Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-06 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/05/2010 11:01 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 05/07/10 14:02, Dan McGhee wrote: > >> Andy, this shows how out of touch I am. There's a 64-bit version of >> Flash? >> > Yeah, I can't find a download link on the internet at the moment, I > think Adobe have stopped offering it for downlo

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On 5 July 2010 17:01, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 05/07/10 14:02, Dan McGhee wrote: >> Andy, this shows how out of touch I am. There's a 64-bit version of >> Flash? > > Yeah, I can't find a download link on the internet at the moment, I > think Adobe have stopped offering it for download. I don't kn

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/05/2010 10:15 AM, William Immendorf wrote: > Oh, and doesn't NWS use Java for it's radar rendering? I think > it does, so there is almost no reason to build multilib. > > By Jove, you're right! So here I go. Thanks for the other info and link too. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mai

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On 05/07/10 14:02, Dan McGhee wrote: > Andy, this shows how out of touch I am. There's a 64-bit version of > Flash? Yeah, I can't find a download link on the internet at the moment, I think Adobe have stopped offering it for download. I don't know why. I could email you a copy of the one I have

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread William Immendorf
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: > Andy, this shows how out of touch I am. There's a 64-bit version of > Flash? Guess I need to do some more reading and research. Is it just > that Adobe developed one and left it for awhile? If this is all true, > then there's no reason to do a mu

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/05/2010 06:47 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > > I find current Firefox to be very slow/laggy watching webm. The 64 bit > flash still works better, sadly. Midori/webkit-gtk is much better. No > lag there and it will play h264 videos. > > The only things I can't get working on 64 bit are precompiled

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/05/2010 06:29 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On 5 July 2010 01:31, Dan McGhee wrote: > > >> William, thanks very much. This really helps. I do like YouTube, but I >> can probably live without it. >> > The html5 beta works in epiphany-2.30 (no controls) and midori - in > both cases, bu

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On 05/07/10 00:34, William Immendorf wrote: > I've done 64-bit system for some good experimentation, and really, the > only package(s) in BLFS that don't play nice with 64-bit systems are > NSS/NSPR. But that can be fixed easily by adding --enable-64bit to > NSPR's configure, and by exporting USE_6

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On 5 July 2010 01:31, Dan McGhee wrote: > William, thanks very much.  This really helps.  I do like YouTube, but I > can probably live without it. The html5 beta works in epiphany-2.30 (no controls) and midori - in both cases, built on top of gnome-2.30 (for exact package versions see my long p

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-04 Thread Dan McGhee
On 07/04/2010 06:34 PM, William Immendorf wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > >> I could build a CLFS-Multilib system and try to compile the "newer" >> packages from LFS. But that smacks of not "following the book" for >> either build. Is there a place I can go for no

Re: Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-04 Thread William Immendorf
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > I could build a CLFS-Multilib system and try to compile the "newer" > packages from LFS.  But that smacks of not "following the book" for > either build. Is there a place I can go for notes, work arounds or > patches for packages in BLFS that don

Questions in Preparing for a 64-bit LFS Build

2010-07-04 Thread Dan McGhee
I'm preparing for another build. The last one I did was CLFS-multilib, but, in looking at CLFS, LFS-svn seems to be a little more advanced. In particular I noticed that CLFS still uses grub-0.97 and LFS uses grub-1.98. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and have become accustomed to the "new" grub