Re: [blfs-support] TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float when building Firefox 52.4.1esr

2017-10-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 05:10:47PM -0500, Gunner Hooper wrote: > Hi, > > I tried using the new gen-event-data.py file. This is the output: > (no comments on the python, unless it produces clear errors about missing packages I regard it as impenetrable) [...] > > Here are the contents of my

Re: [blfs-support] TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float when building Firefox 52.4.1esr

2017-10-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 11:05:34AM -0400, Michael Shell wrote: > > In older machines of limited RAM, it might be helpful to provide > swap via a SSD drive, but I have not tested this so I don't know > what kind of performance increase can be expected from doing so. > Expect a WebkitGTK+

Re: [blfs-support] TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float when building Firefox 52.4.1esr

2017-10-28 Thread Gunner Hooper
Hi, I tried using the new gen-event-data.py file. This is the output: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main     "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code     exec code in

Re: [blfs-support] TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float when building Firefox 52.4.1esr

2017-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Shell wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:52:23 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: Michael Shell wrote: Another, in my opinion better, option (given the enormous bloat of QT) is WebkitGTK+ based browsers, ... LOL. You have to be kidding. Bruce, Interesting ... and a

Re: [blfs-support] TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float when building Firefox 52.4.1esr

2017-10-28 Thread Michael Shell
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:52:23 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Michael Shell wrote: > > > Another, in my opinion better, option (given the enormous bloat of QT) > > is WebkitGTK+ based browsers, ... > > LOL. You have to be kidding. Bruce, Interesting ... and a surprise to

Re: [blfs-support] Java 9

2017-10-28 Thread Riccardo G Corsi
Il 27/10/2017 21:00, blfs-support-requ...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org ha scritto: On 10/27/2017 04:09 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, The book itself does not use Java much (fop and its deps), but I know there are Java users among the LFS'ers. So I'd like to ask them a question: OpenJDK for

Re: [blfs-support] TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float when building Firefox 52.4.1esr

2017-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Shell wrote: Another, in my opinion better, option (given the enormous bloat of QT) is WebkitGTK+ based browsers, ... LOL. You have to be kidding. WebKitGTK+-2.18.1: Estimated build time: 46 SBU (using parallelism=4, estimated 152 SBUs using one core) Qt-5.9.2: Estimated build

Re: [blfs-support] TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float when building Firefox 52.4.1esr

2017-10-28 Thread Michael Shell
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:23:25 -0500 gunnersky2...@gunnerhooper.tk wrote: > File > "/root/sources/firefox-52.4.1esr/toolkit/components/telemetry/gen-event-data.py", > line 82, in write_common_event_table > e.dataset), > TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not float Well, it looks like a