Re: LFS/BLFS

2007-02-12 Thread Henry christenson
On 2/12/07, BLFS User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:26 +0530, jignesh gangani wrote: > >I have just one question. What style of package management > > system did you use? (ie. symlink style or preloaded library style or > > database style) and What software did y

Re: Dbus

2006-10-02 Thread Henry christenson
Ahh the reason i ask is cause the dbus site says they were removed from the main install On 10/2/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/2/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh yes i see now thank you. I really wish the dev version would go > fina

Re: Dbus

2006-10-02 Thread Henry christenson
Ahh yes i see now thank you. I really wish the dev version would go final but im sure your still working on it. Also does it include how to install the glib bindings ? On 10/2/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:20 -0700, Henry christenson wrote: &g

Dbus

2006-10-01 Thread Henry christenson
Severe issues with xfce4.4RC1 and dbus not being in LFS or BLFS ive never herd of dbus untill i needed dbus-glib-1. Now i wish i never have. For one in order to install dbus-glib-1 you need to install dbus and then get it configured some how. the dbus web page at xfreedesktop.org gives little

firefox build wierdness

2006-06-15 Thread Henry christenson
I figured out what was causing my issue. It was the \ in the command sequence. I removed them and it built properly. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

mozilla / firefox configure oddity

2006-06-14 Thread Henry christenson
I have copied and pasted the commands from the current BLFS book online as well as the one i have downloaded and im getting a strange configure message. "configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time" Does anyone know why this is doing this. Forgive me for not posti

Re: Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
> Hey do you know what package has ifconfig in it ? Net-tools. Another way you can find installed programs in the blfs book is to go to this page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/longindex.html And search for ifconfig. (Watch out, the page is a monster if you have a slow connect

Re: Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
> Why does BLFS install Inetutils again ? > > Its installed in the LFS book. Only the clients are installed in LFS. BLFS provides instructions to install the servers as well. -- Randy Ahh yes i see now BLFS doesent pass the --disable-servers option but does mention it in the command expl

Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
I just got a simple question not sure if its sutible for support but here it is. Why does BLFS install Inetutils again ? Its installed in the LFS book. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above infor

Re: Hello Please help

2006-05-08 Thread Henry christenson
I posted 25 lines of text and this is not good for you ? Im confused. I snip all the stuff out and people complain. I snip most of it out and people complain its too long. Please figure out what you want. thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.l

Re: Hello Please help

2006-05-08 Thread Henry christenson
On 5/8/06, Jeremy Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: himanshu pahuja wrote: > Hello All, > > I have almost completed constructing BLFS Ver 6.1 , now I am looking to > burn the constructed system in CD so that I can use it > as a distribution on my different PCs . http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/b

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-06 Thread Henry christenson
Ok started over and now getting another compile error in nautilus. I was able to compile nautilus before with 2.10 but 2.14 just refuses to compile. here is the output. make[2]: Entering directory `/home/exvor/unpacked/nautilus-2.14.1/src' /opt/gnome-2.14/bin/orbit-idl-2 -I /opt/gnome-2.14/share/

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-06 Thread Henry christenson
I'm guessing if you have don't have the new ORBit2, there'll be at least a handful of things to recompile that depend on it. Off the top of my head, libbonobo, GConf and gnome-vfs. Those are all pretty critical to gnome. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: h

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-06 Thread Henry christenson
> cc1: note: obsolete option -I- used, please use -iquote instead > :8:63: error: Looks like it's trying to use orbit-idl-2 2.12.2. What version of ORBit2 are you using? You probably need a 2.14 version. I've got 2.14.0 here. Haven't checked for a new version yet. -- Dan Sorry Gmail does t

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-06 Thread Henry christenson
On 5/4/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oops i forgot to mention that i was using CLFS thats using gcc 4x. > current blfs version is 2.10. Do you mean gcc-4.1 (and glibc-2.4)? If you have a pure64 set

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
On 5/4/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henry christenson wrote these words on 05/04/06 20:56 CST: > > > oops i forgot to mention that i was using CLFS thats using gcc 4x. > > current

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
On 5/4/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Henry christenson wrote these words on 05/04/06 20:56 CST: > oops i forgot to mention that i was using CLFS thats using gcc 4x. > current blfs version is 2.10. Sigh. The above is meaningless. I was trying to be helpful. Yo

Re: nas-1.7 on amd64 fixed ...

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
Glad to hear you fixed the problem. Just for clarity, though, the above would depend on how you installed X. On a multilib system, it may actually be in lib64. Actually oddly enough on a pure64 u still have a lib and lib64 with most of the important stuff in lib64 not lib Or mabye i installe

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
On 5/4/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Henry christenson wrote these words on 05/04/06 20:33 CST: > One im not complaining just pointing out something incase somone else > goes though all the trouble. > > if you follow the current lfs you probably will have no lu

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
On 5/1/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: this is a long over due reply but the problem was solved in the end it was user error=/ i first had a syntax error in the /etc/group file which resulted in my user not being properly added to the audio group this once corrected removed a great d

Re: cpu frequency scaling

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
On 5/2/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:28:35PM +, Warren Wilder wrote: > I have a question about scaling the frequency of the cpu clock cycle. > > This isn't in the book, but I can't find much info on it otherwise. > *cough* I did write a hint about it, bu

Re: GNOME 2.12.2 wierd question dialog ...

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
> >I had the same problem, here is what I found out: >The gnome-mixer-applet is missing ! >Thats why gnome-panel (or gnome-menu - don't know for sure) is showing >an error-dialog, which is broken... > >There are several ways to fix this: >1. Install the missing applet ( sounds easy, but I didn't m

gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-04 Thread Henry christenson
One im not complaining just pointing out something incase somone else goes though all the trouble. if you follow the current lfs you probably will have no luck getting gnome working. with gcc4 you need a whole slew of patchs and use newer packages from gnome. one example is control center. It r

Re: libglade

2006-04-29 Thread Henry christenson
Ive been in GTK app hell for days now :( Think im starting to find my way tho. On 4/29/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LOL disregard its under general libraries not gnome. You sir are a sneeky one :P sorry for the post. On 4/29/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: libglade

2006-04-29 Thread Henry christenson
LOL disregard its under general libraries not gnome. You sir are a sneeky one :P sorry for the post. On 4/29/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Libglade is not listed anywhere else but in the 1.4 stuff. Ive looked though all of the things listed in the book for gnome and f

Re: libglade

2006-04-29 Thread Henry christenson
Libglade is not listed anywhere else but in the 1.4 stuff. Ive looked though all of the things listed in the book for gnome and fail to see the updated one listed. Do you have it combined with another package or possibly its been renamed to something else ? I'm not quite sure why I'm responding

libglade

2006-04-29 Thread Henry christenson
You do relize that the version of libglade in the blfs book is from september 2001 right? there up to like version 2.01 now ! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: SPAM Problem

2006-04-18 Thread Henry christenson
> > > We have a problem with SPAM on the BLFS lists. I am proposing that we > > 'close' the lists to non-subscribed members. The main issue is that > > list members who post from multiple email accounts will have to > > subscribe for each account. > > > > Non-member email would go to /dev/null W

Re: Xorg7.0 (Xorg.conf confusion)

2006-04-14 Thread Henry christenson
> the documentation listing supported cards and features needs a major > facelift however if you view the xorg7 change log you will see ATI got some > major work done to it even more so for the radeon series =) > > _ > Express yoursel

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 and HLFS-SVN-20060220 Segmentation Fault

2006-04-09 Thread Henry christenson
> Just FYI for everyone. No GCC-4 patch is required for Firefox 1.5.x. > The only patch you should need is an NSS patch if you use system > installed NSS/NSPR. > > -- > Randy > > rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] > [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [L

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 and HLFS-SVN-20060220 Segmentation Fault

2006-04-09 Thread Henry christenson
On 4/9/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tor Olav Stava wrote these words on 04/09/06 13:54 CST: > > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> Firefox runs like a champ. I believe the issue you quote above, Dan, > >> is related to X-org 6.9/7.0. Tor said he too has 6.8.2 installed. > >> > > Have you

Re: Xorg7.0 (Xorg.conf confusion)

2006-04-09 Thread Henry christenson
On 4/1/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folling the instrctions set forth in the current BLFS svn in the Xorg7.0 > section: > > the install went wonderfully all seems to be working properly out the gate > (including my DRM eg no errors > I run the test X -config ~/xorg.conf.new > > and

Re: GTK+-2.8.16 configure error

2006-04-07 Thread Henry christenson
> On 4/7/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Normally, I would suggest that you should export PKG_CONFIG_PATH so > > that it includes the directory where the .pc files from these packages > > are installed. The only directory pkgconfig knows about automatically > > is /usr/lib/pkgco

Re: Links will hard crash the on exit if ran in graphics mode

2006-04-03 Thread Henry christenson
Yes radeon FB driver in the kernel is Unstable as can be. I have brought this up to the kernel devs more then once. They tried fixing it but still causes issues. Most notably will lock the entire system up on some chips. I had this issues using the radeon FB and X11's open source radeon driver

Re: Creating Backups vs cp to media and Other Things

2006-04-03 Thread Henry christenson
Yea seperating Data and OS is a must when doing backups. Makes the OS one faster too :P. Usually i have my home and /usr/local on diffrent parttions and have 3 backups. One for data one for user instaled programs and one for base OS. Usually i make a Basic backup of the LFS system before i mov

Re: (no subject)

2006-04-02 Thread Henry christenson
Wasent that what I sugested 4 days ago :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Glib-1.2.10

2006-03-29 Thread Henry christenson
On 3/29/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Henry christenson wrote: > > > > > after applying the patch to glib-1.2.10 > > ./configure --prefix=/usr > > > > checking host system type... Invalid configureation > > &#x

Re: Glib-1.2.10

2006-03-29 Thread Henry christenson
ot some information online that says that some packages have issues with this host name. x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu it says to add that in the config.guess somewhere but im not sure where i would add this or what to use as a --host= option for configure. On 3/29/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-29 Thread Henry christenson
A simple grammer change would reslove the issue. here is how it appears in the book. Required Patch (if compiled using GCC-3.4.x) This tells readers If you are compileing with any varient of gcc 3.4 you need this patch. all that would need to be done to reslove this from being posted again is.

Glib-1.2.10

2006-03-29 Thread Henry christenson
Problem in the configure. Getting ltconfig errors. Im using CLFS-pure64 and it says that my machine type is not found. X86_64-unknown Any ideas ? Im thinking that things are gonna need to be added to BLFS when using CLFS or pure 64 bit systems. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Again cups :-(

2005-06-17 Thread Henry christenson
Are you using cups here for a local printer or a remote >?? On 6/12/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: > > cups error_log ( set to debug ) does not show any errors. Cups is of course > > running. I found one "google" to this issue, but the advice was to check

Re: ISA Bus Problems

2005-06-11 Thread Henry christenson
On 6/11/05, Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my sins, I repair hardware for a (meagre) living, and my main > instrument is a pinpoint machine which has an industrial pc card running > specialised software and driving a set of ISA cards (I have one > controller card, 3 driver boards,

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
If you manually load the driver with modprobe does it give you the same issue with eth0 not found ? when doing a ifconfig eth0 "Ip address" and of course replace "ip address" with a valid address like 192.168.0.88 or something :) On 6/10/05, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know w