Re: [blfs-support] Texlive

2013-01-02 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, On Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 à 23:27:37 (-0600), Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > > From: "Armin K." > > >> I'd recommend that you use texlive installer (which, unfortunately > >> installs precompiled packages) to install TexLive. I did that for > > > >So did I as well. And by t

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 17:43 -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > I found the problem...It was an xorg protocol header that was missing > and the libpthread-stubs was not there. I have it compiling now! A stupid package, that libpthread-stubs - on a Linux machine, it doesn't even install anything, except f

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Interesting that when the configure script is running there is a line that reads: checking for gawk... Yet configure didn't tell me that the binary was empty! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Alexander Spitzer
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > If you want to debug it, perhaps you could mount a partition from > the host system somewhere under your LFS, then untar a package in > both, compare the outputs of ls -lR, run configure in both, then > again compare the outputs from ls -lR.

Re: [blfs-support] Texlive

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > From: "Armin K." >> I'd recommend that you use texlive installer (which, unfortunately >> installs precompiled packages) to install TexLive. I did that for > >So did I as well. And by the way I was never able to compile >TeXlive. It might be that the documentation

Re: [blfs-support] Texlive

2013-01-02 Thread Pierre Lorenzon
From: "Armin K." Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Texlive Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:19:05 +0100 > On 01/03/2013 02:15 AM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to install texlive. But from my Debian experience, it works fine >> without 3GB of size. I consider 3GB as not reasonable. I only

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:48:50PM -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: > How can the consequences of a failing drive appear so regularly and > precisely? I thought that as a solid state drive fails, the available space > becomes smaller and smaller as bad sectors appear. And the capacity has > noticeab

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander Spitzer wrote: > I am having trouble accessing the lfs (and blfs) support archives). That's a server issue due to a DoS problem. We're working on it. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscri

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Alexander Spitzer
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I suspect your flash drive is failing. This is why I do not > recommend _building_ on a (usb) flash drive. As I wrote a few hours > ago on lfs-support, building in a regular filesystem on a commodity > flash drive causes a lot of writes - a

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 07:44:09PM -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: > > This is on a USB flash drive that is 4GB in size and the filesystem is ext3. I suspect your flash drive is failing. This is why I do not recommend _building_ on a (usb) flash drive. As I wrote a few hours ago on lfs-support

Re: [blfs-support] Texlive

2013-01-02 Thread Armin K.
On 01/03/2013 02:15 AM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install texlive. But from my Debian experience, it works fine > without 3GB of size. I consider 3GB as not reasonable. I only need to generate > pdf documents, using beamer, book, article, and some functions such as > letter

[blfs-support] Texlive

2013-01-02 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, I'd like to install texlive. But from my Debian experience, it works fine without 3GB of size. I consider 3GB as not reasonable. I only need to generate pdf documents, using beamer, book, article, and some functions such as letter. Do you know how to build a minimal package? I tried to build

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Correct yes when I untar there is no Makefile. After running configure, the file is created but it is empty. At least vim shows it is empty and the command make says no targets. Also empty are the other files that configure creates. This is on a USB flash drive that is 4GB in size and the filesyst

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Baho Utot
Armin K. wrote: > On 01/02/2013 11:43 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >> What luck? That is something I don't have. >> >> I found the problem...It was an xorg protocol header that was missing >> and the libpthread-stubs was not there. I have it compiling now! >> >> I'll test it once the build completes. >>

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Armin K.
On 01/02/2013 11:43 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > What luck? That is something I don't have. > > I found the problem...It was an xorg protocol header that was missing > and the libpthread-stubs was not there. I have it compiling now! > > I'll test it once the build completes. > Well, you were lucky at

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Baho Utot
Armin K. wrote: > On 01/02/2013 11:12 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >> Armin K. wrote: >>> On 01/02/2013 04:58 PM, Baho Utot wrote: Yes I have checked all of those as well as the *.gir files. The pkg-config files are there and appear correct, as in the entries are pointing to real files in th

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Armin K.
On 01/02/2013 11:12 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > Armin K. wrote: >> On 01/02/2013 04:58 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >>> Yes I have checked all of those as well as the *.gir files. >>> The pkg-config files are there and appear correct, as in the entries are >>> pointing to real files in the file system. >>> >>>

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Baho Utot
Armin K. wrote: > On 01/02/2013 04:58 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >> Yes I have checked all of those as well as the *.gir files. >> The pkg-config files are there and appear correct, as in the entries are >> pointing to real files in the file system. >> >> That is why I am at a loss for this. >> >> I have

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander Spitzer wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Thanks for your reply. I've had no disk space left errors before while > building a heavy package (glibc or gcc). This was after much activity so I > believe it was due to the USB drive that the LFS is on over heating. After > a break everything was normal. >

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: >> IBM 7090/7094. Fall 1965. Punched cards. Fortran II. Been there, >> done that. > > ;-) > > IBM 1620 for me. I did use that in 1966. Mass storage was punched cards. Did you ever manually punch a binary program on cards? We did as an exercise. -- Bruce -- http://

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:51:09PM -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Thanks for your reply. I've had no disk space left errors before while > building a heavy package (glibc or gcc). This was after much activity so I > believe it was due to the USB drive that the LFS is on over heatin

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Armin K.
On 01/02/2013 04:58 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > Yes I have checked all of those as well as the *.gir files. > The pkg-config files are there and appear correct, as in the entries are > pointing to real files in the file system. > > That is why I am at a loss for this. > > I have looked at some other t

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hi Matt, Thanks for your reply. I've had no disk space left errors before while building a heavy package (glibc or gcc). This was after much activity so I believe it was due to the USB drive that the LFS is on over heating. After a break everything was normal. This time however, there are no such

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Baho Utot
On 01/02/2013 10:50 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:58:52AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: >> I am getting this error when trying to build seamonkey >> >> >> checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 >> gdk-x11-2.0... >> configure: error: Library requireme

Re: [blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:58:52AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > I am getting this error when trying to build seamonkey > > > checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 > gdk-x11-2.0... > configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 > gtk+-unix-print-2.0

[blfs-support] SeaMonkey Build failure

2013-01-02 Thread Baho Utot
I am getting this error when trying to build seamonkey checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gdk-x11-2.0... configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gdk-x11-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CO

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.5-3 Errors

2013-01-02 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 20:25:49 Simon Geard wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 23:11 -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > > IBM 7090/7094. Fall 1965. Punched cards. Fortran II. Been there, > > > done that. > > > > ;-) > > > > IBM 1620 for me. > > > > They may call us old dinosaurs, but T. rex was

Re: [blfs-support] qt5 question

2013-01-02 Thread Armin K.
On 01/02/2013 11:24 AM, lux-integ wrote: > has anyone tried building qt5 and if so what is the recipe and result? > Build procedure is pretty much the same as for Qt4. I've noticed that you need all of xcb-util-* packages available if you want to use system xcb to build Qt5 though. xcb-util-ima

[blfs-support] qt5 question

2013-01-02 Thread lux-integ
has anyone tried building qt5 and if so what is the recipe and result? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:22:14 -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: > The configure command runs with no errors. Running the make command > however, gives the error no targets stop. Examining the makefile reveals > that it is empty! I'd expect it to have given a slew of errors if this really was the pro

[blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hello all, I've been installing a few of the packages from the BLFS book to my lfs system. I've successfully installed python, a slew of networking packages, and others. Now, I want to install links and I read that it is a good idea to install both libpng and svgalib. After installing svgalib (whi