Re: [blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:27:14AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > The docs, as noted, unzip as a help/ directory and it looks for > that in /usr/share. Hit the full-stop too soon there. It looks in /usr/share/audacity/. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce

Re: [blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:48:36PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > Are there any specific dependencies for Audacity that aren't generic > (Generic being GTK or QT)? I use it all the time on my Windows PC but now > that I know it exists for Linux I am interested on trying it on my LFS box. > > Doug

Re: [blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:45:19PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Anybody here using audacity ? If so, do you have any idea what the > secret is for making the local help show up, please ? > > I've downloaded audacity-manual-2.0.5.zip and installed it (help/ > directory) in

[blfs-support] Audacity, and its help.

2014-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
Anybody here using audacity ? If so, do you have any idea what the secret is for making the local help show up, please ? I've downloaded audacity-manual-2.0.5.zip and installed it (help/ directory) in /usr/share/audacity, but firing up the program still fails to open it. I suspect that I maybe

Re: [blfs-support] rpcbind-0.2.1 build fails

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:35:59AM +1000, Ian Macdonald wrote: > Ken, > > That seems to be the problem. My LFS build is 7.4 and the glibc-2.18 configure > options did not include --enable-obsolete-rpc (but did copy the headers to > /usr/include). > I'm guessing that means libtirpc installs becau

Re: [blfs-support] rpcbind-0.2.1 build fails

2014-04-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 06:22:54AM +1000, Ian Macdonald wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build rpcbind-0.2.1 from the current book but make fails > with undefined references to > key_encryptsessions_pk > key_gendes > cbc_crypt > ecb_crypt > getnetname > getpublic

Re: [blfs-support] libreoffice-4.2.2, java, jdbc and postgresql questions

2014-04-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 03:20:37PM +0100, lux-integ wrote: > > I noticed the above blfs recipe has these switches > > --disable-postgresql-sdbc \ > --without-java > From memory, postgresql and java are among the default options. Most BLFS users probably don't build either of them, or want t

Re: [blfs-support] Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:55:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:41:16AM +0100, lux-integ wrote: > > > > openssl is a package one generally installs early in the > > distribution-build > > process. To upgrade to say openssl-1.0.1g >

Re: [blfs-support] Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:41:16AM +0100, lux-integ wrote: > > openssl is a package one generally installs early in the distribution-build > process. To upgrade to say openssl-1.0.1g > --(a) does one need to yank out the old say openssl-1.0.1 and install the > new > 1,0,1g and if so wou

Re: [blfs-support] xine-ui-0.99.7 build failure

2014-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 07/04/2014 22:24, Robin a écrit : > > On 7 April 2014 19:46, Robin wrote: > >> ^ > >> network.c: In function ‘main’: > >> network.c:1258:39: error: ‘CPPFunction’ undeclared (first use in this > >> function) > >>rl_attempt

Re: [blfs-support] Graphite2-1.2.4 make check no target check

2014-04-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:02:21PM +0100, Robin wrote: > make test works > > Thanks > ISTR someone (probably Fernando, or else Pierre) fixed this in the last couple of weeks in the -svn book. Mea culpa. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:21:34AM -0500, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > This is a stretch, but I should mention I compiled BLFS/X with an older > kernel than I used in compiling LFS. I found I booted to a blank screen > after compiling LFS with the 3.13.13 kernel so I reverted to my LFS/BL

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:37:40AM -0500, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > I should mention I can't even bring up an xterm window if I start X as a > non-root user. The window flashes briefly and disappears. Also, while > using a root user xterm, I can't "source SomeScript.sh" but can > "./S

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:15:05PM -0500, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > My BLFS 7.5 xterm displays a “sh-4.2#” prompt. My xterm prompt in BLFS > 7.4 is “/ >” and “PS1=”\w > “ is in my BLFS 7.5 /etc/bashrc file. In > addition to the wrong prompt, I can't “source” scripts, and receive > “fil

Re: [blfs-support] Building Poppler

2014-03-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 01:06:34PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > Meanwhile, I just found that "CMake build system" was introduced in > 2008, so, I am wondering why devs in the book kept considering only > autotools build. I've seen a comment about problems with glib-side > developers of p

Re: [blfs-support] NPAPI-SDK-0.27.2

2014-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:20:04PM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > Hello, > > With the npapi sdk there is only three .h files and an index.html page > included in the unpacked archive. > > > The instructions state to run configure and make install. > > I have created the directo

Re: [blfs-support] Not able to start the Xorg.

2014-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:08:56AM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > > Hello, > > There is one more driver to try: > > Xorg Fbdev Driver-0.4.4 > > This one is meant to be if all else fails it should start the server > unless you have not installed ALL of the software excluding the

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea again!!!!!

2014-03-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:30:01PM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > > Em 23-03-2014 06:15, m...@pc-networking-services.com escreveu: > >>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 01:01:18PM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com > >>> wrote: > >> When people are TESTING the versions of the book bef

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea again!!!!!

2014-03-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 01:01:18PM +1300, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > Hello, > > Well this is ridiculous. I have reached the point after a few days of > installing the systemd 7.5 version of LFS, and going through the > configuration of quite a number of other packages following BLFS

Re: [blfs-support] Solution for twm complaining about lacking fonts

2014-03-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:24:26PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When we install xorg following the BLFS_7.5 stable book, when you first > > start x using the startx command, it will complain bitterly about the ISO > > fonts are lacking and it

Re: [blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:35:01 + > > Hi- > >The versions are mostly current. (I built basically the svn, and it >was within the last month.) Cairo is 1.12.16. One thing that isn't >so current is xorg; I basically bui

Re: [blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: > Hi- > >Been using LFS/BLFS as my main system for almost 8 years now, >recently did my 6th build; so thanks! This one has the "feature" >that text on-screen sometimes (infrequently) becomes garbled to the >point of i

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:59:03PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > I see that in a later mail you pointed to a patch. I _like_ patches > > (easy to see if they still apply - if in any doubt use 'git apply') > > but BLFS prefers to use s

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 10:47:01PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > On 03/07/2014 10:04 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > And looking back, we had CFLAGS=-fPIC at the end of configure in > > BLFS-7.4, but without an explanation. > > > > It fell out in r12739 when Fernan

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:37:22PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: > > Hello! > > I follow this instruction to build Cyrus SASL-2.1.26: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/cyrus-sasl.html > &

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: > Hello! > I follow this instruction to build Cyrus SASL-2.1.26: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/cyrus-sasl.html > > "make -j1" results in a link error about PIC: > > libtool: link: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC .

Re: [blfs-support] Missing icons in gnome apps

2014-02-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:33:26PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 27-02-2014 17:09, Ken Moffat escreveu: > > In testing various gnome apps for 7.5 (e.g. epiphany and evince), > > I've noticed that the icons on the application window don't appear, > > I just

[blfs-support] Missing icons in gnome apps

2014-02-27 Thread Ken Moffat
In testing various gnome apps for 7.5 (e.g. epiphany and evince), I've noticed that the icons on the application window don't appear, I just get little red 'X's on a white square. This used to work, and in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini I've got the following in '[settings]' : gtk-theme-name =

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice: NO audio on some pps files

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:18:36AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Also, please note that I was lying when I said I build LO against gstreamer-0.10 : I now see that I disable 0.10. But for my usages (no slides to play, writer and calc don't lend themselves to audio) the difference is moot. Peopl

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice: NO audio on some pps files

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:56:54PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: > Hi Ken: > > Ken: ... where do you get this watermelons.pps file ? > > I got it in the mail sometime ago. Pretty nice. About 7 MB. > Some Germans(?) painting watermelons Christmas-egg style. > If you want a copy, let me know where to

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice: NO audio on some pps files

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:58:20PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: > Hello everybody, > > libreoffice-4.2.0.4 Built per BLFS Development Book v2014-02-21 with > --disable-gstreamer-0.10 --enable-gstreamer > > gstreamer-1.2.3 (with base-, good- and bad-1.2.3) > gst-plugins-ugly-1.2.3 (main suspect, acc

Re: [blfs-support] Recommended Display Manager for BLFS

2014-02-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:55:09AM +, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > Hello, > > This is probably not the right list to report this, I realize that. > According to http://osdir.com/ml/plasma-devel/2014-01/msg00208.html and > http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-workspace.git&a=commit&h=8577abf894a661bc0700

Re: [blfs-support] iptables-1.4.21 install broken

2014-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:53:16PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > > Seems like failure in this part: > > for file in ip4tc ip6tc ipq iptc xtables > do > mv -v /usr/lib/lib${file}.so.* /lib && > ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/lib${file}.so) > /usr/lib/lib${file}.so > done > > Either your scr

[blfs-support] iptables-1.4.21 install broken

2014-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
I'm seeing the following when I try to install of 1.4.21 : libtool: install: (cd /building/iptables-1.4.21/libiptc; /bin/sh /building/iptables-1.4.21/libtool --tag CC --mode=relink gcc -Wall -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wshadow -Wstrict-proto

Re: [blfs-support] Texmaker : Pdf Viewer (embedded) display diagonal?line across page

2014-02-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:17:41AM +, Dan Shved wrote: > Magnus Larsson tele2.se> writes: > [ in case anyone is wondering, Magnus asked this on 24th January. I'll keep a chunk of his post for context ] > > > > Dear blfs-support linuxfromscratch.org > > > > Texmaker : Pdf Viewer (embedded)

Re: [blfs-support] Cups and the usblp kernel driver

2014-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:51:23PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 27-01-2014 19:58, Ken Moffat escreveu: > > > > > 1. Escputil probably only works on non-multifunction Epson stylus > > printers. > > ĸen, > > Thanks for this investigation. &g

[blfs-support] Cups and the usblp kernel driver

2014-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
I'm intending to change the cups page in the book, to remove the Note which says: | There is a conflict between the Cups libusb backend and the usblp | kernel driver. If you want to use Cups with libusb, do not enable | USB Printer support in your kernel. But since most people don't read blfs-d

Re: [blfs-support] Can not compile XULrunner

2014-01-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:17:10PM +0100, Niels Terp wrote: > > I will try to look further into this, but if you - or anybody else - happen > to know if there is a general problem with CFLAGS when compiling with RPM, I > would appreciate any input you may be able to give me ! > > Best regards >

Re: [blfs-support] CMake Compilation Errors

2014-01-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:09:25PM -0600, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > Hello, > > LFS Version: 7.3 > BLFS Version: 7.4 Stable > Brief Hardware Description: 256mb RAM, Intel Pentium III 800Mhz (Dell > Latitude C800) > > I am having issues compiling Cmake. No special environmental variables or > anythi

Re: [blfs-support] Destdir installation question

2014-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 10:12:57AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > I don't know what I_R is, but my approach is similar to Ken's, I only > use DESTDIR when checking things for the book. I got fed up with typing INSTALL_ROOT in full, and wrongl

Re: [blfs-support] Destdir installation question

2014-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:46:56PM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: > > Note that some BLFS instructions in the book needs some tweaks in order to > work proper when installing via DESTDIR. Some packages do not take care about > DESTDIR but uses INSTALL_ROOT or even do not care about DESTDIR at all. I

Re: [blfs-support] Python vs Python Modules in MesaLib and libxml2 - BLFS 2013-03-18

2013-12-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:51:42AM +, eddie james wrote: > The instructions are a tad ambiguous to a soft mind such as my own. After > google for 3 hours, I looked into the exploded libxml2 directory and saw > files related to python. I then did ./configure --help and noticed the > --with-pytho

Re: [blfs-support] JSON-C fails to build

2013-12-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:09:30PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > Thanks, Bruce. I'm so locked in on getting sound that I didn't think > about that until after I responded to Armin. First, I built and did a > DESTDIR install as me, then a DESTIR and a final install as root. Then > used chown to get

Re: [blfs-support] Trying to Decide Which Qt

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 01:10:54PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > > What, if any, functional loss will I experience by not installing Cups > right now? If I wait to build Cups will I have to rebuild Qt-5.2.0 > For qt-5 I cannot comment, and for qt-4 I've always built cups before qt. The reason fo

Re: [blfs-support] Setting Up "unix charset" in Samba Configuration File

2013-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 05:40:46PM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > How can I tell if I have "ISO-8859-1 data in the files offered by > Samba"? As I understand it, Samba is a general file server, so in > general it should handle all manner of files; hence I should use UTF-8, no? > I assume y

Re: [blfs-support] Setting Up "unix charset" in Samba Configuration File

2013-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:46:09AM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > LC_ALL=en_US locale charmap -> ISO-8859-1 > LC_ALL=en_US.iso88591 locale charmap-> ISO-8859-1 > LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 locale charmap-> UTF-8 > > So far as I understand, US English installations work with eit

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:26:24PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > I still think my suggestion of checking every key will identify if > > any of the keys are being garbled in the kernel, and therefore if > &g

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:01:00PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Your LatArCyrHeb font has two, possibly three, characters which > match a "white square". If you manage to prove that it is a kernel > video problem, can you please "loadkeys LatGrkCyr-8x16" and repe

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:43:28PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> > > This gets weirder and weirder. Most of us don't have a stock of > > different motherboards to play with, and I've no experience in thi

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > In my previous reply I included an invalid-unicode symbol, code > > U+FFFD displaying as reverse-video question mark : � : if you read > > the

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:38:12PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ? > > I've built LFS using ALFS scripts and didn't change anything regarding > f

Re: [blfs-support] Suggestions on Desktop Environment

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:26:25AM +, akhiezer wrote: > > TLDR: *if* using a Desktop Environment ('DE'), then I'd _suggest_ XFCE for <= > medium-power machines, KDE for >~ medium-power machines, and GNOME for ... > er, > I guess if you know/want GNOME. > I found kde slow on my 8GB AMD phe

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:11:00PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> > >> What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? > Neither has

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Other things to consider: > > What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? > > Using 'showkey' [ in a tty ], find the values for the Backspace and > Del keys - on a regular 102-k

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:41:26PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Alexey Orishko wrote: > > > At least LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and non-us keyboard are working file with > > Ubuntu... > > I wonder what's wrong with my LFS setup... > > utf-8 (Unicode ), iso-8859-1, is

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:46:56PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > When I try, I get "Crypt error." > > I go that yesterday when I locked an account, but it went away when I > unlocked it. I think it just means bad password, but there is an issue > there that it gives the wrong message. I su

Re: [blfs-support] Lots of problems with Firefox

2013-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 02:45:28PM -0500, Richard wrote: > > I have recently installed LFS 7.4, and I have > also installed various packages from the BLFS > book that are identified as compatible with > LFS 7.4. Umm, *everything* in BLFS should work on LFS-7.4 ! > One of the packages I installe

Re: [blfs-support] Proprietary Radeon Driver

2013-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:17:53AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to > installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip > which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to use the proprietary driver > from ATI. I'm as

Re: [blfs-support] /dev/fb0 not being created on boot

2013-11-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:33:25AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: > > I've just configured a new 3.12 kernel and now /dev/fb0 is not being > > created, despite all the necessary configurations being built into the > > kernel. This means that I can't get a decent resolution in

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:27:06PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > > I'm glad I thought of that. I'm tired of configuring kernels. Have > done eight since Friday. yuk. > Yeah, sorting out new machines is fun. > You and Bruce are going to have to buy new hardware to check out all of > this EFI s

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 06:25:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > Worked like a charm! Thanks, Ken. > > rt3290.bin to /lib/firmware with the CONFIG statements as you > indicated. I just booted into my brand-new, shiny LFS system. And from > efi no less. :) :) > Great! > There are still a coup

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:56:14AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > > I got the following messages on boot: > > Starting wpa_supplicant on the wlan0 interface > > ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00 lib_request_ firmware: Info-loading firmware file > 'rt329.bin' (could have been 3290) > ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_

Re: [blfs-support] Problems Compiling Gimp, Gegl and Babl

2013-11-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > On 11/16/2013 11:37 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > >> ... > >> babl-0.1.10 installed without a hitch, but put all of its libraries > >> and such in "babl-0.1" rather than in "babl". > > > > That is correct. G

Re: [blfs-support] Problems Compiling Gimp, Gegl and Babl

2013-11-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:36:56AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 16-11-2013 08:51, Alan Feuerbacher escreveu: > > > *===*===*===*===*===* > > babl-0.1.10 installed without a hitch, but put all of its libraries > > and such in "babl-0.1" rather than

[blfs-support] make-4.0 testing : completed

2013-11-12 Thread Ken Moffat
I've now completed my test builds of everything in BLFS using make-4.0. For the second build there is nothing related to make to report. So, the new version of make went more smoothly than I had anticipated. Full results (list of the most recent versions of everything that I built, plus the se

Re: [blfs-support] CUPS and Mavericks

2013-11-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 06:50:51PM -0800, Walter P. Little wrote: > > > > I didn't realise that osx on ppc was still upgradeable! > > > It's not. 10.6 and up has been Intel only. I think the OP is talking about > two computers - an old (system 7 era) PPC that is running Linux instead of > Mac O

Re: [blfs-support] CUPS and Mavericks

2013-11-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:13:30PM +0100, Pol Vangheluwe wrote: > I use an Apple PowerPC 7500 as print server on my local network (IPP). It > runs LFS-6.8 (I know - a bit old…) with CUPS-1.4.5. > I could print without any problem from my iMac under OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) > but this is not the

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:36:07AM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > How would I go about using strace to check where the xorg-server is > > looking for 10-evdev.conf? > > > > > > Using "strace -o log_file Xorg -nolisten tcp &", Xorg beings to start up, but > then stops with the error: > > ... >

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:59:11AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > Distros mostly use > NetworkManager - my only use of wifi on a pc is my netbook, which > uses NM [ and what a pain it is - it decided the passphrase for my > router had changed, now I have to type it in every time

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:03:09AM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > > 10-evdev.conf is at /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d and verified to be > > > the > > > same as the 32-bit install, which works. > > > > I'm not sure I follow that : did you verify the file's contents or > > it's locatio

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:13:25PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > On 11/03/2013 05:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Actually, if at all possible I'd use a wired network while > > building (faster downloads) and when first booting. > In my house it is possible. But I don't hav

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:47:07PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 03-11-2013 21:13, Dan McGhee escreveu: > > On 11/03/2013 05:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 05:16:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > >>> First question, does anyone know if

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 05:16:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > > First question, does anyone know if it's even possible to do this in > chroot? I have never had much luck building BLFS packages in a non X > situation. Therefore, it's easier for me to build in chroot until Xorg > is installed.

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 04:52:35PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > ĸen, > > Sometimes I have some libtool complaints. Fox example, dozens of the kind: > > libtool: relink: warning: > `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/../../../libcairo.la' seems to be > moved > > I gave up removing th

Re: [blfs-support] at-spi2-core-2.10.1 build fails

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:39:31PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 03-11-2013 13:58, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > > John Frankish wrote: > >> Ref: Beyond Linux(r) From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01, > >> at-spi2-core-2.10.1: > >> > >> The build fails with > >> > >> CC libatspi_la-atspi-val

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 07:17:22AM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > > It's a bit hard to diagnose when you use /usr/local/lib (it > > *always* gets harder to build things correctly, e.g. PKG_CONFIG_PATH > > needs to be set), and *my* modules are all in > > /usr/lib/X11/modules/{,drivers/,input

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:35:10PM +, John Frankish wrote: > > > > > > > Do you have somthing like: > > > [25.470] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" > > > in the log? > > > If not, It might be that you forgot to compile the evdev driver. (see > > > Xorg drivers page). > > > > > > > No, I don't have

[blfs-support] firefox-25.0 on LFS-7.0

2013-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat
I've spent the day rebuilding firefox on all of my desktops that I regard as "supported". Most of the x86_64 systems were no problem, but my oldest is LFS-7.0 and on that it failed while building js/src/vm/Debugger.cpp - /scratch/working/mozilla-release/js/src/vm/Debugger.cpp:2674:1: error: inva

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:27:26PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch is not on anduin.linuxfromscratch.org, > well I can not find it > Does http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nss/ work for you ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce --

Re: [blfs-support] mpg123 and libtool .la files

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:37:22PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:17:17AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > I just got round to doing some more use-testing of my current build > > > (for packages newer than what I built bef

Re: [blfs-support] mpg123 and libtool .la files

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:17:17AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > I just got round to doing some more use-testing of my current build > > (for packages newer than what I built before) and hit a problem with > > mpg123 : > > > > ken@ac4tv ~ $mp

[blfs-support] mpg123 and libtool .la files

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
I just got round to doing some more use-testing of my current build (for packages newer than what I built before) and hit a problem with mpg123 : ken@ac4tv ~ $mpg123 /sources/sounds/randall-preamp-channels/Plexi-TexasDirt.mp3 [module.c:144] error: Failed to open module alsa: file not found [modu

[blfs-support] Building with make-4.0

2013-10-26 Thread Ken Moffat
As I have mentioned, I'm testing make-4.0 against the packages in the BLFS books : 3.82 gave problems with a few (gstreamer, one of its plugin packages, and I think one other package) and 4.0 has a few backward-incompatible changes/fixes. This is only a test to check that the packages build and i

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:09:44AM +0200, thorsten wrote: > Am 10/12/13 03:03, schrieb Ken Moffat: > > > /me resolves never to touch squid with the proverbial barge-pole. > > > > ĸen > > > Hello Ken, > > just a curious question: what do you dislike abou

Re: [blfs-support] Compiling PyPy?

2013-10-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:28:10AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Will leave it running for a while, I'm still up (sorting out what > fits where in my make-4.0 testing) so it can have an hour or two. > It stalled: [translation:ERROR] assert not self.finished_helpers [

Re: [blfs-support] Compiling PyPy?

2013-10-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:18:49PM -0500, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > Has anyone compiled PyPy on BLFS 7.4? I compiled Python and libffi > using --with-pydebug and --enable-debug respectively and attempted to > compile from pypy/goal with: > > python ../../rpython/bin/rpython --opt=mem tar

Re: [blfs-support] How to clean up /usr/lib/

2013-10-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12:47AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > alex lupu wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > > >>> ... > >>>921939 2012-03-27 12:51 libjpeg.so.8.4.0 > >>>425541 2013-09-30 12:05 libjpeg.so.8.0.2 > >>>16 2013-09-30 12:05 libjpeg.so.8 -> libjpeg.so.8.4.0 > >>>16 2013-09-3

Re: [blfs-support] kde - hopefully, my final comment

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:54:47AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: This is interfering with my sleep - went to bed, couldn't sleep, thinking about this. The answer was, eventually obvious (and the hint was where I said re kdelibs that I'd hardcoded everything to /usr. For this one I

Re: [blfs-support] kde - hopefully, my final comment

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:53:05PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > I had overlooked that one of the kde packages in the book fails to > > configure for me. It's libkcddb. I wasn't intending to install it > > ('/' is all-but-full), onl

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:35:14PM +0200, Igor Živković wrote: > On 2013-10-15 21:38, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Ken Moffat wrote: > >>> > >>> okular (can display everything _except_ PDFs i

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > After looking at the kde apps I have installed : konsole (always > > starts with a small font), > > I haven't found that to be true. Even if I had, I can edit the profile >

[blfs-support] kde - hopefully, my final comment

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
I had overlooked that one of the kde packages in the book fails to configure for me. It's libkcddb. I wasn't intending to install it ('/' is all-but-full), only do a DESTDIR on another filesystem, but I'd better record it : ken@ac4tv /scratch/ken/libkcddb-4.11.1/build $cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PRE

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:48:27AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:31:17PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I'd also forgotten that kde/cmake tells you very little that is > useful about how it is trying to link things. And I forget things > from 4½ y

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:31:17PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I'm putting everything in /usr, so I now have -prefix /usr through > to -translationdir /usr/share/qt4/translations as in the book's > Method 1. I don't have -plugin-sql-sqlite, all the other options &g

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:33:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > The configuration I use for Qt is: > > ./configure -confirm-license \ > -opensource \ > -release \ > -prefix /opt/qt-$VERSION \ >

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:09:51PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:24:29AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I was ploughing slowly through the desktop packages, looking for > > problems with make-4.0. But I've come to a halt in kdelibs : > > > Sor

Re: [blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:24:29AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > I was ploughing slowly through the desktop packages, looking for > problems with make-4.0. But I've come to a halt in kdelibs : > > [ 14%] Building CXX object > kdeui/CMakeFiles/kdeui.dir/widgets/kcapacitybar.

[blfs-support] kdelibs-4.11.1 build error

2013-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat
I was ploughing slowly through the desktop packages, looking for problems with make-4.0. But I've come to a halt in kdelibs : [ 14%] Building CXX object kdeui/CMakeFiles/kdeui.dir/widgets/kcapacitybar.o /scratch/working/kdelibs-4.11.1/kdeui/widgets/kcapacitybar.cpp: In member function ‘void KCap

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:38:19AM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: > > On 10/12/2013 10:18 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Glad you were right - I've just posted that this seemed unlikely to > >> be the e

Re: [blfs-support] Squid Configure

2013-10-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Glad you were right - I've just posted that this seemed unlikely to > be the error, but if it builds then you are sorted. > > /me resolves never to touch squid with the proverbial barge-pole. > Slept on i

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