Re: Corrections to Xorg 7 instructions

2006-05-05 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Staub wrote: Attached should be a patch to correct some of the dependency info for the newly-split Xorg 7 pages. Also, I was wondering whether Mesa is really "optional" for xorg-server. I've tried building the server without Mesa (of course removing the configure option referring to Mesa

Corrections to Xorg 7 instructions

2006-05-05 Thread Chris Staub
Attached should be a patch to correct some of the dependency info for the newly-split Xorg 7 pages. Also, I was wondering whether Mesa is really "optional" for xorg-server. I've tried building the server without Mesa (of course removing the configure option referring to Mesa's source dir) but i

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/05/06 17:24 CST: > I probably exaggerated > above, but it's certainly rare that ed is need on an LFS/BLFS system. Indeed. :-) Have a good weekend. I'll be away from the computer for much of it. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/5/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/05/06 17:11 CST: > I could be > wrong, though, since this is the first time in a long time I've needed > it. You don't find the TeTeX package useful to have installed? That's probably the last time I n

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/05/06 17:11 CST: > I could be > wrong, though, since this is the first time in a long time I've needed > it. You don't find the TeTeX package useful to have installed? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C L

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/5/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about shortening it up some: sed -i '/^soname_spec.*/{ i # X.Org hack to match monolithic Xaw SONAME i xorglibxawname="libXaw" s/libname/xorglibxawname/ :a;{N;ba} }' libtool Looks good. My testing shows it gives exactly the same output a

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Well, it's not in there just for fun. ed, apparently, does things a > bit differently when it receives the q command. It quits where it is > and gives you the file back. sed, though, will q at the line your on > and drop all remaining lines. This is a problem since only

Re: udev rule line length

2006-05-05 Thread Archaic
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:42:33AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > BTW, the other KERNEL rules should be unnecessary now since they're > handled in the default LFS rules since udev_update was merged. They won't necessarily be in there when the book is released, though. At least, not in the same f

Re: udev rule line length

2006-05-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/5/06, M.Canales.es <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: El Viernes, 5 de Mayo de 2006 19:01, Bruce Dubbs escribió: > In the alsa utilities section, we have a long line in the instructions > about creating a udev rule. Evidently, udev does not support the common > practice of allowing a backslash/newl

Re: udev rule line length

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/multimedia/alsa-utils.html > > Not about line-length, but... with the udev-retry script IIRC things can > change WRT the restore script. I've never followed the ALSA/udev

Re: udev rule line length

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
M.Canales.es wrote: > El Viernes, 5 de Mayo de 2006 19:01, Bruce Dubbs escribió: >> In the alsa utilities section, we have a long line in the instructions >> about creating a udev rule. Evidently, udev does not support the common >> practice of allowing a backslash/newline combination for extendin

Re: udev rule line length

2006-05-05 Thread Archaic
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/multimedia/alsa-utils.html Not about line-length, but... with the udev-retry script IIRC things can change WRT the restore script. I've never followed the ALSA/udev stuff, so I'm not sur

Re: udev rule line length

2006-05-05 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 5 de Mayo de 2006 19:01, Bruce Dubbs escribió: > In the alsa utilities section, we have a long line in the instructions > about creating a udev rule. Evidently, udev does not support the common > practice of allowing a backslash/newline combination for extending a > logical line to a n

udev rule line length

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
In the alsa utilities section, we have a long line in the instructions about creating a udev rule. Evidently, udev does not support the common practice of allowing a backslash/newline combination for extending a logical line to a new physical line. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/mu

Re: ntp

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I'm starting to update ntp and am unsure how to proceed. The current >> version is now ntp-4.20a-20060224.tar.gz. Do we use this name or just >> ntp-4.20a in the title? I lean toward ntp-4.20a, but I have another file >> on my system that is ntp-stable

Re: ntp

2006-05-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm starting to update ntp and am unsure how to proceed. The current version is now ntp-4.20a-20060224.tar.gz. Do we use this name or just ntp-4.20a in the title? I lean toward ntp-4.20a, but I have another file on my system that is ntp-stable-4.2.0a-20050816.tar.gz (date ch

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/5/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: Yes, we don't want the dependency. However, since we are doing a patch anyway, why not just patch configure to remove the ed script and patch libtool directly to the final result? libtool is generated during configure, I t

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 5/2/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 4/30/06, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Aaak! Wouldn't a sed to use sed be preferred? Why anyone is still >> > relying on ed is beyond me. >> >> I'm really unfamiliar with ed, so I don't know if the ed sc

Re: Xorg 7 dependencies - ed

2006-05-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/2/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/30/06, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aaak! Wouldn't a sed to use sed be preferred? Why anyone is still > relying on ed is beyond me. I'm really unfamiliar with ed, so I don't know if the ed script would work correctly as an sed sc