Compatibaly issues with libjpeg-7

2009-07-26 Thread William Immendorf
As libjpeg-7 has issues with KDE 3.5 and some older binary packages, we need to build the libjpeg-62 shared libs and put them into /usr/lib. Here's how: 1. After installing libjpeg7, get libjpeg62 from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz (JIG dosen't have libjpeg62, and this

Showing LFS-6.5 compatibility

2009-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
This is for the devs: I've created an entity called lfs65_checked. When inserted into a file, it will show that the package works with LFS-6.5. See the ATK page for an example. Let's start using it as packages are proved to work against 6.5 -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.25] [GNU ld version

Re: Proposal

2009-07-26 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
Hi Jean-Philippe, On Sat, Jul 25, at 04:56 Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi, While translating blfs, I realize that for some packages, there are not instructions to have them in another language than English. It's right for OOo, and Mozilla. That's why I wanted to know if you're interested

Re: Showing LFS-6.5 compatibility

2009-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 07/26/09 09:36 CST: This is for the devs: I've created an entity called lfs65_checked. When inserted into a file, it will show that the package works with LFS-6.5. See the ATK page for an example. Let's start using it as packages are proved to work

Re: r7870 - in trunk/BOOK: . general/graphlib introduction/welcome

2009-07-26 Thread William Immendorf
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:42 AM, gdalz...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: gdalziel Date: 2009-07-26 04:42:41 -0600 (Sun, 26 Jul 2009) New Revision: 7870 Modified:   trunk/BOOK/general.ent   trunk/BOOK/general/graphlib/libjpeg.xml   trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml I think

Re: proposal: new approach

2009-07-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:03:13 -0500, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/25/09 08:48 CST: Finally, in light of the amount of work needed to be done, current LFS editors should be given access to BLFS (if they don't have it already). Anything that

Re: proposal (and an important message)

2009-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 07/26/09 15:47 CST: And I probably have never used them! Anyway, now that my main barrier to entry of make sure all dependant packages work following a package update has been lifted, I may well go all gung-ho following LFS-6.5-RC2 and start actually

Re: proposal (and an important message)

2009-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 07/26/09 16:14 CST: However, please try to install as many dependencies of the package you are updating as possible. At least common and/or important and/or ones you think most folks will install. That way, we'll know those dependencies don't break the

Re: proposal (and an important message)

2009-07-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 07/26/09 16:14 CST: However, please try to install as many dependencies of the package you are updating as possible. At least common and/or important and/or ones you think most folks will install. That way, we'll know those