Re: [blfs-dev] Shared library file locations

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: The only downside is that for themes to work the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS=/share needs to be set. That could be fixed in the freedesktop source, or easier, symlink /share - /usr/share just like /lib, /libqual, /bin, and /sbin in the RedHat configuration. Do you mean

Re: [blfs-dev] Proposed changes

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I think that now is a suitable time to replace gnome-media with gvolwheel, and to add another lightweight window manager (icewm). I have no opinion about this since I do not use Gnome. I do have it on my TODO list to build it and try it out, but I've got a lot of other

Re: [blfs-dev] GDM (very minor) issue and a suggestion

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: # Begin /etc/inittab id:5:initdefault: si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc S l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0 l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 5

[blfs-dev] gegl test errors

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm building gegl as a dependency for gimp and ran into a test problem. There are 8 failures, but they are all the same. The are doing: GEGL_PATH=../operations ./img_cmp file1.png file2.png The program is seg faulting. When I test manually, I get: file1.png and file2.png are identical

Re: [blfs-dev] gegl test errors

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 05:11:30PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm building gegl as a dependency for gimp and ran into a test problem. There are 8 failures, but they are all the same. The are doing: GEGL_PATH=../operations ./img_cmp file1.png file2.png The program

Re: [blfs-dev] gegl test errors

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I'm moderately surprised that you seem to be running tests on everything (I thought you had taken a similar stance to myself and Andy for *blfs* tests, and I suspect that LFS-7.2 will turn out to be sufficiently different from current -svn to make any results meaningless,

Re: [blfs-dev] Shared library file locations

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 12:04:58AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 07:14:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I realized that some of these are from LFS. If we decide to change, it would need to be updated too. I thought BLFS was a sub

Re: [blfs-dev] Firefox/Thunderbird MimeType

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: What I have for mime types is... Firefox: MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http; x-scheme-handler/https; Thunderbird: MimeType=text/calendar;text/x-vcard;text/directory;application/mbox;

[blfs-dev] Shared library file locations

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been looking at libraries in /lib on my new system and have some issues I'd like to discuss. To start, I'll give a few definitions: soname - libXX.so.x - a link to a real library name. This is used by ld.so to load the library when executing a program. realname - libXX.so.x.y[.z] -

Re: [blfs-dev] Shared library file locations

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 06:15:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been looking at libraries in /lib on my new system and have some issues I'd like to discuss. To start, I'll give a few definitions: [ snipped, probably too much, but I'm denying that there is a problem

Re: [blfs-dev] System load applet

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Both are good, but in either I got undesired results. At this moment, I remember one that has always bothered me: In top: Tasks: 103 total, 1 running, 102 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie In conky: Processes: 103 Running: 0 (sometimes switches to 1) In

Re: [blfs-dev] Shared library file locations

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 07:14:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I realized that some of these are from LFS. If we decide to change, it would need to be updated too. I thought BLFS was a sub-project of LFS : cart, horse ? I look at them together. I thought about posting

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: When I started KDE, I couldn't get any keyboard input and the mouse was not working right. With a little research I found that cmake did not find libXi properly in kde-workspace. That's because

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10397 - in trunk/BOOK: . general/genlib introduction/welcome

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Added OpenOBEX 1.6 + !ENTITY openobex-download-http http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/openobex-openobex-version;.tar.xz; + !ENTITY openobex-download-ftp + !ENTITY openobex-md5sumdbc83e9984ef93553a03afa85f415d75 This package was hosted on kernel.org

[blfs-dev] System load applet

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
In KDE3, I had a system applet that was a small histogram of cpu usage (load), memory use, and swap use. Does anyone have a suggestion for a similar app for xfce? I could use the xload app, but that's a little too simple. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev

Re: [blfs-dev] gnash

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 05-07-2012 12:48, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: Andrew Benton wrote: Thanks ĸen. For what it's worth, Gnash can play almost all YouTube videos for me. Sadly it also displays many adverts just fine as well so it's a bit of a double edged sword :/ I did download

Re: [blfs-dev] System load applet

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 06-07-2012 18:45, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: In KDE3, I had a system applet that was a small histogram of cpu usage (load), memory use, and swap use. Does anyone have a suggestion for a similar app for xfce? I could use the xload app, but that's a little too simple

Re: [blfs-dev] xfce

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: The only thing that I don't like is that it has two different panels and I'd prefer that the separate functions be combined into one. I've got two monitors and the alternative is that I'd like each on the bottom of the monitors. I can put Panel 1 on the top or left

Re: [blfs-dev] gnash

2012-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: Thanks ĸen. For what it's worth, Gnash can play almost all YouTube videos for me. Sadly it also displays many adverts just fine as well so it's a bit of a double edged sword :/ I did download and install flash on my Zoom tablet. The adverts we so painful, I deleted it.

[blfs-dev] obexd

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Introduction to Obexd The Obexd package contains D-Bus services providing OBEX client and server functionality. Isn't this a circular definition? I have no idea what OBEX functionality is. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] vlc and d-bus

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 07/03/2012 01:05 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Armin K. wrote: On 3.7.2012 0:43, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I just ran into a problem with vlc caused by d-bus. The latest version of d-bus does create /var/lib/dbus, but it does not populate it. vlc filed with: Hm, IIRC bootscript

Re: [blfs-dev] obexd

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 3.7.2012 18:06, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Introduction to Obexd The Obexd package contains D-Bus services providing OBEX client and server functionality. Isn't this a circular definition? I have no idea what OBEX functionality is. OBject EXchange ... I can put it like

[blfs-dev] polkit-1.0.6

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I ran into two problems with polkit. First, the default instructions failed to make the man pages because I had a problem with my xml configuration. /usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet --stringparam man.base.url.for.relative.links /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1/ --xinclude

[blfs-dev] lvm2 and parted tests

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
When I ran make check for parted, I got 68 instances of skipped test: must be run as root Should we mention this? Also, when I tried to run the lvm2 checks, virtually everything failed and there was something about permission denied. I then tried running the checks as root, but they

Re: [blfs-dev] obexd

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:00:03 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I did find OBEX (abbreviation of OBject EXchange, also termed IrOBEX) is a communications protocol that facilitates the exchange of binary objects between devices. It is maintained

Re: [blfs-dev] polkit-1.0.6

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 3.7.2012 22:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I ran into two problems with polkit. First, the default instructions failed to make the man pages because I had a problem with my xml configuration. /usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet --stringparam man.base.url.for.relative.links /usr/share/gtk

[blfs-dev] upower checks

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I tried running the upower checks, but it seems to want python3 which we don't mention: $ head src/linux/integration-test #!/usr/bin/python3 ... -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

[blfs-dev] Libdv

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I ran into a problem with the configure from libdv. I kept getting an error that it could not find libXv. I do have it in a non-stahdard location (/opt/xorg/lib), but it should have been picked up because the directory is in /etc/ld.so.conf and ldconfig has been run. I was able to get it to

Re: [blfs-dev] Libdv

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 01:26:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I ran into a problem with the configure from libdv. I kept getting an error that it could not find libXv. I do have it in a non-stahdard location (/opt/xorg/lib), but it should have been picked up because

[blfs-dev] vlc and d-bus

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I just ran into a problem with vlc caused by d-bus. The latest version of d-bus does create /var/lib/dbus, but it does not populate it. vlc filed with: process 4644: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open /etc/machine-id: No such file or

Re: [blfs-dev] Libdv

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:07:04PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Or we could just remove libdv. However it is referenced in general/genlib/ptlib.xml:xref linkend=libdv/, multimedia/videoutils/transcode.xml:xref linkend=libdv/, multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml

Re: [blfs-dev] vlc and d-bus

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 3.7.2012 0:43, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I just ran into a problem with vlc caused by d-bus. The latest version of d-bus does create /var/lib/dbus, but it does not populate it. vlc filed with: Hm, IIRC bootscript should run dbus-uuidgen --ensure before starting dbus-daemon

[blfs-dev] libartsc.so

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Building a new system creates new challenges. I built mplayer and almost all the dependencies in the book. Trying to run it gives: mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libartsc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I didn't realize that we didn't even have

Re: [blfs-dev] libartsc.so

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Building a new system creates new challenges. I built mplayer and almost all the dependencies in the book. Trying to run it gives: mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libartsc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I didn't realize

Re: [blfs-dev] [lfs-patches] r2483 - in trunk: . gimp-help

2012-07-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: ken Date: 2012-06-27 09:05:44 -0600 (Wed, 27 Jun 2012) New Revision: 2483 Added: trunk/gimp-help/ trunk/gimp-help/gimp-help-2.8.0-build_fixes-1.patch.xz Log: Add xz compressed patch for gimp-help. Added:

Re: [blfs-dev] seamonkey issue

2012-06-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:23:25 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I then looked for necko_wifi.xpt and found it in calendar/installer/windows/packages-static When I deleted the necko_wifi.xpt line, the command completed without error. I haven't tested

Re: [blfs-dev] seamonkey issue

2012-06-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:48:46 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: The browser was quite slow. When scrolling by dragging the right scroll bar, the flow was quite uneven. There were times when the text was scrambled and getting the app to redraw fixed

Re: [blfs-dev] TCP Wrapper

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: I was looking at TCP Wrapper and there is really no use for it on modern Linux kernels. It's real purpose were monitoring and filtering network access to some services iirc. But today Netfilter and Iptables do that and lot more, so I suggest we remove it and don't even

[blfs-dev] nouveau dual head success

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I finally succeeded in getting a dual head setup working with the nouveau driver using xorg/twm. First, according to Dan, we can just use /etc/X11 for xorg.conf. That's what I did. It looks like: Section Monitor Identifier DELL 2407WFP Option DPMS Option

Re: [blfs-dev] nouveau dual head success

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: One other interesting thing is that when I configured the kernel to add nouveau, I set something that did: [0.898645] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75 And at that point the console switched and I got the kernel boot messages on *both

[blfs-dev] seamonkey issue

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andy, I have been trying to build seamonkey. My mozconfig is fairly standard, but I do have: ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi ... ac_add_options --with-enable-strip ac_add_options --with-install-strip ac_add_options --with-enable-calendar ac_add_options --with-distribution-id=BLFS The

Re: [blfs-dev] Libreoffice Report

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 06/27/2012 02:02 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:03:24 +0100 Armin K. kre...@email.com wrote: I have hunspell too, and it's dictionaries but didn't we agree once that we add required and recommended deps to the book, and if I'm not wrong, explicitly

Re: [blfs-dev] Separate Xorg packages (Was: Xorg-7.7-1 upgrade)

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 06/26/2012 11:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Hm, we might have a problem. Mesa 8.1 release is scheduled to be released on 17.8 according to http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2012-May/021473.html and I would like to see it in released BLFS since it brings so many

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get xorg to start up and have some strange problems. Is udev all set up correctly on the bad system? In particular, your input devices need to have ID_INPUT and ID_INPUT_{MOUSE

Re: [blfs-dev] Separate Xorg packages (Was: Xorg-7.7-1 upgrade)

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: On Wednesday 27 June 2012 09:52:52 Bruce Dubbs wrote: The reason for a freeze is so that everyone is testing the same things and we are checking that packages fit together and run properly. We have a couple of options here. We could make an exception for Mesa

Re: [blfs-dev] Separate Xorg packages (Was: Xorg-7.7-1 upgrade)

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 06/27/2012 07:42 PM, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: If we decide to delay to mid-august, I can also get KDE 4.9 in, which will be released on August 1st. -Ragnar- Nothing against it, but first majur releases of DE's tend to be buggy, and if freeze happens soon after that, you

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:27:31 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: My last xorg.conf is below. I'm looking for suggestions. Have you tried copying /opt/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d? It's really the same place: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:27:31 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: My last xorg.conf is below. I'm looking for suggestions. Have you tried copying /opt/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d to /etc/X11

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Deliberately, evdev is the expected driver for normal linux systems using udev. Perhaps a kernel config issue : is CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV set ? Also check if your .config mentions a PS/2 mouse (in the input

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: So you're saying that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d does not exist? /etc/X11 is a symbolic link pointing at /opt/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d and inside /etc/X11 there is no xorg.conf.d? As I told Ken, I got it working, but you bring up a point that we may need to examine. In the

Re: [blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:43:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Good spot. I do not have CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV set. LOL - I looked through my notes, which was why I suggested it : on both of my

Re: [blfs-dev] compressed patches ?

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I'd like to get the latest gimp-help (2.8.0) into the book, but there is at least one problem with it (for the moment, I have another - my gimp can't find the help - hopefully, adding some of the gnome stack will fix that), apart from the work-in-progress nature of the

Re: [blfs-dev] Separate Xorg packages (Was: Xorg-7.7-1 upgrade)

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: On 06/19/2012 08:18 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Since we had a discussion about upgrading Xorg, I stopped doing some upgrades. Other than the few new splits, I only had to upgrade 8 packages: -libX11-1.4.99.901.tar.bz2 +libX11-1.5.0.tar.bz2

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg-7.7-1 upgrade (Was: Xorg-7.6-2 upgrade)

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:06:38AM -0700, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Yes, in my region, close to the sea, winter means frequent rains (it's raining, now), lower temperatures (about 73 F, now) and high humidity (close to saturation, now: 94%). I no longer do Fahrenheit,

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10348 - trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 06/22/2012 05:24 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:29:02 +0100 kre...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: krejzi Date: 2012-06-22 08:27:27 -0600 (Fri, 22 Jun 2012) New Revision: 10348 + ulink

Re: [blfs-dev] Release Plan (Was: Separate Xorg packages)

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:02:05PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: The only caveat is to consider the release plan. Right now, I'd like to release a coordinated LFS/BLFS on 1 September. That means a package freeze and an -rc1 for both about 1 August or slightly over one

[blfs-dev] xorg problems

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm trying to get xorg to start up and have some strange problems. I build xorg on /opt/xorg. On my x86_64 system, there is no problem with xorg 7.6. On both systems I get: (==) ModulePath set to /opt/xorg/lib/X11/modules (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices. If

[blfs-dev] util-macros-1.17

2012-06-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Is there supposed to be a 'make check' for util-macros-1.17? The Makefile does not seem to have anything. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] Files in BLFS svn missing on anduin

2012-06-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Missing clearplayer-0.9.tar.xz The book has http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/clearplayer-0.9.tar.xz ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/clearplayer-0.9.tar.xz but both give a 404. There are no .xz files at http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg Drivers Splitup

2012-06-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:19:55 +0100 Armin K. kre...@email.com wrote: Hi there. There was some talk about splitting Xorg packages to their own pages. I would like to split Xorg Drivers into seperate packages and make that page similar to Additional Drivers page, and

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10323 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2012-06-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/Xorg/xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.16+git20120322.tar.xz Do we want to rename it to something shorter? I don't have anything against length. Every xorg driver is called xf86-{input,video}-whatever-packageversion.tar.bz2 ... Only

[blfs-dev] MPlayer-1.1 / clearplayer-0.9.tar.bz2 md5sum

2012-06-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andy, The book has http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/clearplayer-0.9.tar.bz2 fd5bda4882d5efb60ae03ee38f9db559 When I downloaded, I got df5fd8e51fbc077ddc7b74d83afe1452 which is right? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10323 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2012-06-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 06/13/2012 03:00 AM, kre...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: krejzi Date: 2012-06-12 19:00:26 -0600 (Tue, 12 Jun 2012) New Revision: 10323 + +!ENTITY xorg-nouveau-driver-download-http +

Re: [blfs-dev] seamonkey-2.10 (Was: r10285 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome xsoft/graphweb xsoft/other)

2012-06-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:46:44 +0100 Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br wrote: after the link failed again this morning, It is really broken: Broken link: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/seamonkey-2.10-package-manifest-1.diff Good link:

Re: [blfs-dev] openjdk test report

2012-06-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: On 08-06-2012 03:21, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I was able to build and test openjdk. The results are OK, but I'm disappointed in the number of issues that are not addressed upstream. I used: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:20 Xvfb :20 -screen 0 1x1x24 -ac echo

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10292 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome multimedia/videoutils

2012-06-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:36:00 +0100 a...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: andy Added DVB Apps 2012-06-10 + !ENTITY dvb-apps-download-http +http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/dvb-apps-2012-06-10.tar.xz; DVB Apps are only available using Mercurial so I've

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10287 - in trunk/BOOK: . x/lib xsoft/graphweb

2012-06-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 06/10/2012 01:38 AM, a...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: andy Date: 2012-06-09 17:38:04 -0600 (Sat, 09 Jun 2012) New Revision: 10287 Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent trunk/BOOK/x/lib/pango.xml trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml Log: pango-1.30.1

[blfs-dev] openjdk test report

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I was able to build and test openjdk. The results are OK, but I'm disappointed in the number of issues that are not addressed upstream. I used: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:20 Xvfb :20 -screen 0 1x1x24 -ac echo $! Xvfb.pid make jtregcheck -k 2jdktest-errs |tee jdktest kill -9 `cat Xvfb.pid`

Re: [blfs-dev] Old files

2012-06-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: After running across the SVN server page, I gave the server a minor workout tonight... cd ~/LFS/BLFS/BOOK for file in `find . -name *.xml | sed '/\.svn/d' | sed '/stylesheets/d'` do svn info $file svninfolist.txt done for year in 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Re: [blfs-dev] openjdk

2012-06-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: DJ, The book calls for icedtea-2.2-generate_cacerts-1.patch, but it's missing. Should it be icedtea-2.2-add_cacerts-1.patch? Another problem. The instructions say: begin by extracting the IcedTea package and changing into the extracted directory. tar -xf icedtea-2.2

Re: [blfs-dev] openjdk

2012-06-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: DJ, The book calls for icedtea-2.2-generate_cacerts-1.patch, but it's missing. Should it be icedtea-2.2-add_cacerts-1.patch? Another problem. The instructions say: begin by extracting the IcedTea package and changing into the extracted

Re: [blfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: FYI, the next version will have a bundled glib again and no popt. You'll need to build --with-internal-glib. I expect to make a release in the next few weeks, but I haven't brought it up with Tollef yet. That sounds excellent. If you look at the LFS/BLFS pages as of

[blfs-dev] gtk+3

2012-06-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Looking at the instructions for gtk+3, we have the command explanation: --disable-packagekit: This parameter disables use of PackageKit which isn't suitable for BLFS. But we don't have it in the configure line. This seems to be a contradiction. Should it be placed in the ./configure command?

Re: [blfs-dev] gtk+3

2012-06-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:20:21 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the instructions for gtk+3, we have the command explanation: --disable-packagekit: This parameter disables use of PackageKit which isn't suitable for BLFS. But we don't have

Re: [blfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 01:57:21PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Now that pkg-config is returning to the LFS book, it's time to consider how we deal with people using the current and previous LFS releases (i.e. 7.1 and 7.0) which are without it. I'll begin

Re: [blfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I lost the plot here! I thought you agreed above to keeping details of both these packages in BLFS, in the short term, mirroring what is in LFS plus pro tempore extra details for popt. Now you seem to be saying that pkg-config and popt should instead point to lfs-svn ?

Re: [blfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:09:11 +0100 Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: At the moment, I'm hoping *most* of these packages need glib2. I think most of them do need Glib2, but there will be some that don't. I'm still more interested in fixing systemd for

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenJDK Test failures

2012-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: I'll try and get an i686 build done on Monday or Tuesday (and book updated at that time). Thanks for your hard work on this DJ. I think it's the most difficult single section of the book. It's certainly the most significant outstanding ticket. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Now that pkg-config is returning to the LFS book, it's time to consider how we deal with people using the current and previous LFS releases (i.e. 7.1 and 7.0) which are without it. I'll begin by suggesting that, transitionally and for an indeterminate period, we should

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10253 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/welcome multimedia/libdriv postlfs/config postlfs/security xfce/core

2012-05-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: From pulseaudio man page: --system[=BOOL] Run as system-wide instance instead of per-user. Please note that this disables certain features of PulseAudio and is gener‐ ally not recommended unless the system knows no local users (e.g. is

Re: [blfs-dev] LLVM 3.1 and MesaLib 8.0.[23]

2012-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lifrsc.m.klsw...@spamgourmet.com wrote: BLFS updated LLVM to Version 3.1 on May 26th, 2012. I compiled LLVM 3.1 successfully, but compiling MesaLib failed. The code snippets at the end of this message show why: LLVM has changed a function definition incompatibly from v3.0 to v3.1 but MesaLib

Re: [blfs-dev] LLVM 3.1 and MesaLib 8.0.[23]

2012-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: lifrsc.m.klsw...@spamgourmet.com wrote: BLFS updated LLVM to Version 3.1 on May 26th, 2012. I compiled LLVM 3.1 successfully, but compiling MesaLib failed. The code snippets at the end of this message show why: LLVM has changed a function definition incompatibly from v3.0

Re: [blfs-dev] libjpeg-turbo

2012-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: While looking for jpeg to build it on my new lfs build, I stumbled upon this one. Has anyone tried it? Wikipedia says it is a fork of original libjpeg but it uses SIMD (whatever that is) Single instruction, multiple data. It's a form of parallelism and depends on the

[blfs-dev] Xfce build order

2012-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andy, Can you take a look at ticket http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/3384 I was going to go ahead and fix it, but wanted to wait for you to get back from vacation to discuss. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] Inkscape: typo

2012-05-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Henty wrote: In Inkscape-0.48.2, compiling with Glib 3.2 or greater should be compiling with Glib 2.32 or greater. I'll get that as a part of my next commit. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: [blfs-dev] icedtea notes

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: The number of hotspot and langtools failures are the same as DJ's, but I got 136 failures in the jdk where DJ only got 78. In particular, I got 28 failures in com/sun/jdi/ where DJ got none. Hmm...JDI is the debug interface. I don't have an immediate explanation for that.

Re: [blfs-dev] ssd drives

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:42:31AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: The other interesting feature about timings is how measurable they are. Umm, how *repeatable* they are. Of course there will be some variations, even on the same machine, due to other activities, caching, etc.

Re: [blfs-dev] ssd drives

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I just want to share some things I've found out about ssd drives. I installed the ssd drive as /dev/sdc and created a gpt partition table with parted. The fist partition, /dev/sdc1, is about 11G. I created a ext4 filesystem and mounted as /mnt/ssd. Next I created the root directories: bin,

Re: [blfs-dev] ssd drives

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: On May 24, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I don't think putting /boot on the ssd would make much of a difference. From the time I hit enter in grub to the time the kernel messages start is a second or less. Are you booting from sdc (i.e., BIOS is booting from sdc

Re: [blfs-dev] ssd drives

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: On May 24, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Overall, I think the results would be more robust if you could run the same test with ext3 with the same mount options, and see what those results are. I created a new ext4 partition and mounted it noatime. My rsync build time

Re: [blfs-dev] icedtea notes

2012-05-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: The second time through the build/test not going through ssh seems to have a lot fewer errors but I've probably still got a couple of hours to go. I'll give a final result tomorrow. OK, here are some results: Sources directory 195M Build directory: 6.8G

[blfs-dev] ssd drives

2012-05-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I decided to explore using an ssd drive. I purchased a 40G Intel SSD and so far it works well with SVN-20120514. I created a GPT partition table with a 10G partition using parted and formatted as ext4. The performance seems to be good. htparm gives me about 230 GB/s which is more than twice

Re: [blfs-dev] ssd drives

2012-05-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: On May 23, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I decided to explore using an ssd drive. I purchased a 40G Intel SSD and so far it works well with SVN-20120514. I created a GPT partition table with a 10G partition using parted and formatted as ext4. The performance seems

Re: [blfs-dev] colord check

2012-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On 22/05/12 07:13, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm getting a failure in 'make check' in colord: libcolord:ERROR:cd-self-test.c:971:colord_client_func: assertion failed (error == NULL): Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1) /bin/sh: line 5: 18614

[blfs-dev] nss

2012-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Looking at nss, the intro says: * Estimated disk space required: 70 MB (more than double this to run the test suite) * Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (at least an additional 3.5 SBU to run the test suite) But the instructions say: This package does not come with a test suite. I looked at

[blfs-dev] icedtea notes

2012-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been working on icedtea today. The notes DJ used seem to build fine, but there are a lot of errors in the tests. I'm going through the build a second time. The first time I tested via ssh and a lot of the tests were just timing out so I aborted and started over. The second time I was

Re: [blfs-dev] New Trac Tickets

2012-05-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: I was in process of fetching source packages for my new LFS build (Current LFS SVN + new packages reported in LFS Trac) and I stumbled upon those. I'll try to do most of them myself, but help is welcome if anyone wants to help. If you want to help, just assign it to

[blfs-dev] colord check

2012-05-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm getting a failure in 'make check' in colord: libcolord:ERROR:cd-self-test.c:971:colord_client_func: assertion failed (error == NULL): Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1) /bin/sh: line 5: 18614 Aborted ${dir}$tst FAIL: cd-self-test Has anyone

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10221 - trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb

2012-05-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 05/20/2012 02:54 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 01:04:14 +0100 Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't validated that, but I'll investigate some more. The Mozilla code was forked a couple of years ago. It used to be possible to build Firefox,

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10221 - trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb

2012-05-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 01:04:14 +0100 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: a...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: andy Date: 2012-05-19 16:21:51 -0600 (Sat, 19 May 2012) New Revision: 10221 Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml Log: Neither

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