Re: kdebase-3.4.0

2005-04-14 Thread Robert Connolly
On April 14, 2005 02:47 am, Robert Connolly wrote: > Hi. I noticed kdebase-3.4.0 installs ksysguarddrc and xdg/ to /usr/etc.. so > it looks like --sysconfdir=/etc is needed for this package. xdg/ is from kdelibs, so --sysconfdir=/etc would be needed there too. robert -- http://linuxfromscratch.o

Re: kdebase-3.4.0

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Connolly wrote: On April 14, 2005 02:47 am, Robert Connolly wrote: Hi. I noticed kdebase-3.4.0 installs ksysguarddrc and xdg/ to /usr/etc.. so it looks like --sysconfdir=/etc is needed for this package. xdg/ is from kdelibs, so --sysconfdir=/etc would be needed there too. Thanks for the hea

SWIG-Python/LCMS compilation error

2005-04-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I'm trying to compile the LCMS package but it is stumbling trying to build the SWIG/Python module. Here is the relevant lines giving problems from the lcms.i file (which is used to autogenerate the lcms_wrap.cxx source) if ((SWIG_ConvertPtr(tmp[0], (void **) &gamma[0], SWIGTYPE_LPGAMMATAB

Re: kdebase-3.4.0

2005-04-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 10:05 CST: > Robert Connolly wrote: >>On April 14, 2005 02:47 am, Robert Connolly wrote: >>>Hi. I noticed kdebase-3.4.0 installs ksysguarddrc and xdg/ to /usr/etc.. so >>>it looks like --sysconfdir=/etc is needed for this package. >> >>xdg/ is from kdelibs,

Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Utley wrote: Here's how I solve that when following the BLFS book...keep in mind this is only one solution out of many possibilities, but this works quite well for me. Jeremy, What you are describing is a depth first search. That's what I do also. My technique is a little more compl

Re: Acrobat 7

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jamie Bennett wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:08 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Just to try it out, I donloaded a copy of Acrobat Reader 7 for Linux and installed it. On my LFS 6.1 testing system it flashes the splash screen and exits without any error messages of any kind. ldd on the binary does no

Re: Acrobat 7

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: I know this doesn't help any, just wanted to throw in the mention that Xpdf seems to be *much* faster than the Adobe product. Yes, I know, but I was just trying it out. Also acroread5 provides some additional functionaliy over xpdf or gsview. It adds a nice toc on the left

Re: Acrobat 7

2005-04-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 14:27 CST: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >>I know this doesn't help any, just wanted to throw in the mention >>that Xpdf seems to be *much* faster than the Adobe product. > > Yes, I know, but I was just trying it out. Also acroread5 provides some > addition

Re: Acrobat 7

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: Not to argue at all, but for the sake of my memory, I remember Xpdf uses a navigation TOC on the left side just like Adobe does. I would have to reboot into a different partition on the computer I'm on right now to get at Xpdf, but are you certain there's not a setup option th

Re: Acrobat 7

2005-04-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2005-04-14 at 14:39 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 14:27 CST: > > Randy McMurchy wrote: > > > >>I know this doesn't help any, just wanted to throw in the mention > >>that Xpdf seems to be *much* faster than the Adobe product. > > > > Yes, I know,

Re: Acrobat 7

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JÃrg Billeter wrote: Some plugins of Acrobat 7 need libstdc++.so.5, i.e. the standard c++ library coming with gcc 3.3. So either install it or remove the Reader/intellinux/plug_ins directory... Renaming the plugins directory worked. I may consider installing libstdc++.so.5 in the future, but I've

SBUs

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
As I review the book, I see quite a variation in SBU precision. In some cases the value is specified as one significant digit (e.g. ed -> 0.02). In other cases the value is specified as four significant digits (e.g. kdemultimedia 13.17). These values really overspecify the point and the high

Re: SBUs

2005-04-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:08 CST: > These values really overspecify the point and the high precision is a > bit misleading. I am presenting a suggestion for discussion: > > SBUs less then 0.1 should be specified as: > >Estimated build time: < 0.1 SBU To me, the *lack* o

Re: SBUs

2005-04-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:24 CST: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:08 CST: > >> Estimated build time: < 0.1 SBU > > To me, the *lack* of precision in this example is much more misleading > that what we have now. > > Let's say for the sake of roundness, binuti

Re: SBUs

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:24 CST: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:08 CST: Estimated build time: < 0.1 SBU To me, the *lack* of precision in this example is much more misleading that what we have now. Let's say for the sake of roundness, bin

Re: SBU timings

2005-04-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 21:06 CST: > Attached are timings from my recent build logs. > > Title Seconds SBU > alsa-lib-1.0.80.20.0 > alsa-lib-1.0.8 79.50.6 > ethereal-0.10.9 372.72.9 > ethereal-0

Re: openoffice fun

2005-04-14 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: > I'm going to try to work out the FOP issues, as it may be some > time before a new version is released. OpenOffice probably will > contain fixes for the JDK-1.5 sometime soon. I'm not seeing any notes pointing towards a 1.1.5 at all...but looking to May for 2.0 last I hear