Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:55 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > And the user has the information to do that. > > "If you've decided to use the standard /usr prefix, you can omit the > remainder of this page." Sure... it's just that we make the complicated case the default one for the inexperienced peopl

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-26 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 21:33:49 -0300 > From: Fernando de Oliveira > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > Em 23-12-2013 08:13, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: . . > > > > I t

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-25 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 23-12-2013 08:13, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: > Em 23-12-2013 07:07, William Harrington escreveu: >> Greetings, >> >> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the >> links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. >> >> An example: >> >> When a user attempts to build WI

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Baho Utot
On 12/24/2013 06:42 PM, Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 04:07 -0600, William Harrington wrote: >> xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not >> have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and >> XORG_CONFIG is set. > Do we really have a rea

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 13:13 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't > know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't > read the preface and run the host requirements script. Yeah, you could title that page "YOU MUST R

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 04:07 -0600, William Harrington wrote: >> xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not >> have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and >> XORG_CONFIG is set. > > Do we really have a reason for having these va

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 04:07 -0600, William Harrington wrote: > xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not > have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and > XORG_CONFIG is set. Do we really have a reason for having these variables, instead of jus

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: > > On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: >> >> On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >>> know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't >>> read the

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 24-12-2013 11:56, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. escreveu: > > On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: >> >> On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >>> know how many times users have run into problems because

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Merell L. Matlock, Jr.
On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >> know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't >> read the preface and run the host requirements

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't > know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't > read the preface and run the host requirements script. I also do note that in LFS, in places where the L

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: Bruce Dubbs >>> Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's considered to >>> be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected to have >>> processed those chapters. That would help avoid a lot of repetition >>> elsewhere? >> >> From a pract

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > ISTR that at a time, it was said that any page in the X chapter was a prereq > for the following. That explains why the pages are not in alphabetical order. > And that's how I implemented it in jhalfs-blfs (same for the KDE chapter, > actually). The Xorg pages are arrange

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 23/12/2013 16:56, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > akhiezer wrote: >>> From: William Harrington >>> To: BLFS Support List >>> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 >>> Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS >>> >>

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 23, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's >> considered to >> be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected >> to have >> processed those chapters. That would help avoid a lot of repetition >> elsewhere? >

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:56:24 -0600 > From: Bruce Dubbs > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > >> . . > > > > > > Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: William Harrington >> To: BLFS Support List >> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 >> Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS >> >> Greetings, >> >> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg dep

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> From: William Harrington > To: BLFS Support List > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 > Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > Greetings, > > There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the > links for re

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 23-12-2013 07:07, William Harrington escreveu: > Greetings, > > There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the > links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. > > An example: > > When a user attempts to build WIreshark, the require deps will take > them all the way to

[blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
Greetings, There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. An example: When a user attempts to build WIreshark, the require deps will take them all the way to xorg-proto. I have also been told that util-macros isn't required