[gentoo-user] If I avaoided pic/PIC/pie; would it help/hurt?

2017-12-05 Thread Walter Dnes
media-video/ffmpeg:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower) media-video/libav:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower). media-video/transcode:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly www-client/chromium:pic - Disable optimized a

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17 and -fPIC

2017-12-04 Thread Walter Dnes
Force libname-server-2 to be built as PIC; needed on hardened systems media-libs/libpostproc:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower). media-video/ffmpeg:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower) media-video/libav:pic - Force shared libraries to be bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge does want to tell me...what?

2017-12-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 02:19:33PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:34:48AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > It doesn't build here; I get a few errors, thus: > > > > 9:41.58 ../../build/unix/gold/ld: error: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/ >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge does want to tell me...what?

2017-12-04 Thread Walter Dnes
to other stuff in Gentoo that breaks with PIE and PIC. Google is full of complaints for other distros. I'm seriously considering sticking "-fno-pic -fno-pie" into CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS before migrating to 17.0. And it'll also save me from rebuilding everything on every machine. My

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

2017-12-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 02:18:30AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote > Some packages already failed to build but I don't know yet which. But > usually `emerge --keep-going` prints a list of the failed packages at > the end. If you've got it set up, try... ll -rt /var/log/portage/elo

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for both AMD64 and Intel?

2017-12-03 Thread Walter Dnes
ects for any "-march=" I would suggest rebuilding with... CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse sse2 sse3" nocona was the first Intel cpu to support AMD64 instructions, and it's the newest Intel that does not exceed your AMD. The next

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure

2017-11-27 Thread Walter Dnes
.0.5 and 17.0.6 are stable for both x86 and amd64. 17.1.8 is stable for x86 (this machine), but not for amd64. I wonder if I should simply remove "-fopenmp" from flags in make.conf. It's been causing problems for python as well as for mesa. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] mesa build failure

2017-11-27 Thread Walter Dnes
/mesa-17.1.8::gentoo' -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications eminfo.txt.gz Description: Binary data mesalog.txt.gz Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] python build fail; undefined reference to pthread_* and sem_*

2017-11-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:15:50PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:56:21AM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote > > > I can reproduce the issue by adding -fopenmp to my CFLAGS. You can > > work around it by adding -fopenmp to LDFLAGS as well. > > Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do systemd scripts get installed with USE="-systemd"?

2017-11-12 Thread Walter Dnes
vice >systemd_install_serviced "${FILESDIR}"/transmission-daemon.service.conf > fi > > instead? Add... INSTALL_MASK="/lib/systemd/system /usr/lib/systemd/system" ...to /etc/portage/make.conf H, I wonder if you could... rm -rf /lib/systemd /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-04 Thread Walter Dnes
ow do you figure out the client's arch, you ask? *ON THE CLIENT* (i.e. the old laptop) run the command... gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=target | grep march= ...and stick the result into "-march=" on the client * 32-bit clients should have a 32-bit build host. If necessary

Re: [gentoo-user] Userspace CPU frequency scaling not available on one machine

2017-11-01 Thread Walter Dnes
00 [15] 104 [16] 96 [17] 88 [18] 80 [19] 72 [20] 64 [21] 56 [22] 480000 I do not remember seeing 1601000 (1.601 ghz) before. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Userspace CPU frequency scaling not available on one machine

2017-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
onfig.gz from the Silvermont in case it helps. Feel free to comment on other stuff in config.gz as well. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications config.gz Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] mostly OT: qemu sparc64 emulation

2017-10-30 Thread Walter Dnes
r,id=mynetwork,tftp=/dev/shm/xfer \ -device pcnet,netdev=mynetwork \ -rtc base=localtime,clock=host \ -m size=64 -name "OS/2 VM" -boot order=c \ -vga std -parallel none \ ${@} -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash

2017-10-27 Thread Walter Dnes
linux" version, and manually replace libflashplayer.so (or whatever it's called) with the new one. Flash vulnerabilities, and updates, come so fast and furious that Portage can't keep up with them. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Where can I find "recent" qemu out-of-tree ebuild

2017-10-26 Thread Walter Dnes
Thanks, problem solved. qemu 2.9.0-r55 did not boot, but 2.9.0-r2 did. I've got my time-sink back. BTW, qemu 2.9.0-r55 wanted to pull in sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf and sys-firmware/seabios. 2.9.0-r2 pulls in sys-firmware/seabios, sys-devel/dev86, and sys-firmware/vgabios. -- Walter Dn

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I find "recent" qemu out-of-tree ebuild

2017-10-26 Thread Walter Dnes
1 app-emulation/qemu/qemu-2.9.0-r55.ebuild: Useless blank line on line: 210 Note: use --include-dev (-d) to check dependencies for 'dev' profiles Please fix these important QA issues first. RepoMan sez: "Make your QA payment on time and you'll never see the likes o

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I find "recent" qemu out-of-tree ebuild

2017-10-26 Thread Walter Dnes
;... fatal: repository 'https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-emulation/qemu?id=4716c9ae8666e4cfc6eff46960f7bff8f4f3d708/' not found As near as I can tell, I should be specifying the qemu repository and commit 4716c9ae8666e4cfc6eff46960f7bff8f4f3d708 Any clues on that

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I find "recent" qemu out-of-tree ebuild

2017-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 09:51:21PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote > On 10/25/2017 09:24 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > What's with the big gap, and where can I find more > > recent out-of-tree ebuilds? > > The big gap is because we stopped using CVS back then. Gitweb is b

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I find "recent" qemu out-of-tree ebuild

2017-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 09:51:21PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote > On 10/25/2017 09:24 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > What's with the big gap, and where can I find more > > recent out-of-tree ebuilds? > > The big gap is because we stopped using CVS back then. Gitweb is b

[gentoo-user] Where can I find "recent" qemu out-of-tree ebuild

2017-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
can I find more recent out-of-tree ebuilds? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to hibernate

2017-10-17 Thread Walter Dnes
standby [*] Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk') (/dev/sda2) Default resume partition -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --emptytree : how to ?

2017-10-15 Thread Walter Dnes
kg sandbox parallel-fetch" > > MAKEOPTS="-j5" There is some controversy over setting MAKEOPTS=${number of threads} possibly being better than MAKEOPTS=${number of threads} + 1 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2013/01/14/makeopts-jcore-1-is-not-the-best-optimization/ -- Walter D

Re: [gentoo-user] python build fail; undefined reference to pthread_* and sem_*

2017-10-11 Thread Walter Dnes
=dev-lang/python-2.7.12 =dev-lang/python-3.4.5 > This is probably a bug in the Python build system; it should probably > be passing CFLAGS to gcc when linking libpython. Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/634064 filed. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

2017-10-11 Thread Walter Dnes
u want to prevent that in future, add the following line to make.conf ... EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] python build fail; undefined reference to pthread_* and sem_*

2017-10-10 Thread Walter Dnes
> ‹ӖÝYinfo.txt > FÃþÅL > (£)–QŽ@J=ŽRÊ%¥4ò•>#:Ӥȩ½ØnuŽÎ;k„ĉÎXö;©0¿K‡ Something failed there. I'll attach as plain text and hopefully the "emerge --info" output will get through -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"

[gentoo-user] python build fail; undefined reference to pthread_* and sem_*

2017-10-10 Thread Walter Dnes
This is happening with both python 2.7.12 and 3.4.5 on a 32-bit x86 system. Build logs are attached, along with "emerge --info" output. I can't find anything relevant in bugzilla. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications py

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

2017-10-05 Thread Walter Dnes
n the spam email front. Some greedy ISPs decided to make extra money by taking on egregious spammers and using legitimate customers as "human shields". That didn't work. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

2017-10-03 Thread Walter Dnes
edirect "blocked CIDRs" via iptables or route to a local pixel image? Will that produce an immediate response by the web browser, versus timing out with "regular blocking"? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 06:19:55PM -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote > > Based on what I've read so far, Moonchild is up front about any > breakage, and warns about unsupported compilers or settings. One of our > regulars (Walter Dnes) helps maintain PM for us, too, so that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-05 Thread Walter Dnes
with care. Can you post the output of... gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=target | grep march= ...for all the target machines? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

2017-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > On 2017-08-31 08:47, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > 1) To protect my gear against power surges/spikes/drops > > 2) To protect against the rare occurence when power goes off for 1 > >or 2 seconds > > I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

2017-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
SP also offers. To get 15/10, I need a newer modem. I have a SmartRG 505N waiting for when the ST546 dies... or I decide I need more upload speed. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

2017-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:14:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On 30/08/2017 13:25, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:49:58AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote > >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon > >> wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

2017-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
mputer's hard drive starts getting full > and you add a new hard drive, if you're using lvm with a few commands > you can make your /home expand across both drives, while with straight > partitions that is a lot more work. 1) I don't recall having added a hard drive f

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest way to block domains?

2017-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:17:27PM -0500, R0b0t1 wrote > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I want > > to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still > > functional

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest way to block domains?

2017-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
CESBOOK [3306:198360] -A OUTPUT -d 173.252.64.0/18 -j FECESBOOK [0:0] -A OUTPUT -d 204.15.20.0/22 -j FECESBOOK [4040389:242479012] -A FECESBOOK -j LOG --log-prefix "FECESBOOK:" --log-level 6 [4040389:242479012] -A FECESBOOK -j DROP The [packet:byte] counters show how much traffic each rule g

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest way to block domains?

2017-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
alled AdBlock Latitude https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/adblock-latitude/ but I prefer to avoid addons. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest way to block domains?

2017-08-28 Thread Walter Dnes
nces to unwanted URLs are stripped out, and the browser doesn't waste time trying to download from a blocked adserver? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Easiest way to block domains?

2017-08-28 Thread Walter Dnes
on subnames for each domain, in a deliberate attempt to bypass hosts files. It would be more effective block entire domains. Is there a lightweight DNS server, or some iptables trick, or whatever, that'll block specified domains? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinked directories and rsync

2017-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 09:59:47AM +0100, Mick wrote > I've also found that 'rsync -a -l' does the job, but other tools > exist to achieve the same: Thanks; I'll try that next time I do an rsync to the "hot backup" machine. -- Walter Dnes I don't

[gentoo-user] Symlinked directories and rsync

2017-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
so, is there another tool that can copy over symlinked directories properly? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-08 Thread Walter Dnes
VM to the host machine, then I can ftp from there. Annoying "feature"... if I set "anon_root=/home/ftp/incoming/", then vsftpd refuses to run, complaining about a writable chroot directory. So I have to do an anonymous login, starting of in /home/ftp/ and then manually &q

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-07 Thread Walter Dnes
gives more verbose error messages, but fails just like the ancient OS/2 Warp ftp client. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:23:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote > Hello, > > On Thu, 03 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Mick wrote > >> On Thursday 03 Aug 2017 08:13:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > >> > anon_r

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Mick wrote > On Thursday 03 Aug 2017 08:13:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > > anon_root=/home/ftp > > Is this writeable? If I do make it writeable, I get... 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot() Damned if I

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
run with writable root inside chroot() Login failed. ftp> bye How is this supposed to work anyways? Can't write to upload dir if it's not writable, but vsftpd refuses to run if the upload dir is writeable. Help. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
e 500 PORT error. Anybody have a working config? Or another simpler ftpd server? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile media-libs/mesa - do I need gallium?

2017-07-16 Thread Walter Dnes
-debug -gallium -gles1 -llvm -opencl -openmax -osmesa -pax_kernel -pic (-selinux) -vaapi -valgrind -vdpau -vulkan -wayland -xa -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 intel (-freedreno) -i965 -imx -nouveau -r100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -radeon -radeonsi (-vc4) (-vivante) -vmware" 0 KiB -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

2017-07-15 Thread Walter Dnes
tgresql 32-bit is different internally from 64-bit. You have to do a dump+restore or some other form of data copy or synch. You cannot take the 32-bit data tables and run under 64-bit postgresql (or visa versa). -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling vbox guest addtions

2017-07-10 Thread Walter Dnes
!!" and remove the files it's complaining about. grep will speed up the search. Before actually removing a file, I suggest... equery b filename ...to check if it also belongs to another package. That might be the reason for the problem in the first place. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Hall of FAIL.

2017-07-09 Thread Walter Dnes
ctly is the "tree" command supposed to do here? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: redoing grub-2 after emerge updates it

2017-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
ollowing... find /var/log/portage -name sys-boot* This will give you a list of logfile names. You can feed the most recent one into "less" and look for a message, usually near the end. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

2017-07-04 Thread Walter Dnes
peg opengl png szip truetype x264 x265 xorg threads webp -acl -berkdb -caps -cracklib -crypt -filecaps -gallium -gdbm -graphite -gstreamer -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -manpager -nls -openmp -pam -pch -sendmail -tcpd -udev -udisks -unicode -xinerama" Some of the a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: palemoon-27.3.0 anyone?

2017-06-30 Thread Walter Dnes
ou wish. Is Qupzilla a "Firefox-family" browser like Pale Moon? If so, and if you're brave/foolish, try symlinking the "places.sqlite" files in the browsers' profiles. I strongly recommend backups before doing it. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:19:58AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Sunday 18 Jun 2017 14:11:02 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > An extra bit of debugging... > > > > * switch to message log console (tty12) with {CTRL}{ALT}{F12} > > > > * attach device > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-18 Thread Walter Dnes
ot allow screensaver/screenlock. An extra bit of debugging... * switch to message log console (tty12) with {CTRL}{ALT}{F12} * attach device * note the output * remove device * note output * switch back to X (usually) {CTRL}{ALT}{F7} -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

2017-06-17 Thread Walter Dnes
ebuild? This could be satisfied by ntp or openntpd. There are probably other packages that might satisfy the virtual. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-16 Thread Walter Dnes
e 1) create a working mount directory, e.g. $HOME/tablet 2) attach smartphone/tablet/whatever to USB port 3) sudo simple-mtpfs -o allow_other $HOME/tablet 4) cd $HOME/tablet 5) do whatever 6) cd 7) sudo fusermount -u $HOME/tablet 8) dettach smartphone/tablet/whatever from USB port -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-15 Thread Walter Dnes
drwxrwxr-x 2 waltdnes users 0 Dec 31 1969 Notifications drwxrwxr-x 2 waltdnes users 0 Dec 31 1969 Pictures drwxrwxr-x 2 waltdnes users 0 Dec 31 1969 Podcasts drwxrwxr-x 2 waltdnes users 0 Dec 31 1969 Ringtones -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] local file containing a web site

2017-06-10 Thread Walter Dnes
too. See... https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2014/05/02/make-offline-mirror-of-a-site-using-wget/ An example is... wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent http://example.org ...which can be shortened to... wget -mkEpnp http://example.org (Yes, "p" i

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Can I resize /dev/shm on the fly?

2017-05-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:05:02PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote > Ühel kenal päeval, E, 29.05.2017 kell 14:47, kirjutas Walter Dnes: > >   I was using a chroot, and I bind-mounted the chroot's /dev and > > /proc > > and /sys on top of the host machine's directories.  

[gentoo-user] Can I resize /dev/shm on the fly?

2017-05-29 Thread Walter Dnes
g /dev and /proc and /sys on the chroot separately to avoid this in future? I need /proc/cpuinfo because I have a build script in the chroot that checks the number of cores, and sets makeopts accordingly. Also I need /dev/null. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rocks

2017-05-20 Thread Walter Dnes
RUX. One less new item for me to learn. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
".bz2" compressed tarball is several megabytes smaller for my home version than for the official SSE-only version. It's even more noticable when extracted/uncompressed. Obviously, this reduction only applies to elf-binaries and libraries, not to sqlite databases, JSON, XML, text files

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:05:14AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote > Many thanks for your hints! > > On 05/14/2017 07:13:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Out of sheer curiousity, what > > does gcc report as your native cpu when you run... > > > > gcc -c -Q -march=

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-13 Thread Walter Dnes
th=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" The 2 "unwind_tables" flags reduce code bloat. See http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/36695 for details. The guys at busybox do what they can to reduce code bloat. Knocking 15% off the si

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 08:38:56PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > "Walter's Excellent Adventure Continues"... Now that I've got ICEWM > built, I'm trying to start X. I copied over my ~/.icewm cirectory, the > .xinitrc, and local X startup script from my current mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software?

2017-05-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 04:19:28PM -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote > On 05/10/2017 04:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 03:36:05PM -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote > > > >> Additionally, "setterm --blank force" turns the console off immediately. &g

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
up and I can see the cursor... for half a second or so. Then X exits immediately. I don't see any ominous error messages. I'm attaching the contents of Xorg.0.log in case it helps. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications xorg.log.gz Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn off ansi (colour) codes in GCC 6.3.0 ?

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
Thank you. I successfully tried... GCC_COLORS="" emerge icewm I suppose the next step is to add GCC_COLORS="" to make.conf. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 02:15:23PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 07:55:30AM +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote > > Bringing a 2008 Core2 duo back into use. I ran into major problems > with graphite optimizations. So I re-installed without graphite. > > I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software?

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
0.0 dpms force off setterm --blank force ...so I can execute "dark" in either X or a true text console, and it works in both cases. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] How do I turn off ansi (colour) codes in GCC 6.3.0 ?

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
31m^[[K^^[[m^[[K I tried "emerge --color=n icewm", but that doesn't help. Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
check? If I can do that, the next step would be to create custom build environments, with modified CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS as per https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Overriding_environment_variables_per_package Is this sloppy programming that should be reported as a bug? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > It's a feature, not a bug. There's a news item being worked on in > > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive,

[gentoo-user] How do I turn off text console screen in software?

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
I'd prefer to avoid hitting the monitor display on/off too often. In an xterm, the script... #!/bin/bash sleep 1 && xset -display :0.0 dpms force off ...shuts the screen off. Is there an equivalant command for a text console (e.g. where you end up if you hit CTRL-ALT-F1)? -- W

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 6 PIE use flag

2017-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
nst `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC [1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2014-06-15-gcc48_ssp.html [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html [3] A big thanks to all developers and members of the Gentoo community that

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 12:59:12AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > I blew away the partially completed install and started again. > This time, it'll be 6.3.0 without graphite. > > I'm busy Tuesday morning. So I'll fire up an "emerge -e @world" > before going

Re: [gentoo-user] world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

2017-05-08 Thread Walter Dnes
t;loop". I blew away the partially completed install and started again. This time, it'll be 6.3.0 without graphite. I'm busy Tuesday morning. So I'll fire up an "emerge -e @world" before going to bed, and see where things are when I get back in the afternoon.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 11:34:44PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > On 04/30/2017 10:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > For Pale Moon, the developers want... > > > > -floop-parallelize-all -fpredictive-commoning -ftree-loop-distribution > > -ftree-vectorize &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-30 Thread Walter Dnes
) or huge > batch jobs or high-traffic servers maybe, but for normal desktop PC use > there's not going to be a difference. For Pale Moon, the developers want... -floop-parallelize-all -fpredictive-commoning -ftree-loop-distribution -ftree-vectorize I follow those specs when doing a contributed build. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-29 Thread Walter Dnes
The "graphite" USE flag means something entirely different for harfbuzz, i.e. build against media-libs/harfbuzz against media-gfx/graphite2 -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread Walter Dnes
andle ftp and http, and it can be scripted. And it can discriminate on timestamps, i.e. only download a file if it has been changed since the latest download at your site. Then there's always "sneakernet". To quote Andrew Tanenbaum from 1981 > Never underestimate the bandwidth

[gentoo-user] gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
w, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 1,375 KiB ==== -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Argh, palemoon again ** 3 [Was: GCC 5.4.0]

2017-04-26 Thread Walter Dnes
t;$HOST_CXXFLAGS -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0" -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Palemoon again - again

2017-04-21 Thread Walter Dnes
a fresh install, it would make sense to go whole hog with gcc-5.4.0. Doing brain surgery on an existing system is more work. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Palemoon again - again

2017-04-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Monday 17 Apr 2017 13:05:59 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > 2) USE="-system-libs" is recommended. Yes, this does make the binary > > slightly larger. But it avoids problems where changing API/ABI in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Palemoon again - again

2017-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
ROOT/include:$INCLUDE_PATH export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$C_INCLUDE_PATH = -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Palemoon again - again

2017-04-17 Thread Walter Dnes
utable file will be $HOME/pm/palemoon/palemoon One more hint for graphics acceleration, which also applies to Firefox * set "layers.acceleration.force-enabled" to true in "about:config" * export MOZ_USE_OMTC=1 MOZ_USE_OMTC has to be set before launching Pale Moon -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Something eats my memory - please help

2017-04-08 Thread Walter Dnes
slab 72.0M | shmem 1.4M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M | When you shut down X, you also shut down all gui applications, including whatever is eating memory, so that's not going to help pin down the culprit. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

2017-04-03 Thread Walter Dnes
sion where it worked for nobody, immediately followed by the next version that worked for everybody. Years ago, X would not run without an xorg.conf file. Then X started being able to properly autoconfigure without an xorg.conf file for 10% of users... then 20%... then 30%, etc. Today it works for just ab

[gentoo-user] Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

2017-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
rg.conf, X does the detection and configuration "auto-magically". The hot backup machine would have an old xorg.conf with old (i.e. wrong) settings for the updated xorg-server. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Redirecting traffic for a TCP port to another gateway

2017-03-28 Thread Walter Dnes
ARD table (never used it), but I assume that you can specify stuff in it about where to forward. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] drivers for INTEL integrated GPU?

2017-03-28 Thread Walter Dnes
ike "about:config" and "about:buildconfig". -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm using mariadb or mysql?

2017-03-23 Thread Walter Dnes
s that it's trying to add mariadb *SERVER*. To over-ride that, in package.use add the line... dev-db/mariadb -server ...and try the emerge again. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm using mariadb or mysql?

2017-03-23 Thread Walter Dnes
be conflicting requirements for "static' and "-static" USE flags. Check your make.conf and package.use. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Walter Dnes
kill -9" or "kill -15", it doesn't have a chance to restore echoing, and you get the situation you described. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_TARGET errors

2017-03-16 Thread Walter Dnes
thon2_7" in make.conf requires you to set Y lines "foo-bar/package python_single_target_python3_4" in package.use Currently X > Y, so stick with 2_7 as the default for now. Over time, Y will increase, and X will decrease. When Y > X, switch make.conf to PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_4" and list the exceptions in package.use. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_TARGET errors

2017-03-16 Thread Walter Dnes
uot; option, which is to change make.conf to read PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_4" if that doesn't cause rebuilds all over the place. In either case, when upgrading from python 3.4 to 3.5 in the future, you'll have to change "3.4" to "3.5" in make.conf and/or package.use. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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