Re: [blfs-dev] Missleading text in QT4

2013-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: Hi, There is a sentence If also installing Qt5 into /usr, symlink the Qt4 executables into /usr/bin by running the following commands as the root user: followed by the instruction to create symlinks. I find that a bit missleading as it sounds like the symlinks are not

Re: [blfs-dev] PHP and httpd.conf

2013-12-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 29/11/2013 07:10, Thomas Trepl a écrit : Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2013, 22:51:15 schrieb Pierre Labastie: Le 26/11/2013 18:27, Pierre Labastie a écrit : Pierre You are right, there is some other reason. The pathes are relative to what is defined in ServerRoot

Re: [blfs-dev] r2784 - trunk/gimp

2013-11-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 30-11-2013 14:25, ferna...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org escreveu: Author: fernando Date: Sat Nov 30 09:25:41 2013 New Revision: 2784 Log: Two patches for gimp-2.8.10: one is to fix build with FreeType-2.5.1. Added:

Re: [blfs-dev] xulrunner-25.0.1 fails to compile

2013-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 28-11-2013 23:16, John Burrell escreveu: I get these 'undefined reference' messages: ../../gfx/thebes/gfxFT2Utils.o: In function `gfxFT2LockedFace::GetMetrics(gfxFont::Metrics*, unsigned int*)':

Re: [blfs-dev] xulrunner-25.0.1 fails to compile

2013-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Still waiting for xulrunner build to finish (tried more than 5 builds already, before finding the discussion at mozilla). At least it's not openoffice. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] LFS Server Shutdown for Maintenance

2013-11-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Hi, I'm preparing to shut the (new) LFS server down for maintenance Friday evening to take advantage of a free upgrade to double our disk space to 384 GB. The upgrade requires a storage migration and estimates say it may take approximately three hours to complete. I

Re: [blfs-dev] r12296 - trunk/BOOK/gnome/applications

2013-11-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 27-11-2013 12:23, bdu...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org escreveu: Author: bdubbs Date: Wed Nov 27 07:23:44 2013 New Revision: 12296 Log: Fix brasero url - gnome-download-http;/brasero/3.8/brasero-brasero-version;.tar.xz +

Re: [blfs-dev] freetype-2.5.1 modified headers location

2013-11-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: OK, apologies, ĸen. Now the same question at dev (please, see below). ... Comment (by fo): ... However, things are better than I thought. Built: Fontconfig-2.11.0 Imlib2-1.4.5 Graphviz-2.34.0 libass-0.10.2 agg-2.5 ghostscript-9.10, so, everything

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg and python

2013-11-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Wayne, I am worried that other xorg packages will have to be fixed for Python3, not only xcb-proto and libxcb. What do you think? Igor? I would think very few xorg apps would use Python at all. I can't check right now though. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] freetype-2.5.1 modified headers location

2013-11-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 25-11-2013 15:33, Ken Moffat escreveu: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:09:14AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: So, with a minor modification in one sed, only the statistics and version numbers need modification. Shall I update? I think that's the right thing

Re: [blfs-dev] PHP and httpd.conf

2013-11-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: On 11/25/2013 04:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, During my slow progress towards introducing SWIG into the book, I decided to build all the languages that SWIG could work with. Among those is PHP. I proceeded as in the book, but when rebooting, I got

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS and package management

2013-11-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Yes, setting up scripts for each package is tedious (and so is revising everything to work differently). But for perhaps 95% of everything I build I can start with a simple template to which I add the package/version, any patch(es), and sometimes one or two additional

Re: [blfs-dev] A few things I have found with subversion

2013-11-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I never comment those issues, because I know that they will always differ in a same architecture, and much more in other one. That's my approach too. Actually I've noticed few large differences between the old and new values. I do use an automated script that

Re: [blfs-dev] Proposed changes

2013-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:12:16 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com To: BLFS Development List blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Proposed changes . . Remove printproto and libXp since they are basically unused. Like Nathan, I

[blfs-dev] Glamor EGL

2013-11-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The book has: Download (HTTP): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/glamor/snapshot/glamor-egl-0.5.1.tar.gz Download MD5 sum: b52cc1cadebe210cc256a9fd9523dc08 I get: 189a627c7e811c5a6b38fce892421480 glamor-egl-0.5.1.tar.gz Which is right? -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] Glamor EGL

2013-11-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 11/14/2013 09:59 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: The book has: Download (HTTP): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/glamor/snapshot/glamor-egl-0.5.1.tar.gz Download MD5 sum: b52cc1cadebe210cc256a9fd9523dc08 I get: 189a627c7e811c5a6b38fce892421480 glamor-egl-0.5.1

Re: [blfs-dev] dovecot

2013-11-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 11/12/2013 07:04 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: We could use --libexecdir=/usr/lib/dovecot, but that puts the libexec files file in /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot/ or we could follow CBLFS and use --libexecdir=/usr/lib/dovecot/exec which puts them into /usr

Re: [blfs-dev] typos, patches, c.

2013-11-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: Hi, While reading through blfs74 book, I noticed in passing several apparent typos, inconsistent-casing, packages referred to as external yet are now part of book, and so on. First: are you interested in applying these corrections to the book; of course, you'll want

Re: [blfs-dev] dovecot

2013-11-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:51:24AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: For me, dovecot-2.2.7 fails during it's install - Making install in auth make[2]: Entering directory '/scratch/working/dovecot-2.2.7/src/auth' make[3]: Entering directory

[blfs-dev] gcc defaults

2013-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
After many years of using gcc, I ran across this interesting command today for the first time: gcc -Q --help=common It may come in handy. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: [blfs-dev] php5 and current version of bison

2013-11-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: Hi, php5 (5.5.5) checks bison versions up to 2.7 but LFS installs version 3.0. This causes a failure in configure. It could be solved by a sed like this sed -i -e s/2\.6\.5 2\.7\/2.6.5 2.7 3.0\/ configure Interesting, but the following is easier to read. sed -i -e

Re: [blfs-dev] Modify GNOME's titles and organization [Was: ...4258: re-add mutter]

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 03-11-2013 13:23, Igor Živković escreveu: On 11/03/2013 05:20 PM, BLFS Trac wrote: #4258: re-add mutter --+-- Reporter: openvoid | Owner: blfs-book@… Changes (by fo): * status: new = closed

Re: [blfs-dev] Mismatch between LVM2 2.02.10x and initramfs

2013-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, I use an initramfs for LVM for booting LFS (7.4). I've always wondered why some do this. What's wrong with a simple 100M normal partition on the fist drive? /boot is rarely changed and easily backed up. A separate normal partition makes things a lot easier.

[blfs-dev] libsigc++ version

2013-10-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
libsigc++ is a gnome package, but we are using an odd numbered minor version (2.3.1 2012-10-18). The most recent even numbered version is 2.2.11 (2012-09-23). My question here is whether libsigc++ follows the common even-stable/odd-development pattern. If so, is there a specific reason we

Re: [blfs-dev] libsigc++ version

2013-10-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-10-30 18:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote: libsigc++ is a gnome package, but we are using an odd numbered minor version (2.3.1 2012-10-18). The most recent even numbered version is 2.2.11 (2012-09-23). My question here is whether libsigc++ follows the common even-stable

Re: [blfs-dev] libsigc++ version

2013-10-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 30-10-2013 15:44, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-10-30 18:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote: libsigc++ is a gnome package, but we are using an odd numbered minor version (2.3.1 2012-10-18). The most recent even numbered version is 2.2.11 (2012-09-23

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r12060 - trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config

2013-10-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
i...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: igor Date: Fri Oct 25 02:30:54 2013 New Revision: 12060 Log: alias for colored /bin/grep in bash startup scripts as suggested by a user Is this needed? It seems to be the default on my system. I get color output without any alias for grep.

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r12060 - trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config

2013-10-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: i...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: igor Date: Fri Oct 25 02:30:54 2013 New Revision: 12060 Log: alias for colored /bin/grep in bash startup scripts as suggested by a user Is this needed? It seems to be the default on my system. I get color output without

[blfs-dev] Notes about KDE

2013-10-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I started updating my version of KDE from 4.11.0 to 4.11.2 a few days ago in order to update the book. I tried to take some shortcuts and it didn't work so well. On my system I have KDE_PREFIX=/opt/kde where /opt/kde-/opt/kde-4.11.0. What I tried to do was only update the packages that

[blfs-dev] BLFS Status

2013-10-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've had a couple of problems with my currency scripts that I fixed today. I've used that to update the tickets so that list should be fairly current. The scripts are not perfect and probably never will be due to the constant flux of upstream changes and servers going down and back up.

Re: [blfs-dev] ibus

2013-10-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-10-21 17:15, Ken Moffat wrote: What caused you to notice ibus is needed for LXDE ? I'm having difficulty understanding why keeping this one package is beneficial for LXDE users. Not ibus, but libgee. It's required for lxsession if I remember correctly.

Re: [blfs-dev] libpeas-1.9.0 or libpeas-1.8.1?

2013-10-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 21-10-2013 10:30, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: I have received a private message confirming that latest is libpeas-1.9.0, mentioning our use of librsvg 2.37 (we are now with librsvg-2.37.0) and pointing to some discussions here and, at gnome, to the listing

Re: [blfs-dev] Nautilus-3.10.0

2013-10-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-10-20 20:12, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Some problems: {{{ configure: error: Package requirements (libexif = 0.6.20) were not met: No package 'libexif' found }} Then found this in configure: {{{ --enable-libexif=[yes/no]

Re: [blfs-dev] ibus

2013-10-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Ploughing on through the deps for things I haven't yet built with make-4.0, I came to ibus. Grepping through the xml, this was obviously included because some gnome packages used it. But those packages have now been archived - systemd fallout, I suppose. The only

Re: [blfs-dev] Proposed changes

2013-10-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-10-17 23:38, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I really can't think of any objections and I do like the idea of removing unused packages. Thoughts? No objections from me either. I'd add rpcnis-headers from libtirpc page to the list. Good point. -- Bruce -- http

Re: [blfs-dev] rsync-3.1.0

2013-10-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I have texlive installed (binaries). Still, same problem. Seems that it is JadeTeX-3.13 that is needed (see below). First new problem: there is no ed-0.8.tar.bz2 at http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ed/ed-0.8.tar.bz2 First one here is ed-1.0.tar.bz2 (21-Aug-2008 15:14

[blfs-dev] Proposed changes

2013-10-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I have received a private email that suggests several changes and I'd like to throw them out to everyone for comment. Remove packages bc eject pkgconfig old udev, rename udev-extras to udev These were left in BLFS to support older versions of LFS, but they are getting long in the tooth.

[blfs-dev] New wireshark

2013-10-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've just been working with wireshark-1.11.0. I can say from the build perspective that I'm quite disappointed. IN the previous version, the configure line was ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc this fails with the current version. It is trying to use both Qt5 and gtk+3 and both

Re: [blfs-dev] rsync-3.1.0

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: 1. Doxygen-1.8.5 I do not know how helpful is the API docs, for people using BLFS. But if it is maintained in the page, should be listed in Optional Requirements. Furthermore, it required Graphviz to run correctly, thus, Graphviz should be listed, too. Most

[blfs-dev] BLFS Status

2013-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Just a note to say that we released BLFS-7.4 17 days ago. At theat time, there were no outstanding tickets or neede package updates. Since then, there have been 74 updates with 15 open tickets still outstanding. That's a little over 5 packages every day. :( It doesn't count LFS that has had

Re: [blfs-dev] Gnome app configuration

2013-09-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been doing some testing with Gnome apps at version 3.10. My experience with them is quite minimal, but they do seem to work for the most part. Looking at gedit-3.10.0, the editing fuction works, but the appearance is dreadful. The border around the window is fine

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg-1.2.2 and libvpx-1.2.0

2013-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-09-27 04:18, Bruce Dubbs wrote: John Burrell wrote: The ffmpeg-1.2.2 configure, when applied as per the book, produces: ERROR: libvpx decoder version must be=0.9.1 This is because libvpx installs its headers in /usr/include/vpx with permission 640. Changing

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg-1.2.2 and libvpx-1.2.0

2013-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 2013-09-27 16:45, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Igor Živković wrote: I've got 755 for the include vpx directory and 640 for the files. The Makefile is doing a 'cp -p src dest' so it depends on the permissions of the files when you extract them. See line 238 of the Makefile

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg-1.2.2 and libvpx-1.2.0

2013-09-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Burrell wrote: The ffmpeg-1.2.2 configure, when applied as per the book, produces: ERROR: libvpx decoder version must be=0.9.1 This is because libvpx installs its headers in /usr/include/vpx with permission 640. Changing them to 644 solves the problem. It would be worth including a

[blfs-dev] Lots of new tickets

2013-09-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
We are up to 34 open tickets with 20 new ones today due to gnome updates to 3.10.0. I expect a fair number of additional tickets tomorrow. I suspect most will be straight forward, but it's lots of work to check. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] Seahorse and gcr versions

2013-09-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On 09/20/13 20:26, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: Any reason why the development version of seahorse was put in the book? The latest stable version of seahorse is 3.8.2. Version 3.10 should be released in the next few days. gcr is another where 3.9.91 is from the development

Re: [blfs-dev] Kde 4.11.1 can not find mime data

2013-09-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Magnus Larsson wrote: Hello blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Kde 4.11.1 can not find mime data when staring session using kdm, I have Xorg-7.7 server and QT-4.85 on a LinuxFromScratch (lfs) system. Both the xserver and qt work well. uname -a Linux lfs 3.10.1 #6 SMP Sat Sep 14 18:20:45 CEST

Re: [blfs-dev] Kde 4.11.1 can not find mime data

2013-09-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Magnus Larsson wrote: On 2013-09-17 21.05, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Lets start at the beginning. Do you have: /usr/share/mime/application/octet-stream.xml /usr/share/mime/inode/{directory,blockdevice,chardevice,socket,fifo}.xml /usr/share/mime/application/x-* etc If so, then try export

[blfs-dev] Concerning a BLFS-7.4 release (today)

2013-09-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I am considering making a BLFS-7.4 release later today. Yesterday we got to the point where there were no normal-level tickets open. There were only new package requests and package holds due to conflicts that are all set at low priority. This morning there are three new packages and I will

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11837 - in tags/7.4: . archive book general/sysutils introduction/welcome postlfs/security x/installing

2013-09-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Denis Mugnier wrote: another typo (foreword.xml file) + paraThis release would not have been possible without the help of + a lot of people over the years. Sepcific thanks for the many hours specific + spent making BLFS what it is goes to the following:/para All three fixed.

[blfs-dev] BLFS Version 7.4 is released

2013-09-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat Fernando de Oliveria Chris Staub Ragnar Thomsen Thomas Trepl Igor Zivkovic -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: [blfs-dev] postgresql, and policy

2013-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I've now got the postgresql testsuite working for a normal user, using the attached patch (based on gentoo, but simplified - they make one other change, which seems unnecessary, and use @SOCKETDIR@ then sed that to /tmp after applying the patch. Bruce managed to get the

Re: [blfs-dev] postgresql, and policy

2013-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: I've now got the postgresql testsuite working for a normal user, using the attached patch (based on gentoo, but simplified - they make one other change, which seems unnecessary, and use @SOCKETDIR@ then sed that

[blfs-dev] BLFS status

2013-09-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The tagging for LFS-7.4 is now complete. There are 4 normal priority tickets left: wireshark - new today and I'll update that today. posgresql - ken is working this xterm - new version today. Igor, do you want to do this? cups-filters - fernando, can you do this? Other items: We haven't

Re: [blfs-dev] totem

2013-09-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:25:49AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: OK, add the grillo page. I found it to be just CMMI and didn't look at grillo plugins. I evidently had the dependencies because it didn't complain. I'll tackle seahorse, probably tomorrow. -- Bruce OK

Re: [blfs-dev] totem

2013-09-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:45:03PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: There are only two packages left in the book that are marked at 7.3: totem and seahorse. I tried totem and got it to work, but it appears that the package grillo, marked optional in the book, is really required

Re: [blfs-dev] totem

2013-09-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I haven't looked at grilo's dependencies, or its plugins (which will enable more of the totem plugins), but my gut feeling is that at least grilo needs to be in the book. I also noted that gentoo have it as optional, but they do

Re: [blfs-dev] transmission and qt

2013-09-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 09-09-2013 12:17, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: I am stuck with seamonkey since yesterday. It does not build anymore in my system. Was trying the patches for system cairo support, one I found and that for firefox (with just a change in directories, in order to

Re: [blfs-dev] transmission and qt

2013-09-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: That was meant to say that I agree with archiving qt5. and qtchooser. I gave this some thought and decided to enhance the text and leave it for now. What's there does work and users can ignore it if they don't want to install both. I do want to provide a way to

Re: [blfs-dev] transmission and qt

2013-09-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I will try to install transmission with Qt4. But for now, I am testing firefox-23.0.1-system_cairo-1.patch, that Igor submitted, with xulrunner/firefox. Next, I will be testing another patch for seamonkey and cairo, but it seemed a little different from the one for

Re: [blfs-dev] transmission and qt

2013-09-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Can I suggest that we consider a freeze for the 7.4 BLFS book (at some point) even with tickets outstanding ? We can do that, but I'd want to minimize the freeze time due to the upstream churn rate. Many of the changes look benign, but a lot of them are things I don't

[blfs-dev] LFS-7.4 is released

2013-09-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
the book. You can read the book online at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/, or download from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/ to read locally. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: [blfs-dev] Trying to facilitate a 7.4 BLFS release, was Re: transmission and qt

2013-09-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 12:34:22PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Can I suggest that we consider a freeze for the 7.4 BLFS book (at some point) even with tickets outstanding ? We can do that, but I'd want to minimize the freeze time due to the upstream churn

[blfs-dev] transmission and qt

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor, I see you added a patch for building transmission with qt4. Are you going to update transmission in the book? If so, I can take it off my todo list. Actually, the only references to Qt5 in the book are transmission and poppler (optional but I think it's only to create poppler

Re: [blfs-dev] transmission and qt

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 09/07/2013 05:22 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Igor, I see you added a patch for building transmission with qt4. Are you going to update transmission in the book? If so, I can take it off my todo list. Actually, the only references to Qt5 in the book are transmission

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11786 - trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ferna...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: fernando Date: Sat Sep 7 08:40:02 2013 New Revision: 11786 Log: tag ekiga Thanks. This is what's left: general/sysutils/autofs.xml: I'll do this soon. Testing is what will take some time, but I don't anticipate build issues.

Re: [blfs-dev] ekiga (r11786 - trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other)

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 07-09-2013 12:46, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: I run echo test and call test. Have no camera for testing. One thing I forgot to mention is a large number of annoying warnings: /usr/include/boost/signal.hpp:17:4: warning: #warning Boost.Signals is no

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11786 - trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: On 09/07/2013 05:58 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: xsoft/other/inkscape.xml: Ran into fairly large problems with this related to the current poppler version. I couldn't find a patch, but there are several issues. I've just built Inkscape with no errors. What issues did you

Re: [blfs-dev] Perl Modules - some no longer required ?

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I've changed the indexing of all the perl modules which are or were fully in the book from Other to Packages (although I think I said 'Programs' in the commit message : bad ken). This matches the python modules : versions don't show in longindex.html, but they are in the

Re: [blfs-dev] gnome/platform/notification-daemon.xml

2013-09-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Denis Mugnier wrote: Hi, This patch is only for the notification-daemon.xml file to be consistent with the other files in the book. Index: gnome/platform/notification-daemon.xml === --- gnome/platform/notification-daemon.xml

Re: [blfs-dev] Plan for today

2013-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: 2. Sshd doesn't start - moans about /proc/oom_score_adj which seems not to exist [ scrawled note among the several errors I got, might not have copied all of it ] - perhaps ${pid} is somehow not set although that line of the bootscript hasn't changed. The bootscript should

[blfs-dev] gcc in blfs

2013-09-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I was testing building several gcc compilers in blfs and ran into some issues. Just looking at gcc, I'm getting the following: === gcc Summary === # of expected passes96351 # of unexpected failures50 # of unexpected successes 39 # of expected failures

Re: [blfs-dev] $XORG_PREFIX inconsistencies (ntroduction to Xorg-7.7 )

2013-09-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Jensen wrote: For what it's worth, Introduction to Xorg-7.7 needs some cleanup: there are ${XORG_PREFIX}, $XORG_PREFIX and one nasty PREFIX, long after XORG_PREFIX should be set. OK, I'll fix that at next commit. maybe I'll re-enlist You would be welcome. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] Mesa dependencies, was Re: cups and clang

2013-09-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:58:27AM +, David Brodie wrote: OK, so according to the Mesa web-site, http://www.mesa3d.org/faq.html#part3, there are three s/w rasterizers, viz. classic swrast, softpipe and llvmpipe, so strictly speaking, llvm is only required for the

Re: [blfs-dev] vm drivers (was r11761 - ...)

2013-09-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: As had told you, I had a problem to solve, until earlier today. I will try to compensate, now. Em 04-09-2013 22:31, bdu...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org escreveu: Author: bdubbs Date: Wed Sep 4 18:31:21 2013 New Revision: 11761 Log: Mark drivers as lfs74_built.

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11756 - in trunk/BOOK: general/graphlib gnome/platform x/lib

2013-09-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Denis Mugnier wrote: Hi, A minor typo in this commit : + root, use the -E option to pass your current envronment variables for the s/envronment/environment Yes. I just got it in about 4 places. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] Exempi-2.2.1

2013-09-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I was trying to check Exempi-2.2.1 for lfs-74 and got all failures for make check. I tried on a 32-bit P6 and got the same thing. The checks appear to want valgrind. Disabling valgrind, all tests pass. Ideas about how to handle this? There is a bug submitted:

Re: [blfs-dev] cups and clang

2013-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Burrell wrote: I just ran into a minor problem building cups. It appears that it prefers clang if it's available, but it doesn't build properly. There is a linking problem -- something about -fPIC. The issue is easy enough to solve. I just renamed /usr/bin/clang and restarted. The

[blfs-dev] Plan for today

2013-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Today I plan on continuing building and tagging packages for 7.4. Right now we are about 80% done, but that means there are still about 150 packages left that are still marked lfs73. One group of packages remaining is the Xorg drivers. There are 14 still marked for 7.3. I have no way to

Re: [blfs-dev] cups and clang

2013-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Burrell wrote: I agree that this is a better solution for the book if it works. There is some internal configure code that searches for clang. If is does work, I'm not sure CXX is required for cups. I quick look does not show any c++ or cpp files. You're correct. I built cups-1.6.3 as

Re: [blfs-dev] Plan for today

2013-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:42:10AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Today I plan on continuing building and tagging packages for 7.4. Right now we are about 80% done, but that means there are still about 150 packages left that are still marked lfs73. A handful of those

Re: [blfs-dev] Plan for today

2013-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Today I plan on continuing building and tagging packages for 7.4. Right now we are about 80% done, but that means there are still about 150 packages left that are still marked lfs73. [cut] This morning I'll start with postscript and texlive and then start working through

Re: [blfs-dev] libdrm

2013-09-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: Is there any reason why libdrm is in the general libraries section? I'd propose to move it to X installation before MesaLib or at very least to X libraries section since it depends on X libraries. What do you think? There are two places that use it as a dependency: cairo

Re: [blfs-dev] libdrm

2013-09-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:24:32AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Personally, I think moving it to chapter 24 makes a lot of sense - the only reason I can see for installing libdrm is to build Xorg. But that may impact Bruce's scripts to check for newer

[blfs-dev] cups and clang

2013-09-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I just ran into a minor problem building cups. It appears that it prefers clang if it's available, but it doesn't build properly. There is a linking problem -- something about -fPIC. The issue is easy enough to solve. I just renamed /usr/bin/clang and restarted. The question is whether a

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:20:28AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: OK, I just rebuilt LFS in my sandbox with the new packages. It was extremely clean. I had no FAILs at all and The only Errors were from glibc: make[3]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/posix/tst-getaddrinfo4.out] Error

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matt Burgess wrote: On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 17:22 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:02:41AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: OK, I'll do a -rc2 today. I think it best to slip the stable release to September 7. Should we update to the newer gettext, kbd, and/or kmod at the same

Re: [blfs-dev] libreoffice-4.1.1

2013-08-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Installing in /opt/libreoffice-4.1.1.2 is as easy as changing replacing the prefix. I have always used in /opt/.., not in /usr. Is it OK to change the page so that the user is left with the choice between the two? Yes. I never use the dependencies: Redland-1.0.16

[blfs-dev] LFS 7.4-rc2 Release

2013-08-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version 7.4-rc2. This is the second release candidate on the road to LFS-7.4. The changes from 7.4-rc1 include a one-line revision to glibc to revert an upstream change that causes problems on some architectures. The linux kernel

Re: [blfs-dev] libvdpau

2013-08-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Markku Pesonen wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I also found: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2009-September/001036.html where it says: To actually use a VDPAU device, you need a vendor-specific implementation library. Currently, this is always libvdpau_nvidia. You can

Re: [blfs-dev] Some build times

2013-08-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Burrell wrote: I've just finished installing LFS-7.4-rc1 and building a Gnome-3.9.90 alpha desktop on it. I thought you might like to see some actual build times for some of the packages that take a little longer! Package unpack buildbuild (s)(s) (hrs)

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: But if the kernel oopsed then there could be damage elsewhere in the kernel's data structures. I haven't been paying close attention to the details of what you are doing, but if you were rebuilding glibc in the guest then it might just be an example of our general don't

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 02:43:30PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:02:41AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: OK, I'll do a -rc2 today. I think it best to slip the stable release to September 7. Should we update to the newer gettext, kbd

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 04:37:53PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Right now I'm thinking about a potential BLFS release in mid-October or early November. After 5 years, what's a month or two? Yeah. I might even have upgraded my own server to 7.4 by then. But to be honest

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 05:58:29PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 04:37:53PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Right now I'm thinking about a potential BLFS release in mid-October or early November. After 5 years, what's a month or two

[blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando and I have been having a discussion about some errors that have come up on the i686. The initial indications were a seg fault when running javac. Even doing a simple 'javac -version' was demonstrating the problem. Upon doing some research, we found that a change upstream in glibc

[blfs-dev] libvdpau

2013-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
We recently added the libvdpau driver for GPU aided HW acceleration. It builds fine and other applications link to it appropriately. However, when running something like MPlayer that uses it, I get a message: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Bruce, just replacing /lib/libc-2.18.so did no allow the machine to reboot. I am a little too tired to go on now, could do wrong things. Tomorrow morning, will backup and then try a complete replacement of glibc, and the report back. If you have the LFS book

Re: [blfs-dev] glibc errors in blfs packages on i686

2013-08-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 07:17:07PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Fernando and I have been having a discussion about some errors that have come up on the i686. The initial indications were a seg fault when running javac. Even doing a simple 'javac -version' was demonstrating

Re: [blfs-dev] lvm2

2013-08-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Brodie wrote: On 27/08/13 05:29, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 26-08-2013 23:58, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: Tests attached. Well... ## 417 tests 15:24 : 78 OK, 2 warnings, 20 failures, 0 known failures; 317 skipped doesn't seem very useful. You start out

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