The patch on the firefox page is named wrong and the instructions don't work.
The same patch on the xulrunner is a different version.
The xulrunner install commands should use 'mkdir -p' here:
mkdir /usr/lib/mozilla
for reinstalls.
robert
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To my understanding, the kde-3.5 branch is not longer developed, and there
will be no new releases for it. The kde-3.5 svn branch has some bug fixes
since the 3.5.10 release. They're generally not serious bug fixes, but they
help with new glibc compatibility, new gcc compatibility, and stuff
On Tuesday February 24 2009 10:22:35 pm Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
Excuse me, but how you came up with that conclusion?
Thinking out loud at the keyboard.
So do I have to thinking loud also?
Gentlemen please. We're all on the same team here. Some of us are overzealous,
and some
On Sunday February 15 2009 04:02:41 pm Ken Moffat wrote:
I also
build with:
--fatal-warnings --warn-shared-textrel
in gcc's specs, which causes non-pic shared libraries to fail to compile,
and also causes mktemp() and tmpnam() to cause build failures. Most of
the time these have
On Thursday February 12 2009 04:44:15 pm Dan Nicholson wrote:
The reason why it's recommended to static link libssl is because the
developer's have a terrible habit of changing the API frequently.
Static linking avoids API breakage. But if you're going to rebuild ssh
when you update libssl
On Wednesday February 11 2009 07:11:57 pm Ken Moffat wrote:
For the moment, my method isn't adequately dealing with everything
in LFS - I need to take action for libperl (even though its users
are in BLFS), and get more detail on which of the toolchain static
libs actually get used. Taming
In fairness, we should also consider the advantages of static libraries.
They perform better, especially on x86. This is the primary advantage.
Unneeded functions are stripped from the program, making the program smaller
and use less memory. The exception to this is when you have two programs
I didn't read this whole thread, but if I were in Williams place I would just
use the wiki page for the new version of Speex.
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I have also been fighting with this. I add:
enable_static=no
pic_mode=yes
to /usr/share/config.site. And despite this a lot of packages install static
libraries. I don't install the static versions of zlib or libbz2. I also
build with:
--fatal-warnings --warn-shared-textrel
in gcc's specs,
I also agree with Randy.
In general we can never trust someone to give us perfect advise, nor can we
even trust ourselves to type properly.
If someone hands me something and says here, this works, I need to check it
out first, to some extent, before passing it down to the next person, because
Hello.
In the BLFS book, ./configure make are generally grouped together, so
that an unprivileged user can run them in one shot. I suggest that they
should remain separate because many packages show a summary
after ./configure, which can be interesting to note (usually these are
graphics
On the kdemultimedia.html page there is a link to:
http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib/
which becomes a blank page in some web browsers.
The new link is:
http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
p.s.
would you prefer these as trac bug reports?
I looked at changing this in svn, but I
In kde/kdemultimedia.html#akode we have:
sed -i 's/#include ../lib/decoder.h/\n#include cstdlib/' \
akode/akodeplay/akodeplay.cpp
which gives me:
sed: -e expression #1, char 20: unknown option to `s'
With:
sed -i 's...@#include ../lib/decoder.h@\n#include cstdlib@' \
Hello. On the Cairo page there's an offsite link to xcb-util-0.3.0, but this
package exists in BLFS. Shouldn't this link point to the BLFS xcb-util page?
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Hello. On the mysql page both download links do not work, and the patch
command misspells the patch file name... using a - when a _ should be used.
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In the dbus page there is a libexecdir=, and an extra .
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I suggest using:
http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/
as the download url for Hal, instead of:
http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/
as the first one seems more official, has the book version of Hal, and newer
versions.
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I think there's a mistake in the x/qt.html page:
export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt
shouldn't that be QTDIR=/usr ?
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Has Nut (upsd, upsmon) ever been considered for the BLFS book? It's not a
simple ./configure make install. There are a couple users to add and a
chroot, and boot script.
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On Friday December 14 2007 10:16:56 am Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Hello,
there was no mail from Manuel Candales for two months or so. Does
anyone know what happened to him?
The problem for the LFS family of projects is that he was the only
active jhalfs developer, thus, the ALFS project
The 'ntpd -gqx' command can also use the '-u ntp:ntp' option. This should
mimic the 'ntpdate -u' option, to make ntpd use an unprivileged port for
outgoing connections.
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On Saturday May 26 2007 09:28:46 am Dan Nicholson wrote:
This is what I'd like to put in BLFS. I'm not sure I agree with
suppressing the .2 man pages. I'd rather they overwrote the man-pages
versions. I've been planning on actually removing the conflicting
pages in LFS.
The .2 pages are for
Here's the svn patch. It might need adjustment. It'll need changelog entries,
and regenerated bootscripts package. 'make install-ntp' and 'make
install-ntp-libcap' will overwrite eachother, like openldap1 and openldap2
do. I bumped the ntpd version to 4.2.4p0. 'ntpd' can be installed
to
This patch is the minimal patch to build libcap without warnings or
overwriting manuals installed by man-pages, and with correct library
permissions and flags:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~robert/new/libcap/libcap-1.10-blfs.diff9
This one is for '-Wextra' warnings, such as unused parameters
I found a page which tries to explain why it was abandoned:
http://www.madore.org/~david/linux/newcaps/#abandoned
It looks like there are things libcap can do that selinux and grsecurity
don't... selinux and grsecurity don't try to circumvent linux capabilities
that are integrated in other
On Tuesday May 22 2007 09:14:35 pm Dan Nicholson wrote:
The fedora patch does one thing I'm really not fond of. It adds a
static version of linux/capability.h into sys/capability.h instead of
#include linux/capability.h. I'd much rather just use the sanitized
one from the kernel so long as it
Hello. Ntpd, named, vsftpd, others, can use libcap. Will BLFS accept a book
patch for this, or should I make a hint?
robert
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On Monday May 21 2007 09:25:44 am Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 5/21/07, Robert Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. Ntpd, named, vsftpd, others, can use libcap. Will BLFS accept a
book patch for this, or should I make a hint?
+1. Samba uses it, too.
It looks like Bind9 uses its own internal
be changed a
bit.. the pid file should go in /var/run, and the log in /var/log (I think
ntpd is hooked on the log file's inode, so the log doesn't need to be in the
chroot). If you do not use --logfile then you might need a /dev/log in the
chroot for syslog.
robert
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On Monday May 21 2007 07:58:23 pm Dan Nicholson wrote:
Randy added the Fedora patches to our repo a little while back.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/libcap/libcap-1.10-fedora
_fixes-1.patch
IMO, all we really need is to rip out the two _syscall2 declarations
to get it to
On Thursday May 17 2007 02:39, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Robert Connolly wrote:
All hunks of the Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff patch fail for me, with
patch-2.5.9. It's a dos2unix problem. This works for me:
tr -d \\r ../Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff | patch -Np0
Hmm. We don't usually mess with upstream
On Thursday May 17 2007 03:00, Robert Connolly wrote:
This is a patch-2.5.9 bug:
2003-05-18
Do not set p_strip_trailing_cr merely because a -p line contains a CR.
Fixed in:
2003-07-02
* pch.c (intuit_diff_type): If a unified-diff header line contains
trailing CR, strip CR
All hunks of the Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff patch fail for me, with patch-2.5.9.
It's a dos2unix problem. This works for me:
tr -d \\r ../Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff | patch -Np0
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Hello. The Owl/Openwall project has about 20 patches to BLFS packages to make
packages use paranoid temporary file handling. These patches include using
the mktemp program, better use of libc mktemp functions, and removing temp
files during a error.
I would like to know if BLFS would accept a
Hi. The Pth (portable threads) library, needed by GnuPGME,
replaces /usr/include/pthreads.h and some of /usr/lib/libpthread*
Just a heads up (do not install to /usr).
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BTW, the md5sum from the blfs repo and anduin for
OOo_1.1.4-jdk_1.5.0_fix-1.patch do not match. The date/timestamp in the diff
is different, that's all.
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Hi. I just wanted to let ya know I was successful using gcc-3.3.5 for building
j2sdk and openoffice. However the NAS package in openoffice failed, so I
installed the standalone NAS version and used --with-system-nas.. that didn't
work because the ./configure script in openoffice first tries to
On April 13, 2005 11:42 am, Randy McMurchy wrote:
..
Thanks for the report Robert. What version of J2SDK?
The versions in the book, j2sdk-1_4_2, except for
j2sdk-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.bin (8 instead of 7).
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Hi. This patch doesn't work:
stunnel-4.09-1_minute_sleep_fix.patch
I can't figure out why.. I attached a patch that works for me.
robert
diff -Naur stunnel-4.09.orig/src/client.c stunnel-4.09/src/client.c
--- stunnel-4.09.orig/src/client.c 2005-03-11 18:37:27.0 +
+++
On April 10, 2005 06:09 pm, Randy McMurchy wrote:
Can you provide the error message you get when you execute the
following commands.
wget ftp://stunnel.mirt.net/stunnel/stunnel-4.09.tar.gz
wget ftp://stunnel.mirt.net/stunnel/stunnel-4.09-1_minute_sleep_fix.patch
tar zxf stunnel-4.09.tar.gz
Hi. For months I've been unable to compile avifile...
'x2 is already defined'
after a quick look on google I commented out the two lines with 'x2' in the
lib/common/mmx.cpp file, and it seems to work okay. Maybe this should be
patched?
robert
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