Resubmitting UTF-8 patch

2005-12-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, a number of typos and other mistakes have been found in my original UTF-8 book patch. Many thanks to Randy and Archaic for reading the whole thing. The corrected patch is at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/patches/lfs_book-r7236-utf8-1.patch Issues dealt with: * almost

Re: RFC: GDBM or Berkeley DB?

2005-12-27 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Archaic wrote: In order to make LFS usable in UTF-8 locales, and different man program was chosen, man-DB. That program requires a database backend. It can support GDBM or Berkeley DB. Let me play dumb here for a minute: Why? ;-) Would it be possible to do something similar to what we did

About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Renato Riolino
Hi all! I'm still using LFS 5 on my desktop computer (Athlon XP 2800+) and now I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop too. My laptop is a Athlon 64 CPU and I like to know if is already possible to a newby like me to build the full system for 64 bits? I now how to compile applications,

About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Renato Riolino
Hi all! I'm still using LFS 5 on my desktop computer (Athlon XP 2800+) and now I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop too. My laptop is a Athlon 64 CPU and I like to know if is already possible to a newby like me to build the full system for 64 bits? I now how to compile applications,

Re: About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Jim Gifford
We have all the necessary information in cross-lfs. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/clfs/ -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe:

Re: About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis J Perkins
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:02 -0200, Renato Riolino wrote: Hi all! I'm still using LFS 5 on my desktop computer (Athlon XP 2800+) and now I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop too. My laptop is a Athlon 64 CPU and I like to know if is already possible to a newby like me to build the

Re: Packages that don't work in UTF-8 locales

2005-12-27 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:33:57PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Links-2.1pre17: no way to properly configure for UTF-8 based character cell display, there is no UTF-8 terminal encoding in the menu. If run on the framebuffer console, doesn't properly accept keystrokes. If run from X

Re: RFC: GDBM or Berkeley DB?

2005-12-27 Thread Jason Gurtz
On 12/27/2005 01:50, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: snip explanation That was very thorough, thank you. While it would be nice to avoid another dependency the reality is that I usually end up with both GDBM and BDB on my systems. Yea, I know that's not really an argument... To me the most

Re: RFC: GDBM or Berkeley DB?

2005-12-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jason Gurtz wrote these words on 12/27/05 13:52 CST: It is worrisome about the seemingly ever-changing API, but not always upgrading to the latest BDB could help alleviate that. They don't seem to have a bad history of many security updates that would necessitate upgrading often. :)

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/26/05, Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been attempting to run an ICA on my CLFS ppc builds (CLFS from 20051214, but modified to also build a minimal 64-bit toolchain in /opt/kgcc because the cpu is a G5). So, my observations have very little to do with the alphabetical branch

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-27 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Dan Nicholson wrote: Did LFS use to build bison and flex in /tools? When we used HJL binutils (before FSF binutils supported TLS/NPTL), yes. HJL binutils require bison and flex (or at least, they used to). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

XFree86

2005-12-27 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello world, It seems that XFree86-4.5.0 has issues with coreutils-5.92. The build fails like this DNARROWPROTO -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API AuWrite.c rm -f libXau.a ar clq libXau.a AuDispose.o AuFileName.o AuGetAddr.o AuGetBest.o AuLock.o AuRead.o AuUnlock.o AuWrite.o

Re: XFree86

2005-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Hello world, It seems that XFree86-4.5.0 has issues with coreutils-5.92. Do you mean 5.92 ? LFS-svn has been on 5.93 for a few weeks, and some of the behaviour is definitely different between the two versions. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die,

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote: bison, perl, vim - for me, these differ between my second and third builds, but not for my third and fourth, nor for the first and second - I guess this is the whole point of ICA and the build will be assumed guilty unless an explanation can be

Re: Packages that don't work in UTF-8 locales

2005-12-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:33:57PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Links-2.1pre17: no way to properly configure for UTF-8 based character cell display, there is no UTF-8 terminal encoding in the menu. If run on the framebuffer console, doesn't properly accept keystrokes. If

Re: Packages that don't work in UTF-8 locales

2005-12-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: This package doesn't work correctly in UTF-8 based locales. This can never be placed on a BLFS page. Something needs to be placed on the page that accurately describes the breakage, or limited functionality you *may* see. Doesn't work correctly is simply too vague. [snip

Re: xorg X11R7.0

2005-12-27 Thread DJ Lucas
Thomas Pegg wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/blfs-xorg7/x/xorg7.html EXAMPLE ONLY...none of it has been tested at all. It's only there to show one possible screen/book layout, IMO the most presentable. I'll beat it into shape over the next few days as I build it