XFree86 + freetype [Was Re: hurrah hurrah hurrah]

2007-05-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
it to the book anyway. Until it master copy gets regenerated, you can see it here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-xfree86/x/xfree86.html Here is what I got. .. ../../config/makedepend/makedepend: warning: /usr/include/gnu/stubs-32.h: non

Re: XFree86 + freetype [Was Re: hurrah hurrah hurrah]

2007-05-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/25/07, Lefteris Dimitroulakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Στις Friday 25 May 2007 19:21:26 ο/η Dan Nicholson έγραψε: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-xfree86/x/xfree86.html I followed the above. I don't think there are any differences, but I put it in the main book

Re: XFree86 + freetype [Was Re: hurrah hurrah hurrah]

2007-05-25 Thread Lefteris Dimitroulakis
Στις Friday 25 May 2007 19:21:26 ο/η Dan Nicholson έγραψε: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-xfree86/x/xfree86.html I followed the above. Hmm. For me, it doesn't try to build in that directory at all. A couple questions. I checked my other build of XFree86-4.6.99.21

Re: XFree86 + freetype [Was Re: hurrah hurrah hurrah]

2007-05-25 Thread Lefteris Dimitroulakis
Στις Friday 25 May 2007 20:50:36 ο/η Dan Nicholson έγραψε: OK. Yeah, make should never descend into that directory if you're using the system freetype library. Please allow me the time for a rebuild of XFree86. I think I know what happened. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: XFree86 + freetype [Was Re: hurrah hurrah hurrah]

2007-05-25 Thread Lefteris Dimitroulakis
I can confirm now that everything is fine Dan with XFree86-4.6.0 and the XFree86-4.6.0-freetype_internals-1.patch. Foolish me, I have sent host.def in xcbuild and not in xc. My apologies:( Lefteris -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: XFree86 + freetype [Was Re: hurrah hurrah hurrah]

2007-05-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/25/07, Lefteris Dimitroulakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can confirm now that everything is fine Dan with XFree86-4.6.0 and the XFree86-4.6.0-freetype_internals-1.patch. Foolish me, I have sent host.def in xcbuild and not in xc. My apologies:( Great! Thanks for your help. I'll get

Re: XFree86 Fixes

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/23/07, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As noted other day on blfs-dev, XFree86 fails to build with anything newer than freetype-2.1.10. Fortunately, some fixes were just committed to the XFree86 CVS just this past week to fix things. http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev

XFree86 Fixes

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
As noted other day on blfs-dev, XFree86 fails to build with anything newer than freetype-2.1.10. Fortunately, some fixes were just committed to the XFree86 CVS just this past week to fix things. http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2007-May/017169.html http://www.mail-archive.com

XFree86 libXt, libSM, libICE

2006-06-26 Thread DJ Lucas
Anyone have XFree86 handy? I need to see if it builds the libs above shared, static, or both. If nobody replies, I'll just go ahead and build it tomorrow as I've been meaning to anyway. The reason I ask, IIRC I should now combine the xorg patch with the motif patch for JDK source build. It's

Re: MesaLib and XFree86

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: Has anyone tested against XFree86? I haven't. Xorg-6.9.0 is fine with the new Mesa No it isn't. The problem is that parts of Mesa that come with Xorg-6.9.0 are still compiled statically into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so. This file is used for indirect

Re: MesaLib and XFree86

2006-05-11 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: Has anyone tested against XFree86? I haven't. Xorg-6.9.0 is fine with the new Mesa No it isn't. The problem is that parts of Mesa that come with Xorg-6.9.0 are still compiled statically into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so

Re: MesaLib and XFree86

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: Well, one could drop it into the completed build tree and 'make Everything', right? I have never tried that either. Anyway, with the modular Xorg, the rebuild is easy, and non-modular one will become permanently out-of-date (aka: dead) upstream in a few days (when they

MesaLib and XFree86

2006-05-10 Thread DJ Lucas
Has anyone tested against XFree86? I haven't. Xorg-6.9.0 is fine with the new Mesa (it's only a tiny version change, I still tested), but I don't know about XFree86-4.5.0. Also, what version ships with 4.6.0? That dep was changed when the instructions were still in my homedirI never

Re: Xorg and XFree86 post-installation configuration

2006-05-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
. Is there really any reason these three can't be combined and merged with the X Window System Components page? Then just move the X Components page before the Additional Config page. I don't have any problem with that, but I don't have any experience with XFree86. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Xorg and XFree86 post-installation configuration

2006-04-27 Thread DJ Lucas
In dividing the Xorg-7 instructions, I noticed (well I probably always knew it was close) that all three packages have almost the same post-install instructions. The exception is the installed program name called for creating the config file. Is there really any reason these three can't be

Re: XFree86

2005-12-28 Thread Andrew Benton
Ken Moffat wrote: Do you mean 5.92 ? LFS-svn has been on 5.93 for a few weeks, and some of the behaviour is definitely different between the two versions. Yes, I'm a bit behind, I've been busy. 5.93 is fixed, the problem is just with 5.92. It's been bugging me for weeks. Andy --

Re: Why the lndir creation in Xorg/XFree86?

2005-12-18 Thread Richard A Downing
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:49:16 -0600 Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Staub wrote: In the build instructions for Xorg and XFree86, it is recommended to compile the lndir program and use it to create a shadow directory of symbolic links where you will actually built the package

Re: Why the lndir creation in Xorg/XFree86?

2005-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard A Downing wrote: So, in fact, if we obey our own rules and say 'Always unpack a fresh copy of the source for each build': we don't need to do this. Possibly, but it also shows a unique way of building in the spirit of education. -- Bruce --

Why the lndir creation in Xorg/XFree86?

2005-12-17 Thread Chris Staub
In the build instructions for Xorg and XFree86, it is recommended to compile the lndir program and use it to create a shadow directory of symbolic links where you will actually built the package. Why is this done? Why not just a separate build dir? I think the BLFS book should have more

Re: Why the lndir creation in Xorg/XFree86?

2005-12-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: In the build instructions for Xorg and XFree86, it is recommended to compile the lndir program and use it to create a shadow directory of symbolic links where you will actually built the package. Why is this done? Why not just a separate build dir? I think the BLFS book

Re: ROX (was: Re: Request to XFree86 users)

2005-10-17 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:42 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: ROX insists that filenames are UTF-8 encoded. This means either an UTF-8 locale or a deviation from POSIX (POSIX implies that filenames are stored on disk in the locale encoding when it describes the tar program). Such UTF-8

Re: Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-17 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/16/05 12:30 CST: About libXdamage, no, XFree86-4.5.0 doesn't install it. Thanks for the info. Gnome-mag will compile without it but it doesn't work. Is this new? It used to work just fine when I was using XFree. And it works

Re: Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/17/05 07:57 CST: Sawfish obviously, and XFree86 as Bruce said. But as I've said before, I'd like to see glib-1, gtk-1 and all the packages that depend on them removed. Obviously that's going quite far, too far for many people, but we could make steps

Re: Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-17 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: I think XMMS is the one app that folks wanted to stay more than any other. Even Bruce has said that one will stay. You are persistent, aren't you? :-) Well I did qualify it by saying perhaps, and you did say please... Randy McMurchy wrote: Please give examples. --

Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, If you have a current version of XFree86 installed, please check and see if you have the libXdamage library installed in your X library directory. Xorg installs the library, however, the GNOME Magnifier instructions say that XFree does not (lists it as a dependency). If the current

Re: Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, If you have a current version of XFree86 installed, please check and see if you have the libXdamage library installed in your X library directory. Xorg installs the library, however, the GNOME Magnifier instructions say that XFree does not (lists

Re: Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, If you have a current version of XFree86 installed, please check and see if you have the libXdamage library installed in your X library directory. Xorg installs the library, however, the GNOME Magnifier instructions say that XFree does

Re: Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 10/16/05 12:04 CST: I think we should drop it now. I don't know of any any editors that use it so it can be tested. I am willing to leave it in if there is a compelling reason. If there is, please let me know. Well, I think we should keep it until after the

Re: Request to XFree86 users

2005-10-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/16/05 12:30 CST: About libXdamage, no, XFree86-4.5.0 doesn't install it. Thanks for the info. Gnome-mag will compile without it but it doesn't work. Is this new? It used to work just fine when I was using XFree. And it works just fine now with Xorg

ROX (was: Re: Request to XFree86 users)

2005-10-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Andrew Benton wrote: There are plenty of other things that should be in BLFS. A peer to peer application (Gtk-Gnutella) a GUI video editor (avi-demux) and the file browser ROX ROX insists that filenames are UTF-8 encoded. This means either an UTF-8 locale or a deviation from POSIX (POSIX

xfree86

2005-07-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I see on /. that debisn sid is now using x.org. Is it time for us to drop xfree86? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xfree86

2005-07-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: what is the harm in keeping it? Just the effort of updating. We're current now, but when a new release or patches become available, we need to build and test before updating the book. If the demand for the package is not there, should we spend that effort? I'm just asking

Re: xfree86

2005-07-17 Thread Andrew Benton
on a faithful basis. ...There's always one. I use XFree86 because Xnest works properly. For me, when I build xorg and gnome, if I log in a a different user in a nested window, the gnome apps I run as that user don't work properly. The app that's on top stays on top and I can't bring whatever's