Good evening ladies and gentlemen, i am sure you did not missed me too much....but here i am with a set of patches and some advice.
now No1: current gcc we are using to build our beloved distro is more strict in using headers and ...in general is watching much better who includes what and where. As a direct consequence, some packages fail to build. the attached patches for strigi and qt-x11-3.0.8 fix a minor issue by including the stddef.h into some more stubborn files so the package can safely compile, link and...be happy. No:2 there is an issue with several packages including /usr/include/scsi/sg.h ( hal package) that suffers from the same disease explained above. that i did not fix because i was too lazy to rebuild again the entire mammoth when i am preparing to build KDE ( yeah i know...me and Sisiphus...) No:3 gtk+ has an interesting issue and i did not find yet a way of fixing it...it fails somewhere in the mioddle of compiling and linking stuff because it cannot find a shered library which it is installed by gtk+ itself. the solution is to go into debug mode, run ldconfig exit from debug and do the rebuild. i will try on next major rebuild ( after KDE most probably) to fix it. No:4 ok now by default we are using jpeglib package. that is broken ( at least the jmorecfg.h include is messed up). don't be fooled by the fix with lowcaps and space removed at true and false, it will just delay your next failure where you have to put back your change. Luckily there is jpeg-turbo which compiles and installs fine and everybody is happy with it. ok. that's it for now. i'll start KDE which is already at build 4
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