OpenOffice 2.0beta2 (was Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5)

2005-09-24 Thread Jeremy Byron
Well, for what it's worth, attached are some patches to help get things started. I've cleaned up what I could from the 1.1.4 patches (not including the gcc patch) but the java patch still needs work. Many sections from the java patch no longer exist in OOo2, but I used 'grep -lr' to scan the

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:58:27PM -0700, Jeremy Byron wrote: > > Not Archive::Zip, unless I just missed it.. Compress::Zlib, yes. Hrmm, so it is. Thanks for the clue. :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfr

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-24 Thread Jeremy Byron
Archaic wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:46:58PM -0700, Jeremy Byron wrote: Requires Perl Module: Archive::Zip.pm and it's dependency Compress::Zlib - http://bike-nomad.com/perl/ FYI: BLFS covers the download and installation of those modules. Not Archive::Zip, unless I just miss

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:46:58PM -0700, Jeremy Byron wrote: > > Requires Perl Module: Archive::Zip.pm and it's dependency Compress::Zlib > - http://bike-nomad.com/perl/ FYI: BLFS covers the download and installation of those modules. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security fr

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-24 Thread Jeremy Byron
David Ciecierski wrote: Seriously, has anyone got any grips on building 1.1.5 or even 2.0 beta? I'm going to fiddle with 2.0 beta2 tonight, we'll see what happens :-) A few things to get you started with OOo2.0b2.. I haven't had time to get very far with it yet. Requires Perl Module: Ar

Re: timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
I should point out that if you are doing weird things like putting variables in your PS1, those variables won't be expanded unless you use double quotes (which is what I've always done). The reason I mention this is that 2 hours later it was pointed out to me that the time never updates on the prom

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Seriously, has anyone got any grips on building 1.1.5 or even 2.0 beta? I'm going to fiddle with 2.0 beta2 tonight, we'll see what happens :-) -- David Ciecierski Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:04:13PM +, Lennon Cook wrote: > See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01159.html I fail to see how that link is supposed to help. It is dealing with debian's suid manager. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system?

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Supertux needs SDL_mixer to play sounds, it may also need smpeg. Did you install SDL_mixer? Yes, I've had both since the beginning. A while ago I was checking if smpeg did not use gstreamer (then broken gstreamer would explain supertux exiting), but it doesn't. It's just slightly worrying that

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-24 Thread Lennon Cook
See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01159.html -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-24 Thread Dan McGhee
Well, now that I'm ready to build OpenOffice, I see that both the stable and development versions of "the book" have the directions for 1.1.4. C'mon it's been ten whole days since the release. :-))) Seriously, has anyone got any grips on building 1.1.5 or even 2.0 beta? I'll be more than hap

Re: timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Dan McGhee
Archaic wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:45:31PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: Yeah, I know. But if you put the output of this command in someone's profile, wouldn't the time be displayed in, say, EDT for that user? A quick scan--not a thorough read--in my references gave me that impression.

Re: Removing Source Trees--Paranoia Acting Up

2005-09-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Dan McGhee wrote: Oh BTW, since kernel headers are installed separately now, is there any reason to keep the kernel source tree around? Once it works properly, no. With 2.6, rebuilds after altering the .config are a lot more sensible, so a minimal change can be built

Re: timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:45:31PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > > Yeah, I know. But if you put the output of this command in someone's > profile, wouldn't the time be displayed in, say, EDT for that user? A > quick scan--not a thorough read--in my references gave me that impression. Now I see wh

Re: Removing Source Trees--Paranoia Acting Up

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:42:36PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > I thought I remembered some words in LFS or BLFS about removing sources, > but, except for the clean-up in LFS, I can't find anything. Am I just > paranoid or should I turn 'rm -R ' loose. I figure I should save > "config.cache."

Re: timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Dan McGhee
Archaic wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:29:34PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: Could you set `date %Z ` in .bashrc or .bash_profile for each user? Or PS1 for each user in this format? %Z doesn't actually set or change anything. It just causes the timezone value to be shown. Yeah, I kn

Re: timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Archaic wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:29:34PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: Could you set `date %Z ` in .bashrc or .bash_profile for each user? Or PS1 for each user in this format? %Z doesn't actually set or change anything. It just causes the timezone value to be shown.

Removing Source Trees--Paranoia Acting Up

2005-09-24 Thread Dan McGhee
I'm trying to do some long overdue clean-up in getting ready to build Open Office--3 gig --> yikes. I have just about that left on my LFS partition. However, I can free up 2.1 G if I remove the firefox, thunderbird, gimp, qt and xorg sources. I thought I remembered some words in LFS or BLFS

Re: timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:29:34PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > Could you set `date %Z ` in .bashrc or .bash_profile > for each user? Or PS1 for each user in this format? %Z doesn't actually set or change anything. It just causes the timezone value to be shown. -- Archaic Want control, educat

Re: timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Dan McGhee
Archaic wrote: I need a computer to log everything as UTC. I need the users to be able to choose their own timezone. Easy enough. I cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC to /etc/localtime and set TZ in ~/.bash_profile to EST. The problem is with the bash prompt which I have set to display the time. Accord

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: Some success at last. Just as I thought it was just me & my frame of mind that wasted me several desperate hours. As you may remember, alsamixer run properly, but alsaconf didn't, same for supertux, totem and other higher-level apps. Hence I was certain it has to be a pr

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Some success at last. Just as I thought it was just me & my frame of mind that wasted me several desperate hours. As you may remember, alsamixer run properly, but alsaconf didn't, same for supertux, totem and other higher-level apps. Hence I was certain it has to be a problem with kernel / alsa

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread DJ Lucas
David Ciecierski wrote: >> Might want to hold on OOo, unless you are doing the 2.0 branch. I'm >> just about done with 1.1.5 + gcc4. > > > Yes, it's beta2. It seems to have problems with jdk1.5 (beanshell > component in particular), although last night I couldn't be bothered to > properly invest

timezone conflicts

2005-09-24 Thread Archaic
I need a computer to log everything as UTC. I need the users to be able to choose their own timezone. Easy enough. I cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC to /etc/localtime and set TZ in ~/.bash_profile to EST. The problem is with the bash prompt which I have set to display the time. According to info bash.

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Might want to hold on OOo, unless you are doing the 2.0 branch. I'm just about done with 1.1.5 + gcc4. Yes, it's beta2. It seems to have problems with jdk1.5 (beanshell component in particular), although last night I couldn't be bothered to properly investigate. I'm trying to get it to compil

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread DJ Lucas
David Ciecierski wrote: >> First, has this sound card worked before in previous LFS with udev? > > > This box run on Mandrake 10.1 for the past year, ie. udev-030. > >> lets remove the 15-alsa.rules file and make certain that is > >> not where the problem lies, it is a relatively new addition.

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
andy:~$ ls -l /dev/snd It's exactly the same then! Interesting... Does totem work for root? No, it gives an error message about not being able to find the chosen output. I'm now compiling the kernel with patched ALSA drivers - 2.6.12.5 had 1.0.9rc2, current stable is 1.0.9b. Looking at ch

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: Yes, all users (well, apart from pkg-users) are in the audio group. Even root. So what device nodes do you have on your system? Would be grateful if you could `ls` it... andy:~$ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 2005-09-24 17:03 controlC0 crw-rw-

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Please ignore the above post... ALSA-drivers are kernel modules, and I already have kernel support for my sound card. Silly. -- David Ciecierski Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfrom

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Gosh, just realised by looking at install.log that ALSA comes with drivers for Yamaha, but 744 chipset - mine is 724, which apparently requires the alsa-drivers package! Hope I'll be able to report [SOLVED] in a couple of minutes... -- David Ciecierski Want control, education, and security fr

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
The device nodes you posted before look almost identical to mine and my system works fine. If Totem and Supertux can't access the audio devices, have you added yourself to the audio group? Yes, all users (well, apart from pkg-users) are in the audio group. Even root. So what device nodes do yo

Re: Configure error gnome-print-0.37

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
> configure: error: You need at least libxml 1.8.8 > for this version of gnome-print I believe you've installed libxml2, as described in the book. But as far as I know you'll need to install libxml(1) for the gnome 1.4 libraries - and the lack of it is precisely what gnome-print configure compl

Re: GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
In straight BLFS (without hints), it strictly isn't - it's > mostly a matter of you don't *need* to be root to build it, > and it is therefore good practice not to be. Exactly. It's basically added security - by building a package as non-root you elliminate the risk of dodgy / malicious config

xterm setuid root

2005-09-24 Thread Alex Prinsier
Does anyone know why xterm gets setuid root? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -rws--x--x 1 root root 304515 Sep 22 04:18 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: Configure error gnome-print-0.37

2005-09-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 08:37 +, randhir phagura wrote: > Unknown library `xml' > checking for xmlNewDoc in -lxml... Unknown library `xml' > yes > Unknown library `xml' > checking for libxml (gnome-xml) version >= 1.8.8... Unknown library `xml' > configure: error: You need at least libxml 1.8.8 f

Re: gtk-sharp Install Problem - obscure log...

2005-09-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 02:35 +, Lennon Cook wrote: > gtk-sharp is failing to install with the following error: > >>> > /usr/bin/gacutil /i glib-sharp.dll /f /package gtk-sharp-2.0 /gacdir /usr/lib > ERROR: Could not create package dir file. > << > It seems quite obvious that this is a permission

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: What is the problem? The problem is that no application can use the sound card, and alsactl is the prime example of that (please refer to my original post). The issue started with Totem not launching and complaining it cannot find the requested sound output + supertux

control-center-2.10.1 fails to build

2005-09-24 Thread NP
Hello ! Building BLFS svn-20050922, Kernel 2.6.12.5, gcc-4.0.1. Having gtk+-2.8.3/glib-2.8.1/pango-1.10.0/atk-1.10.1/cairo-1.0.0 control-center-2.10.1 fails to build : Reported error : In file included from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangofc-font.h:25, from /usr/include/pango-

Configure error gnome-print-0.37

2005-09-24 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Sorry for bombarding the List with my various install problems. Actually, this is part of a series of problems I am facing installing gnome 1.4 libraries. Never faced any problems in kde or gnome2. I am getting the following configure error in gnome-print-0.37. 'libxml-1.8.17' has been in

Re: GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-24 Thread Lennon Cook
On 9/24/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it required that building of a package be done as an unprevilged > user? In straight BLFS (without hints), it strictly isn't - it's mostly a matter of you don't *need* to be root to build it, and it is therefore good practice not to be

Re:GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-24 Thread randhir phagura
Hi David, David Ciecierski wrote: so if you're installing a new package as another unprivileged user (which you >normally do when following the hint.) Why is it required that building of a package be done as an unprevilged user? I saw this indication in the Book too ("Now as root user issue t

Some feedback for BLFS svn-20050922

2005-09-24 Thread NP
Hello ! Building BLFS svn-20050922, Kernel 2.6.12.5, gcc-4.0.1. Some feedback : 1. libgnome-2.10.0 fails to compile : Reported error : "gnome-gconf.c:33: error: array type has incomplete element type" Can be corrected with (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302071) : diff -Naur li