Re: OpenOffice compilation woes, x86_64

2006-02-09 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
I'm currently stuck in this place. Yes, I know that this gcc is not supported. This is also the 2.0.1-sourceball. But can anybody explain this error message for me? That would be great, thanks, as I don't really have any clue how to tweak/trick/force compilation past this point... As far as I can

OpenOffice compilation woes, x86_64

2006-02-05 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
I have looked through all OpenOffice-threads I could find, but none seem to have got stuck at exactly the same place as I, so here goes: gcc 3.4.4, x86_64 multilib system, most stuff is fairly up to date, I'm trying to compile OO 2.0.0 following the development BLFS. I have added '--disable-cups

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Matthew Burgess wrote: Well, kind of! It's pretty subtle in the book, but we do actually create /dev/null and /dev/console devices on disk so that booting into single user mode will work. During a normal boot, though, a tmpfs will be mounted at /dev with the apparent effect of "overwriting"

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-15 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Just a long shot here, maybe totally unrelated to what you see, but I remember getting all sorts of trouble with /dev/null and other devices when trying to upgrade udev. Ended up reverting back to the udev version used by the book my system was built after... J.O. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: Mass storage devices, hotplug & udev

2005-07-31 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Shane Shields wrote: For cameras you might want to look at gphoto. It's probably dependent on the camera make/model, but I am pretty sure e.g. Canon powershots simply will not be accessible via usb_storage. I struggled with this some time ago and ended up using gphoto2. (dependencies: gphoto2-

Re: questions about "locale"

2005-07-30 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Ken Moffat wrote: My guess is that you've used a different combination of options, or standard options in an unexpected context (x86_64) and X isn't smart enough to realise where it put things. To make things even worse, at some stage I decided to add a "/local/" to all things I compiled/inst

questions about "locale"

2005-07-29 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
I have been lucky enough to have everything to do with local characters "just work" for many a year... But now I find myself having to look into this "locale-thing". My emacs will display special Norwegian characters in X for older files. But it simply ignores keypresses on the keys with these ch

Re: firefox, mozilla, thunderbird segfault

2005-07-24 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Christopher Beppler wrote: Which LFS-Version do you use? I used http://documents.jg555.com/cross-lfs/x86_64/ (which I understand is a somewhat unofficial cross-build book) plus whatever BLFS stuff I needed from the development book. I guess this is not exactly the "recommended" course of action

Re: firefox, mozilla, thunderbird segfault

2005-07-24 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Ken Moffat wrote: /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 159: 5403 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} ... I see your machine is called opteron - is this a 64-bit, multilib, or 32-bit system ? I've just had the exact same symptoms, don't know if the problem was the same as yours

Re: emacs and x86_64

2005-07-20 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Thanks for the hints... I think I will look for the Gentoo patch Thomas suggested first, seems the easier way out, if it works... J.O. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

emacs and x86_64

2005-07-20 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Not being a Vim-man, I'm anxious to get Emacs up and running. However, I get ... checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' systems. when running the ./configure. (Have tried lots of different --host, --ta

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-07-17 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Andrew Benton wrote: ... Keeping Firefox in your home folder solves the problem of running it once as root as you have write permissions in your home folder. Also, if it all goes wrong just delete it. You haven't installed anything system side so there's no mess to clean up. This script should

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-07-17 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Andrew Benton wrote: No, it's not a mandatory dependency, they've included the cairo code in the mozilla source. It works well, but there's not a lot of svg out there on the web. As it happens, I'm involved in the development of an svg-based system. I would like to get my hands dirty on the de

Re: video4linux

2005-07-02 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Andrew Benton wrote: video4linux mailing list https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list A lot of the traffic there is technical stuff about kernel patches, but there are plenty of nice people who are willing to help with more basic problems. Also, the ivtv forum http://www.shsp

video4linux

2005-07-02 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Framegrabber software and such is not in the BLFS, as far as I know, but I'm really stomped regarding this one, so here goes... I've successfully run a very old Miro-something-bttv-based tv/grabber- card for many years, which I now replaced with a WinTV PVR150 which is supposed to grab more and f

Re: BLFS NewBie

2005-05-21 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Chakkaradeep C C wrote: hi friendz, thanks for the replies..i didnt expect so much repliesam very happy that i have people around me to help. well well...everybdy seems to be with KDE/GNOME.i personally feel that my system should be fast and not resource hungry..so i think i A

Re: Favoured email programs please

2005-05-04 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Andrew Benton wrote: Set Firefox as the default browser in Gnome (it should do this automatically the first time you run it). Run gnome-default-applications-properties and set the default web browser Thanks for the tip, but is it possible to do this without Gnome? (Not using it, haven't compiled

Re: Favoured email programs please

2005-05-03 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Jason Gurtz wrote: but I could see it being real nice now. Thunderbird has actually treated me quite well now for a few years (been using it since 0.3 something, Speeking of Thunderbird... I'm just trying it out, but how on earth do I get it to start firefox (or another browser) when I click on a

XFree86 4.5.0 and gcc 4.0.0

2005-04-24 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Using 'ps' and looking at the 'time' field, I recognized that most cputime on my machine is spent in X and Mozilla (of the code I have access to source to, that is) so I want to rebuild these with gcc 4.0.0 with some extra optimization. So much for the background. Trying to compile XFree86 4.5.0 fi

Re: gcc 4.0?

2005-04-16 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Thanks for the feedback folks. I backed everything up, made install, and verified that nothing was done outside of the "prefix-directory" specified. And the darnedest thing seems to actually work fine! In my code, I only had to fix some "specialized template stuff" (guess C++ or g++'s level of slop

Re: gv

2005-03-31 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Heinke Frerichs wrote: ... thanks, that did the trick! (Plus the installing of xaw3d...) J.O. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page