Rox Filer is a gtk2 file browser with few dependencies but it is not
a straightforward CMMI to install it. I think it would be appreciated
by the people who read the book so I've made the attached patch which
will add it to the book. Please apply.
Andy
diff -Naur BLFS/general/genutils/genutils.xm
Hello,
when installing ghostscript, the jasper patch can be replaced by a sed:
sed -i '/e j/,+5d;/b(s/d' base/sjpx.c
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The faac-1.28 page says that it installs libmp4v2.so. I couldn't get it
to install libmp4v2.so (I needed it for easytag - I had some m4a files
with broken metadata) so I downloaded mp4v2
http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/ and used that (easytag still needed some
hacking but I got there in the end). Th
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:52:42 -0400
linux fan wrote:
> wgetter
Launch 2 subprocesses when you could do it in bash? Instead of:
here=$(basename $(pwd))
Try:
here=${PWD##*/}
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:15:09 -0400
linux fan wrote:
> Luit is in the X Window System table of contents, xterm is not.
> Does anything really need luit? Can I build without it?
> --
I don't build luit. xterm doesn't need it
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linux fan wrote:
> start=$(date +%s)
> ... stuff happens ...
> end=$(date +%s)
> elaps=$(( end - start ))
>
That's an interesting suggestion. Thanks!
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:43:48 +0600
Vladislav Kuzkokov wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In order to keep LFS/BLFS the major source of concise building instructions.
>
> Boost.IOStreams optionally requires zlib and libbz2.
> Alternatively you can use
> ./bjam -sNO_ZLIB=1 -sNO_BZIP2=1
> Otherwise compili
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:44:11 -0500
MBW wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just went through the installation procedure for NTP-4.2.4p7 as
> outlined in BLFS svn 20110620 and all was well until I tried to start
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntp.
>
> After issuing (as root):
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntp start
>
> I was greeted w
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:11:10 -0500
Rob Landley wrote:
> I'm building a dozen targets and only x86-64 tries to install stuff in
> lib64. I create a temporary lib64->lib symlink during the gcc build and
> then delete it again after gcc finishes crapping into it.
gcc builds fine for me with no lib
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:22:52 -0500
Rob Landley wrote:
> On 07/29/2011 07:29 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> > I am open to suggestions, let the community speak out! C'mon, we need
> > to keep BLFS alive!
>
>
> So I grabbed the SVN, which produced nothing interesting in the top
> level directory, gu
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:21:37 -0500
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> This is mostly for DJ.
>
> I think we should add information to the BLFS openssl page on how to
> create a ca bundle. I tried looking at some older messages, but
> cvs.fedoraproject.org no longer exists.
>
> I can find a list from debia
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:45:00 -0400
Jonathan Oksman wrote:
> /etc/ssl/certs makes sense to me. I'm an /etc minimalist though and
> don't like having extra content without a really good reason.
>
> /etc/pki could make sense if you wanted your certificate information
> available in a single locati
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:57:15 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On 28/10/11 21:13, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> > Some observations about the latest Python build.
> > Besides the
> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/Python-3.2.2-bdb_4.8-1.patch
> > missing, there is no actual instruction
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:24:11 -0500
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Are there any naming conflicts between python3 and python2? It looks
> like I have:
>
> /usr/bin:
>
> pydoc3 python3python3.2 python3.2m
> pydoc3.2 python3-config python3.2-config python3.2
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:02:53 -0500
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> > On 30/10/11 09:43, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> >> Try building db with --enable-dbm.
>
> > Thanks, that worked. As mentioned by DJ in the previous post, I think
> > this should be included in the standard build.
>
>
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:03:59 -0500
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> basicnet/netprogs/subversion.xml
Subversion definitely fails to compile it's python bindings with python-3 as
/usr/bin/python, I tested that earlier.
> general/genlib/glib2.xml
Glib2 fails in it's gio tests if /usr/bin/python is python3,
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:33:40 -0500
DJ Lucas wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 04:55 PM, Andrew Benton wrote:
> > With a lot of work it's possible to compile and install libxml2's
> > python bindings into python3 but the effort was all in vain, they don't
> > work as
Hello
Although libmpeg2-0.5.1 compiles fine with gcc-4.6 it segfaults when I
try to run anything linked to it. The solution is to edit
libmpeg2/idct_mmx.c and change all the "static const" into just static:
sed -i 's#static const#static#' libmpeg2/idct_mmx.c
I found the solution in Mandriva's b
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 21:39:38 -0400
Jonathan Oksman wrote:
> xmms was fun back in the day, but the reality is the codebase is not
> going to be brought into a gtk2 future. There was a fork called Beep
> Media Player which ported the codebase to gtk2, but the project
> appears to have been abandone
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 10:03:40 -0400
Jonathan Oksman wrote:
> Nice! I'm going to have to give that a whirl.
The current version of Audacious is 3.0.4
http://distfiles.atheme.org/
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:21:27 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> If people just posted to blfs-dev that said "I just
> built package-x.y.z and I had to change the instructions to..." I'd do
> the XML.
I just built libmpeg2-0.5.1. It compiles according to the instructions
in the book but segfaults when
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:28:56 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I'd appreciate knowing the instructions you used. I can't do it yet
> because I haven't put X on my development system yet.
I compile firefox with:
tar xf firefox-8.0.source.tar.bz2
chown -R root:root mozilla-release
cd mozilla-release
#
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:33:08 -0600
DJ Lucas wrote:
> Guys, just in case you are not aware, we should probably consider using
> external npapi. We can of course, fix anything that is using the
> incorrect version scheme, but looking to the future, that might be a bit
> of work (OpenJDK specific
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:53:39 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Todd Simpson wrote:
> > I found that links-2.2 does not compile when it is configured with the
> > --enable-graphics switch and the system has libpng-1.5.5.
> >
> > The reason is that recent versions of libpng do not expose the contents
> >
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:52:48 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> AFAIK, the current release is still 7.6. Of course, many of the
> individual packages have had more releases. I guess the big
> question (if you want to update it) is "do you want to stick with
> the 1.9 server, or move to 1.10 ?"
FWIW I'
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:55:13 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Those were good enough to build firefox-8.0 (with its other
> dependencies, particularly yasm (1.1.0) and a newer libvpx (I used
> v0.9.7-p1, I expect that is now old hat)
Funny you should mention that. Current Firefox from mercurial needs
Hello,
I've been thinking of doing some work on BLFS. Would anyone mind if I
updated ppp to 2.4.5?
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:35:31 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> LOL. Be my guest. How will you test it? Who uses it today? I was
> thinking it should be dropped.
I use it and can test it for pppoe and pppoatm, but there's some stuff
on the page about dialup, GPRS and EDGE that I can't test so I'll
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:51:16 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> If you really want a challenge, get nfs-utils to work with glibc-2.14{,.1}
Sorry, I've never used nfs. There are enough things that I do use that
need some attention.
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Hello,
I'd like to update Audacious to the current version, 3.0.4, but
Audacious depends of gtk. It can build against either gtk-+2 or gtk-+3.
The version of gtk-+2 that we have in the book, 2.20.1 is quite old so
before I update Audacious I'd like to update gtk-+2 to the current
version, 2.24.8. g
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:56:34 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> Also, I could not build Guile with libunistring.
> Should libunistring be a required dependancy?
Do you mean without libunistring? Guile-2.0.3 builds fine with
libunistring-0.9.3 installed here. ldd shows libguile-2.0.so is linked
to li
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:29:39 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> The dependency pkg-config is linked to the Configuring pkg-config
> section rather than the pkg-config page.
Thanks Wayne,
fixed. It should have been instead of
I'll have a go at gtk+-2 tomorrow.
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:42:14 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> NP, I couple of more things I've just noticed.
> gobject-introspection and jasper are optional dependencies.
Indeed they are. Thanks again. Fixed (again).
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:46:20 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> Based on the current build instructions, Cups creates files under
> /usr/etc and /usr/var.
> Glib2 creates bash completion scripts under /usr/etc.
> Not directly related to BLFS, but it also looks like Coreutils has
> installed a library
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:32:07 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On 20/11/11 12:53, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> > The md5sum does not match.
> > I believe it should be 5408d4a70ac132f7c439d7de40e83aff
> > Regards,
> > Wayne.
> I should wait until the build finishes before posting;)
> The following two co
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:01:38 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I've been trying to get livetex properly built and installed today and
> have had a lot of problems.
>
> First, the build issues are relatively minor. I do not have X installed
> and have to pass --without-x --disable-xdvipdfmx, but othe
Hello,
I've started work on a new page to add gtk+-3 to the book. It's getting
lots of developer attention so it's well maintained and installing it
is a lot more straightforward than some of the other things I've done
lately so I expect to have it done tomorrow.
I've noticed that atk, pango, cai
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:40:19 -0800 (PST)
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> RE: LFS 6.5, 6.7, 6.8
>
> I have been able to upgrade udev to 173, but since then, the attempts to
> upgrade to 174 or directly to 175 have not succeeded.
>
> Systems boot until the error message (I am reading and
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:01:01 +
Jeremy Henty wrote:
>
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> > I can probably write instructions to move all this stuff around to the
> > proper locations,
>
> ??? The book already has instructions to do this. I assumed you had
> written them.
>
> > Does anyone use thi
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:25:13 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I see you're intending to update ffmpeg, and I remember that in the
> past you've disagreed with the configure flags I added. You seem to
> manage to keep up to date with so many projects that you probably
> know a lot more ab
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:28:55 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I've been working a bit with tex-live. I now uses xz to compress their
> very large files (126M and 1.2G). I note that it takes quite a bit more
> time to extract these files than bz2. The tradeoff may be worth it, but
> the better comp
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:31:15 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >
> >> I can probably write instructions to move all this stuff around to the
> >> proper locations,
>
> OK, this is what I have:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr \
>
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:18:03 +
Andrew Benton wrote:
> At this point I ran into problems:
>
> cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/texmf/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf': No
> space left on device
So I made a larger partition and untared a minimal LFS build onto it
(no
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:31:15 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> for INFO in livetex-tmp/usr/texmf/doc/info/*.info; do
>install -v -m0644 $INFO /usr/share/info
>intall-info --info-dir=/usr/share/info $INFO
Typo, s/intall-info/install-info/
Apart from that and the problem I posted about earlier w
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:46 +
Andrew Benton <63n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:31:15 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> > for INFO in livetex-tmp/usr/texmf/doc/info/*.info; do
> >install -v -m0644 $INFO /usr/share/info
> >intall-info
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:30:24 -0600
William Immendorf wrote:
> Apparently the package name for libmowgli is misspelled - the package
> name should be libmowgli-0.9.95.tar.bz2. The little 2 at the end is
> missing in the name.
Doh!
Thanks for the heads up. Fixed.
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Is anyone working on Firefox? Would it be Ok if I updated it?
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Hello,
When I try to install nspr-4.8.9 configure fails like so:
checking for pthread_create in -lpthreads... no
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... no
checking for pthread_create in -lc_r... no
checking for pthread_create in -lc... no
configure: error: --with-pthreads specified for a sys
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:38:24 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> I didn't have a problem building this on a x86_64 system. You did add
> the --enable-64bit parameter?
No, I didn't notice it buried down in the command explanations.
Shouldn't there be some text about it up above the configure command?
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:47:23 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> Agreed.
> Feel free to update the page.
Thanks. I'd like to change the way we handle the scripts it installs.
It seems odd to install them and then delete them. This sed prevents
them being installed:
sed -i 's#^\(RELEASE_BINS =\).*#\1
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:55 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> GTK Engines should be an optional dependency, without it I get the
> warnings about clearlooks theme missing.
> The highlighting of the menu does not great without it.
Is that when you configure it or at runtime?
If it's at runtime I co
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:08:53 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> runtime.
Thanks Wayne, I'll look into it and add a note about it when I get back
to Firefox in a few days time.
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:22:00 -0800
Nathan Coulson wrote:
> Looks like the ghostscript url's are in
> http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/,
> BLFS uses http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-9.04.tar.bz2
Thanks. Fixed.
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:08:53 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On 29/11/11 00:58, Andrew Benton wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:55 +1100
> > Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> >
> >> GTK Engines should be an optional dependency, without it I get the
> >>
Hello
Firefox requires yasm http://yasm.tortall.net/ to compile the libvpx
code included in the Firefox source. I'm going to make yasm a
recommended dependency of Firefox and Xulrunner.
Should yasm be added to the book?
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:15:33 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> Could I make one suggestion.
> Can we have the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins as the directory, and symlink
> to this rather than the other way around as it is now.
> This way, the plugins will not be tie to a specific version of Firefox
> and
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 03:44:35 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> MesaLib-7.10.3
> I plan to test 7.11.2 but I bailed on this build - after sedding
> out the requirement for libdrm_nouveau >= 0.6 (I only have ati
> video cards) it told me I needed llvm : I think Andy posted about
> how to tame that packa
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:41:23 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Thanks for (re) posting this. Am I right in thinking llvm is
> required for current Mesa, or do you have another sed to let it
> build with gcc ?
I don't know for sure (as I install llvm) but I think it's gallium that
uses llvm. It may com
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:46:53 +
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:41:23 +
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> > Thanks for (re) posting this. Am I right in thinking llvm is
> > required for current Mesa, or do you have another sed to let it
> > build with
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:33:55 -0600
Todd Simpson wrote:
> I tried to build gtk+-3.2.2 on my LFS 7.0 system and the configure
> script failed, with a message that I needed pango-1.29.0 or later. I
> had pango-1.28.2 because that's what the BLFS book said was needed.
>
> I downloaded pango-1.29.4
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:08:52 +
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:33:55 -0600
> Todd Simpson wrote:
>
> > I tried to build gtk+-3.2.2 on my LFS 7.0 system and the configure
> > script failed, with a message that I needed pango-1.29.0 or later. I
> &g
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:51:01 -0600
DJ Lucas wrote:
> Not much choice here. If it is required then it is required. I would
> wonder if pango-1.30 is on the horizon though. As a quick gauge, what
> was the pango requirement of 3.2.1?
All the gtk+-3.2 versions require pango-1.29.0
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On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 15:41:43 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> It's required for gtk+-3.2.2. 1.29.4 is good enough to build that,
> but 1.29.5 needs a development glibc.
I think you mean glib, pango-1.29.5 wants glib-2.31. So I'll update the
book to pango-1.29.4 which will have to do until pango-1.30 i
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:59:10 -0800 (PST)
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had a sour time with gnash, which (dev version) I had succesfully
> compiled and installed, months ago, in LFS-6.8, but not in 6.5 nor 6.7. For
> reasons I have already written, I believe some "flash" animatio
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:19:52 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> gnome-media is no longer part of Gnome3 (as of 3.2).
> The next release of Gnome will be next March.
> If anyone is interested, here is my current build for Gnome3:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~wblaszcz/blfs-book-xsl/index.html
Ve
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:20:45 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Option 4. Yet another option is to completely remove TeX from the book.
> It is usually referenced in other packages to rebuild documentation.
> I really doubt many users do that.
>
> Right now I lean towards option 3, but need to get f
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 06:08:45 -0800 (PST)
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> I do not know the meaning of make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN). Please,
> educate me.
Oops, sorry, that was copy and pasted from one of my scripts and I
didn't notice it.
getconf is installed by glibc.
getconf _NPROCESSORS_
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:27:59 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Well, I certainly won't be following the full build. But it's
> already *very* useful in looking at dependencies for the things I do
> intend to build.
>
> I can't see that this will break anything outside gnome-2, so I
> support dropping
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:09:19 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> I could only get gnome-shell to work with the nvidia drivers. The
> nv drivers just didn't cut it, they kept going back to fallback mode.
Have you tried Nouveau? I used to use it (I don't use any Nvidia
hardware at the moment) and found
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:05:11 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Anything different that you're concerned about ?
I was just curious what was happening with gnome. I think gstreamer
uses Gconf? I also use gksu (I think that uses gconf and orbit?) for
gparted.
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On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:18:13 -0600
DJ Lucas wrote:
> LLVM will need to be added to the book for Mesa (Andy posted a nice
> build script the other day that links everything dynamic for 2.9, but
> 3.0 fails to build for me).
Thanks very much :)
I've had a look at llvm-3.0 and this seems to work:
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 20:07:00 +
Andrew Benton wrote:
> I've had a look at llvm-3.0 and this seems to work:
>
> touch tools/edis/EnhancedDisassembly.exports
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> sed -i 's#BUILD_ARCHIVE :*= 1#NO_BUILD_ARCHIVE = 1#' \
> $(grep -r
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:38:28 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Here's something else that is even more tidy:
>
> find -name Makefile -exec\
>sed -ir -e '/^LIBRARYNAME/a SHARED_LIBRARY = 1'\
>-e 's#^BUILD_ARCHIVE :*= 1#NO_&#' \
>-e '/^
Hello,
There are quite a few packages that I use every day that are not in
BLFS. I think it's a shame that they're not in the book so I've started
to knock up example pages that show what a BLFS page might look like
for them. The first 4 are:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/BLFS/vte2_90.htm
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:59:00 -0600
DJ Lucas wrote:
> Checked out LXDE's packages? Also uses openbox for the recommended wm. I used
> to use flux with the others as well, so I found it to be a nice inbetween
> environment. I think around 350 packages for a fully functional desktop.
I use some p
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:15:51 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On 04/12/11 15:30, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Impressive! Looks as if I might be putting pulse into this build,
> > now that I've got something to work from. What's stopping you
> > putting all this into the book ?
> It's incomplete. Most
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:29:31 -0800 (PST)
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> 1. A small typo in mozconfig:
> mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir
> but the command reads
> make -C xulrunner-build-dir install.
Thanks, I hadn't noticed.
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:29:42 -0800 (PST)
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> 1. I believe, in the hurry, a partial mozconfig text is in the book, because
> prefix is intended to be /usr, not /usr/local, as I found after first
> successful build. Thus,
>
> ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
Yes, you're rig
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:58:04 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I noticed that libdrm-2.4.28 has been released, but it doesn't build
> with the current instructions:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.28/tests/radeon'
>CC rbo.o
> rbo.c:34:17: fatal error: rbo.h: No such
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:58:04 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Now on to Mesa-7.11.2.
> It fails in make. There are evidently incompatible changes in llvm 3.0.
>
> gallivm/lp_bld_debug.cpp:30:40: fatal error:
> llvm/Target/TargetRegistry.h: No such file
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa
Hello Ken,
Thanks for updating the gimp, it was on my todo list but I wanted to
update webkit first as the gimp uses it to view the help files. At
least, it does for me, however, I don't see webkit mentioned on the
gimp page as an optional dependency? Should I add it to the gimp page
when I've upda
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:53:45 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 01:33:15AM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote:
> > Hello Ken,
> > Thanks for updating the gimp, it was on my todo list but I wanted to
> > update webkit first as the gimp uses it to view the help files.
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:53:45 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> I think I put it in a comment in the xls, but I'm *surprised*
> yours uses webkit - mine opens aurora (i.e. firefox). Anyway, it
> tests for webkit-1.0.pc - in my experience that comes from old (<1.6)
> versions of webkit-gtk built with gtk
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:13:08 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Mostly for DJ,
>
> I finally finished going through Xorg. I always get a sense of
> satisfaction when bringing it up for the the first time on a new system.
> It's the same feeling when I start LFS for the first time after a major
> upd
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:13:08 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> BTW, I built in /opt/xorg. I like to do that so I can build another
> version of xorg without changing the current programs that would be the
> case if installing in /usr.
I think you're very brave to do that. I think reinstalling a newe
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:09:24 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> What you do is have a symlink of /opt/xorg -> xorg-7.6-2, build with a
> different prefix and when ready to test, change the symlink. Works
> great for kde, qt, gnome, fop, and and ant also.
But what happens to anything in /usr which is
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:04:10 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I thought it's primary use was a benchmark. I can't ever remember
> running it at less than about 200 fps.
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmark
>
> >> After the builds, we have 'Xorg-7.6-2 Configuration', but we
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:30:24 -0700 (MST)
bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
> Author: bdubbs
> Date: 2011-12-11 22:30:20 -0700 (Sun, 11 Dec 2011)
> New Revision: 9100
>
> Modified:
>trunk/BOOK/general.ent
>trunk/BOOK/general/genlib/libglade.xml
>trunk/BOOK/general/genutils/rep-gtk.xml
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:08:58 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
\
> sed -ir -e '/^LIBRARYNAME/a SHARED_LIBRARY = 1' \
> -e 's#BUILD_ARCHIVE :*= 1#NO_&#' \
> -e '/^USEDLIBS/s# ([A-Za-z]*).a# -l\1#g' \
This is wrong, the brack
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:34:42 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Then why is is working for me? Note 'sed -ir'
Sorry, I hadn't noticed the -r
> $cat sedtest
> USEDLIBS module.a
>
> $ cat sedtest | sed -r -e '/^USEDLIBS/s# ([A-Za-z]*).a# -l\1#g'
> USEDLIBS -lmodule
Works the same here, but I don't kn
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:16:39 +
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:34:42 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> > Then why is is working for me? Note 'sed -ir'
>
> Sorry, I hadn't noticed the -r
>
> > $cat sedtest
> > USEDLIBS module
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:17:29 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I think I made an error. What my script has is:
>
> find -name Makefile -exec \
> sed -ir -e '/^LIBRARYNAME/a SHARED_LIBRARY = 1'\
> -e 's#BUILD_ARCHIVE :*= 1#NO_&#'
Hello,
I've written a couple of new pages for 2 packages I think should be in
the book. Both use gtk+-2 but have few other dependencies. I use them
every day and think they're excellent.
Geany is a text editor:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/BLFS/geany.html
Sylpheed is an easy-to-use email
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:28:48 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> First, the mozconfig is missing EOF. I'll fix that.
Doh! Sorry for that.
> Second, I think we used to install enigmail with seamonkey. Has anyone
> tried that?
No. There were instructions for installing enigmail on the page but it
was
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:25:17 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Also, the construct is not explained. I think it should be removed.
I agree it should be explained, then people can make an informed
choice. I don't mind that it's different from the other pages where
useradd is used.
Andy
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:10:04 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> More on D_BUS. The install creates /var/run/dbus, but that will go away
> with a reboot. We need to figure out a way to create it upon boot.
>
> The first LFS boot script, mountvirtfs, does:
>
> mkdir -p /run
> mount -n /run || failed=1
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:46:48 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> This is getting complicated. I can build and install dbus-1.4.16.tar.gz
> without noticing any problems.
>
> In order to run the tests, I need:
>
> D-Bus GLib Bindings (update to 0.98)
> D-Bus Python Bindings (update to 0.84.0)
>whic
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:27:29 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Ah, I see, you build dbus but not the bootscripts. AFAIK, the
> bootscript has been required for a long time. I see no obvious
> reason to add dbus-launch to .xinitrc.
I also see no reason to add dbus-launch to .xinitrc. On my system I
st
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:03:42 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I'm not an expert in how dbus is used, but if you do not use the
> bootscript and do use the dbus-launch, isn't that sufficient?
Yes, I think so. I'm going to delete the dbus bootscripts on my systems
and just start it from xinitrc
> What
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:10:48 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> My preference is option 4) /etc (Something that Fedora and Ubuntu uses,
> just to name a few)
+1 for this. I install my gconf stuff --sysconfdir=/etc
Andy
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