Re: [blfs-support] Building X with GCC-4.8.0 on a x86_64 machine

2013-04-16 Thread William Harrington
On Apr 16, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: With LFS-SVN-20130403, I got the same errors with luit and xmodmap. Actually, they are warnings treated as errors. I added --disable- selective-werror to the configure switches, and could build them. Maybe we could use that until upstream

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Baho Utot
On 04/16/2013 11:40 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:33:41PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:57:21AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> For linux, the .la files are just not needed. They will be used if >>> present, but the only problem I've ever had was when so

Re: [blfs-support] Building X with GCC-4.8.0 on a x86_64 machine

2013-04-16 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 02/04/2013 19:50, NP a écrit : > Hi, > > Tried to build X on a brand new LFS SVN-20130329 base > (Linux-3.8.4/GCC-4.8.0) with x86_64 architecture. > > Got build errors with 2 packages in the Xorg applications : > - luit-1.1.1 > - xmodmap-0.7.0 > > In both cases the reported error was "implic

Re: [blfs-support] blfs networking

2013-04-16 Thread lux-integ
On Tuesday 16 April 2013 19:57:24 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Whether to use ipv4 or ipv6 really depends on the ISP. Generally an > office only needs one address and then uses NAT (network address > translation) internally. NAT multiplexes a single address into many. > Any office can use private IP a

Re: [blfs-support] Autofs problem on LFS7.2

2013-04-16 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
> - Original Message - > From: lf...@cruziero.com > Sent: 04/02/13 10:41 PM > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Autofs problem on LFS7.2 > > > Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:19:44 -0400 > > From: "Cliff McDiarmid" > > To: "akhiezer" , > > "BLFS Support List" > > > > Subject:

Re: [blfs-support] blfs networking

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: > Greetings > > I caught the linux bug in 1999. and I have been a fan of LFS/CLFS/BLFS for at > least a decade. From my early days of linux I have been hearing about ipv6. > But it appears not many people are using it (STILL). AND there are business > interests who have inv

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:33:56PM -0300, Fernando wrote: > > Just to justify previous message, I am curious if it is a notebook, > desktop (both could be fast machines), phone (could not be, it would not > be a "faster machine"), because I have been wondering if linux could be > installed in an o

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:02:25PM -0300, Fernando wrote: > Em 16-04-2013 12:33, Ken Moffat escreveu: > > ... > > > The first build was on my phonon, which is supposedly a faster > > machine (SBU times now suggest otherwise, at least with ondemand > > cpufreq). > > I have no idea what "phonon"

[blfs-support] blfs networking

2013-04-16 Thread lux-integ
Greetings I caught the linux bug in 1999. and I have been a fan of LFS/CLFS/BLFS for at least a decade. From my early days of linux I have been hearing about ipv6. But it appears not many people are using it (STILL). AND there are business interests who have invested in the moribund-ip

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 16/04/2013 13:47, LM a écrit : > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > LFS itself took about 3 hours. > > That is very impressive. Was experimenting with a build of just gcc > over the weekend and that took 4 hours by itself. Didn't try the -j > option. Some of the systems I've tried it on just locked up

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Fernando
Em 16-04-2013 13:02, Fernando escreveu: > Em 16-04-2013 12:33, Ken Moffat escreveu: > > ... > >> The first build was on my phonon, which is supposedly a faster >> machine (SBU times now suggest otherwise, at least with ondemand >> cpufreq). > > I have no idea what "phonon" means, here. Know abo

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:33:41PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:57:21AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> >>> For linux, the .la files are just not needed. They will be used if >>> present, but the only problem I've ever had was when some .la files are >>>

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Fernando
Em 16-04-2013 12:33, Ken Moffat escreveu: ... > The first build was on my phonon, which is supposedly a faster > machine (SBU times now suggest otherwise, at least with ondemand > cpufreq). I have no idea what "phonon" means, here. Know about it in linux and in physics. -- []s, Fernando --

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:40:57PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Retry, that didn't make sense - > Also, it turns out I'm only doing that for libtool archives in /usr > (I based the process on what I do for static libs). It turns out > I've still got *many* in directories below /usr/lib. > I'm on

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando wrote: > Em 16-04-2013 11:57, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > > ... > >> For linux, the .la files are just not needed. They will be used if >> present, but the only problem I've ever had was when some .la files are >> present and dependent files are deleted. The solution has always been >> rm /u

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:33:41PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:57:21AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > For linux, the .la files are just not needed. They will be used if > > present, but the only problem I've ever had was when some .la files are > > present and depen

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:57:21AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > For linux, the .la files are just not needed. They will be used if > present, but the only problem I've ever had was when some .la files are > present and dependent files are deleted. The solution has always been > rm /usr/lib/*

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Fernando
Em 16-04-2013 11:57, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: ... > For linux, the .la files are just not needed. They will be used if > present, but the only problem I've ever had was when some .la files are > present and dependent files are deleted. The solution has always been > rm /usr/lib/*.la I have nev

Re: [blfs-support] mupdf (was Re: My current desktop packages)

2013-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:13:42PM +0800, Iru Cai wrote: > > I'm glad to see a mupdf user in the BLFS Support List. I've tried to > install mupdf in my LFS system before, but I failed due to dependencies. So > I hope it can be written in BLFS book. What was your problem ? I've just built a DEST

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
LM wrote: > I also found out that Debian and some other distributions eliminate the .la > files before installing and I've been making a habit of doing that. I'm > trying to avoid hard-coded locations of files whenever possible and the .la > files have a lot of them. Am trying to keep the hard-c

Re: [blfs-support] mupdf (was Re: My current desktop packages)

2013-04-16 Thread Iru Cai
2013/4/16 LM > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:00 AM, William Tracy wrote: > >> >> This is new and interesting to me. How does mupdf stack up against xpdf? > > > I really haven't done any timing tests. However, I've read that mupdf was > designed by some of the ghostscript developers to be more effici

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:47 PM, LM wrote: > Is there an equivalent for passing include paths (CFLAGS) and libraries > (LIBS, LDFLAGS) > or do those environment variable settings work with cmake too? There are CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH for include and library paths. Also, CMAKE_C_

[blfs-support] mupdf (was Re: My current desktop packages)

2013-04-16 Thread LM
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:00 AM, William Tracy wrote: > > This is new and interesting to me. How does mupdf stack up against xpdf? I really haven't done any timing tests. However, I've read that mupdf was designed by some of the ghostscript developers to be more efficient than poppler (poppler

Re: [blfs-support] My current desktop packages

2013-04-16 Thread LM
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >Passing parameters with -Dsome_long_name is a little cumbersome Is there an equivalent for passing include paths (CFLAGS) and libraries (LIBS, LDFLAGS) or do those environment variable settings work with cmake too? >Also, I bet you'd find autotools equally loathsome if you did