Re: [blfs-support] Time discrepency LFS 7.2 64bit/BLFS various

2013-10-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:50:10 +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > Slightly off topic: can anybody say how much of the post title has to > change before it's considered a different thread. I ask this because I > noticed right at the beginning that I had misspelt "discrepancy". I > didn't want to cha

Re: [blfs-support] Usb error on boot/ or insert

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:19:53 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > Try 3.8.3-rc, it has a patch for ehci which mentions a problem with > via hardware. If I've scrawled this correctly (no copy/paste in > console on this laptop) it's from Alan Stern, USB: EHCI: revert "ASS/PSS > polling timeout", upstream c

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 03:24:13 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > There were some interesting comments on (cheap) solid-state > (internal) drives on The Register in the last couple of weeks - > basically, many (used as system drives in windows, in most reports) > died suddenly with exotic failures. Other

Re: [blfs-support] Configure makes empty makefiles

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:22:14 -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: > The configure command runs with no errors. Running the make command > however, gives the error no targets stop. Examining the makefile reveals > that it is empty! I'd expect it to have given a slew of errors if this really was the pro

Re: [blfs-support] Libre Office 3.5.3 with Gcc 4.7 on i686

2012-06-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 12:21:02 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > I have previously built Libre Office 3.5.3 on i686 with Gcc 4.7, what > was different this time was that I used a git pull of the Gcc 4.7 > branch. Ie, Gcc had changes that had been checked into the Gcc 4.7 > branch since gcc-4.7.0 was rel

Re: [blfs-support] soprano and redland problem

2012-04-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:11:40 -0400, "david daugherty" wrote: Please stop sending this message, that's 4 that have gone to everyone on the list already. Thanks, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: [blfs-support] what`s wrong here

2012-01-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:33:38 +0100, Matijn Woudt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Dmitry Blum wrote: >> LLVM 3.0 >> >> >> make[3]: Entering directory `/xc/llvm-3.0.src/lib/Target/X86' >> llvm[3]: Building X86.td register info implementation with tblgen >> /xc/llvm-3.0.src/Release/bin/llv

Re: Linux-PAM-1.1.3 and LFS 7.0

2011-11-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:06:06 +1100, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > Hi, > I'm now having trouble with Linux-PAM. > I get the following error: > > pam_unix_passwd.c:57:21: fatal error: rpc/rpc.h: No such file or directory > compilation terminated. > make[3]: *** [pam_unix_passwd.lo] Error 1 > make[3]: L

Re: Openjade-1.3.2 with gcc-4.6.0

2011-03-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Andy, Now that my 4.6.0 build completed, I was able to try this out for myself. Please try the attached patch, which worked for me. Regards, Matt.Submitted By:Matt Burgess Date:2011-03-30 Initial Package Version: 1.3.2 Upstream Status: Not submitted Orig

Re: Openjade-1.3.2 with gcc-4.6.0

2011-03-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:26:28 +0200, Or Goshen wrote: > It is documented here: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/148523.html > > under "uninitialized const". > > You're suppose to either supply an initializer or a default constructor. > > A default constructor can be

Re: 139-network

2011-03-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:23:59 +0200, Rodolfo Perez wrote: > Hey again > >> > Looking at my bash-output I was asked to enter my password. That time > I >> > was sleeping :-) Is it possible that there is a time limit to > enter >> > the password? >> >> I think that's the problem, as it's caught

Re: jhalfs mk_BOOT

2011-03-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:30:36 +0200, Rodolfo Perez wrote: > Hey all > > I was trying to build lfs with jhalfs. Everyting went well until > Building target 125-strippingagain. > > Looking at my bash-output I was asked to enter my password. That time I > was sleeping :-) Is it possible that th

Re: how to automate lfs

2011-02-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:53:10 +, Andrew Benton wrote: > For what it's worth, I write my own custom scripts based on the > commands in the book but with my own special ingredients. I'm sure > jhalfs works as other people on the lists use it, but I don't know if > it works for BLFS. I too star

Re: how to automate lfs

2011-02-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:57:20 +0200, Rodolfo Perez wrote: > Hi all > > Well I'm not sure if this forum is the right one ... > > I've build lfs 2 times successfully and now I'm trying to use jhalfs. I > did not succeed so far, but before i spend hours and hours I would like > to ask the experts so

Re: udev in blfs

2011-02-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:48:38 +, John Burrell wrote: > > Current version of udev in lfs-development is 166. > > In blfs, if gobject-introspection installed, then udev-164 compiles okay, > but versions 165 and 166 do not. FWIW, Udev-166 builds fine here with gobject-introspection-0.10.2. I'

LFS-6.8-rc1 release

2011-02-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.8-rc1. This is the first release candidate on the road to LFS-6.8. It includes numerous changes to LFS-6.7 (including updates to Linux-2.6.37, GCC-4.5.2, Glibc-2.13 and security fixes). It also includes e

Re: XKB Failed to compile keymap

2011-02-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:43:50 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > If building lots of drivers doesn't help, how about > xkeyboard-config as suggested in > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2011-January/020953.html Thanks, Ken. It turns out that recompiling all of X up to and including the Xo

Re: XKB Failed to compile keymap

2011-02-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:31:22 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I guess the obvious question is does it start for user root? If so, > then it's a permissions problem. What are the permissions of /var/lib/xkb/? Yeah, should have mentioned that. I get the same error trying to start it as root. /var/l

XKB Failed to compile keymap

2011-02-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, On my latest build of Xorg-7.6, the server refuses to startup issuing the following error: (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap /tmp/server-0.xkm XKB: Failed to compile keymap That immediately struck me as odd as the following option is passed to Xorg-Server's configure command: --with-xkb-ou

Re: Flash Player on 64 bit linux - Firefox

2011-01-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:58:33 -0500, Mike Hollis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:47:55PM +0100, Lars Bamberger wrote: >> >> I'm using Shockwave-Flash-10.1r10 with firefox-3.6.13 (with GNOME). That >> works perfectly here. libcurl does not seem to be a dependency for >> libflashplayer.so. (See ou

Re: make problem with kdelibs-4.5.3

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:33:46 +0100, "Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote: > -- Found shared-mime-info version: /usr/bin/update-mime-database: > /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by > /usr/bin/update-mime-database) It turns out I shouldn't have recommended libxml2-2.7.8

Re: make problem with kdelibs-4.5.3

2010-11-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:24:29 +0100, "Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote: > Hi, > > could somebody help with a hint, how to come through the last 4% of the > compilation of kdelibs-4.5.3 ? I get ( on two boxes ) the error > quote > - > Scanning dependencies of target data-handbo

Re: Jhalfs and LFS6.7

2010-09-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:26:07 -0400, cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote: > Hi > > I think I might be ready to use or try Jhalfs. Can anyone comment on > its use with LFS 6.7 or would I need to use an earlier version? I've just completed a build of LFS-6.7 with the latest jhalfs-trunk on a Lubuntu-10.

Re: Config-less Xorg & xkb config

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:58:09 +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Xorg in a config-less setup. Everything seems to be working > fine, apart from it's using the 'us' keyboard layout as its default. > I'd prefer to remain config-l

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 23 May 2010 20:07:00 +0200, Lars Bamberger wrote: > hermes~> type ls > ls is aliased to `ls -F --color=auto --show-control-chars' > > Nope. It won't tell me about the executable /bin/ls. What about `type -a ls'? Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-s

Re: What works for me (LFS-6.6, x86_64)

2010-05-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 06 May 2010 13:51:20 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 17:25 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> OK, I've dug out my notes from last october, but all those say is that >> the new version didn't seem to be properly released and was only in >> fedora (fc12). Looking at fedora cvs,

Re: Config-less Xorg & xkb config

2010-03-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 30/03/2010 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote: > On 30 March 2010 02:12, Ken Moffat wrote: >> I haven't tried to do without xorg.conf because I don't think it will >> default to anything approaching my default settings. > > Just gave this a test - no keyboard or mouse (I only build the evdev > driver

Re: Config-less Xorg & xkb config

2010-03-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 30/03/2010 02:12, Ken Moffat wrote: > On 30 March 2010 00:49, David Jensen wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:35:28 +0100 >> Matthew Burgess wrote: >> > >> I do not use an xorg.conf, but do use 'Openbox, lxpanel and lxmenu'. >> I'm just USA,

Re: Config-less Xorg & xkb config

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 29/03/2010 23:10, David Jensen wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:58:09 +0100 > Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running Xorg in a config-less setup. Everything seems to be >> working fine, apart from it's using the 'us' keyboard

Config-less Xorg & xkb config

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, I'm running Xorg in a config-less setup. Everything seems to be working fine, apart from it's using the 'us' keyboard layout as its default. I'd prefer to remain config-less, if at all possible as, so far, this would be the only option that I'd need to cusomise. `setxkbmap -rules base

Re: OHCI vs UHCI

2010-03-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:02:56 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Is one just to "know" by some means that all USB 2.0 conform to > one or the other of UHCI or OHCI? The kernel's menuconfig help text for EHCI says: "If you configure EHCI, you should probably configure the OHCI (for NEC and some other

Re: Building KDE-4.4.1

2010-03-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I know a couple of folks here have built KDE recently. I think I >> already know the answer to this, but I think I have to grab kdesupport >> out of SVN in order to build KDELibs, right?

Re: LXDM & PAM

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Has anyone got lxde working with lxdm and would be able to offer any > hints please? It turns out this wasn't PAM's fault at all. I was missing some core lxde packages, namely lxde-common. I'll see if I can get this stuff written up; lxde look

LXDM & PAM

2010-03-08 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, Has anyone got lxde running with lxdm as the graphical login manager by any chance? I think things are getting hung up with PAM; lxdm starts up OK, but after trying to log in as a valid user, it just seems to result in lxdm restarting. I see this in /var/log/auth.log: Mar 8 21:21:09 kyo

Re: Building KDE-4.4.1

2010-03-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: > On 7 March 2010 11:37, Matthew Burgess wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I know a couple of folks here have built KDE recently. I think I >> already know the answer to this, but I think I have to grab kdesupport >> out of SVN in order to build KDELibs,

Building KDE-4.4.1

2010-03-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, I know a couple of folks here have built KDE recently. I think I already know the answer to this, but I think I have to grab kdesupport out of SVN in order to build KDELibs, right? My conclusion was arrived at because kdelibs wants 'automoc4' from kdesupport but there is no kdesuppor

Re: libdrm-2.4.14 overwrites some drm linux-api-headers

2010-03-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:19:25 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On 3 March 2010 13:49, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: >> Then should libdrm be built as soon as possible when bootstrap building >> BLFS so as to minimise the chance that some other package will build >> against Linux drm headers? And try to preve

Re: libdrm-2.4.14 overwrites some drm linux-api-headers

2010-03-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
John Burrell wrote: > If installed as root, libdrm will overwrite these linux-api-headers from > /usr/include/drm: On a very new system (linux-2.6.33 + libdrm-2.4.18) I see the same thing. Looking at the README in the tarball for libdrm: "New functionality in the kernel DRM drivers typically r

LFS-6.6 is released

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.6. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.5 (including updates to Linux-2.6.32.8, GCC-4.4.3, Glibc-2.11.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the c

Re: help tetex-src-3.0 error

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dale Stein wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this problem > I am trying to build teTeX-3.0 and it is coming back with a ulgy error. > This was built with LFS 6.6 and BLFS svn. > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/blfs/tetex-src-3.0/texk/web2c/lib' > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I

Re: BLFS-6.4RC1 or any

2010-02-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:38:51 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote these words on 02/16/10 01:32 CST: >> To put it another way, my time is my life. > > But you have the time to write 9 paragraphs about why you don't like > distros and use BLFS! Pot-Kettle-Black. :-) > > BTW, you may

Re: blfs-book-svn-html

2010-02-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
stosss wrote: > Why is it that you and other developers are so touchy about the book > and its condition and people pointing out things that could be done > different, better or whatever? Why do you and the others insist on > thinking there is nothing wrong with the book and so unwilling to > impr

Re: Xorg desktop viewed through fog - Sorted

2010-01-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:27:18 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> Actually, I believe that upstream are moving toward a config-less X. I > find this >> much easier but the book currently doesn't support it out of the box due > to some >> inco

Re: Xorg desktop viewed through fog - Sorted

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:06:29 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > 2010/1/11 Bruce Dubbs : >> >>  Xorg -configure >> >> will tell you what kind of video card X finds.  Look at ~/xorg.conf.new Actually, I believe that upstream are moving toward a config-less X. I find this much easier but the book current

Re: fop-0.95 compile problems//minimal Xorg for Xvfb??// fop with GCJ

2010-01-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:23:56 +, lux-integ wrote: > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 06:24:27 pm Hops Error, Line 21, alcoholi.c > wrote: > >> I don't recall which environment variable ant uses to pass flags to >> java off the top of my head, though. It couldn't be anything simple >> like JFLAGS :p

Re: Strace on recent LFS (dev) build

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Any ideas as to what's gone awry here would be much appreciated. Doing a bit more hunting around, I think http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c501935a3cdcf6b1d35aaee3aa11c7a7051a305 may be related. Changing t

Strace on recent LFS (dev) build

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, Trying to compile strace under a very recent LFS build (2.6.32.2 kernel) results in: net.c:976: error: field 'nl' has incomplete type 'nl' in this case is of type sockaddr_nl, which should be defined in /usr/include/linux/netlink.h. config.log has this to say: configure:5882: gcc -c

Re: MySQL test error

2009-12-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Mykal Funk wrote: > 091224 8:16:01 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of > the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root! Are you building/testing MySQL as root, hence getting this warning? Have you tried building/testing as a non-root user? Regards, Matt. -- http://linu

Re: man-db-2.5.5 never installed

2009-12-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:22:00 -0500, stosss wrote: > I have complete log files of > the entire step process of the unpack, configure, make and make check > steps. I can show you as much of the logged process for each step as > you want to see. The error is directly related to man.o. I have > checke

Re: LFS book 6.52.3 problem (passwd root)

2009-11-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:54:37 -0200, Cristiano Cortezia wrote: > > I've got a problem in the mentioned step (6.52.3 - Shadow configuration). > If I run the command 'passwd root', I get the following output, before > being able to provide any input: > > root:/# passwd root > Changing password for

Re: LFS is at 6.5 BLFS is at 6.3 Why?

2009-11-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:23:03 -0500, stosss wrote: > Why does LFS stay so far ahead of BLFS? What is the point of building > the newest LFS if the BLFS files are older and probably won't work or > would be replacing newer versions of apps with older versions? BLFS, like all of the LFS projects is

Re: autofs-5.0.3 Compile error BLFS svn-20090901

2009-09-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 15:25:37 -0600, Jim McConville wrote: > There still remains the question: "Should it be noted in the BLFS > document that these bindings will not exist if the computer is rebooted > into the host system followed by an entry made into the "chroot" > environment?" I don't know

LFS-6.5 Released

2009-08-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5. This release includes numerous changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.2, GCC-4.4.1, and Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material through

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 7:52:48 -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Now to track down which of those tools called out to from mkbuiltins is > causing the > issue! And the culprit is `sort'. Building coreutils without LFS' i18n patch is enough to get things working again. I'l

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:33:56 +0100, Guy Dalziel wrote: > 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 expe

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:10:00 +0100, Guy Dalziel wrote: > 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

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 6:56:26 -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > I had a look at their mailing list archives [0] and couldn't see a similar > report > (and google couldn't either). That missing [0] reference is: http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@vger.kernel.org/ Regard

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:51:31 +0100, Guy Dalziel wrote: > 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? No, I was suggesting that William report this upst

Re: CDRTools fails to compile

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:23:01 +0100, Guy Dalziel wrote: > See the attached patch, does this fix the issue? Yes, it does! Thanks very much Guy. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See th

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:41:01 -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 Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:40:24 -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 fro

Re: Issue with signal.h

2009-08-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:49:28 +, William Immendorf wrote: > Hey, > > After installing acl/attr, when I compile coreutils/libcap, this happens: > > CC ls.o > In file included from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28, > from /usr/include/signal.h:339, > fro

LFS-6.5-RC2 released

2009-07-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5 Release Candidate 2. This release includes numerous changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.2, GCC-4.4.1, and Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanat

LFS-6.5-RC1 released

2009-07-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5 Release Candidate 1. This release includes numerous changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.1, GCC-4.4.0, Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory

RE: modules for different machines

2009-07-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:42:54 -0400, "Dave" wrote: > Hi, > Thanks. What i don't think i made clear is i currently have a > monolithic kernel running on lfs 6.4. If i made that kernel in to a > modular > kernel and compiled all the sound drivers as modules, then took that disk > and dropped it

Re: HAL doesn't detect my cdrom(s)

2009-05-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:54:50 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:12 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Hehe...should've sent this Sunday as I had intended to do. The >> util-linux requirement kills the new release...have to wait till >> LFS-6.5/7.0. 0.5.11 seems to be stable with the u

Re: Help with Xlib and Xorg-apps

2009-04-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:05:52 -0500, William Immendorf wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:53 AM, lux-integ > wrote: >> this is  how I did it a while back  (if it is of  any help - my host > was >> amd64 -64BITonly  kernel-2.6.27.7)):- Apologies for the obvious troll-feeding here everyone, but I

Re: problems compiling pyKDE4//kde-workspace-4.2.0/yippiee!

2009-03-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:33:21 +, lux-integ wrote: > So before you make you small-minded remarks, read the postings of > someone > that engenders respect (KenMoffat) a generous and knowledgable person > with a long track record on BLFS and who has found my comments with the > building

Re: when does sudo and sudoers get created?

2008-12-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:51:31 -0600, "Ralph Porter" wrote: > I must have missed a step. I do not have /usr/bin/sudo or /etc/sudoers > > What step has this install? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/sudo.html (found using the index at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view

Re: Fwd: Xorg7.4-installation-xcursor-themes-1.0.1 compile problems

2008-12-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:56:59 +, b-vol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ### after configure and make is executed:- ## > /usr/X11R7.4/bin/xcursorgen -p ../redglass ./X_cursor.cfg X_cursor > /usr/X11R7.4/bin/xcursorgen: error while loading shared libraries: > libX11.so.6: cannot open shar

Re: GCC - 4.2.1 fails to build on LFS 6.1

2008-08-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:37:20 +, "Cliff McDiarmid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually just Google the error message but >> it's finding nothing useful with this one. Any progress? > > I did the same and found very little. There was a suggestion it might be > a bug, but that's out becau

Re: sed question

2008-01-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:51:56 +0100, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question about working with sed. > I have an xml file containing > 1 > > I want to change this to > 2 > > I have problems with the "<" and ">" signs. Is there a was to mask them > in the sed

Re: Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:11:03 -0700 (PDT), Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Providing BLFS in info format does not require dumbing down *LFS or > making any other major changes to its

Re: What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables?

2007-07-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:00:56 Georgina Joyce wrote: > In working through 28 June 2007 blfs, I'm attempting to build the Xorg > libraries. However, I'm getting the error below: I observed the > PKG_CONFIG_PATH and set that to /usr/lib/pkgconfig as that appeared to be > the correct path but i

Re: php and sql [slightly OT]

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Monday 12 March 2007 20:47, Alan Lord wrote: > Yes there are quite a few differences between Postgresql and MySQL in > syntax, SQL implementation (PGSQL is fully ACID compliant whereas MySQL > is apparently not) MySQL is actually ACID compliant, but only if you use the InnoDB storage engine.

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:49, TheOldFellow wrote: > The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in > the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's > DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all the rest please. Now JHALFS isn't so good. I'd probably handle

Re: KDE - error reeports at start and stop

2006-11-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Shawn wrote: Jerzy: You compiled ipv6 support into X but you are not running ipv6. To get rid of this you need to rebuild X without ipv6 ( maybe somebody knows a runtime switch??? ). '-nolisten inet6' should do it. (see http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html) Regards, Matt. -- http:

Re: Opera 9.02

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a great web browser, but only available as a binary. Which, IMO, makes it not great at all. Free software is not about its initial cost (in monetary terms) it's about Freedom (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). Then, since I don't have internet

Re: reiserfs-3.6.19 - Missing asm header?

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alan Lord wrote: Just a quick note; not sure if this is LFS or BLFS... It's a BLFS problem, caused by LFS :-) (yes, I love sitting on the fence!). On building the above tools, the make barfed because it couldn't find /usr/include/asm/unaligned.h Maybe this is something to do with the new he

Re: changes with new video card

2006-10-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
Simon Geard wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:03 -0700, Arden wrote: Help! I need some advice. I have just gotten into the blfs-book, so far I have X running, and a friend gave me a video card, EVGA GeForceMX 4000. Can I get this working? without much trouble? [snip] Shouldn't be a problem i

Re: MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: You could probably use this diff or something close to it. There's been one more commit since then to expand the *.{c,h}. It could be _way_ better, but I erred on the conservative side for maximum shell compatibility. Thanks, Dan. Unfortunately, I still can't get xorg-serv

Re: MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: Sure enough, there's no slang_version_syn.h in that directory. There is a slang_pp_version.h though. Looks like they renamed it as mentioned in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-August/017735.html. Our very own Dan Nicholson adds his thoughts in

Re: MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On 10/5/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: doc/install.html just mentions 'make install'. Having never touched Mesa before, I've no idea why one would want to use 'bin/installmesa' as opposed to '

Re: MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 10/5/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: doc/install.html just mentions 'make install'. Having never touched Mesa before, I've no idea why one would want to use 'bin/installmesa' as opposed to 'make install'. T

Re: kdebase vs. linux headers

2006-10-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Rainer Peter Feller wrote: Just a wilde guess but may be /usr/include/linux/joystick.h should not inclde asm/types.h but linux/types.h ... I thought the same thing at first, but linux/types.h has the same guards around it! Anyway, this has now been reported upstream and the linux-head

kdebase vs. linux headers

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, I'm trying to compile kdebase-3.5.4 against the headers installed via 'make headers_install' from linux-2.6.18. Unfortunately, I get this error: error: '__s64' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/joystick.h:132: error: '__s64' does not name a type Now, obviously that's not good

MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, The file bin/installmesa appears to be missing from the latest version of MesaLib. Does anyone know whether this is just a packaging error on their part or whether there's a different mechanism for installing the package? The release notes didn't mention it. doc/install.html just

Re: cdrkit, yet another cdrecord fork

2006-09-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jörg W Mittag wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: So, another case of NIH syndrome. Rather than report bugs/offer patches to existing projects (tar vs. star, make vs. smake, etc.) he goes and reinvents the wheel. Oh well, I guess it's his time to waste :-) So, yes there *is* a case o

Re: xine-lib fails to compile video_out_xmmc.c

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
> The configure check looks bogus. As a workaround, try adding > "ac_have_xxmc=no" to your configure line. Actually, passing "--without-xxmc-path --without-xxmc-lib" disables the plugin! It's now compiled and installed without a problem. Whether I can get Kaffeine to link and work against it is

Re: xine-lib fails to compile video_out_xmmc.c

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:04:53PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: >> >> I've gotten the same kind of errors, and I have Xorg 7.0. > > I have xorg 7.0 and xine built and runs fine. :/ Does config.log say that the 'xxmc' plugin is going to be enabled? I get: checking whether to enable the xxmc plugin

xine-lib fails to compile video_out_xmmc.c

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, I've probably forgotten to do something really simple again, but would appreciate a cluebat here. I'm trying to compile xine-lib-1.1.1 with Xorg 7.1 installed but am running into: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../src -I../../src/xine-e

Re: KDM displaying squares instead of text

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 5/29/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On a fresh build of LFS-SVN and BLFS-SVN I've just gotten kdebase installed. On trying to login via KDM all I see is squares in place of every single character of text that should be on that screen. >

KDM displaying squares instead of text

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, On a fresh build of LFS-SVN and BLFS-SVN I've just gotten kdebase installed. On trying to login via KDM all I see is squares in place of every single character of text that should be on that screen. I'm assuming it's some kind of font/utf-8 issue but haven't the foggiest what it m

LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-11-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1.1. This release includes fixes for all known errata since LFS-6.1 was released 4 months ago. You can read the book online at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1.1/ or download it from http://www.linuxfroms

LFS-6.1.1-pre2 Released

2005-11-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The final release is planned for Wednesday 30th November. Best regards, Matthew Burgess -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

LFS-6.1.1-pre1 Released

2005-11-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the first pre-release of LFS 6.1.1. This release includes fixes for all known errata since LFS-6.1 was released 4 months ago. You can read the book online at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1.1-pre1/ or download to read locall

Re: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:57:34PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Um, I just realized I have no idea how the website is generated. What's the proper way to pull the html for website? Plus 's/lfs-book/website/' above. svn export svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/www2 I think you m

Re: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: I understand that. That's what the Errata is for. Until 6.1.1 is released (if it is), this patch should probably appear there so people don't continue to run into this problem. Not everybody builds SVN. We (in this instance "we = website project") accept patches :-) Re

Re: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Steve Prior wrote: This is actually one of the reasons that a LFS 6.1.1 release was agreed to, though I haven't seen much progress in getting that out the door. Err, have you been following lfs-book at all? If so you'll have seen there's been a reasonable amount of work done on the 6.1.1 bra

Re: running *.ogg files ith alsa

2005-10-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
mess-mate wrote: Hi, after installing alsa (card detected:cmpci) can't run any *.ogg file on kde. I've installed vorbis and the ogg-lib but nothing helps. Any hint ?? Does ogg123 play them without any problems? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linux

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