying to build Python, I kept getting the following errors:
Failed to build these modules:
_hashlib _ssl
Then something else is wrong. Paths, or something is different than
what Python is expecting. Those modules build
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 03/08/10 09:10 CST:
I've got a strange problem with cups.[snip]
I'm about to update the CUPS/Ghostscript/Printer Driver section. We'll
just have to see how accurate my install of drivers will be. I throw
Samba in the mix, so that is even more of a workout as the
Lars Bamberger wrote these words on 03/07/10 07:54 CST:
What I think is the problem
===
If GNOME_PREFIX is anything other than the usual system-paths, the build
mechanism passes incorrect arguments to libtool which can't find the
libs. Runing the whole autoconf stack
John Burrell wrote these words on 03/02/10 14:59 CST:
If installed as root, libdrm will overwrite these linux-api-headers from
/usr/include/drm:
I just built a stock LFS-6.5 machine which uses kernel 2.6.30.10 and
libdrm 2.4.14 and no files are overwritten. This must be something new
in newer
lux-integ wrote these words on 03/02/10 13:18 CST:
I and having some difficulty compiling gcc-4.4.2 with ada. :-
Have you attempted to use the instructions from the BLFS-dev book?
I noticed your configure params are much different, but you are also
using 64 bit, I built the BLFS
brown wrap wrote these words on 02/26/10 10:47 CST:
I did try the latest version, but still ran into problems. I guess the bigger
question is, how compatable is BLFS with LFS version 6.5?
We are trying to make it 100%, we just aren't there yet.
I like both projects, but LFS was a
lux-integ wrote these words on 02/24/10 09:56 CST:
I am planning to to install a program than needs fop, is it wise to set
CLASSPATH= $CLASSPATH:/opt/fop/build/fop.jar
No, it is not required. That is why the book shows to put FOP_HOME
in your environment. I've never had to add any FOP stuff
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 02/23/10 09:02 CST:
None of BLFS is mandatory, so you don't *have* to do anything. The
reinstallation of GCC is
necessary if you want to install compilers for additional languages, such as
Java, on top of
the C C++ compilers installed in LFS. BLFS
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/20/10 18:28 CST:
net-tools-1.60-statistics_buffer.patch fixed it for me, but there are
several warnings during build. It's a poorly maintained package.
I have no trouble using the CVS version on Berlios. It builds clean
and all utilities that I can tell
Corstiaan Hol wrote:
I suggest you to use the following patch to fix all errors at once:
Or, wait a couple of days and I will have the new TeX Live
instructions in the book which will replace the existing TeX.
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FAQ:
Simon Geard wrote these words on 02/17/10 04:49 CST:
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:38 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
Right now, GNOME is almost there. X has some changes that need to be
done. I'm currently doing many packages. I can actually see a release
happening.
The Gnome release calendar has
Mike McCarty wrote these words on 02/16/10 01:32 CST:
To put it another way, my time is my life.
But you have the time to write 9 paragraphs about why you don't like
distros and use BLFS! Pot-Kettle-Black. :-)
BTW, you may never again see a released version of BLFS, I'd take the
wise advise you
Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote these words on 02/16/10 15:21 CST:
But, if both Book maintainers say that there is no need for a BLFS release
anymore, then at
least we have to find a workable scheme, so we can give to the developers and
users a clear
target and don't leave them in the
linux fan wrote these words on 02/16/10 16:11 CST:
I claim that BLFS is a wonderful work of art with many thanks to the
developers.
I suggest that when LFS-6.5 was released, there should at least have been
a BLFS-6.5-RC1,
That would have been impossible. BLFS was not ready. Probably more
stosss wrote these words on 02/16/10 18:05 CST:
You complain that you don't have enough help, but when help is offered
you ignore it. so I have no petty on you.
This will be my last response on this matter, so please feel free to
comment but don't expect a reply.
Who has offered to help and
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 02/15/10 16:16 CST:
Summary: current blfs-dev is immensly more
likely to work on a recent system than the 6.3
release.
I will update the BLFS website in several places to indicate that
using the development version is preferred and a new release of BLFS
is in
ALIP BUDIANTO wrote these words on 02/14/10 05:58 CST:
On Feb 14, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Dmitry Sokolov wrote:
We should do that because we are ALMOST TWO VERSIONS OR THREE VERSIONS
BEHIND LFS!!
Typically I would never respond to rude people who use all CAPS, and
don't contribute a
stosss wrote these words on 02/10/10 02:35 CST:
What is different between these two?
blfs-book-svn-html-2010-02-04
blfs-book-svn-html-2010-02-09
Both only show changes as of 02/03 and this is also at the top of the
page for both of them svn-20100203. I double checked to make sure I
had
Dmitry Sokolov wrote these words on 02/10/10 05:18 CST:
When i building some package, this package have a Recommended, Optional and
Required packages.
(Dependencies).
Can you answer me Yes or No or When on my questions.
1. Required packages needs to installed before current package?: I
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/10/10 10:54 CST:
What does OO need it for? How does TB integrate with OO?
Not sure about that one.
The only think I've ever thought that openLDAP was useful for was to
consolidate credentials of multiple users on multiple systems.
If there are other
Trent Shea wrote these words on 10/17/09 20:07 CST:
As a general rule should the drop selections be left alone when creating
new tickets? Or are they there to reflect how the reporter feels?
Both. The default selections create a typical ticket. I went and changed
the default for the version to
Dominic Ringuet wrote:
I want to confirm with somebody else first, is it possible that:
xcb-proto requires python
x7server requires openssl
seamonkey requires updates from 1.1.9 to 1.1.17?
I'm not sure about those, but if your build is bombing out with
them not installed, and it works with
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/14/09 00:25 CST:
BLFS is woefully out of date. HAL-0.5.9.1 is two years old.
I've cc'd -dev so please respond to this email to that list.
I will take responsibility for BLFS being so out-of-date. HAL was my
very next update to do before things have just
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
Did someone make a TeXLive step by step guide for BLFS ?
I installed TeXLive in my last BLFS installation but I've not
updated the book yet. It was some time ago, but if I recall, it
was not that difficult. I don't have the machine on that has my
installation script, but
Resending due to the server outage this morning. Sorry if it turns
out to be a duplicate.
Ryan Isaacs wrote these words on 03/04/09 00:18 CST:
Thanks to using the fakeroot approach, I noticed
there is a /usr/share/info/dir file being
installed by which 2.20 following the BLFS
current
Ryan Isaacs wrote these words on 02/26/09 00:22 CST:
Hi, in the installation instructions for GPM 1.20.6 in the current
development version of BLFS, I believe there is an extraneous
destdir string in the install command for the doc directory.
Thanks for the report, I'm fixing it right now.
Chris Staub wrote these words on 02/16/09 20:19 CST:
Vitorio Okio wrote:
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
Scott wrote:
Well, with a Monk-ish abhorrence of an unanswered thread, I'll answer
my own question:
Well, I'd say Dan gave an excellent effort in trying to help you.
Why would you say unanswered thread?
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Ralph Porter wrote:
I must have missed a step. I do not have /usr/bin/sudo or /etc/sudoers
What step has this install?
See BLFS.
(hint: Chapter 4 - Security)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was actually installing without scrollkeeper and was using
--disable-scrollkeeper which allowed configure to run through and the
error was the same on the book version of 2.18.3 and 2.18.4 so seems even
tho scrollkeeper is optional on some stages it really isn't on
Michael Brandstetter wrote these words on 10/19/08 02:37 CST:
Do not apply this sed command and the build will run fine.
sed -i s/bbox.dev$/x11.dev/ Makefile.in
Without this the esp package will use the default bbox.dev and that is ok
for systems without X.
Good catch. This needs to be
Scott Castaline wrote:
[snip total confusion :-)]
I'll try and be helpful without sounding condescending.
First. You need to get a handle on what packages do, and
why they are dependencies of one-another. For example,
Doxygen is only used to create API documentation. Chances
are, you don't
Dan Nicholson wrote:
The pam system's administrator guide is very helpful.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_SAG.html
The module pages and some general pam information are available as man
pages. See pam(8) and pam_unix(8). The pam_unix page even has a
michael lang wrote:
Ich hab keine ahnung auf was du meinst. Kann Sie uns es erklären warum
Sie dieser text nach ein mailinglist hinüber Linux schickt.
On 18/08/2008, *Roland Puntaier* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ich werde ab 18.08.2008 nicht im Büro sein. Ich
Dan McGhee wrote:
I compiled and built Thunderbird, on my laptop, in accordance with the
instructions in BLFS-svn-20080712. There were no errors. When I try to
run it as root, I get:
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.12/run-mozilla.sh line 131: 2134 Segmentation
fault prog ${1+ $@}
[snip]
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