Re: [blfs-support] Common post install commands

2018-08-31 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:06:26PM +0300, Waleed Hamra via blfs-support wrote: > Greetings guys; > > What are some common post install commands I should know about? > For instance, I know that if a package installs a .desktop file, I should > run "update-desktop-database" to update the cache. For

Re: [blfs-support] Common post install commands

2018-08-31 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:52:42PM +0200, Thomas Trepl via blfs-support wrote: > > More generally spoken, the DESTDIR-method is pretty fine as long as you > take in account that sometimes the sequence of the instructions needs > to be changed. I assume you do DESTDIR to provide binary packages for

Re: [blfs-support] firefox issues

2018-09-02 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 04:10:46PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > I've build FF 61.0.2 on my new blfs 8.3 system and am running into problems. > > First, there seem sto be a problem with the book;s instructions. It has > > ./mach > > as the build procedure, but that fails. Making

Re: [blfs-support] firefox issues

2018-09-02 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 12:18:25AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 04:10:46PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > > I've build FF 61.0.2 on my new blfs 8.3 system and am running into problems. > > > > First, there seem sto be

[blfs-support] I hate rustc!

2018-09-19 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
I hate trying to build with rust! Actually, I guess that people on this list probably know that, but I've found yet another example of the variability in its builds. Backstory : on -dev in June I had build failures with 1.25.0 which was apparently trying to link to static libcrmf.a. I took a pun

Re: [blfs-support] I hate rustc!

2018-09-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 08:42:32PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > I hate trying to build with rust! > Minor update - I might have fixed this issue, but since it doesn't happen all the time, I'm not going to say that I definitely fixed it. Added export LIBSSH2_SYS_

Re: [blfs-support] I hate rustc!

2018-09-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 07:47:34PM -0400, Michael Shell via blfs-support wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 22:53:39 +0100 > Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > export LIBSSH2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG=1 > > > > just before the DESTDIR install. > > > Thanks Ken!

Re: [blfs-support] I hate rustc!

2018-09-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 08:28:16PM -0400, Michael Shell via blfs-support wrote: > > Is there any chance on the horizon that we will be able to find > a way, or the rustc developers will in the future provide a way, > for us to be able to build this thing without a net connection, > or if we just d

Re: [blfs-support] I hate rustc!

2018-09-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 02:27:39AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > Also needs previous versions of rust, etc. > In fact, looking at my latest log from 1.29.0 it only needs the previous binary version of rust-std, i.e. in my case https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/2018-0

[blfs-support] Kerberos, and nfs v4

2018-09-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
Does anyone have any "idiot's guide" instructions for setting up kerberos and nfs v4 ? The book's instructions seem to be for people who have a _real_ domain, but what I would like to do is install nfs v4 (with gssapi) on my home network. I'm aware that my current nfs v3 installation will fall ap

[blfs-support] Firefox certificate problem

2018-09-29 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
(Taking this to blfs-support, and changing the title, since it has little to do with the original thread) On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:25:33PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I should mention that on my 8.3 build on this machine I lost access > to sourceforge and related sites for similar certificate

Re: [blfs-support] Firefox certificate problem

2018-09-29 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 04:14:07PM -0500, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: > > > Off-list reply intentional not to broadcast my own domain. I'd be interested > to see what they thought was misconfigured. I don't see an EV cert, and it's > not any of the government certs, so it must be OneCRL -- I

Re: [blfs-support] Error during the configuration of breeze-5.13.4 "Package type "Plasma/LookAndFeel" "

2018-10-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 09:48:20PM +0100, Oleh Malyi via blfs-support wrote: > Hello, > who can help me with configuration of breeze-5.13.4? > Not me, I rarely build kde. But I can offer a comment on this. > (lfs chroot) root:/sources/breeze-5.13.4/build#cmake > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$

Re: [blfs-support] Error during the configuration of breeze-5.13.4 "Package type "Plasma/LookAndFeel" "

2018-10-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:13:31AM +0100, Oleh Malyi via blfs-support wrote: > Hello Ken, > > this is CMakeOutput.log : > First, please do not top-post. Second, posting over 900 lines of the log does no good to anybody. Your reported error was: > > > > > > CMake Error at /usr/share/ECM/modules

Re: [blfs-support] Poppler-0.67.0 gtk-test.dir/all Error 2 - BLFS 8.3

2018-10-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 07:18:40PM -0500, rhubarbpieguy via blfs-support wrote: > > On 9/25/18 4:08 PM, rhubarbpieguy wrote: > > > > I receive the following error with the make and 'make install' Poppler > > commands.  Poppler-data installs without error. > > > > /usr/include/c++/8.2.0/cstdlib:7

Re: [blfs-support] Firefox certificate problem

2018-10-03 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:37:02PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 04:14:07PM -0500, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: > > > > > > Off-list reply intentional not to broadcast my own domain. I'd be interested > > to see what t

Re: [blfs-support] Compilation failures - missing header files

2018-10-04 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 04:01:16PM -0700, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote: > > > > Thanks Michael. That did it. Even though CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH was not set > > and returned empty when echoed, setting explicitly it as "export > > CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/c++/8.2.0:/usr/include" did the t

Re: [blfs-support] Poppler-0.67.0 gtk-test.dir/all Error 2 - BLFS 8.3

2018-10-04 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 06:33:07PM -0500, rhubarbpieguy via blfs-support wrote: > > On 10/3/18 7:17 PM, Michael Shell via blfs-support wrote: > > It seems another BLFS user has encountered this issue (but with > > applications other than poppler): > > > > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/piperma

Re: [blfs-support] MarkupSafe/Beaker/Mako ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'html' - BLFS 8.3

2018-10-06 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 05:33:21PM -0500, rhubarbpieguy via blfs-support wrote: > > I remember receiving "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'html' for the > MarkupSafe, Beaker, and Mako Python 3 modules when compiling X.  I put the > problem on the back burner as those modules compiled for Pyth

Re: [blfs-support] Poppler-0.67.0 gtk-test.dir/all Error 2 - BLFS 8.3

2018-10-07 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:56:07PM -0500, rhubarbpieguy via blfs-support wrote: > > Ken raised the cmake question earlier.  I used the cmake commands from the > documentation and OpenJPEG (which compiled successfully) uses cmake.  I know > little of cmake but want to make certain there's not somet

Re: [blfs-support] Poppler-0.67.0 gtk-test.dir/all Error 2 - BLFS 8.3

2018-10-07 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 08:52:26AM -0500, rhubarbpieguy via blfs-support wrote: > > Again, I should mention Poppler > was the only problem package and the older version works well, but it would > be nice to know what I've done wrong. > (replying to this particular post because I could not see an

[blfs-support] Latest vulnerabilities

2018-10-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
I'm sure you are all keeping up to date with fixing vulnerabilities, so I won't detail today's update to texlive source, or the other security fixes in the past few days, but exceptionally I'm going to mention the update to ghostscript which I've just committed. For gs-9.25, apply the ghostscript-

Re: [blfs-support] Latest vulnerabilities

2018-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:46:04PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > For gs-9.25, apply the ghostscript-9.25-security_fixes-1.patch which > is in lfs patches, and should be directly linked from the book when > it is next rendered. > Apparently, those fixes are incomple

[blfs-support] Odd issue with killall in logrotate.conf (sysv)

2018-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
My own /etc/logrotate.conf is slightly different from what is in the book. In particular, I have been following the manpage and using a postrotate command to kill the syslog. /var/log/sys.log { compress rotate 4 weekly postrotate echo "rotating sysl

Re: [blfs-support] Odd issue with killall in logrotate.conf (sysv)

2018-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 04:32:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 10/14/2018 03:55 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > My own /etc/logrotate.conf is slightly different from what is in the > > book. In particular, I have been following the manpage and using a

Re: [blfs-support] Odd issue with killall in logrotate.conf (sysv)

2018-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 09:55:38PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > Is this a problem with the latest psmisc ? > Possibly, https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc/issues/13 If so, it has been fixed upstream. -- Is it about a bicycle ?

Re: [blfs-support] Poppler-0.67.0 gtk-test.dir/all Error 2 - BLFS 8.3

2018-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 01:13:12AM -0400, Michael Shell via blfs-support wrote: > > Bruce, Ken: have you tried compiling poppler 0.63 or later on a system with: > > 1. GTK3 v3.8 or later > > 2. gcc 8.2 > > Did you build poppler *before* GTK3 is installed, or are you using a gcc prior >

Re: [blfs-support] Odd issue with killall in logrotate.conf (sysv)

2018-10-17 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 09:50:56PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 10/14/2018 08:25 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 09:55:38PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > > > > Is this a problem with the latest p

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg Libraries -- fatal error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file...

2018-10-19 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 01:43:27AM +, David Sprayberry via blfs-support wrote: > This is in the section Xorg Libraries in chapter 24. > The first package to be processed by the script, libSM-1.2.3, > is where the error happened. The full message is: > > sm_genid.c:102:11: fatal error: uuid/uu

Re: [blfs-support] Latest vulnerabilities

2018-10-20 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:46:04PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > For gs-9.25, apply the ghostscript-9.25-security_fixes-1.patch which > is in lfs patches, and should be directly linked from the book when > it is next rendered. > Patch now updated to -2, the

Re: [blfs-support] cups-filters-1.21.1 with Poppler-0.69.0 does not build

2018-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 11:16:11PM +0100, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > > > Hello Bruce, > > Sadly I already have tried it with the same results, ie not able to build it. > They have, from what I can see re-written the code from the earlier version > of cups-filters that need

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK+-2.22.3 resource build use is insane

2018-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 11:24:39AM -0600, renodr via blfs-support wrote: > On 2018-11-06 13:51, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have just built WebKitGTK+-2.22.3 and it was the most unpleasant > > experience I have ever had with building blfs. The build killed off

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK+-2.22.3 resource build use is insane

2018-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:23:04AM +0100, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > > > > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 11:27 AM > > From: "Ken Moffat via blfs-support" > > > > > > Summary - with (only) 4 jobs, 8GB RAM might be enoug

Re: [blfs-support] gst-plugins-bad optional GnuTLS dependency

2018-11-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:39:09AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 11/23/2018 03:46 AM, John Frankish via blfs-support wrote: > > Ref: > > Beyond Linux(r) From Scratch - Version 2018-11-22 > > Chapter 42. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers > > gst-plugins-bad-1.14.4 > > > > GnuTLS-3.

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg Intel Driver-20180223 Kernal Configuration. - BLFS 8.3/development

2018-11-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:33:35AM -0600, rhubarbpieguy via blfs-support wrote: > > The Xorg Intel Driver-20180223 documentation states the following regarding > kernel configuration: > >Only one of the lines “Intel I810” or “Intel 8xx/9xx...” needs to be >selected. > > I see no "Intel i

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg Intel Driver-20180223 Kernal Configuration. - BLFS 8.3/development

2018-11-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:17:52PM -0600, renodr wrote: > > > > While I was checking on this I noticed that Skylake and later > > apparently need firmware to get the graphics working. I either > > didn't know, or had forgotten, that. > > > > Are you sure you're not thinking Kaby? My Skylake doe

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg Intel Driver-20180223 Kernal Configuration. - BLFS 8.3/development

2018-11-25 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:49:30PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 11/24/2018 06:25 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > > I'm not sure what happened to the I810, and not really interested - > > it predated modern intel CPUs. > > Agr

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg Intel Driver-20180223 Kernal Configuration. - BLFS 8.3/development

2018-11-25 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:25:36PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > > I'm sorry you took the time to show me where I was wrong. I completely > forgot to look at the kernel configuration on my system: > > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="i915/skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw" > > Yes,

[blfs-support] Errors while fixing plasmoids at the end of Plasma5

2018-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
I do not usually build kde, but I thoiught I might as well check that my scripts are up to date, and that nothing new has broken it. At the end of Plasma5 the book has: cd $KF5_PREFIX/share/plasma/plasmoids for j in $(find -name \*.js); do as_root ln -sfv ../code/$(basename $j) $(dirname $j)/.

Re: [blfs-support] Errors while fixing plasmoids at the end of Plasma5

2018-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 05:40:30PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > > I'm planning on updating to plasma 5.14.4, kf5 5.53, and kde apps 18.12 when > they are all released. That should be around Dec 13. I will check that out > then. I do not know for sure if those symlinks are still

Re: [blfs-support] nfs-utils 2.3.3

2018-11-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:16:51AM +0300, rslovers--- via blfs-support wrote: > I also encountered the same problem, --with-rpcgen=internal can still be > used but patches are required for configure.ac: > > [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=154149008632189&w=4 > [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-n

Re: [blfs-support] Errors while fixing plasmoids at the end of Plasma5

2018-11-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:27:30AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 05:40:30PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > > > > I'm planning on updating to plasma 5.14.4, kf5 5.53, and kde apps 18.12 when > > they are all released.

[blfs-support] Perl vulnerabilities

2018-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
People who *use* their BLFS system(s), as distinct from those who only build them to see how things fit together, are hopefully subscribed here, so although perl is an LFS package I'm posting here. New point releases for perl (5.28.1 and 5.26.3) were released at the end of November, containing sec

Re: [blfs-support] Touchpad in Xorg-7

2018-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 09:52:58PM +, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: > I just finished building the X Window System Environment following the > instructions given in BLFS 8.3-systemd, and I'm now at the "Xorg-7 Testing > and Configuration" stage. My X window system seems to be mostly wo

Re: [blfs-support] Perl vulnerabilities

2018-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 08:00:20PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > I plan to do an LFS build later, for this and maybe for something > else, and I'll then pick up the LFS ticket unless someone beats me > to it. But before that I'll be trying to do a simila

Re: [blfs-support] Perl vulnerabilities

2018-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 10:23:11PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 08:00:20PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > Concentrating now on trying to update glibc (one CVE, one "assert > on invocation rather than segfault on exit&

Re: [blfs-support] Perl vulnerabilities

2018-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 06:28:28PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 12/01/2018 05:50 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 10:23:11PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 08:00:20PM +0000, Ken Moffa

Re: [blfs-support] Perl vulnerabilities

2018-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 10:32:26PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > > Thank you. It is helpful but it is also a bit hard to follow without the > /misc/packages and ${KM_SCRIPTS}/functions; but I see they are not > essential for understanding what you are doing. > /misc/packages is

Re: [blfs-support] UPower-0.99.7 No such method 'Suspend'

2018-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 01:01:34PM -0500, Wayne Sallee via blfs-support wrote: > I upgraded upower to version 0.99.7 but then could no longer suspend with > the command "dbus-send --system --print-reply > --dest='org.freedesktop.UPower' /org/freedesktop/UPower > org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend", as

Re: [blfs-support] twm and xinit?

2018-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:33:15PM +, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: > On Dec 03, 2018, at 01:41 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support > wrote: > > That happened once to me because I had built xorg-server before installing the > font utilities. Because of that, Xorg couldn't find fonts

Re: [blfs-support] UPower-0.99.7 No such method 'Suspend'

2018-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:00:24PM -0500, Wayne Sallee via blfs-support wrote: > > > On 12/03/2018 01:34 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 01:01:34PM -0500, Wayne Sallee via blfs-support > > wrote: > > > I upgraded upower to ve

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 6.1.0 compilation problem

2018-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:12:14PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers via blfs-support wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to build LibreOffice 6.1.0 according to BLFS Book 8.3. I did > compile all required dependencies and all recommended ones, without > problems. Then I started with LibreOffice. The ./a

[blfs-support] Upgrading perl to a newer release without rebuilding site_perl modules

2018-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
This is a follow-up, with changed subject and method, to http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2018-December/080534.html Some of us install a _lot_ of perl modules, and those go in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.mm.ss (where mm is the minor version and ss is what perl calls the sub

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 6.1.0 compilation problem

2018-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 04:37:51PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:12:14PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers via > blfs-support wrote: > > > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so: undefined reference to > > `sqlite3_column_bytes@SQLITE

Re: [blfs-support] Upgrading perl to a newer release without rebuilding site_perl modules

2018-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 04:26:37PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > This has now been tested using 5.28.1 as 5.28.0, 5.26.3 as both > 5.26.1 and 5.26.0, and 5.24.4 as 5.24.1. > > The latter was for an old LFS-8.0 system I had lying around. > Unfortunately, 5.24

Re: [blfs-support] UPower-0.99.7 No such method 'Suspend'

2018-12-08 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:25:19PM -0500, Wayne Sallee via blfs-support wrote: > > Yes, the sudo method would work, but I don't have sudo installed, and don't > want it installed. > > Wayne Sallee LOL. It was getting my desktop machines to suspend which persuaded me to add sudo to my normal de

Re: [blfs-support] GTK+-3.22.30 dependencies

2018-12-08 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 01:30:46AM +, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm about to build GTK+-3.22.30 (BLFS 8.3-systemd), mainly as a dependency > for GNOME and Firefox. > GTK+-3.22.30 has gdk-pixbuf-2.36.12 as a required dependency, which has > librsvg-2.42.2 as a recomme

Re: [blfs-support] GTK+-3.22.30 dependencies

2018-12-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 08:53:18AM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: > On 09/12/2018 05:21, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: > > > > Great, thanks a lot for the explanation! > > The 'SVN version', is that's what's listed under 'current development'? > > Almost: SVN version can b

Re: [blfs-support] wake-on-lan fails since kernel 4.19

2018-12-10 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Thomas Seeling via blfs-support wrote: > > Apart from that: any idea why WOL suddenly stopped working? > > Tschau...Thomas You said it stopped working with 4.19, but you did not specify which point release. If your network chip uses the r8169 driver, th

Re: [blfs-support] GTK+-3.22.30 dependencies

2018-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 01:34:10AM +, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: > > Okay, thanks a lot for the explanation. I'm comparing the 'rustc' sections in > the stable (8.3-systemd) and development version (2018-12-11 systemd) > versions of the book. They seem to be fairly similar; the onl

Re: [blfs-support] Thin vertical line with X.

2018-12-13 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 03:01:53PM -0600, rhubarbpieguy via blfs-support wrote: > > I've developed a thin vertical line about three quarters to the right of my > screen.  Frankly, I'm uncertain this is a BLFS question as I considered it a > hardware problem but ... > > My old box ran BLFS 8.2 and

Re: [blfs-support] GTK+-3.22.30 dependencies

2018-12-17 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 02:01:04AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > Unfortunately, the book's version of sqlite changed under me - I'm > sure the new one is good, but one recent version change required an > extra configure switch Turns out that upgrading sqli

Re: [blfs-support] DHCP build on BLFS 8.3

2018-12-18 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 09:35:59PM +0100, Alexander Tampermeier via blfs-support wrote: > Hi! > > I just built a new LFS 8.3 system and everything seemed to work well at a > first glance. But when trying to install DHCP-4.4.1 according to BLFS 8.3 > stable > (/http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs

Re: [blfs-support] GTK+-2.24.32 does not build

2018-12-20 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:08:55AM +0200, Puseletso Mosia via blfs-support wrote: > Hi Everyone > Please excuse me from my first post, this post includes the exact error > message lines that the compiler outputs. Your assistance will be much > appreciated. Side note: you are still top-posting. Y

Re: [blfs-support] GTK+-2.24.32 does not build

2018-12-20 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:03:22AM +0200, Puseletso Mosia via blfs-support wrote: > > > > Side note: you are still top-posting. You seem to be using gmail - > > on the web interface, click on the two dots to see the text you are > > repl;ying to, then put each of your responses after the question

Re: [blfs-support] GTK+-2.24.32 does not build

2018-12-20 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:10:25AM +0200, Puseletso Mosia via blfs-support wrote: > > > > The cairo gobject part should already be present > > (/usr/lib/libcairo-gobject.so should be a valid symlink to a > > fully-versioned library, and the associated > > /usr/include/cairo/cairo-gobject.h header

Re: [blfs-support] Network Manager 1.12.2 does not build in blfs 8.3 stable version

2018-12-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 11:50:36PM +0200, Puseletso Mosia via blfs-support wrote: > Hi everyone > I am trying to build network Manager 1.12.2 on blfs 8.3 stable version. I > get the following error message from the command line: > make[2]: Entering directory '/sources/NetworkManager-1.12.2' > VAPI

Re: [blfs-support] Network Manager 1.12.2 does not build in blfs 8.3 stable version

2018-12-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 04:28:35PM +0200, Puseletso Mosia via blfs-support wrote: > > > > Gio-2.0 comes from gobject-introspection. > > I rebuilt gobject-introspection but I still get the same error. I checked > /use/bin and found gio but not gio-2.0 which was installed by glib > > You did not

[blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
First, Xmas felicitations to everyone! People on -support might remember that I used to update my recent desktop systems for important vulnerability fixes (or for new versions of my preferred browser - firefox), but that after firefox-58 I was no-lomger able to update my oldest systems, and gave u

Re: [blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-25 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 01:48:39PM -0800, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote: > > > > In theory, BLFS is a rolling release, and therefore everybody > > updates everything. I suggest that in practice nobody updates > > everything. > > Au contraire. I do. I'd rather take the time and have everyt

Re: [blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-26 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 02:51:49PM +0200, Waleed Hamra via blfs-support wrote: > On 25/12/2018 07:55, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > First, Xmas felicitations to everyone! > > > > People on -support might remember that I used to update my recent > > de

Re: [blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-26 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 03:05:48PM -0800, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote: > > > > > > > > In theory, BLFS is a rolling release, and therefore everybody > > > > updates everything. I suggest that in practice nobody updates > > > > everything. > > > > > > Au contraire. I do. I'd rather take

Re: [blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 03:09:39AM +0100, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > > I know for me, that when I do a clean install and get the absolute latest of > everything (for me even lfs is not excluded from me updating to the latest.) > that everything that I want installed works wel

Re: [blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:31:30PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 12/26/2018 02:01 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > But I had not realised that the old installed libs were the problem. > > Another reason to build qt in /opt. > I too build Q

Re: [blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:38:09PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 12/26/2018 05:05 PM, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote: > > I thought I was being clear, but apparently not. I am a contrarian from > > your suggestion. I subscribe to the theory and rebuild everything every > >

Re: [blfs-support] On updating old systems

2018-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:15:45AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 12/27/2018 11:54 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > > > > And we do that as a part of the release process for every *stable* version > > > of BLFS, fixing issues as we go

[blfs-support] qtwebengine and falkon

2018-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
[ changing $SUBJECT since this is now mostly not about old systems ] On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:18:48AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 12/27/2018 11:51 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:31:30PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support

Re: [blfs-support] ICU 63.1 minor bug with fix

2018-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 12:26:17PM +0200, Waleed Hamra via blfs-support wrote: > Hi guys; > > I was building Firefox from the mercurial (beta channel), and it forced > me to use ICU > 63. I came across a bug that I saw you guys have been > discussing 2 to 3 months ago. The one with checkImpl funct

Re: [blfs-support] X11 advice for KVM switch as input

2019-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 03:02:45PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 01/02/2019 11:03 AM, Thomas Seeling via blfs-support wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > > > I'm not much of a GUI person, so the question might be simple, but I > > have no idea where to search, so please bear with me ;) >

Re: [blfs-support] qtwebengine-everywhere-src-5.12.0 qmake problem

2019-01-08 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:24:49AM +, Stuart via blfs-support wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to build the qtwebengine for Qt 5.12.0 and I am getting blocked > by qmake any suggestions has to what may be wrong ? > > qmake is dropping straight through to the usage page, I am having no > problems w

Re: [blfs-support] qtwebengine-everywhere-src-5.12.0 qmake problem

2019-01-08 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:10:08PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 01/08/2019 12:09 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > > That is the standard output from qmake when it does not understand > > what you typed, e.g. from passing unknown options or putt

Re: [blfs-support] qtwebengine-everywhere-src-5.12.0 libvpx-1.7.0 config problem

2019-01-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 09:36:51AM +, Stuart via blfs-support wrote: > My BLFS system is configured with libvpx-1.7.0 and the test in > qtwebengine-everywhere-src-5.12.0 fails. > > I found that the initial problem was because pkt.data.frame.height and > pkt.data.frame.width are not present in

Re: [blfs-support] Fakeroot package management

2019-01-28 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:20:43AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 01/28/2019 02:39 AM, Alex Biddulph via blfs-support wrote: > > I was just reading through the hint written by Tushar Teredesai about a > > fakeroot package management system > > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints

[blfs-support] Upgrading older systems (python3, rust)

2019-01-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
Just a Heads Up to anyone else who updates firefox on older systems (and thereefore needs to update rust for 1.32.0 : If using python-3.6 (i.e. 8.2 and older) there are 223 extra tests failures, all in rustdoc. For the book's firefox (docs omitted to save time and space), that probably doesn't mat

Re: [blfs-support] Firefox 65 won't build on LFS 7.10

2019-01-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:27:04PM +0100, Vaclav Masin via blfs-support wrote: > Hi, > > trying to build the new Firefox on my oldish LFS 7.10 system results in: > > 65:27.71 In file included from > /sources/firefox-65.0/firefox-build-dir/gfx/skia/Unified_cpp_gfx_skia16.cpp:2: > 65:27.71 In file

Re: [blfs-support] Firefox 65 won't build on LFS 7.10

2019-01-30 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:57:00PM +0100, Vaclav Masin via blfs-support wrote: > > > > That is certainly my impression, but I've been wrong before on > > errors that looks similar to that. At > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code > > they claim gcc-6.1 is

Re: [blfs-support] Firefox 65 won't build on LFS 7.10

2019-02-04 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:09:11PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:27:04PM +0100, Vaclav Masin via blfs-support wrote: > > Hi, > > > > trying to build the new Firefox on my oldish LFS 7.10 system results in: > > > &g

Re: [blfs-support] twm menu not working

2019-02-08 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:48:04PM +0100, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: > > lHi > > I'm building a new LFS.  I've got to the Xorg testing and I'm booting > > into the three windows and clock.   I haven't got a left click twm menu > > though.  So i can't move the windwos etc. > > Have goo

Re: [blfs-support] twm menu not working

2019-02-08 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 01:09:11AM +0100, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: > >To be clear : the mouse pointer works, but you cannot click on a > >window's title bar and drag it, and left or right clicks do nothing > >(in contexts where you expect something to happen) ? >   > Correct > At

Re: [blfs-support] twm menu not working

2019-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 12:57:34PM +0100, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2019 at 1:08 AM > From: "Ken Moffat via blfs-support" > To: "BLFS Support List" > Cc: "Ken Moffat" > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] twm men

[blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
I was coming towards the end of a test build of 8.4-rc1, installing a few essential packages before trying to build. And then make-ca failed. This is my first time with make-ca-1.2, all my previous systems used versions before 1.0. I'd not noticed that it gets run after installing, and I'd put p

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-21 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:46:23AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > I was coming towards the end of a test build of 8.4-rc1, installing > a few essential packages before trying to build. And then make-ca > failed. > Well, that was a major misdiagnosis of *where* it was

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:42:58PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:46:23AM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > I was coming towards the end of a test build of 8.4-rc1, installing > > a few essential packages before trying to build. A

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 04:10:51AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: > > On 2/22/2019 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > Okay, so the bit of code that extracts the text and octal data from > cacerts.txt are on lines 589-599. Lines 601-610 are what converts them &g

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-22 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:23:44AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: > On 2/22/2019 11:45 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 04:10:51AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-support > > wrote: > >> On 2/22/2019 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: Okay, so t

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 07:11:52AM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:23:44AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: > > On 2/22/2019 11:45 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 04:10:51AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-support > &

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:32:18AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: > > On 2/23/2019 3:14 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > I had a reply off-list suggesting that I try without the local cert > > directory. So I renamed that, and retried. Running make-ca -g >

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

2019-02-23 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 03:14:43PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 2/23/19 2:55 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: > > > > On 2/23/19 2:52 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > > > On 2/23/19 2:38 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2/23/19

Re: [blfs-support] Problems with network manager

2019-02-25 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:37:36AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > I don't use a laptop very often, but as I built a fresh 8.4 system there, I > thought I'd try network manager. > > I can't get it to work. I first tried the applet, but then fell back to > trying nmcli and nmtui, None

Re: [blfs-support] Problems with network manager

2019-02-25 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 07:36:26AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 2/25/19 3:00 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > > I'm glad wpa_supplicant is working well for you, and I hope you get > > NM working. Good luck! > > I did get it wo

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