Re: [blfs-support] Default Printer Not Showing In Firefox Or Thunderbird

2020-09-08 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:27:37 +0100 Vaughan Butler via blfs-support wrote: > On 04/09/2020 11:35, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-support wrote: >> On 2020-09-04 11:03 +0100, Vaughan Butler via blfs-support wrote: >>> Any ideas why the default network printer doesn't show up in Firefox or >>> Thunderbird? This

Re: [blfs-support] texdoc error: No texlive.tlpdb nor shipped tlpdb data found

2020-04-24 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:42:24 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > In fact there is a tlpdb-full tarball in historic/ - dropping that > into /opt/texlive//tlpkg allows texdoc to run (on the first run, > it creates the cache). Tested on 2019 with the corresponding > version, I'll create

Re: [blfs-support] texdoc error: No texlive.tlpdb nor shipped tlpdb data found

2020-04-24 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:13:53 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:54:38PM +0200, Stephen Berman via blfs-support > wrote: >> I built the full texlive-20200406 using jhalfs and it installed without >> error and using LaTeX works so far, but

[blfs-support] texdoc error: No texlive.tlpdb nor shipped tlpdb data found

2020-04-24 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
I built the full texlive-20200406 using jhalfs and it installed without error and using LaTeX works so far, but when I try to use texdoc, it fails with the error in the Subject line. My last full build of texlive was the 2018 source, and it contained /opt/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/scripts/texdoc/Dat

Re: [blfs-support] Building BLFS with jhalfs: must LFS be completely up to date?

2020-04-06 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:49:24 +0200 Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: > On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 11:22 +0200, Stephen Berman via blfs-support > wrote: >> On the weekend I built LFS SVN-20200319 with jhalfs (it was the first >> time I tried jhalfs, and it succeeded), and yes

Re: [blfs-support] Building BLFS with jhalfs: must LFS be completely up to date?

2020-04-02 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:24:09 +0200 Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: > On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 10:59 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: >> On 4/2/20 4:22 AM, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >> > On the weekend I built LFS SVN-20200319 with jhalfs (it was the

[blfs-support] Building BLFS with jhalfs: must LFS be completely up to date?

2020-04-02 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On the weekend I built LFS SVN-20200319 with jhalfs (it was the first time I tried jhalfs, and it succeeded), and yesterday I wanted to start on BLFS, but when I ran the BLFS/update-lfs.sh script (after fixing a syntax error, which I reported to the blfs-dev list), I saw that LFS had been updated t

Re: [blfs-support] scanimage crashes with hplip plug-in

2019-07-28 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:19:22 -0500 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 7/26/19 3:33 AM, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:20:01 +0200 Christopher Gregory via blfs-support >> wrote: [...] >>> I hate to be the one who says this,

Re: [blfs-support] scanimage crashes with hplip plug-in

2019-07-28 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 04:59:43 + (UTC) DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: > On 7/26/2019 9:47 AM, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >> In reviewing what your plugin instructions install, I noticed several >> libraries were missing that had been installed when I had previous

Re: [blfs-support] scanimage crashes with hplip plug-in

2019-07-26 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:40:56 +1000 Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs-support wrote: > On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 21:14 +0200, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: [...] >> I downloaded the relevant source RPMs from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repo, >> converted them to tar.gz and tried to build

Re: [blfs-support] scanimage crashes with hplip plug-in

2019-07-26 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:20:01 +0200 Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: >> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 7:14 AM >> From: "Stephen Berman via blfs-support" >> >> To: "Ken Moffat via blfs-support" >> Cc: "Stephen Berman" >

[blfs-support] scanimage crashes with hplip plug-in (was: [BLFS 8.4] PyQt4 build failure)

2019-07-25 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 02:21:28 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:50:03PM +0200, Stephen Berman wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:53:59 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support >> wrote: >> >> Yes, I will definitely try to figure out wh

Re: [blfs-support] [BLFS 8.4] PyQt4 build failure

2019-07-18 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:53:59 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Stephen Berman via blfs-support > wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:49:00 +0200 Christopher Gregory via blfs-support >> wrote: >> >> > >>

Re: [blfs-support] [BLFS 8.4] PyQt4 build failure

2019-07-18 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:49:00 +0200 Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: >> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 8:02 AM >> From: "Stephen Berman via blfs-support" >> >> To: "Ken Moffat via blfs-support" >> Cc: "Stephen Berman" &

Re: [blfs-support] [BLFS 8.4] PyQt4 build failure

2019-07-17 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:43:40 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:44:23PM +0200, Stephen Berman via blfs-support > wrote: >> Although PyQt4 is not a BLFS package nor a direct dependency of one, it >> is apparently a required dependency to buil

[blfs-support] [BLFS 8.4] PyQt4 build failure

2019-07-16 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
Although PyQt4 is not a BLFS package nor a direct dependency of one, it is apparently a required dependency to build the GUI of hplip, which, while also not a BLFS package, is mentioned as optional for cups and cups-filters, and for SANE as something "you may need" (and indeed I do), so I think my

Re: [blfs-support] LLVM with Clang and Compiler RT test failures

2019-07-11 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 01:00:19 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 02:52:27PM +, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm building LLVM with Clang and Compiler RT on 8.4-systemd following the >> instructions >> on http://linuxfromscratch.org/blf

Re: [blfs-support] [BLFS 8.4] Glib-2.58.3 build failure [SOLVED]

2019-06-02 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:27:12 +0200 Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: > I'm in the process of building the X Window system with all required and > recommended dependencies, and I've gotten to the point of building > glib-2.58.3, but it fails as follows: > > [

[blfs-support] [BLFS 8.4] Glib-2.58.3 build failure

2019-06-02 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
I'm in the process of building the X Window system with all required and recommended dependencies, and I've gotten to the point of building glib-2.58.3, but it fails as follows: [972/1007] Generating glib-gettextize-man with a custom command. FAILED: docs/reference/glib/glib-gettextize.1 /usr/bin/

Re: [blfs-support] Source for OpenSuSe builds ?

2019-05-10 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 10 May 2019 00:32:10 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 05:26:01AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: >> >> In the meantime, I got an off-list reply with a link for tumbleweed, >> pointing to >> http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/os

Re: [blfs-support] Source for OpenSuSe builds ?

2019-05-04 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 3 May 2019 22:09:12 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > At the moment I'm trying to get my head around posible use of LTO in > builds. Today I read some posts (some of them are a bit old) which > prompted me to look at how fedora and OpenSuse are building firefox > (apparently, w

Re: [blfs-support] 8.3 openssh patch

2018-09-08 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:44:50 +0200 Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: > On 9/8/18 8:17 PM, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >> On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:50:46 +0200 Stephen Berman >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:14:22 -0500 renodr via blfs-support

[blfs-support] 8.3 openssh patch (was: 8.3 wpa_supplicant-2.6 required patch)

2018-09-08 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:50:46 +0200 Stephen Berman wrote: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:14:22 -0500 renodr via blfs-support > wrote: > >> On 2018-09-07 11:52, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >>> The wpa_supplicant page in BLFS 8.3 provides this required patc

Re: [blfs-support] 8.3 wpa_supplicant-2.6 required patch

2018-09-07 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:14:22 -0500 renodr via blfs-support wrote: > On 2018-09-07 11:52, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >> The wpa_supplicant page in BLFS 8.3 provides this required patch link: >> >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/8.3/wpa_supp

[blfs-support] 8.3 wpa_supplicant-2.6 required patch

2018-09-07 Thread Stephen Berman via blfs-support
The wpa_supplicant page in BLFS 8.3 provides this required patch link: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/8.3/wpa_supplicant-2.6-upstream_fixes-2.patch but that URL does not exist. Doing s/8.3/svn/ does yield an existing URL; is the patch there also correct for 8.3? (8.2 has a diffe

Re: [blfs-support] [BLFS 8.2] pango broken by help2man?

2018-04-11 Thread Stephen Berman
On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:41:33 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 04/10/2018 04:21 PM, Stephen Berman wrote: > >> The help2man Perl script was installed with lsb-release-1.4; this >> version is from 2000 and indeed lacks `help-option'. This appears to be >> a bug in

[blfs-support] [BLFS 8.2] pango broken by help2man?

2018-04-10 Thread Stephen Berman
I tried to build pango-1.40.14 with all required and recommended dependencies but it failed: [116/127] Generating pango-view.1 with a custom command. FAILED: pango-view/pango-view.1 /usr/bin/help2man --no-info --section=1 '--help-option="--help-all"' '--name="Pango text viewer"' --outpu

Re: [blfs-support] autofs needs rpc.h?

2017-10-27 Thread Stephen Berman
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:47:11 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > I've never used autofs (the idea offends me, I *want* to know what > gets mounted, and where, and I may choose to mount ro or rw at > different times) I want to be able to plug in and write to a USB stick or external hard disk without having

Re: [blfs-support] autofs needs rpc.h?

2017-10-27 Thread Stephen Berman
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:23:12 +0300 Toomas Rosin wrote: > Stephen Berman wrote: > >> It appears to require rpc.h, which is no longer included in glibc. >> What do I have to do to build autofs? > > Glibc installs rpc.h when you configure it with --enable-obsolete-rpc. &g

Re: [blfs-support] autofs needs rpc.h?

2017-10-26 Thread Stephen Berman
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:25:36 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Stephen Berman wrote: [...] >> Ok. (I had checked >> http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/autofs.html before >> posting, but it hasn't been updated yet.) > > It gets updated at 0215 US Centr

Re: [blfs-support] autofs needs rpc.h?

2017-10-26 Thread Stephen Berman
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:55:11 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Stephen Berman wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:41:08 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Stephen Berman wrote: >>>> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:57:32 +0200 "Armin K." wrote: >> [...] >>&

Re: [blfs-support] autofs needs rpc.h?

2017-10-26 Thread Stephen Berman
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:41:08 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Stephen Berman wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:57:32 +0200 "Armin K." wrote: [...] >>> Try installing libtirpc and pass CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/tirpc" to the >>> configure script invocation. I

Re: [blfs-support] autofs needs rpc.h?

2017-10-26 Thread Stephen Berman
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:57:32 +0200 "Armin K." wrote: > On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 20:46 +0200, Stephen Berman wrote: >> I wanted to install autofs, so following the instructions in BLFS >> 8.1, I >> installed the required dependency rpcsvc-proto, ran configure and >

[blfs-support] autofs needs rpc.h?

2017-10-26 Thread Stephen Berman
I wanted to install autofs, so following the instructions in BLFS 8.1, I installed the required dependency rpcsvc-proto, ran configure and make, and this is the result: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile.conf config.status: creating include/config.h set -e; for i

[blfs-support] libblockdev and parted

2017-10-15 Thread Stephen Berman
Following the BLFS 8.1 instructions I installed all required and recommended dependencies of libblockdev-2.11-1, but not the optional dependency parted-3.2, but when I ran configure it broke off with this: *** Libblockdev encountered the following issues during configuration: No package 'libparted

Re: [blfs-support] Poppler and cups-filters

2017-10-14 Thread Stephen Berman
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:25:06 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Stephen Berman wrote: >> I built poppler-0.57.0 in (B)LFS 8.1 with the required and recommended >> dependencies, including openjpeg-1.5.2 rather than openjpeg-2.2.0. >> Later I built cups-filters and its dependencies, o

[blfs-support] Poppler and cups-filters

2017-10-14 Thread Stephen Berman
I built poppler-0.57.0 in (B)LFS 8.1 with the required and recommended dependencies, including openjpeg-1.5.2 rather than openjpeg-2.2.0. Later I built cups-filters and its dependencies, one of which, mupdf-1.11, lists openjpeg-2.2.0 as a recommended dependency, so I built that as well. But the cu

Re: [blfs-support] ImageMagick and Emacs-25.2 Version 2017-06-13

2017-06-16 Thread Stephen Berman
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:03:55 +0100 Richard Melville <6tric...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 June 2017 at 11:51, Stephen Berman wrote: > > I installed ImageMagick-6 on top of ImageMagick-7, using > ImageMagick-6.9.7-8-libs_only-1.patch (from BLFS 8.0). This installs > the f

Re: [blfs-support] ImageMagick and Emacs-25.2 Version 2017-06-13

2017-06-16 Thread Stephen Berman
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:05:03 +0100 Richard Melville <6tric...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 June 2017 at 17:05, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Richard Melville wrote: > > So as not to waste anybody's time, I would just like to report that a web > search finally answered my question. Indeed, my understand

Re: [blfs-support] Fortran compiler

2017-05-11 Thread Stephen Berman
On Wed, 10 May 2017 23:31:19 +0200 Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 10/05/2017 21:49, Stephen Berman wrote: >> I want to build R (https://cran.r-project.org/) on (B)LFS 8.0 and one of >> its dependencies is a Fortran compiler. According to the BLFS book, >> adding Fortran t

Re: [blfs-support] Fortran compiler

2017-05-10 Thread Stephen Berman
On Wed, 10 May 2017 20:57:36 +0100 lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) wrote: >> From: Stephen Berman >> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 21:49:17 +0200 >> >> I want to build R (https://cran.r-project.org/) on (B)LFS 8.0 and one of >> its dependencies is a Fortran compile

[blfs-support] Fortran compiler

2017-05-10 Thread Stephen Berman
I want to build R (https://cran.r-project.org/) on (B)LFS 8.0 and one of its dependencies is a Fortran compiler. According to the BLFS book, adding Fortran to GCC requires a full recompilation, and this is done by bootstrapping, which "is needed for robustness and is highly recommended when upgrad

[blfs-support] texlive build instructions

2017-05-05 Thread Stephen Berman
I built texlive 2016 from source according to the BLFS 8.0 instructions, and while the build succeeded, there was one stumbling block which I would have avoided with more explicit instructions. Namely, instead of just saying that ghostscript-9.20 is a recommended dependency "(for dvisvgm ...)", it

Re: [blfs-support] Can't build Firefox: old-configure failed

2017-05-03 Thread Stephen Berman
On Wed, 03 May 2017 13:02:14 +0200 Stephen Berman wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2017 18:02:55 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > >> I'm sure that at one time (when gtk3 was first usable) we noted that >> both gtk2 AND gtk3 were needed. Not sure why that dropped out - >> ma

Re: [blfs-support] Can't build Firefox: old-configure failed

2017-05-03 Thread Stephen Berman
On Tue, 2 May 2017 18:02:55 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 10:46:33AM +0200, Stephen Berman wrote: >> I have built LFS 8.0 and numerous packages from BLFS 8.0, mostly without >> unsurmountable problems. But I cannot build firefox-51.0.1: >> >

[blfs-support] Can't build Firefox: old-configure failed

2017-05-02 Thread Stephen Berman
I have built LFS 8.0 and numerous packages from BLFS 8.0, mostly without unsurmountable problems. But I cannot build firefox-51.0.1: DEBUG: configure:12346: checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.4.0 gtk+-unix-print-3.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 DEBUG: configure:12353: checking MOZ_GTK3_CFLAGS DEBUG: configure:1