Re: Issues with Xorg and GCC4

2005-07-30 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Chris Staub wrote: Compiling Xorg with GCC4 apparently results in a messed-up video driver for certain hardware (like mine, for example). It seems "libvgahw.a" has a problem that causes all the other consoles on my system to go blank when X starts. I see that ther

Re: Compiling Ruby - make segfaults

2005-07-30 Thread David Jensen
Lennon Cook wrote: ./lib/mkmf.rb:291: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux] make: *** [all] Aborted Is this a known problem? Is there any workaround/solution? It appears to not like -fomit-frame-pointer. I threw everything else at it without problems. try:

Re: questions about "locale"

2005-07-30 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Ken Moffat wrote: My guess is that you've used a different combination of options, or standard options in an unexpected context (x86_64) and X isn't smart enough to realise where it put things. To make things even worse, at some stage I decided to add a "/local/" to all things I compiled/inst

Re: questions about "locale"

2005-07-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: I have been lucky enough to have everything to do with local characters "just work" for many a year... But now I find myself having to look into this "locale-thing". My emacs will display special Norwegian characters in X for older files. But it simply ignores keypresses

Compiling Ruby - make segfaults

2005-07-30 Thread Lennon Cook
When compiling ruby as per the book, I get the following error: >./lib/mkmf.rb:291: [BUG] Segmentation fault >ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux] > >make: *** [all] Aborted Is this a known problem? Is there any workaround/solution? -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

Re: questions about "locale"

2005-07-30 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > So, now I wonder... > > 1) Who installs this, and missed it in my system? X? I could not find >any clues scanning the topmost levels of the LFS+BLFS books for the >term "locale". Glibc installs to /usr/lib, and, I think /usr/local/share.

Re: questions about "locale"

2005-07-30 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:57 +0200, Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: > 1) Who installs this, and missed it in my system? X? I could not find > any clues scanning the topmost levels of the LFS+BLFS books for the > term "locale". Individual packages install their own locale files - if you look furthe

Re: Circular Dependencies

2005-07-30 Thread DJ Lucas
NP wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: >> c) Has anyone a handy process for scanning the book for items with no >> dependencies? > > No, but here is my method to build a package without missing the > required and desired optional dependancies : > > 1. Open a browser and clear the