Re: Compiling ndiswrapper
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:39:30AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > What kind of wireless card/chipset do you have? I've just blown 1.18 away so I guess that was the last version I tried and I haven't referred to the supported card listings. > My lspci listing: 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03) Gena > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: boot-up messages
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:58:52PM +0200, YvesPub wrote: > > > /var/log/sys.log should contain all the boot messages. > As root, empty it then reboot and you should see the boot messages at > the beginning. Cheers, I'll have to use that method, however, I'd rather a cleaner way. Gena > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Compiling ndiswrapper
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:18:53PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Why don't you try out the current stable version of ndiswrapper? > Possibly this issue is fixed there. Looks like they're currently on > 1.23, just released last week. Thanks, I haven't tried this new version but have tried many and none of them seem to work with this wlan. > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93482 > > -- I'll give it a go, thanks for the link. > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
boot-up messages
Hi I wondered if I should have anything like a dmesg or other log to record the boot-up messages? I've had problems with booting but can't find a log containing the early boot messages. Is there a script or something I haven't installed? Gena -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Compiling ndiswrapper
Hi All I thought that the compilation of packages wasn't dependent upon kernel source code as we'd installed the kernel header package. However, I cannot compile ndiswapper 1.5 with a kernel greater than 2.6.15*, I don't have the kernel tree in /usr/src/ so don't understand what's going on. Is my understanding right that building should use the kernel headers package? Is there a way of forcing packages like ndiswrapper to use them? make make -C driver make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16.8/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver \ DRIVER_VERSION=1.5 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.8' LD /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver/built-in.o CC [M] /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver/hal.o CC [M] /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver/iw_ndis.o CC [M] /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver/loader.o /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver/loader.c: In function `register_devices': /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver/loader.c:930: error: structure has no member named `owner' make[3]: *** [/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver/loader.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.8' make[1]: *** [default] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Problems with audio
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:07:39PM +0100, Mark Priestley wrote: > > Anyway, this isn't a big issue for me personally, and if I'm only person > who's ever been caught by this, apologies for the waste of bandwidth. I'm a bit behind with my mail but felt that Mark has a point here. There are a number of reasons why someone should want to build the alsa project's driver tar ball. Boot order of multiple sound cards and bug fixes are just a couple of additional examples. In addition, you don't have to specify a particular driver ./configure && make && make install will install all the drivers within that tar ball. Of course, it's simple to specify the --with-cards= switch. Regards Gena > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Telling Open Office where firefox libs are located
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:39:55PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > Also, you must have built Firefox with LDAP support and provided both > '--with-system-mozilla' and '--with-firefox' switches to OOo's configure > script. Got it thanks, I wasn't putting both arguements together. Thanks Gena > > -- DJ Lucas > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Telling Open Office where firefox libs are located
Hi I'm attempting to configure OpenOffice and as I've installed the NSS-3.1 and firefox I'm not sure how I should direct OO to the libraries as it doesn't appear to find them. I've read the output of ./configure --help but I don't see how you provide a path directive. How should I configure OpenOffice as far as the mozilla libraries are concerned? Cheers Gena -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: gnome-session configure error
Hi
I'd not have the confidence just to reinstall GConf as I didn't know how it
would affect the database. But as you pointed out that gnome-session was
correct in pointing to GConf as being at fault, I just rerun the installation
of GConf then gnome-session and it went without a hitch.
Hopefully, I haven't destroyed the database.
Thanks
Gena
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:13:15AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> gconf-sanity-check-2 is installed in ${libexecdir} during GConf. On
> my system, this is /usr/lib/GConf/gconf-sanity-check-2. According to
> configure.in, gnome-session should be finding this location from
> pkg-config. Here's the macro:
>
> # gconf-sanity-check
> GCONF_SERVERDIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=gconf_serverdir gconf-2.0`
> old_path=$PATH
> if test x"$GCONF_SERVERDIR" != x; then
> PATH=$GCONF_SERVERDIR:$PATH
> fi
>
> AC_PATH_PROG(GCONF_SANITY_CHECK, gconf-sanity-check-2, no)
> if test x"$GCONF_SANITY_CHECK" = xno; then
> AC_MSG_ERROR([gconf-sanity-check-2 executable not found in your path
> - should be installed with GConf])
> fi
>
> So, Gena, what's the output from `pkg-config
> --variable=gconf_serverdir gconf-2.0'? Alternatively, you can just
> look at the file /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gconf-2.0.pc.
>
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Re: gnome-session configure error
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:46:11PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
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> So have you installed GConf? Does /usr/lib/GConf/gconf-sanity-check-2 exist?
Name: gconf
Description: GNOME Config System.
Version: 2.14.0
Requires: ORBit-2.0
Libs: -L${libdir} -lgconf-2
Cflags: -I${includedir}/gconf/2
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Re: gnome-session configure error
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:13:15AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> gconf-sanity-check-2 is installed in ${libexecdir} during GConf. On
> my system, this is /usr/lib/GConf/gconf-sanity-check-2. According to
> configure.in, gnome-session should be finding this location from
> pkg-config. Here's the macro:
>
> # gconf-sanity-check
> GCONF_SERVERDIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=gconf_serverdir gconf-2.0`
> old_path=$PATH
> if test x"$GCONF_SERVERDIR" != x; then
> PATH=$GCONF_SERVERDIR:$PATH
> fi
>
> AC_PATH_PROG(GCONF_SANITY_CHECK, gconf-sanity-check-2, no)
> if test x"$GCONF_SANITY_CHECK" = xno; then
> AC_MSG_ERROR([gconf-sanity-check-2 executable not found in your path
> - should be installed with GConf])
> fi
>
> So, Gena, what's the output from `pkg-config
> --variable=gconf_serverdir gconf-2.0'? Alternatively, you can just
> look at the file /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gconf-2.0.pc.
>
Name: gconf
Description: GNOME Config System.
Version: 2.14.0
Requires: ORBit-2.0
Libs: -L${libdir} -lgconf-2
Cflags: -I${includedir}/gconf/2
Oh dear, what's happened here?
Gena
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gnome-session configure error
Hi All I've come across an error in trying to compile gnome session 2.14.2 and I'm not sure if it was discussed here not so long ago but my searches hasn't revealed the posts. Libnotify is not a required dependency but because of problems with dbus, libnotify is not installed. What should I do to attempt to resolving this error? appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking for xrdb... /usr/bin/xrdb checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal checking what warning flags to pass to the C compiler... -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes checking what language compliance flags to pass to the C compiler... checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for SOUND_TEST... yes checking for GNOME_SESSION... yes checking for LIBNOTIFY... no checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2 Using config source xml:merged:/etc/gnome/2.14.2/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults for schema installation Using $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas as install directory for schema files checking for gconf-sanity-check-2... no configure: error: gconf-sanity-check-2 executable not found in your path - should be installed with GConf BTW: My gnome default prefix is /usr not the /opt option. Gena -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: mplayer font link
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:10:43AM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > > It's doesn't. You're supposed to replace that yourself. Yes, I'd worked that out just after I sent the post, I'd hoped no-one had seen it.It threw me a bit because I was reading about the automated system. It appears that those commands are so complete they can be used to automatically build a lfs system. Obviously that one doesn't. Always the fool! Gena > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
mplayer font link
Hi ON the subject of symbolic links, I'm trying to understand this one and why it isn't working on my system. ln -v -sf font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial--iso-8859-1/* . I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/mplayer/font# ln -v -sf font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial--iso-8859-1/* . -bash: font: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/mplayer/font# I can work out what it's attempting to do but don't understand the part. How does the computer that represents a numeric value? Gena -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:26:25AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > That's the core X font system at work. It is lovely. Oh good, I feared that I'd aske someone to look at my computer screen within X and have no text to read. It doesn't matter to me what it looks like, longs there is something there for the sightlings.Although, I guess gnopernicus and orca will need a working font system. > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, there is the Files section where you can list the > fonts you want the Core X font system to use. I personally don't put > anything in and let it use the built in path. However, you may want > to add something like this to explicitly say where the fonts are (and > remove any that don't work for you, like CID): > > Section "Files" >... >FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" >FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" >... > EndSection I may just tidy it up. > > Incidentally, are your fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts? > Yes, they are. So all looks well. Thanks. I'm confident now that if I ask for help with reading the GUI, they'll be able to read the text to me. Gena > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:32:50PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > You don't need to make those three symbolic links. Because you've > installed xorg into /usr, the binaries will be in /usr/bin, the libs in > /usr/lib (so no need to change /etc/ld.so.conf) and the headers are in > /usr/include. For you /usr/X11R6 doesn't exist. If you did force those > links to be made they would overwrite the files you have installed with > broke symbolic links. > > >As my fonts seem to be in /usr/lib/X11/fonts I was able to modify this one > >so that fc-cache and fc-list work and I now can see some fonts from the > >fc-list command. > > Cool. That's good. > > > Thus I'm wondering what is the default path? And what links do I need > > to create? > > Sounds to me like you're done. Do you have a problem? Something giving > you an error message? No problem, I was just trying to get the fc-list command to work and when it didn't I looked closer at the book. I followed the links and didn't understand the usage of ../ to define the ln target. It confused my understanding of paths and pointing links. I understand now that had I installed in the standard prefix, ../X11R6 would be /usr/X11R6. It only remains the font links. My fc-list works after employing the TTF link however, the OTF dir doesn't exist. There's no mention in the book that fonts/OTF only exists under specific circumstances. My font directory is populated like: 100dpi 75dpi CID cyrillic encodings local misc TTF Type1 util As far as errors, if I bring up X and shut it down, I do get the following font error. As I haven't been able to ask a sighted person to look, I don't know if my basic X session is displaying a font. Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) Gena > > Andy > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:01:02AM +0200, Andrey Voropaev wrote: > > If you don't understand it, then you should try the command and see > the result :) This command shall create "file" /usr/bin/X11, which > shall be a symbolic link and that symbolic link will point to > /usr/bin/../X11R6/bin, which is /usr/X11R6/bin. If you installed Xorg > in the default prefix (/usr/X11R6) then that's the directory where all > the binaries for Xorg are. No I still don't get it. I did not install in the default. I pasted my host.def which made my default /usr thus /usr/X11R6 doesn't exist, thus I can't have a link pointing to /usr/bin/X11 from a position that doesin't exist. I still don't understand why the ln commands are written with the parent specification. Because that makes them subjective to which position they're being entered. If I just follow the instruction that doesn't apply to my installation, I'm not learning anything and the philosophy of lfs is lost. Gena > > >ln -v -s ../X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 && > >This link is not required as /usr/lib/X11 is valid. > >ln -v -s ../X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11 > >Likewise this is OK too. > > The Xorg fonts have been installed outside of Fontconfig's default > > search path of /usr/share/fonts. In order > > for Fontconfig to find the installed TrueType fonts, you should make > > symlinks to their directories. Assuming > > you've installed Xorg in the default prefix, run the following commands > > as the root user: > >install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts && > >ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF && > >I can't find OTF to creat this link. > >ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF > >As my fonts seem to be in /usr/lib/X11/fonts I was able to modify this one > >so that fc-cache and fc-list work and I now can see some fonts from the > >fc-list command. Thus I'm wondering what is the default path? And what > >links do I need to create? > > Well, I can't say why BLFS insists that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is > outside of fontconfig path. fontconfig-2.3.2 already includes that > path in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, so one does not need to do anything > at all. > > -- > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: What is the gnome up to....
Hi Thanks, I'll grab the desktop sources ready for the book. The 2 directories doesn't seem that difficult to understand. Thanks. Gena On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 06/18/06 17:49 CST: > > > [snip a perhaps too-detailed version of figuring out what packages > > belong with what version of GNOME > > Dan provided a good (but complicated) way to determine the package > versions that correspond to an official GNOME release. Here is, in > my opinion anyway, an easier method which is less likely to have > incompatibilities. > > Simply use the packages outlined in the current version of GNOME > from these two directory tarball repositories: > > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop > > >From these two directories (one is the core platform packages, the > other is the core application packages) simply navigate to the > release of GNOME you want and use the packages shown in the > directory. For example: > > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.14/2.14.2/sources/ > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.14/2.14.2/sources/ > > The contents of these two directories include all the GNOME > packages you'd need to build a complete release. There may be some > other packages you want to build also, but this would probably be > for specialty purposes. These versions have been tested to build > properly together and provide a solid, stable desktop. > > > > Of course, bugs and security notices mean that there may be a > release of some packages after the official GNOME version has been > released, as Dan mentioned, and this is when you'd need to look in > the individual package sources for any newly released packages. > Which is here: > > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ > > But my experience is that it is fairly rare when you need to go > to the individual package sources. > > > -- > Randy > > rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] > [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] > 17:55:00 up 37 days, 9:55, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.00 > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: What is the gnome up to....
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:49:44PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Generally the way things go with Gnome is that if a package is > following the overall version numbering (2.14.0,2.14.1,...) then they > will usually release a new version for each of those releases, even if > it's just translations that have been updated. This is not always the > case, as you've seen. In that case, fetch the most recent stable > version (they are the even minor numbers: 2.12.x,2.14.x,...). In > other cases, a package may have more intermittent releases to fix bugs > like gdm. I believe it is on 2.14.8 right now. > > The packages that follow this scheme are typically the ones that are > part of the "official" gnome distribution. These correspond to the > ones Randy has put in the book. Some packages don't follow this > trend, like gcalc and gnome-volume-manager. In those cases, you have > to do some research to find out what corresponds to the latest stable > Gnome distribution. Oh, I see, I think. It still seems fuzzy logic to me. I guess if the list I retrieved stated that it was an full release and that there was an official release. If the list just corresponded with the directory, it would make a lot of sense to me. Alternatively, 2.14.2 just contained 2.14.2 versions of packages. But where they'd put packages such as intltool would really cause a problem. As you said you have to research a bit. Many thanks for the explaination. Gena > > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts
Hi I'm confused over what the default path is for the xorg installation. Although I removed the comments within my host.def file so that I installed with the prefix of /usr: #define ProjectRoot /usr #define LinkGLToUsrInclude NO #define LinkGLToUsrLib NO I read the post make install steps to see if I needed to create some of those links. It appeared to me that I needed to for the fonts so that fontconfig could find them. But it seems I need some and others I cannot match. Thus I'm confused. Here's how it appears: If you've installed Xorg in the default prefix listed above, run the following commands as the root user: ln -v -s ../X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 && I don't understand what the target is i.e. the parent of X11R6 I need this link as /usr/bin/X11 currently doesn't exist. ln -v -s ../X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 && This link is not required as /usr/lib/X11 is valid. ln -v -s ../X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11 Likewise this is OK too. The Xorg fonts have been installed outside of Fontconfig's default search path of /usr/share/fonts. In order for Fontconfig to find the installed TrueType fonts, you should make symlinks to their directories. Assuming you've installed Xorg in the default prefix, run the following commands as the root user: install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts && ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF && I can't find OTF to creat this link. ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF As my fonts seem to be in /usr/lib/X11/fonts I was able to modify this one so that fc-cache and fc-list work and I now can see some fonts from the fc-list command. Thus I'm wondering what is the default path? And what links do I need to create? -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: What is the gnome up to....
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 12:40:51PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 6/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi All > > > >I thought that I'd install gnome 2.14 as I'd like to give orca a try. So > >I looked on the gnome site, and found a list of packages to install 2.14. > >The third package in the sequence is gnome-common. Which I first thought > >was a vertual package. I looked via google and found that debian offered > >the source, which happens to be 2.12.0. Thus I wondered why can't I find > >it on the gnome site and why blfs doesn't include the package? As from > >the debian description, it appears to my dim mind to be a useful package. > >Wondering if anyone of the team can explain these confusing findings, more > >why gnome list it but I can't find it on their site? > > I'm not sure how much of it is really needed. Here's my listing of files: > > /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh > /usr/bin/gnome-doc-common > /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4 > /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4 > /usr/share/gnome-common/data/omf.make > /usr/share/gnome-common/data/xmldocs.make > > Most of those would only be needed if you were regenerating the > autotools, i.e. running autoreconf. I kept it around anyways just in > case, but I don't actually know which packages use these utilities. > And it looks like 2.12.0 is the latest version: > > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-common/2.12/ Thanks, I thought I'd looked at 12.0, perhaps not got fed up with it. Some of the other packages they've included in the 2.14.2 dir do not have 2.14.2 as their version number so it doesn't make sense to list it but not include it within the 2.14.2 directory. Obvously, I don't understand the criteria for inclusion. Randy has fthrown me a safety net, so I'm a lot happier now. Many thanks. Gena > > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: What is the gnome up to....
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 02:39:05PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 06/18/06 08:26 CST: > > > debian's description: > > Description: common scripts and macros > > The GNOME-Common package is not required in a BLFS environment. You > would only need it if you are building sources checked out from GNOME > CVS. > > BTW, GNOME-2.14.2 (with full instructions and dependencies) will be > in the BLFS SVN book before the next rendering, which is at > approximately 8:00am tomorrow, Greenwich time. Oh WOW! Many thanks, that'll save me a lot of headaches. Gena > > -- > Randy > > rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] > [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] > 14:35:00 up 37 days, 6:35, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.07, 0.01 > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
What is the gnome up to....
Hi All I thought that I'd install gnome 2.14 as I'd like to give orca a try. So I looked on the gnome site, and found a list of packages to install 2.14. The third package in the sequence is gnome-common. Which I first thought was a vertual package. I looked via google and found that debian offered the source, which happens to be 2.12.0. Thus I wondered why can't I find it on the gnome site and why blfs doesn't include the package? As from the debian description, it appears to my dim mind to be a useful package. Wondering if anyone of the team can explain these confusing findings, more why gnome list it but I can't find it on their site? debian's description: Description: common scripts and macros to develop with GNOME or GNOME 2.0 gnome-common is an extension to autoconf, automake and libtool for the GNOME environment and GNOME using applications. Included are gnome-autogen.sh and several macros to help in both GNOME and GNOME 2.0 source trees. Tag: devel::library, interface::commandline, role::sw:utility, special::auto-inst-parts, suite::gnome, uitoolkit::gtk gnome site: www.gnome.org/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.14/2.14.2/sources/ Gena -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Fontconfig 2.3.2 fails
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:55:57PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Gena, do you have SGMLSpm and JadeTex installed? No I didn't have them installed, sorry, it's my usage of English. I thought that the condition was that if you had docbook utils = true and remove --disable-docs = true, you needed to install those packages. But I included the --disable-docs switch. Gena > > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Fontconfig 2.3.2 fails
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:22:21AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 6/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >HASDOCBOOK=no ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ > >--disable-docs --without-add-fonts \ > >--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.3.2 > > Good. Of course, it doesn't address the issue of why Fontconfig > doesn't like your Docbook installation. But I'm in over my head > there. > U, and I'm far below that! I wondered the same and hope that someone comes up with an idea. Because I'm sure whatever the problem is, it'll raise it's ugly head again as I build this system up. Once again many thanks. Gena > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Fontconfig 2.3.2 fails
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:28:53AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 6/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:34:32AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> > >> make USEDOCBOOK_TRUE='#' USEDOCBOOK_FALSE="" > > HASDOCBOOK=no ./configure ... That worked, thanks. HASDOCBOOK=no ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-docs --without-add-fonts \ --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.3.2 Cheers Gena > > or just move docbook2html out of your path during configure. > > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Fontconfig 2.3.2 fails
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:32:15PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I wonder if you have any other suggestions? I'm still getting the same > >error, however there's a lot more output, so I guess it's getting further > >into the build. Maybe rewrite another Makefile? Am I pasting enough of > >the error? > > Have you tried running configure with the option --disable-docs ? As by the book, yes I'm using the disable docs switch. > > Andy > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Fontconfig 2.3.2 fails
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:30:23AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > After you've run configure, before you run make, blank the doc/Makefile > > echo all: > doc/Makefile && > echo install: >> doc/Makefile I wonder if you have any other suggestions? I'm still getting the same error, however there's a lot more output, so I guess it's getting further into the build. Maybe rewrite another Makefile? Am I pasting enough of the error? gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/fc-cache fc-cache.o ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so creating fc-cache rm -f fc-cache.1 docbook2man ../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#print Working on: /home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:1:59:W: cannot generate system identifier for public text "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:35:0:E: reference to entity "REFENTRY" for which no system identifier could be generated nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:1:0: entity was defined here nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:35:0:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:37:9:E: element "REFENTRY" undefined nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:38:15:E: element "REFENTRYINFO" undefined nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:39:12:E: element "ADDRESS" undefined Gena > > Andy > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: samba configuration
Hi Thanks for reading my questions. Gena On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:08:58PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 06/13/06 14:47 CST: > > > I wondered if anyone could help with a couple of questions I have in > > regards to setting up samba? > > Sorry I can't be of more help, but I've found that searching the following > 4 sources of information (all included in the Samba source tarball) has > always provided the answers to any question I've ever had about Samba. > > Using Samba, 2nd Edition; a popular book published by O'Reilly > file:///usr/share/samba/swat/using_samba/toc.html > > The Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide > file:///usr/share/samba/swat/help/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/index.html > > Samba-3 by Example > file:///usr/share/samba/swat/help/Samba-Guide/index.html > > The Samba-3 man Pages > file:///usr/share/samba/swat/help/samba.7.html > > -- > Randy > > rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] > [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] > 15:06:00 up 32 days, 7:06, 1 user, load average: 0.66, 0.20, 0.07 > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Fontconfig 2.3.2 fails
Hi I wondered if someone could point me in the right direction to get fontconfig installed. I've installed docbook and it's the docbook catalogue that seems to be causing the problem. After googling around I got the impression that I needed to update my catalogue but I'd followed the blfs book, so confused what to do next? Here's an extract from the error: docbook2man ../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#print Working on: /home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:1:59:W: cannot generate system identifier for public text "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" nsgmls:/home/gena/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml:35:0:E: reference to entity "REFENTRY" for which no system identifier could be generated Cheers Gena -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
samba configuration
Hi All I wondered if anyone could help with a couple of questions I have in regards to setting up samba? The first isn't about samba but a group called "wheel" this vaguely seems familiar in a slackware install? I found this reference to it in the samba mini HOWTO. admin users = @wheel ; domain administrators domain admin group = @wheel domain admin users = root Do I generate this group for my lfs box? Presumingly, I could use any group name I wished but what is the wheel group for and what would be a good choice? My second question is about the useradd command. How do you set disabled-login and disabled-password? For previous distributions I've used the guide: http://dcfonline.sfu.ca/ying/linux/samba/part6.html While this is a vulnerable configuration, it has served me well for a number of years, allowing me at home move files from the MS platform to the Linux platform within my home. In preparation I've looked at the useradd man page as well as others attempting to see how to set nologin and no password switches but I can't see it for looking. I've probably opened a can of worms here but I'd like to develope my understanding on what would be a suitable samba configuration and why? Gena -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
