Hello,
I'm working my way through BLFS 6.1 trying to get Xorg running and
have gotten as far as trying to compile libgnomecanvas which required
glade which required gtk+2.6.7. I ran into an error doing the configure
from that package and got an error which I can't duplicate now because I
Alessandro Alocci wrote:
Well, to know the version of a program you have installed you should
issue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pkg-config --modversion xft
2.1.8
Hi Alocci,
Great information. Thanks. What I found was that it knew Xft was
there but it didn't know Xrender was there. When I
OK, yet another error that I can't figure out. After Alocci showed me
the --modversion switch to pkg-config I thought I had this one by the
tail but I guess it grabbed me first. After I got past the last error
the configure told me:
checking Pango flags... -I/usr/include/pango-1.0
In the espghostscript configure it pointed out to me that a copy of the
jpeg library was required. That was not noted under requirements.
Arnie
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
Hi Arnie,
BLFS-6.1 is getting pretty long in the tooth. We could put some fixes
on the errata page for 6.1, but it might be better to see the page in
the current development book. This will become stable very soon (in
fact it is very stable, we're just getting LFS-6.2
I mentioned this in relation to a different problem I was having but
nobody ever addressed it directly. Now it seems to be a major issue with
this particular package. I'm running on a CLFS AMD64 Athlon X2 pure 64
system. When I run config.guess my triplet comes back as
Ken Moffat wrote:
Once you are in blfs, my preference is to copy
config.guess and config.sub from /usr/share/automake-1.9 or from
/usr/share/libtool. Those are sufficiently up to date to build your
system, so you shouldn't need to pick up the latest versions from
wherever they now are (if
I am still trying to get a running gnome desktop on my pure 64 CLFS
running on an AMD64 AtholnX2. I'm getting close to the end of the GNOME
Core packages and trying to compile libxklavier-2.0 which is required by
gnome-applets. The make dies after getting a huge string of errors which
for the
go moko wrote:
It seems that the problem comes from this:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
It's due to the gcc flag: -Werror,
which force all warnings (and the warnings seem
harmless) to be considered as errors.
See the following message:
Alessandro Alocci wrote:
Hi, Arnie
I remember there was a patch about this in previous version
of BLFS book that is no more in the book because they switched
to libexif-0.6.13.
Try the patch or consider to switch to the newer version of libexif.
Alessandro Alocci
Hi Alex,
Thanks again.
Somehow I knew I'd be writing a message like this. I'm compiling
Firefox-1.0.6 and got the following output from make:
c++ -o nsHttpConnectionMgr.o -c -DOSTYPE=\Linux2.6.16\
-DOSARCH=\Linux\ -I./../../../base/src
-I../../../../dist/include/xpcom -I../../../../dist/include/string
Hello,
Yesterday I tried to compile ntpd. The compile failed with errors
about functions missing from libcrypto.a. I don't have them on my screen
any more because my scroll buffer is too small. At any rate as I
remember there was a message about installing SSL. Well, I don't
remember when
I'm back again. Now I'm more confused than before. I apologize for not
doing more homework before I sent the last mail. I just went back to my
LFS server that didn't have the problems mentioned with dlerror dlopen
and dlclose. Those functions are unresolved in the libcrypto on that
system as
Simon Geard wrote:
Ok, well on most systems, those functions are in libdl - part of glibc,
but not in the main library that gets included by default.
Try go to the directory it mentions, and manually run the gcc command
above with -ldl appended to ensure it gets linked (or edit the Makefile
to
Hello,
OK, I have been having all kinds of problems getting Thunderbird to
compile on my pure 64 build of CLFS running on AMD64. Right now I am
getting a lot of errors during the final ld of .so libs. The message
typically looks like this:
/usr/bin/ld: nsCOMPtr.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32
go moko wrote:
/usr/bin/ld: nsCOMPtr.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32
against
`nsGetServiceByContractIDWithError::operator()(nsID
const, void**)
const' can not be used when making a shared object;
Just a blind shot: Have you -fPIC option in your
CFLAGS?
Joel Means wrote:
You said that you got Firefox to build. Did you have to add the
ac_cv_visibility_pragma=no line to the .mozconfig? I haven't tried
1.5.0.4 so I don't know if that has been fixed. If you didn't add
that line for Thunderbird, you should try it. With Thunderbird
1.5.0.2,
Hello,
Well as I posted earlier I decided to try and compile the entire
SeaMonkey suite from a common source tree. This required updating about
a half dozen packages for me. As it turned out it was well worth the
effort. The only change I made to what was in the svn-20060809 book
which was
Hello,
I have now got a working SeaMonkey on my new CLFS system and a
Thunderbird client running on my old FC3 workstation. Are there any
migration scripts available to make the transfer of my saved mail,
address book and for that matter even the configuration easier? Besides
the normal data
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Hello,
I'm trying to get printing (CUPS) working and I'm using the online dev
book. I'm getting what looks to me to be gcc4 errors but I dont' know
what to do about it. There is one patch recommended but that only has to
do with testing. Do we
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Stan Sander wrote:
Last I knew cups was 32 bit only. You can fix this by changing the
cast from int to long and cups will compile, but then if you try to use
cups to print more than one copy of something, you will get strange
results. (i.e. 3
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
As another person in this thread mentioned, 64 bit support was added
in cups-1.2.x. It's not in BLFS yet, but Randy has only good things to
say about it in the ticket.
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1979
I
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Ken Moffat wrote:
FWIW, I've seen the same thing on recent versions of gnumeric. In
that case, I pass --disable-perl. I've also had to build without
perl on (an old version of) xchat, so I recomment looking at
./configure --help.
Ken
Hi
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
Think I found the silver bullet. File it under perl sucks hard.
Found someone having a similar problem on X86_64 trying to compile
mod_perl.
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modperl.modules.dev/2
The problem is that
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Alessandro Alocci wrote:
At 18:56, sabato 19 agosto 2006, Arnie Stender wrote:
Second, I looked through the BLFS book and didn't see any trace utility
except traceroute. Is there a *LFS that has the trace utility included
or am I on my own
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Hi Folks,
Yet another relocate error this time trying to compile kdebase-3.5.2.
I'm actually running gnome but I'm trying to compile k3b and it wants
all the kde stuff. I didn't see any patches for this in the dev book.
Here is what I'm
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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
PCRE was required not
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Chris Staub wrote:
kdelibs does not require PCRE. You can add --disable-pcre to configure
to tell it not to look for PCRE.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the correction but configure didn't tell me that. It just
said I had to have it. If I had
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Hi Folks,
I'm trying to build the net-tools package from the dev book. One of the
patches you say to apply is net-tools-1.60-gcc34-3.patch I am running
with gcc-4.1.1. I got the following errors. Is there a different patch I
need to apply if
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
Excellent! It's still a bit brute force, but at least now I have the
use of for loops, sed, etc. If there are any particular Wiki page
anyone wants to see, please ping me now.
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Dan
Hi Dan,
My answer would be all
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
Yeah. The idea was that since the error began occurring with
gcc-3.4.x, it should reference that. It's necessary for that version
and any newer one, though, since gcc gets stricter syntax with each
version.
The -2 and -3
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Hello,
I have slipped back to my more normal state of being confused. I've
been trying to get my sound working. I installed the bootscripts alsa in
init.d and linked it to rc5.d. I couldn't get the sound working so I
rebooted the system to see
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Hi Folks,
While waiting for answers to my other problems last night I started
compiling the dependencies for the system monitor. I finally got to the
compile of the monitor itself and got the following error. I suppose I
ought to be grateful
Hi All,
I have been out of contact for a while. I posted three or four
messages and got no replies. I thought I may have run out of free
vouchers but it turns out my mail server was not sending my mail because
of bind problems. Before I figured that out I broke my system disk
mirror and
Ken Moffat wrote:
Do you know that the pages you are trying to serve are ok, or are
they untried/untested ?
Ken
To test the HTML just bring the .html file up in a browser. IE: Use
file:///full/path/to/file.html. That way you leave the Apache server
out of the loop.
Arnie
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Hi Folks,
I have compiled the gnome-games from the dev book a while back and
everything was working as far as I had tried them. I have not tried them
all. My favorite is Mahjongg and it was running fine. I have been having
problems with gnome
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
Excellent, David! We should put this on the Wiki. I have a couple
others I've noticed from installing into DESTDIRs.
Dan
Dave/Dan,
OK, I have no clue what is going on and at this point I'm not sure I
want one. I
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Jeremy Henty wrote:
This small bonus even allows you to ignore all the filtering and
dump everything to one file if you so desire.
Well, duh, that's what I *said*. I'm asking if there's a compelling
reason not to do that. For instance, would
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Hi Guys,
I've been trying to get my sound working and have started making some
progress but discovered that i don't really have any way to test the
sound once I get the udev, devices and modules working so I'm compiling
sound tools and
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Alessandro Alocci wrote:
Hi Arnie, it seems like you haven't your libgnome and libbonoboui
compiled with popt support. But I have just tried to recompile my
libgnome hiding libpopt and that breaks the configure.
Can you see what is the output of
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Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:19:58PM -0500, Arnie Stender wrote:
I still have the build
directories and checked the time stamps and I compiled popt before I
compiled libgnome-2.14.1. I'll have to go back and look at the page from
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Hi Guys,
I'm missing something. I have re-compiled popt-1.10.4 with configure
switches --prefix=/usr and --libdir=/usr/lib. This seems to have
installed libpopt files properly in /usr/lib. Now I am going back and
re-compiling other libs that
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Dennis J Perkins wrote:
I think that recompiling only popt is sufficient. ldconfig is probably
run when you run make install, so popt should be visible afterwards.
If it doesn't run ldconfig, you can run it yourself.
If you built a 64-bit
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 9/30/06, Arnie Stender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm missing something. I have re-compiled popt-1.10.4 with
configure
switches --prefix=/usr and --libdir=/usr/lib. This seems to have
installed libpopt files
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Hi Guys,
I don't normally log out of my BLFS workstation but it seems that when
I do the next time I login more and more applications start a login. It
seems like almost every application I have ever run started this time
around except for
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Shawn wrote:
Hello,
First, I use kde but I might be able to help.
Do you have a menu at all? That is, if you press the foot on the
toolbar, does it show an empty menu?
If you have at least that much, go over the desktop-file-utils-0.11 in
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Shawn wrote:
Hello Arnie:
I am not an expert in this field but this is how I understand the XDG
menu system.
The XDG menu system is a freedesktop.org spec. that both gnome and kde
use to define how an application is started and where/how to
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Dan/Shawn,
Now I am totally confused. Before I went on to other things I decided
to build another package and do what I said. I chose gcalctool. I did a
find for the gcalctool.desktop and found it in /usr/share/applications/.
Ran the update
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OK Guys,
Just when I started feeling comfortable with figuring out version
dependencies I ran into this. I'm compiling xmms-1.2.10. I ran the
configure out of the book and I got the following errors. I ran
'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0'
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Shawn wrote:
Jim:
You can find the flash player for linux here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
Flash version is 7.0 for linux. Download it and untar
it then read the README. It is a very simple install,
just a couple
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Alberto Hernando wrote:
Hi.
I have installed a lfs-6.2. Then, following the blfs book (svn version) I've
installed d-bus, hal, linux-pam and lots of other things. No problem so far,
but now I'm trying to access my camera and pendrive from kde.
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Hi Again,
I just finished building xine-lib-1.1.1 and xine-ui-0.99.4. While I was
going through the setup to make sure things looked sane I noted that the
default network connection speed was T1. When I attempted to reset it to
something
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On another note, while I was hanging my system and rebooting I noted
that every time I logged in again the background that I had set was gone
and it was set to the default gray/blue of Gnome. When I go into
Desktop- Preferences- Desktop Background the
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Ken Moffat wrote:
Arnie, what's with this 'mount' business ? If it is going to be
playable, put it in the drive, tell xine to play the DVD by klicking
on the button labelled 'DVD', then use the menus. ISTR that all is
not as it seems with the
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
They're in there.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/libdvdread.html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/libdvdcss.html
libdvdread reads the dvd structure, and libdvdcss is
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Alan Lord wrote:
On 10/10/06, Arnie Stender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The mount business was done because I got the error quoted in my
original post when I did what you just said. I wanted to see what was
going on. What is ISTR?
I Seem
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Hello again,
I found another codec that I don't have yet libdv but it needs glib
and gtk+ 1.2.10. I was told earlier that it would co-exist with and was
different from V2 of those packages so I decided to compile them. While
configuring glib I got
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Hi All,
I have been on a quest to get all facets of video and audio working on
my new system. As it turns out after I created dbus and hald when I
insert an audio CD in the drive totem starts up and plays it. If I shut
it down and try to
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Ken Moffat wrote:
Hi,
I'm floundering in the dark here, so I thought I'd ask the list
(maybe I'm looking in the wrong places). Since the end of last year
I've gradually lost the ability to post on many mailing lists. The
latest is the clfs
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DJ Lucas wrote:
Gaim is compiled against QT/KDE. IIRC, either run it once in KDE, or do
this:
mkdir ~/.kde/socket-name1/
Might be a little more to it, but it's something along those lines.
HTH
-- DJ Lucas
Hi Lucas,
You the
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Alan Lord wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote:
/usr/src/secondary/jdk-build/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/os.hpp:325:
error: extra qualification 'os::' on member 'exception_name'
These extra qualification issues are because of gcc-4.1. There's a
patch
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Alan Lord wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote:
/usr/src/secondary/jdk-build/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/os.hpp:325:
error: extra qualification 'os::' on member 'exception_name'
These extra qualification issues are because of gcc-4.1. There's a
patch
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Alan Lord wrote:
You have to remove the :: to! See the first link to this problem I
posted a dayor two back for aspell.
Al
Al,
Thanks, that got me moving again but I quickly ran into another
problem. I did some googling and found a fix
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Calling all programmers:
I have worked through a few problems now trying to get JDK-1.5.0
compiled. The last one is confusing me a bit because although I know my
mind is no longer the steel trap it used to be I am almost sure that
since
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Alan Lord wrote:
Why not just type Intel CS330 Linux into Google. The first link from
the result set is: http://spca50x.sourceforge.net/spca50x.php?page=cams
Do the same for netmeeting linux and you get:
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Al,
Thanks for the input from google but it looks bad for me. It looks like
the code for the driver hasn't been touched since 2003 or earlier. I
don't think AMD64 CPUs were used much back then if they had been created
at all. The code is
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Alan Lord wrote:
Arnie Stender wrote:
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Al,
Thanks for the input from google but it looks bad for me. It looks
like
the code for the driver hasn't been touched since 2003 or earlier. I
don't
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Alberto Hernando wrote:
Hi.
As usual, Dan is right. If you have udev working you will have a /dev/video0
device as soon as you load the driver, and the cam is plugged in, of course.
Recently, I was given a cheap logitech quickcam webcam.
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Shawn wrote:
Hi Arnie, I hope you had a merry christmas too. :)
For a long time I was confused about the myriad of email options on a
linux system. Actually, I still am confused if I plan to run a server
for more than local mail.
So I
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Thierry Nuttens wrote:
Did you implement any Network Authentification protocol like Heimdal or MIT.
Happy New Year
Hi Thierry,
No I haven't. Is that necessary in light of the fact that SSL (if
working properly) is encrypting
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Good morning All and a Happy New Year to You!
A while back I posted a question about using SSL connections to pick up
my mail and I got a lot of good information. I proceeded to implement
based on that information but I still don't have it
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
Not if you did it as an unprivileged user. It'd be a security hole for
you to copy stuff and retain other's privileges. Only root can do
that. A simple `cp -a' works, but `tar' or `cpio' are probably better
suited for this. I
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 2/4/07, Arnie Stender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't have time right now to test tar and cpio but I do know for
sure
a straight cp of an SUID file does NOT produce an SUID copy of the file,
even if done
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Arden wrote:
What is this -a option? My man cp doesn't show any -a option. I had
the same trouble with cp so I have done this; cd to the partition you
want to move and
tar cvpf - .|(cd /mnt/hda6; tar xvpf - .)
Seems to work better.
Arden
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Hi All,
I'm working on a problem where I need to edit a directory entry and
need to install emacs so I can use dired. When I do the ./configure I
get the following output.
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:
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Ken Moffat wrote:
Rang a vague bell with me, although I have no wish to develop RSI
:-)
Back in December '05 somebody asked the same question. Google
linked to my posting, but came up with an entirely different mail.
Fortunately, the
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Hi All,
I'm trying to compile MPlayer from the 6.2 book and I got an error
about a redefinition of getline. Before I sent this mail I commented
out the getline from vobsub.c and started the compile again. It ran past
the original error and
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Tijnema ! wrote:
On 3/1/07, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/1/07, Tijnema ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/28/07, Barius Drubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Second thing:
1927 ?00:00:00 smbd
1932 ?00:00:00 smbd
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jignesh gangani wrote:
Hi,
There are four patches for mplayer. One of which allows you to
compile Mplayer on GCC-4.1. Try applying the patches. You can get this
patches on CBLFS. You have to download another version of MPlayer.
Try
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Hi All,
I meant this to go to all not just Tijnema. I guess i replied to the
wrong one. :-(
Arnie
- Original Message
Tijnema ! wrote:
I'm not sure, but do you have libcrypto.so?
I think it is requesting for that one
Jens Radloff wrote:
Hi,
well, I am not really fully acquainted with network configurations, so
here it comes ... ;)
in blfs 6.0 I have no connection to the internet anymore (it worked
before, I did not intentionally change any dhclient settings, and I did
not build and use a new kernel),
Hi All,
I know this should really go to the CLFS support list but that list
is rejecting my posts at the moment and I can't seem to get anyone's
attention to fix it. I figure there are probably people watching this
list that can help and since I can't start on building my BLFS till I
get this
Hi Everyone,
I finally got my CLFS Multi-lib workstation to boot and am about to
embark on the current SVN of BLFS. I know I will need to ask some
questions and the last time I tried to post to this list it didn't work.
So, I'm testing the waters. I apologize if this actually posted for
Hello All,
I have been following the CBLFS instructions for compiling
glib-2.14.4 and got the error below while doing the 32bit compile on a
multi-lib CLFS system. It was compiling gatomic.o. Has anyone seen this
before? I haven't tried the 64 bit build yet. BTW, if I am supposed to
be posting
Arnie Stender wrote:
Hello All,
I have been following the CBLFS instructions for compiling
glib-2.14.4 and got the error below while doing the 32bit compile on a
multi-lib CLFS system. It was compiling gatomic.o. Has anyone seen this
before? I haven't tried the 64 bit build yet. BTW, if I
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On Dec 22, 2007 9:19 AM, Arnie Stender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
I have been following the CBLFS instructions for compiling
glib-2.14.4 and got the error below while doing the 32bit compile on a
multi-lib CLFS system. It was compiling gatomic.o. Has
Well it didn't take long to get me confused again. Here I thought I was
doing so well. :-( I'm still compiling for Xorg this time the
dbus-glib.0.74 package. It compiled fine for 32bit but when I did the
64bit version I got these strange errors ending with a segmentation
fault on a non-existent
Happy New Year All!
Nothing new here except the year. I'm confused again. :-( I'm trying
to compile gtk2 using the CBLFS book on my multilib CLFS system. 32 bit
compiled and installed and 64 bit compiled without error. When I ran the
install for 64 bit I got the following errors. I'll include
michael lang wrote:
Did you start from a clean directory? Some packages you need to remove
the folder and unpack the source tar again.
Yes. The first time I did a 'make distclean' which has worked up till
now. When that didn't work I blew the directory away and un-tared a new
one with the same
Hi Folks,
I don't know too much about how the patch application works so I
need some help. I am building the QT3 package from the CBLFS book and it
had a patch file that says it is a security patch having to do with
UTF8. I have downloaded the patch twice to make sure it didn't get
corrupted.
Ken Moffat wrote:
This came up on -book or -dev last month, I think. The problem is
the version of patch! Clfs is using an alpha version, I think
someone said the patch is in dos format, and that's the problem.
Robert came up with a solution sometime, involving running it
through 'tr'. I
Hi Folks,
Well I am almost to the point where I can boot into my new [C]BLFS
workstation and continue compiling the rest of the packages I need with
all the tools I need while doing it. The two last pieces are Firefox and
Thunderbird. I tried compiling Seamonkey but got errors that looked a
Hi Folks,
I am sending this post from my new albeit minimal for now
workstation (CLFS/CBLFS multi-lib) running on AMD64 Athlon. I'm running
xorg-7.3 and XFCE window manager. Everything in XFCE started up except
for xfdesktop so it doesn't look too nice right now but at least it's
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
XFCE is no longer supported in BLFS (and you didn't even specify its
version!).
There is some activity on the XFCE mailing list, but it is mostly about the
upcoming 4.6 release.
As for the segfault, strace logs are always useless in this situation, please
Simon Geard wrote:
Just a wild guess (having never used XFCE), but do you have a D-Bus user
session running (i.e the one running as yourself, not the system one
started on boot)? The strace appears to be doing something involving
D-Bus immediately before segfault occurs...
Of course as
Hi All,
Interesting, this is the 2nd or 3rd time I went to post and couldn't
till I unsubscribed then re-subscribed. I keep getting mail from the
list but every so often... Does anyone else ever have that happen?? At
any rate the reason for the post. I had everything running fine on my
new
Dan Nicholson wrote:
That certainly looks like the type of error -Werror would throw, but I
don't see it anywhere. What version of gcc is this? On the other hand,
casting from a pointer to a non-pointer seems totally wrong even if
it's probably harmless in this instance, so I'm guessing that
Mark Olbert wrote:
I've just spent a hair-tearing day trying to get qpopper 4.0.9 to work on my
new LFS system.
The problem was that popper kept exiting after trying to do its second fork.
This was on a system that was using xinetd (there is more detail about the
problem, and log extracts,
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