Hi James,
My one cent (and change :).
- General:
Description of a SIMPLE (not scripted) network connection.
Once you are successful with the simple set-up you can get as
complicated as you like later.
You also have a better chance to understand what the scripts do.
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Am 29.03.2012 um 18:47 schrieb Andy:
Thanks for bringing it up, I wasn't aware that this wasn't in the book.
It's already been reported:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2012-January/069127.html
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The install-doc option doesn't seem to be available
(in the main Makefile nor in 'doc' subdirectory.)
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Am 23.03.2012 um 07:11 schrieb Ken Moffat:
Hi Ken,
I'll be trying to comment (answer?) along the lines you
took this thread to.
You have Python-2.6 and 2.7 ?
3.1.3 and 3.2.2 as well.
If so, perhaps you didn't reinstall *all* the packages
which create python modules ?
I'm not aware of any
In trying to build the subject package I ran into a problem.
However, there's was a happy ending so I've been left with
just a couple of (philosophical?) questions.
Without doing anything, the build (make) would hit me with
errors like this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
Ken, Bruce,
Thank you very much,
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On 03/13/12 at 5:16 AM, Simon Geard wrote:
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 19:42 Alex wrote:
IMHO, I think the existence of at the end of the first line of the
here-document,
cat .config HERE_DOC
is not desired.
Can you elaborate? It looks fine to me... what problem do you see?
Hi Simon,
Hello,
Current BLFS (HTML) Book.
Chapter 15. Networking Programs wpa_supplicant-0.7.3
IMHO, I think the existence of at the end of the first line of the
here-document,
cat .config HERE_DOC
is not desired.
However, to make use of the concept, if one feels
there's a need for some characters
On 02/13/12, Nathan Coulsonconat...@gmail.com wrote:
The reason it was disabled, was that we believed that one clock source
did a better job of keeping accurate time, then switching between 2
(system, and the hardware clock).
We actually use this code in BLFS, under
5. postmap
I cannot find it (nor can the blfs Makefile - install-portmap)
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4. How is the 'setclock' script run on stop (reboot, poweroff, etc.)?
There used to be a 'K46setclock' in 'rc6.d' (i.e. level 6):
Setting hardware clock...
hwclock --systohc ...
What am I missing?
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Alex: 4. How is the 'setclock' script run on stop (reboot, poweroff, etc.)? There used to be a 'K46setclock' in 'rc6.d' (i.e. level 6): Setting hardware clock... hwclock --systohc ... Bruce: Yes, I remember that. It should have been in an old version of the LFS Makefile for the boot scripts, but
Alex: 4. How is the 'setclock' script run on stop (reboot,
poweroff, etc.)?
There used to be a 'K46setclock' in 'rc6.d' (i.e. level 6):
Setting hardware clock...
hwclock --systohc ...
Bruce:
Yes, I remember that. It should have been in an old version of the LFS
Makefile for the boot
This is a continuation of my OP.
BTW, I'm finally talking Blfs here :)
3. The blfs 'Makefile'
If the comment,
# The grep can probably be improved upon.
refers to
3.1. 'grep' proper
the 'grep' line looks good to me (for whatever that's worth :).
3.2. If it refers to the output,
On 02/03/12, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Alex:
there is an improvement that displays as a shorter, bunched-up list ...
I don't like that. I think it's very hard to read/find what you are
looking for. ...
Hi Bruce,
I gather the tantalizing riddle,
The grep can probably be improved upon.
will
Hi luxInteg,
Thank you vary much for your input.
Please, do me a big favor; I'd like to compare notes.
Give me these three numbers:
1. The build No.
(At 'Wrench About Chromium', on mine I find,
Developer Build 116492 Linux)
2. The size of your executable ('chrome')
3. The compile time ('make
Hello,
In trying to install py2cairo-1.10.0, I found a discrepancy between
my experience and the BLFS book (Revision 2012-01-06) instructions.
According to the book, I'm supposed to start with the usual,
./configure
Unfortunately, this fails with a message too ugly to mention.
If I follow their
On 01/07/12, Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: It just didn't make it into the book. I'll fix today.Hi Bruce,No rush. Like I said, I was fine (with (waf). Just curious.Thanks,-- Alex
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It just didn't make it into the book. I'll fix today.
Hi Bruce,
No rush. Like I said, I've been fine (with the extra waf). Was just curious.
Thanks,
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I somehow managed to build google's Chrome browser the BLFS-way at the end of
last year (a long time ago :).
The starting point for help and enlightenment is obviously The Chromium
Projects,
'dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code'.
However, my overall build process
I'll reply to Bruce and Andy in a conversational manner, otherwise
I feel things may get truly unintelligible with all those , , , etc.
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Topic #1
- Alex wrote:
In '/usr/lib/cups/filter/' the applicable filter in my case,
Hello,
I've just upgraded CUPS from an ancient version, 1.2.8 to BLFS-latest, 1.5
Here are a couple notes some other adventurous souls might find useful.
Local USB printer, Samsung ML-2510 (as garden-variety as they come).
Kernel 3.0.9, udev-173
1. In '/usr/lib/cups/filter/' the applicable
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:44:43 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
there are similar reports for other gtk+-2 applications. Help, please !
Hi Ken,
As I said, I managed to successfully build/install 8.0
(NOT 8.0.1, but I cannot see important differences around your problems):
To Who(m) It May Concern,
If you are into Linux (kernel and Xorg) and have time to spare, you might
want to take a quick look at my Bug submission at Xorg freedesktop Bugzilla.
Bug 43167 X intel driver causes wrong wraparound of console command line
Your libxml2 was compiled without python support.
I missed that ...
If a user has Python installed (I suppose with a reasonable
version, in good standing) configure --with-python is automatic
(i.e., she doesn't have to specifically include (nor even be aware of)
the with-python argument).
Or,
On Wed Nov 9 12:28:56 MST 2011, Bruce Dubbs wrote
[Andy] I'd appreciate knowing the instructions you used. ...
Hi Bruce,
I apologize for interceding, just in case you might be interested
in additionalopinions, here's mine (the instructions are at
the bottom - '.mozconfig'):
With Andy's URL
Rumor is some Linux sites (kernel.org, etc.) have been down for more than two
weeks:
www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2105947/hackers-break-linux-kernel-home
Hope, everybody keeps it on the qt.
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Sep 16, 2011 06:29:45 PM, Johnneylee wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Alex wrote:
Rumor is some Linux sites (kernel.org, etc.) have been down for more than
two weeks:
So when you use plurals, you really mean singular?
Hi Johnneylee,
Other than the obviously correct weeks (to agree
Disclaimer: people have long realized I don't seem to have a life, so by
rights, the title should be A Day in the No-life of ... or something like
that.
Frankly, I never found anything wrong with spending practically all the so
called free time on things Linux. And Linux has been helping me
I launched Bug 647910
Firefox-4.0 compile fails on using --enable-javaxpcom
For reference, see Andrew Benton's thread
Firefox-4.0 and GCC-4.6
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Alex said:
The Firefox-3.6.13 mozconfig example,
# If you enable javaxpcom, you must have a java compiler installed.
ac_add_options --disable-javaxpcom
I'm not sure I have a java compiler on this machine
(I do have jdk-precompiled-1.6.0_12 installed, though)
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Apr 1, 2011 07:40:59 PM, Andrew Benton wrote:
Firefox-4.0 in its raw state won't compile with gcc-4.6.0.
The build grinds to a halt like so:
c++ -o nsEnumeratorUtils.o -c -I../../dist/stl_wrappers
...
/home/andy/firefox-4.0/xpcom/glue/nsEnumeratorUtils.cpp
To All 'libpng' Aficionados (Bug 645519):
The way I diagonally read it, a quick fix might interfere with Bug 624133
(see history, the 2011-03-31 14:03:47 PDT line).
Tread carefully.
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It might help to take a (quick) look at
Bug 646150
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Mar 27, 2011 01:32:12 PM, alupu wrote:
Andy:
Can we see the actual error message (and some lines of context before
the crash happens). Maybe we can find a fix for you?
Thank you very much.
Please bear with me about (hopefully) an hour or so after this post.
I'm submitting a Bug report as we
Mar 27, 2011 02:47:36 PM, DJ Lucas wrote:
Andy:
You can fix the back and forward arrows by setting a gtk theme
DJ Lucas:
You shouldn't have to. ...
Patch [2.22.1] attached.
Hi DJ,
Thank you very much.
I know that the buttons are still missing as of the latest release, 3.6.16.
Be that as it
Mar 27, 2011 05:08:49 PM, DJ Lucas wrote:
It [gtk+-2.22.1-old_icons-1.patch] applies with offsets to 2.24.x
I installed GTK+-2.24.3 (i.e., patch AOK)
(I had also installed GLib-2.28.4 for good measure.)
I rebuilt Firefox-3.6.16
I got my dear and sweet arrows back
Thanks a lot,
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Mar 26, 2011 04:20:04 AM, Andrew Breton wrote:
ldd '/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin'
...
libpng14.so.14 = /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 (0xb706)
...
As you can see, firefox.bin is linked to libpng14.so.14 so
--enable-system-png obviously works fine...
There's another possibility; it is
This is mostly directed to Andrew Benton but everybody can join in, of course.
Hi Andy,
At your leisure, I'd like to compare notes with you, if I may.
Three items. I might as well start with this one:
Item No 1. -
Alex:
Bitches that
This is mostly directed to Andrew Benton but everybody can join in, of course.
Hi Andy,
At your leisure, I'd like to compare notes with you, if I may.
Three items. I might as well start with this one:
Item No 1. -
Alex:
Bitches that he lost the
Hi Andy,
Thank you for the quick reply.
1. -
Alex:
'libpng' with or without apng is an exercise
in futility: one MUST comment out,
# ac_add_options --with-system-png
Andy:
No, it builds fine --with-system-png here.
Alex:
In your Mar 22, 2011
Mar 23, 2011 06:40:35 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
Can't even build it!
The md5sum
3468a2c463b4fc2788ba621e4b511c30 firefox-4.0.source.tar.bz2
Can anyone confirm that md5 ...?
Yep.
That's the one that worked for me (in OP).
BTW, I stand by (so to speak) what I said in the OP:
Basically,
Mar 22, 2011 12:37:26 AM, William Tracy wrote:
Does Firefox build with GTk+3? I assumed it didn't.
I no longer touch GTK+2 for reasons alluded to in my previous posts.
The whole work described in my OP was done using GTK+-3.03.
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CORRECTION
The build did pick up GTK+-2, despite my best
efforts to place a GTK pointer pointing to GTK+-3
in /usr/lib and /usr/include.
Apologies.
Andy:
You can fix the back and forward arrows by setting a gtk theme.
I'll look into that.
I was surprised that by just moving to
Hi Andy,
Thank you for the themes pointers.
Did you use
--with-system-nspr
--with-system-nss
like me?
No. the only thing I install which uses nspr or nss is Firefox so for
me it makes no sense to install them a system libraries.
I'm a little confused here.
I was talking about
ASUS P5E-VM HDMI with Intel G35/ICH9R.
Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 4GB
(B)LFS i686-pc-linux-gnu 2.6.37.3, Xorg-7.6
glib-2.28.3, gtk+-3.0.3, sqlite-3.7.5, etc.
To Whom It May Concern:
On a dare, I decided to install the freshly released Firefox 4.0.
It was also on a squeeze - the
Mar 21, 2011 10:01:36 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
The apng stuff sounds as if it hasn't changed - although I admit to
suggesting blfs should go with apng (one of my bad suggestions!),
firefox has always been happy to build its own patched version.
Hi Ken,
Frankly, I've always trusted _my_ stuff
Hi guys:
Thank you very much for your comments.
Chris Staub wrote on Tue Dec 15 22:56:48 MST 2009:
unless there are duplicate files in both directories.
My original post:
xtrans-1.2.5 (of the Xorg-7.5 lib).
The previous xtrans (1.2.1 - of the Xorg-7.4)
was placed, together with all the
Hello,
In the process of building Xorg-7.5 (from 7.4)
I stumbled upon something odd.
For a couple of packages their 'pc' files ended up
in '/usr/share/pkgconfig' instead of the tried and true
'/usr/lib/pkgconfig'.
Specifically, in '/usr/share/pkgconfig' I now have:
udev-149 (independently, of
Hello,
(B)LFS i686-pc-linux-gnu 2.6.21.3, ALSA 1.0.9a,
cdp 1.0, XMMS 1.2.10, KsCD 1.6.
1. Are there any apps that can play Audio-CDs digitally?
(i.e. without the need of the 4-pin
analog audio cable, Ã la Windows Media Player)
It seems cdp, KsCD or XMMS (natively) don't generate
any
Hi Alexander,
On 2007/05/01 Tue AM 10:37:56 EDT Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
5. Call Trace:
[f88d2635] sis900_interrupt+0x625/0x6a0 [sis900]
Should be fixed by this patch: ...
WORKS LIKE A CHARM (on 2.6.21.1).
Alexander, you're GREAT. Thank you very much.
I told you,
One doesn't need
Hi Alexander,
On 2007/04/29 Sun PM 10:41:17 EDT Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Try 2.6.21.1, it includes a network-related fix.
In a post dated 2007/04/29 Sun PM 08:33:10 EDT (easy to miss since it was
addressed to Tijnema only) I already complained that
Unfortunately, 2.6.21.1 behaves the same
- Alex:
snip
BUG: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:546 smp_call_function()
[c010d965] smp_call_function+0x125/0x130
[] ... (Twenty lines of this nature)
[c0341570] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x240
snip
- Alexander E. Patrakov:
1) Tell us the kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file
2)
Hi Tijnema,
On 4/29/07, Tijnema ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It might be useful to post the whole log, and not only a few lines.
If by log you mean the whole screen, I tried to avoid it for two reasons
1. It's hard to write down and then retype all those 24 lines (I have no idea
how to do
Hi everybody,
686-pc-linux-gnu, kernel 2.6.20.7
libpcap-0.9.4, ppp-2.4.3, net-tools-1.60,
rp-pppoe-3.5, openssl-0.9.7g, ntp-4.2.0
Networking (and indeed the whole system) running smoothly.
PROBLEM
Upgraded to the brand-new 2.6.21.
Everything fine, EXCEPT the system crashes
after connecting to
Hi Mickaël,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit
Did you stripped your binaries ?
Alex a écrit
As far as I remember I handled both builds (old and new) the same.
snip
I may have (unwittingly) stripped the old packages
(glibc-2.3.4 and gcc-3.4.3) after all.
You were absolutely right.
As a quick
Hi Mickaël,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit
Did you stripped your binaries ?
As far as I remember I handled both builds (old and new) the same.
However, I'll strip the new packages (glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2) on purpose
so as to see if that makes a difference (who knows, I may have (unwittingly)
Hi Everybody,
686-pc-linux-gnu 2.6.20
I've upgraded my original LFS software,
glibc-2.3.4/gcc-3.4.3
to BLFS glibc-2.5/gcc-4.1.2.
I was curious about how compiled files compare under
the old system and the new (apples to apples) so I ran
a few (unscientific) tests to this effect.
Looks like the
All 39 Perl Modules downloaded over the BLFS 6.1 book links (Chapter 12.
Programming) FAIL on the md5sums as given in the file Perl_Modules.gz.md5sums
there.
What gives?
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