Re: [blfs-support] How to decide which scurity packages to install?

2012-07-09 Thread Guy Dalziel
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Re: teTeX glibc conflict and patch

2010-08-05 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:43:11PM +1000, Timothy Rice wrote: > I am having a problem trying to install teTeX due to a conflict with > glibc. This has been dealt with before. A patch was presented: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2009-August/019794.html > > > However, when

Re: Trying to configure fluxbox

2010-03-30 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:53:11PM -0700, brown wrap wrote: > OK, I didn't understand the error, so with your explanation, I added: > > ./configure --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --prefix=/usr Have you added /usr/X11/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig? pgpZvSu1ceS35.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: xorg-glxgears

2010-03-22 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:22:23AM +0100, Michael de Lang wrote: > I assume you're using fglrx? Because yes, fglrx has supported the 4xxx > series a lot longer than the open source driver has. But since Baho > indicated that he was using the open source driver, I was sharing my > experiences with i

Re: BLFS-6.3 / LFS-6.4 Problem in iptables-1.3.8 package, wrong struct contents

2009-12-18 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:48:14PM +0100, Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel wrote: > I'll have a look at the newer version 1.4.6 Bruce suggested. But to > contribute to blfs-dev, should I build it on LFS 6.4 or rather 6.5? BLFS-dev is currently building on top of LFS 6.5. While we do say to build dev if

Re: man-db-2.5.5 never installed

2009-12-17 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:12:49PM +, akhiezer wrote: > Would it be useful to also wrap the '<#paper_size#>' in a css (or > similar) style, so that it can readily be made to stand out more, > visually? As has been said before LFS is an educational book: if someone makes the mistake of not chan

Re: gpm help

2009-12-10 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:57:43PM -0500, stosss wrote: > Mine is set up the same as yours. I tried switching from > /dev/input/mice to /dev/mouse and it worked this time. I don't know > why it didn't the other time. It doesn't really matter now because it > works. Please trim the quoted text, it'

Re: lynx with SSL

2009-12-08 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:57:46PM -0500, Sean Porterfield wrote: > Any hints on how to get this working? I've tried --with-ssl and > --with-tls but I still get "Alert!: This client does not contain support > for HTTPS URLs." I've just tested Lynx again and SSL appears to be working fine. Can you

Re: the commands "pathappend, pathremove, pathprepend, ls, cat" aren't found after creating the file /etc/profile [developed BLFS-6.4-book / Ch. 3]

2009-10-22 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:50:16PM +0200, Marco Kluth wrote: > I'm trying to install the BLFS-6.4-book (under development) p.s., the current development version in SVN is 6.5, we skipped a version. pgp5PONMvz5L2.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs

Re: the commands "pathappend, pathremove, pathprepend, ls, cat" aren't found after creating the file /etc/profile [developed BLFS-6.4-book / Ch. 3]

2009-10-22 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:50:16PM +0200, Marco Kluth wrote: > I'm trying to install the BLFS-6.4-book (under development) on my fresh > installed LFS-6.5-computer hardly. Just to mention it in front: I didn't > recognized any big problems while the LFS-6.5-installation! But after typing > the s

Re: Unable to bring up X windows

2009-10-21 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0600, Jim McConville wrote: > Guy, > I have attempted to bring up the X window system using the command: > "startx file" > for all of the attached files. The results are the same as indicated above. startx doesn't take an argument, you need to put your values i

Re: Unable to bring up X windows

2009-10-21 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21:35PM -0600, Jim McConville wrote: > I have compiled the X Window system in accordance with the latest BLFS svn > and > have succesfully executed the command: "X -retro -config ~/xorg.conf" . > > When executing "startx .xinitrc" I get the typical black screen, foll

Re: blfssvn-20090928 Problems installing Xorg 7.4

2009-10-19 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:56:26AM -0700, ga ho wrote: > All I get when running X -config ~/xorg.conf.new is a black screen. > There are no errors in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. A black screen is now the default colour of the root window. I don't know who's idea it was, but it even caught me out

Re: xulrunner and LFS6.5

2009-08-30 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:58:11PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > That would work, but I have the feeling that the #elif was put in there > on purpose to fail if the platform was not known. The next line has > '#error Oops, you need platform-specific code here'. No, a statement such as this shoul

Re: xulrunner and LFS6.5

2009-08-29 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 02:27:45PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > I have a problem with building xulrunner after upgrading to LFS 6.5 with > the following error: > /sources/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:1462:6: error: #elif with > no expression Change the #elif to #else and that should fix

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 07:15:13AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Yes, I can reproduce it at will here. Stock LFS-6.5-rc2 and no compiler > flags set > in my environment: It's odd that I'm not experiencing the same problems that everyone else seems to be. Do you think that there could be a prob

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:57:50AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > That missing [0] reference is: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@vger.kernel.org/ Ah, I've already looked through that, a project mailing list is usually the first place I look. Since it compiles for me, there doesn't appear to

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:45:38AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > This is an upstream bug, and as such should be reported there. Do you have a URL for the ticket? pgpUU93Y1y0iZ.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 07:41:01AM -0400, William Immendorf wrote: > When I was trying to build Dash, I got these messages: > > if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -include ../config.h -DBSD=1 > -DSHELL -DIFS_BROKEN -Wall -g -O2 -MT eval.o -MD -MP -MF > ".deps/eval.Tpo" -c -o eval.o eval.c; \ >

Re: CDRTools fails to compile

2009-08-15 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 05:46:57AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > I can reproduce this on a clean LFS-6.5-rc2 build. It looks as it the > patch isn't enough to handle the getline, getdelim and fexecve functions in > newer Glibc's. The attached patch lets things build for me. Hmm.. that's odd. I

Re: CDRTools fails to compile

2009-08-15 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 07:30:02PM -0700, Nathan Coulson wrote: > I do have glibc 2.10.1, I'll rebuild a new LFS system w/ gcc 4.4.1 > instead of 4.4.0. Can anyone replicate this problem under an LFS 6.5 system? If there is a problem here then it should be reproducible. Also, please reply below

Re: CDRTools fails to compile

2009-08-13 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 07:40:24PM -0700, Nathan Coulson wrote: > I am having the following problems when compiling cdrtools with the latest > book > make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/raid5/book/blfs/38/cdrtools-2.01/libschily' > ==> COMPILING "OBJ/x86_64-linux-cc/fexec.o" > In file included

Re: MPlayer compile error - solved

2009-08-11 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:31:31PM +0530, Randhir Phagura wrote: > MPlayer package rc1 is more than a year old. rc2 installs flawlwssly. I assume you're talking about the development book. If so, BLFS's stance on the matter is this: don't use rc2. When we update MPlayer we plan to use a recent sna

Re: Firefox high latency and crashes

2009-08-09 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 02:49:03AM +0200, Pierre Mege wrote: > 1- IP addresses resolution: achieved but with a huge latency I would try a different DNS server, you can set these in /etc/resolv.conf. Simply comment out the ones you currently have and then put the new values in. You should be able