Re: [blfs-support] Upgrading from gcc-4.9.4 to gcc-6.4.0

2017-07-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 14:01 +0300, Xu Pu Ti wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding why would it still be problematic if > both old and new symbols are available. As I understand the description you've linked to, the issue is that while the libstdc++ library supports both, any program may only

Re: [blfs-support] Gvfs-1.32.1 will not build with Fuse-3.0.2

2017-07-03 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2017-07-02 at 17:41 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > I can no longer remember why I've included fuse as part of my build. > Looking back at my build history, I first added fuse back in 2012, > when I added Rhythmbox, which I no longer use. I'm thinking of > dropping fuse from my build all

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-11 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 19:26 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > But as I don't build gnome, and don't cobble together new apps from > mashups of different languages, I'm not seeing what good it is to me. It's not about mashing up different languages - it's simply a tool for writing apps in languages

Re: [blfs-support] Determining dependencies

2017-05-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 14:06 +0100, akhiezer wrote: > > Not quite sure if you're extolling 'make' over 'tsort' there, or if > the (slightly passive-aggressive?) tone/wording is to indicate the > other way 'round. Actually, I'd never known there was such a thing as a UNIX tsort command until now.

Re: [blfs-support] Determining dependencies

2017-05-26 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 14:03 +, William Harrington wrote: > Hello Simon, > > So pretty much like this right? Can work around circular deps real > well > with Make. > > cat Makefile > vim: Gtk2 GPM Lua Python2 Ruby > @echo vim > > Gtk2: Atk2 Gdk-pixbuf Pango hicolor-icon-theme >   

Re: [blfs-support] Determining dependencies

2017-05-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 15:14 +, William Harrington wrote: > In the past I have attempted to use topological sorting (tsort). This > method takes a bit of time if you start with an App with a lot of > deps. A rought example through book and required/recommended deps and > coming up with

Re: [blfs-support] scons

2017-04-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 15:28 +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > In fact "set -e" makes things  even stranger.  I thought that "this > && that" was equivalent to  "if this ; then that ; else  false ; fi", > but after "set -e", "false && true" returns status 1 to the shell, > but "if false ; then true ;

Re: [blfs-support] http verses ftp for mutt: [WAS] Re: Problems in downloading gnutls

2017-03-15 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 11:29 +, Jeremy Henty wrote: > Unfortunately I can't get https links to work: > >   wget-1.19.1 complains: > > ERROR: no certificate subject alternative name matches > requested host name ‘ftp.mutt.org’. > >   curl-7.53.1 complains: > > curl: (51)

Re: [blfs-support] Strange behaviour in xfce

2017-02-01 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 09:00 +0100, Theresa Williams wrote: > On the desktop of every user - privileged or not - are icons for > /dev, /run, /proc etc - most of the root directories. These open > Thunar. > You mention /dev, /run, and /proc - but not /bin, /etc, or /lib. And what those things all

Re: [blfs-support] Should the libpng patch be listed as a dependency in the Firefox documentation? BLFS 7.10/BLFS development

2017-01-09 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 23:42 -0500, Michael Shell wrote: > Does anyone know if any other applications also rely on this > animation patch for libpng? Kind of a bad spot to be in to depend > on functionality that the libpng developers won't accept into the > mainstream. Not aware of anything. As

Re: [blfs-support] Movin' and groovin'

2016-07-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 16:08 -0400, Michael Shell wrote: > A Google search for > > SATA cable come loose > > is really eye opening and features this rant: >  Well, if you compare with PATA cables, yeah...  my experience of those was that once you'd plugged it in, you would *never* get it out

Re: [blfs-support] Could someone please explain the purpose of the sed used in building luit (Xorg apps)

2016-06-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 18:03 +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: > What happens if you connect to a machine that does not use utf8? Such as? I mean, sure, not everything is Linux... but most UNIX variants support UTF-8 just fine these days, don't they? Simon. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [blfs-support] Dependency chain

2016-05-31 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 02:30 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > And now you seem to think it will be trivial for us to initially > add a list of packages which can use this package, and on subsequent > edits review that list for things which have dropped out or started > to use this (arguably, if we did

Re: [blfs-support] CJK fonts - what are people using ?

2016-05-30 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 04:32 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > "Which fonts do you guys use for CJK languages ?" Japanese is the only CJK language I deal with - I can't read it, but I work with Japanese translations of our software, so I need to be able to at least display it correctly. I use the IPAex

Re: [blfs-support] Use custom logo for LFS

2016-05-26 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 18:11 +0530, Aniket Bhattacharyea wrote: > After making the LFS, I've made a brand logo to go with it. Where > could I place the logo for the system to recognize it? > Note: This is not the bootup logo I'm talking about. It's the brand > logo, which, for example, is shown

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 15:36 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > And seems like lots of stuff wants glib.  OK, thanks Simon.  Looks > like I ought to include it in the future. Probably, yeah. You *might* not need it... but if you find out the hard way that you need it installed, you'll likely also have to

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 14:50 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > I had seen that.  That is what gave me a clue about what it does, > and why it might be something that may find broader use, ala GTK, > besides the number of optional dependencies in the book.  Have you > seen any evidence it's finding wide

Re: [blfs-support] Problems building gtkmm-2.24.4

2016-05-20 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 07:40 -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > That is not true regarding our updates. DJ Lucas and I are committed > to ensuring that the systemd book stays up to date and a good > resource at all times. However, neither of us have touched GNOME yet. Out of curiosity, how much

Re: [blfs-support] I'm curious

2016-02-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 13:31 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Paul, Remember that LFS/BLFS is targeted towards learning how to put  > together a Linux system.  I agree that from a practical standpoint > that there is no reason to keep /lib, /bin, and /sbin separate, but > leaving that in does

Re: [blfs-support] Switching to Upstart

2016-02-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 20:03 -0600, Rob wrote: > I've been looking at some different startup control methodoligies.  > Basically between systemd and upstart. I like upstart because frankly > it looks a lot simpler and neater than systemd. > I'm well into blfs, however, and converting all my

Re: [blfs-support] Switching to Upstart

2016-02-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 02:44 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > [in Dr. McCoy's voice] "It's dead Jim" Well yeah, there is that. With both Ubuntu and Redhat having abandoned it for Systemd, it's pretty clear Upstart isn't a project with a strong future... no releases in the past year. I think Chrome OS

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS Book Version 2016-01-19 Some suggestions

2016-01-19 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 21:06 +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: > A lot of sites are now only available with "https". You can compile > "lynx" > --with-ssl while in chroot. Of course, it requires openssl, which can > be > installed in chroot too. More than that... HTTPS everywhere is the way things are

Re: [blfs-support] LFS vs CLFS

2015-12-19 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 12:33 -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > That should be reinforced in the book.  It escaped my > notice/realization. I think it's just considered obvious... if you start building with platform XYZ, that's what you end up with. To some degree, that's why CLFS exists - to do the more

Re: [blfs-support] LFS vs CLFS

2015-12-17 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 23:54 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > I mention intel with regret, I've always > preferred AMD, but intels since SandyBridge, with the integrated > graphics, use much less power and give similar build times for many > things (faster SBU, often little slower at -j4 on an i3 with >

Re: [blfs-support] LFS vs CLFS

2015-12-17 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 21:05 -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > Are you telling me that all I have to do is build regular LFS-7.7 on > CentOS and I'll get an x86-64 version automagically? Well, yeah... unless you do something special (like CLFS), your LFS build will be the same architecture as the host.

Re: [blfs-support] vim often becoming unresponsive ?

2015-09-03 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 13:21 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > It really sounds like a network issue to me. Agreed. Vim does save state regularly to those .swp files, so it does tend to be very vulnerable to NFS blocking on network issues. Simon. --

Re: [blfs-support] Trouble creating users

2015-07-09 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 12:52 +0200, Niels Terp wrote: I found that /usr/bin/sudo and /usr/bin/su did not have the UID flag set. After setting this, I can now use su and sudo from the command prompt, but it is still not working in KDE. Are you doing something funny around package management?

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice-3.6 for 7.2

2015-07-03 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 14:55 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: So presumably nothing is going to use those as named and they ALL should be symlinked? If LO is the only thing using them, yeah, probably. But personally, I find the idea of installing java libraries under /usr a bit odd. Java-based apps

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice-3.6 for 7.2

2015-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 18:41 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: So I built most of the java stuff, junit-4.11 in particular, acording to the BLFS-121102 book, with the exception of going for the OpenJDK -1.8.45 because of CVEs against the book's version(s). LibreOffice wants that

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice-3.6 for 7.2

2015-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 14:37 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: Download it. Seriously, nobody ever builds that kind of stuff from source unless they're actually modifying the library in question. When I decided long ago not to use anybody else's binaries if I could help it. I want my system

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice-3.6 for 7.2

2015-07-01 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 14:04 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: So, is that the only answer we have? Do not --enable-java. Nobody knows how to produce the junit.jar? Download it. Seriously, nobody ever builds that kind of stuff from source unless they're actually modifying the library in question. When

Re: [blfs-support] UPower

2015-06-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 15:25 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: Name me one thing marketing ever got right! (And I'll name a hundred it screwed up.) Unfair... you get the easy side of that challenge... :) Simon. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: [blfs-support] libinput (and all that jazz)

2015-04-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 11:53 -0400, alex lupu wrote: a Wayland convert, -- Alex You're a little way off being a Wayland convert just yet... but libinput *has* already been a valuable spinoff from the Wayland effort, something that could be used by Xorg as well. But as Armin said, Wayland itself

Re: [blfs-support] missing file when compiling openjdk

2015-04-22 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 16:26 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: Maybe around version n.3.1. Maybe I'm something of a cynic about such things but figure major changes take take about 3 tries to get working, minor changes at least 1, and never try version 1.0 of anything, with very rare exceptions. Not

Re: [blfs-support] missing file when compiling openjdk

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 09:59 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: I got the impression that OpenJDK is so large, has so many moving parts being worked on independently, that it barely holds together. True enough. There's supposed to be a lot of work towards modularising the next version(s) of Java - e.g.

Re: [blfs-support] CA certificates

2015-03-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 23:56 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: Oh, well then, let's not protect anything, there's always some other way a user can bring in cracking tools. Let's just provide them, shall we? The kids might leave the house and not lock the door, so it doesn't do any good for us to

Re: [blfs-support] Planning for FOSS Firefox plugins

2015-02-15 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 00:36 +, Ken Moffat wrote: Would it be cynical to suggest that firefox is mostly developed on non-libre systems, which is why it is slow to pick up changes, but many of the LO devs use linux ? Probably, so I suppose I'd better not say it ;) Do you mean the fact

Re: [blfs-support] Planning for FOSS Firefox plugins

2015-02-14 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 03:15 +0100, Armin K. wrote: From my past experience (not so recent to be honest), I found that Gnash is practically horrible. It couldn't load quite a number of Flash apps and when it could, it was hogging CPU like crazy. Even youtube wasn't great at the time. I'd

Re: [blfs-support] GPT mount issue

2015-01-22 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 03:31 +, Ken Moffat wrote: To clarify that: if I add a USB device which appears as a drive, and it is not a construct of my printer (really! it loads the usb-storage module) Never seen one of those myself, but from what I gather, they're usually a tiny amount of

Re: [blfs-support] Yet another LibreOffice post

2014-11-05 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 23:16 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: My i7 laptop has 8 cores, but overheats if I use all of them hard for more than a few minutes. I figured this out with my gcc build. Yeah, I've seen that with the i7-based laptop we use as a portable demo machine at work... it puts out a

Re: [blfs-support] How to Unistall Mysql

2014-11-03 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 08:31 -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: With git, things are worse: $ porg -f git-2.1.3 | grep fernando | wc -l 29 There are 29 files incorrectly logged. Out of curiosity, how well does it cope with hard links? Last time I looked, git installs a ton of those under

Re: [blfs-support] Advice on Learning XML

2014-10-26 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 10:59 +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: Now, what you should be aware of is that the hard part is outside XML: it is in the purpose of the XML document itself. As you know, XHTML, HTML5 and docbook documents are XML documents, but with a completely different set of rules when

Re: [blfs-support] Advice on Learning XML

2014-10-26 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 21:48 -0400, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Basically, test that it's valid, but in particular that certain W3C things work. For me this is a learning exercise. Ok, but in that case, make sure you distinguish between XML itself, and things which use XML-based documents (of which

Re: [blfs-support] Made an Error in Preparing to Build NFS-Utils

2014-10-15 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 20:16 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Odd, I thought that syntax highlighting came for free, the problem I had had (a few years ago) was sorting out colours - I prefer a black background in my terms. The only thing I can see in either /etc/vimrc or ~/.vimrc which seems at all

Re: [blfs-support] Confused About the Three Versions of WebKitGTK+

2014-10-14 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 08:06 -0400, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: What are the reasons for building or not building one, two or three versions? Short version, they're three versions of the same package with incompatible API - first the migration from Gtk+ 2 to 3, then some further changes required to

Re: [blfs-support] Made an Error in Preparing to Build NFS-Utils

2014-10-14 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 23:37 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: You _could_ get the bootscript tarballs referenced in those two versions, untar them somewhere, and then diff the two trees to see what has changed. If you put the output from diff into a file, and you have got vim set up nicely, you can

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2014-08-09 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 07:50 +0100, spiky wrote: Hi http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/gnome/geocode-glib.html ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/geocode-glib/3.12/geocode-glib-3.12.2.tar.bz2

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 21:04 -0400, alex lupu wrote: Not gory details; just the wisdom and feasibility of embarking on such a monumental(?) endeavor versus creating a new system from Scratch. So, basically you want to install the 64-bit toolchain alongside existing 32-bit one, turning the

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 05:51 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Another possible alternative, not supported by either LFS or CLFS, would be to use a 64-bit kernel but 32-bit userspace. That seems to be the variaant which Linus prefers if 32-bit userspace is needed. Regardless of anything else, I think

Re: [blfs-support] openssl's latest fixes

2014-06-15 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 23:38 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: I have a few older LFS systems, to which I've just updated openssl- 0.9.8za. I see that we're forcing the shared library build. But I'm wondering if any of the other networking packages, and firefox, need to be rebuilt from scratch