Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:36:30PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote:
Hey guys. Anybody started on this for the book? There is not a ticket
currently. I'm winging my way through it right now, assuming that the
book will eventually catch up...or that I'll catch it up. Looking at
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I suppose you will need to help out and provide us with the versions
of all relevant packages, including GNOME stuff, you used to create
the condition of it working. Thanks in advance.
attached
#!paco-1.10.12 1174260448
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 09/10/07 08:50 CST:
Right. More stable sounds like totem is going to crash if you try to
use gstreamer. Missing features describes the issue here.
Semantics. However, you got my drift and answered. Thanks.
Isn't the
Dan Nicholson wrote:
I use totem with the xine backend. The 2.18 version has some bugs in
it, but otherwise it works pretty well. I'm thinking of transitioning
to the gstreamer backend, but I like DVDs and they basically don't
work in that situation. But from my understanding the totem +
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Has anyone actually built a system with Xorg in /opt and with no deviations
from the book in packages (at least Qt and links) that use it? If not, I
would have to say that /usr is the only supportable prefix and that we
should remove the $XORG_PREFIX variable,
David Jensen wrote:
I have 4 entries in /usr/share/pkgconfig:
gnome-icon-theme.pc
gtk-doc.pc
icon-naming-utils.pc
shared-mime-info.pc
Is this the right place for these? Pkg-config finds them without adding
the path. They are really not libraries in the strict sense.
For
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 4/16/07, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Development Platform Packages
Core Desktop Packages
Additional Packages
Sounds good to me, although I sort of prefer just Platform Packages
and Desktop Packages. No big deal, though.
I did this is CBLFS
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Jonathan Oksman wrote these words on 03/17/07 12:36 CST:
I'm certain that this restriction will no longer apply if compiled
against PAM, I'll post back with the results. If all works well,
perhaps PAM could be listed as a Recommended prerequisite to sudo.
I
Dan Nicholson wrote:
Actually, I think this may be much ado about nothing. I don't know if
anything in kde3 makes any use of dbus. I know kde4 will make heavy
use of dbus.
Can anyone confirm/deny this?
I can tell you that I have dbus-1.0.1 with the glib, python, qt3, and
qt4 bindings
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 3/16/07, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/16/07 17:27 CST:
Oh, yeah. Kdebase wants dbus directly or dbus-qt3? Because the issue
here is the potential loss of the language bindings. If kdebase links
directly to
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 3/16/07, Joe Ciccone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have dbus-1-qt3-1.0.2.tar.bz2. I belive it was from
http://people.freedesktop.org/~krake/dbus-1-qt3/ as I just downloaded
dbus-1-qt3.1.0.7.tar.bz2 and compared the two. It appears to be the same
package.
Sweet
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 3/16/07, Joe Ciccone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have dbus-1-qt3-1.0.2.tar.bz2. I belive it was from
http://people.freedesktop.org/~krake/dbus-1-qt3/ as I just downloaded
dbus-1-qt3.1.0.7.tar.bz2 and compared the two. It appears to be the same
package.
Sweet
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 2/24/07, Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh dear, I wonder what I'm doing wrong then :-( I'll look into it more
closely once the latest bunch of updates to LFS-SVN are in. Thanks for the
successful test reports guys, at least I know not to go and bother
DJ Lucas wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote:
7.2 is finally out.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2007-February/000254.html
A few changes will need to be made, but for the most part it should be
pretty straightforward. This also support Mesa-6.5.2 out of the box
which has
Joe Ciccone wrote:
I built xorg7.2rc4 twice today, all of the input drivers built fine
(only tested keyboard mouse) but I can't build xf86-video-impact and
xf86-video-wsfb (understandable) and the one I haven't tested yet is
xf86-input-vmmouse because I'm building for arm and that pkg
Randy McMurchy wrote:
But it made me remember about this thread from -support and sure
enough, if I pass --with-tcl=/usr/lib, then Expect configures
properly the first time through. Can anyone confirm this behavior?
I just tested it. I have to pass --with-tcl=/usr/lib for the build to
Luca wrote:
Dan Nicholson ha scritto:
However, try this.
# $GNOME_PREFIX/sbin/bonobo-activation-sysconf --add-directory=/foo/bar
And look at the file again. Neat.
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Yes, I confirm you it works as expected; I used this command months ago
to add the directory, it
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I wonder now what would happen if I removed all XDG vars? Would GNOME
behave normally? I'll test if you think it could be of any value.
The menu's will probably be empty.
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
Joe, do you ever look at the BLFS book? I realize you do much work
over at CBLFS, and we are way behind y'all as far as package versions
go. But I'm wondering if you ever browse the actual BLFS book?
Before I started building on x86_64 I used blfs for its
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Joe Ciccone wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
* pciutils-2.2.4: makes other packages fail to build from source, due to
the change of the proper linker flags from -lpci to -lpci -lz. Definitely
not for the book, but I won't downgrade this package
Jürg Billeter wrote:
On Son, 2007-01-14 at 07:50 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 1/14/07, Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This announcement might be interesting.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.hal/6957
Yeah, all the *Kits look pretty cool. Jürg, have
Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote:
With that in mind and it's the third time I am writing this(I hope the
last one),I would like to see BCLFS to be officially a part of BLFS and its
developers as BLFS developers.
And that is a proposal.
What the community has to say about this?
CBLFS doesn't have
Jürg Billeter wrote:
This announcement might be interesting.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.hal/6957
I installed ConsoleKit and I can see that my gnome session is being
assigned a unique id. I'm able to switch users and then switch back to
my original session with
Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote:
So do you really agree with the wiki?
I mean there is no credibility,you have to have some.
It's in the page history. That is enough for me.
Look Joe,I don't see a f* reason why you and my friend ken,can't be a
part of BLFS.
I truly believe that.
I
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
* Mesa-6.5.1, libdrm-2.0.2: Status: everybody seems to do this update on
their own, but xorg-devel archives suggest that some patches to
xorg-server-1.1.1 are needed beyond simple build fixes (and this part is not
done on the CD). So, probably not for the
Trying to search the mailing lists resulted in a very large and bold,
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Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote:
On Σαβ, Ιαν 13, at 11:15 Dan Nicholson wrote:
I've been using openssh-4.5p1 for about a week now. I don't do
anything really fancy with port forwarding, but I do use it quite a
bit with PAM, X11 forwarding and pub key authentication. It's been
working fine so far.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Hi all,
I'm fairly certain that Dan can answer this, but putting it out on list
anyway. I noticed that the GDM instructions include PAM ConsoleHelper
as a dependency but it doesn't have a URL. If I remember correctly, it
is a RedHat developed app, but I'm not certain
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/13/07 19:38 CST:
If you look on the Wiki on the PAM page, you should find all the info.
I didn't really want to go into detail in the book since it gets kind
of OT after a bit. I think the HAL page has more info on pam_console
Nathan Coulson wrote:
running make again gives me the following
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
then continues on compiling all the files without any visible errors.
Before running make in a clean source directory you need to make the
objdir. eg,
mkdir i686
or
If it hasn't been noticed already.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/ is incomplete. Missing an
index, etc...
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
That said, painful as it is, I'm not in favor of inserting a fairly
complex script into each section of Xorg-7.1. Perhaps suggested scripts
could be placed in the wiki to help this issue.
This might be wiki material.
#!/bin/bash
set -e
donefile=$(basename $PWD).done
for
Christoph Berg wrote:
Am Samstag 14 Oktober 2006 19:22 schrieb Mirko Roller:
On Saturday 14 October 2006 18:14, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Mirko Roller wrote:
Problem, the configure script will use an ./libtool in the jpegsrc.v6b
dir. But there is no sutch file !
Use this patch to
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 10/14/06, Mirko Roller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
aspell-0.60.4 can not compile with gcc 4.1.1 used and breaks with an
error on
file nroff.cpp !!!
This tweak let it compile again without errors.
sed -i '[EMAIL PROTECTED] NroffFilter::process_char (FilterChar::Chr
Dan Nicholson wrote:
2119 and 2121: Xorg --datadir - Certainly worth looking at. I don't
build the way the book says, and there were only one or two packages
where this was an issue, IIRC. They might be fixed up now as I wrote
most of my scripts against 7.0 and the autotools were still pretty
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 9/23/06, Joe Ciccone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Building without --datadir here is the output of find /usr/X11R7/share.
Easy enough to compare it to build with --datadir to see the
differences. (I don't have a build with --datadir or I'd send a diff
between the outputs
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
He and Ryan are proposing the Open Publication License,
http://www.opencontent.org/openpub, for all the books. I've looked at
it and it seems to meet the standards of having a recognized license and
protecting the books. If it is the community's decision, I have no
Matthew Burgess wrote:
Glibc I've not upgraded because I was put off by upstream's
recommendation not to run it in production environments coupled with a
couple of bugs I've read about on the lfs lists. They've probably
been fixed by patches, but I've lost track of those! If anyone can
Dan Nicholson wrote:
The openat patch really only applies if you're building glibc with
--enable-kernel=2.6.17. (uses 2.6.0 currently.) So It doesn't need to be
added, Just mentioning it for the people that may want to.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Hi all,
Noted that there is some minor trivial updates to CLFS recently, the
occasional package updates to LFS, and updates to jalfs (which is only
as good as the [x]LFS books), there really is no development going
on at all any more within the LFS project.
CLFS is
Simon Scheiwiller wrote:
Hello
I finally managed to install my crappy old 802.11b wireless card (which
works now on linux far better than on windows with the official driver
:-). With Joe Ciccone's script I could even bring it up at startup. But
what I didn't like about the instructions on
Guys, in #lfs-support on irc I see 3 people building 6.2 -pre1 with
glibc-2.4 right now. Now, those are the only 3 that said it, there may
be more. The instructions work and it's not going to break anything
while building the base system but, later when they try to run, mainly
samba, it's not
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 6/29/06, Andrew Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello World,
faac and faad http://www.audiocoding.com/ are useful for encoding and
decoding mp4 audio. They're mentioned on a couple of pages in the book
as optional dependencies. Do people think they would be useful
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 4/17/06, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
Only mainline and 4_1 branch received the fix. It doesn't seem to
indicate that 4.0 is affected, so I don't know if this is your mysql
bug.
Funny. The other
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 4/8/06, Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, you're talking about mounting on demand, I don't call that
automounting as it can be misleading. So as recap, what I call
automounting is: plug in your usb stick, do nothing, stick gets mounted
(optionally window
Jürg Billeter wrote:
Default HAL policy only permits root and at_console users to mount
storage devices. Whether a user is at console or not is determined by
checking whether the file /var/run/console/USERNAME exists. This file
gets automatically created by e.g. pam_console or pam_foreground,
Randy McMurchy wrote:
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:19 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote:
A lot of the packages don't *require* build and function, Building
without dbus/hal can greatly cut the features down a but, eg. gnome/kde
without hal basicly means no volume management. etc
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Sure. Or you could jsut put the whole script directly into the wiki page.
If it was a little bit smaller I would, but 113 lines would probably
clutter up the page.
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I was able to successfully use
WEP and WPA link encryption. I'll be adding that info to the wiki in
the next couple of days.
When I see that information in the wiki I'll integrate it into the
wireless service script and re-post it here.
I have a note, if you're going
Handler
#
# Authors : Joe Ciccone - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Version : 00.00
#
# Notes :
#
. /etc/sysconfig/rc
. ${rc_functions}
. ${IFCONFIG}
if [ ! -d ${network_devices}/ssid ]; then
boot_mesg
I forgot one thing. The ESSID_OVERRIDE env variable can be set to
override whatever ESSID is in the config or whatever was scanned. I
added this in because I know when I'm at my friends house or somewhere
else, and since my card can't scan, I can just type
ESSID_OVERRIDE=new_ssid su -c
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
$ iwconfig ath0 essid NETGEAR channel 11 ap 00:14:6C:09:C9:E7
This is overkill most of the time. This is what my system does when it
udev sees ath0. This can probably be easily incorperated into the
bootscripts, I'll play around with it.
iwconfig ath0 essid Ciccone
I attached a patch, created from svn diff, that creates an xchat page.
The only thing I wasn't able to provide is how many SBU's the build takes.
Index: basicnet/mailnews/xchat.xml
===
--- basicnet/mailnews/xchat.xml (revision 0)
+++
Randy McMurchy wrote:
However, I think patching the sources to move one server ahead of
another is something we probably don't want to do. This to me seems
sort of something a user needs to do, or if it can't be done without
patching/sedding, then it probably doesn't need to be done.
To me
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I may be sounding like a broken record, but it wouldn't be unreasonable
to show users how to do this in the wiki.
That works for me. If you've ever had to use xchat you'd know that it is
very easy to add a server at runtime also. I was just shooting the idea out.
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
I am leaning to making it optional as well.
I'm also leaning towards optional. Since it is not required to build
Linux-PAM, It should be the users decision weather to use it or not. But
having the title recommended doesn't mean that you HAVE to use it, It's
just a matter
When I was building Hal I noticed that the sed right before the
configure command did not work, because 10-storage-policy.fdi was
removed. When I to plug in my usb harddrive last night I noticed that
the entry in /etc/fstab wasn't created but gnome still had the icon in
the mount manager I have on
Dan Nicholson wrote:
curl
wget
subversion
links
ethereal
nmap
gnupg
orbit2
gnome-vfs
cups
apache
vsftpd
openssh
perl-modules
python
php
I can confirm that the packages listed above work without any problems.
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Andrew Benton wrote:
Chris Staub wrote:
The update-pciids script in pciutils has a bug. If you have both wget
and lynx it works fine, otherwise (if you have one or the other, or
neither) it prints the output of the which program saying that it
wasn't found, but it's not supposed to.
It
The build of nfs-utils
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/nfs-utils.html)
fails with the following error on gcc4 systems.
|gcc -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_TCP_WRAPPER -I../../support/include -I/include
-Wall -pipe -DVERSION=\nfs-utils 1.0.7\ -DNFS3_SUPPORTED
Dan Nicholson wrote:
Joe, did you try the new codec yet?
I said I would test it as soon as I finished building packages. I
encoded a video on my windows machine and played it back on my pII
366Mhz laptop in totem and mplayer and it didn't skip one bit and looked
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Ivor Hewitt wrote:
Hi,
Building nfs-utils on an x86_64, gcc4.0.2 machine I needed the following small
patch.
This patch is already in the repo,
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-1.0.7-gcc4-1.patch
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Since the libs are in /usr/lib all that needs to be set is the proper
include path for the header. I know this probably isn't the way you
would like to handle it but I just set CPPFLAGS or CFLAGS accordingly. I
don't remember the exact package name but it couldn't fine the prtypes.h
which is part
Dan Nicholson wrote:
Joe, did you try the new codec yet? I never got to try the old one
because it's 3 years old and it didn't fly with libc.so.6 (IIRC).
Just curious how it stacks up.
I've encoded videos for friends with it on windows. Which worked well,
but I've never tried to use it on
Dan Nicholson wrote:
I say yes because it most likely builds in the exact same way as
Firefox/Thunderbird-1.5 with the same Gecko-1.8 backend. Also, if
anyone wants to build Mozilla-1.7.x, they can look in the museum cause
that thing's not gonna change.
On the other hand, If it builds the
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I thought they were the *exact same thing*. Only Seamonkey is the
updated version. Why keep both?
To put it another way, I thought
Mozilla-1.7.x to -- Seamonkey-1.0
is the same as
Firefox-1.0.x to -- Firefox-1.5
Am I confused here?
I just installed
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
If you mean that the binary installation is at the 06 rev, that really
isn't any big deal either, as the page isn't really about installing
the binary version other than you have to do that to build the source.
I was refering to the binary install. The fact that the
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Well, I think that the instructions that we provide, the BLFS written
stuff should not be backgrounded by readers branching off to the
wiki before they've even read the page.
I can't think of a single person that would, after installing 20-30
packages in a row, would
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I clearly said that it wasn't so much for the educational standpoint
that I'm against scripting, it is because that is just not that way
we've always done it, and I don't see this package as a reason to
change.
This is just my $0.02. I think blfs should provide the
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
The instructions from the book won't be on the page. The intent is to
allow the users to add comments on the instructions in a way similar to
php does with their documentstion. See, for instance,
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getdate.php
Now it makes more sense,
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
My preference is /usr/X11R7.
I havn't had a chance to lookk at it much yet, but I got a message from
the xorg-modular list about building.
I havn't looked at that link, I also use /usr/X11R7, the only problem I
found with it is compatibility with programs that are
The wiki is probably the best way to maintain something like a multilib
BLFS. The instructions for 32bit and 64bit arent always the same,
sometimes you have to set LDFLAGS and others. I have been taking notes
while building my current multilib system, so, I have some instructions
that I could get
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
HAL-0.5.4 lists Python as an optional package, however it seems to be
required.
Also if you want to use parts of hal that are written in python like
hal-device-manager you also need dbus to compile its python bindings.
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While i'm at it. In the installation of tcl-8.4.11. when the system has
bash-3.1 configure dies. To fix this sed -i s/relid'/relid/ configure needs
to be added before the configure command. see
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=10894atid=110894func=detailaid=1377619
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