Re: [PLUG] Suggestions for featherweight laptop

2017-09-03 Thread Tom
I have 1st class Linux experience with Lenovo Thinkpad X2x0 (currently x=7), Dell XPS 13 and HP Elitebook 820 G3 (HP is the most expensive one ) Both are almost identical in size, weight and have decent battery life (~8 hours) in lightweight formats. Pros: Dell has better 13" LCD with 100% sRGB gam

[PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

2017-09-03 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I am wanting to copy my home folder from my old machine to my new one. I was planning on putting either the old or the new drive in a usb dock and copying everything over using cp -pr. But web comments mention rsync. What are the risks/rewards of the various choices? Thanks, -Denis _

[PLUG] Suggestions for featherweight laptop

2017-09-03 Thread Dave Lien - W7DAL
Seeking suggestions for modern replacement of my old Tosh Portege R100. Must be at least 12" dia with USB2, plus a Serial Port if that's still possible. For use as dual-boot Windows/Linux. Power machine not needed, but light weight is critical. Plus cheeep of course. TNX. __

Re: [PLUG] Compile issue: libraries present but not seen [FIXED]

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, t...@wescottdesign.com wrote: > Congratulations. You may still want to shop around for some cheap 64-bit > machines, though. Tim, I have a couple here. The one I want to replace the current server/workstation needs a couple of more motherboard connections to be attached. I

Re: [PLUG] Compile issue: libraries present but not seen [FIXED]

2017-09-03 Thread tim
On 2017-09-03 10:18, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I'm trying to build gnucash-2.6.17 on my Slackware-14.2/32-bit >> system. The >> build fails because make cannot find libgnc-gnome, which is in turn >> dependent on libgtk-x11. Both are present on this host.

Re: [PLUG] Compile issue: libraries present but not seen

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Larry Brigman wrote: > Make doesn't know about library paths. Larry, But it's the command that invokes gcc and friends. > In rpm parlance, means you need the devel package installed. Apparently Red Hat and other distributions separate packages into two parts; Slackwar

Re: [PLUG] Compile issue: libraries present but not seen

2017-09-03 Thread Larry Brigman
Make doesn't know about library paths. That comes from the the compiler and the added paths provided on the compile line Just because the .so.version file is there doesn't mean that you can compile against it. In rpm parlance, means you need the devel package installed. If the library is not in o

Re: [PLUG] Compile issue: libraries present but not seen [FIXED]

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm trying to build gnucash-2.6.17 on my Slackware-14.2/32-bit system. The > build fails because make cannot find libgnc-gnome, which is in turn > dependent on libgtk-x11. Both are present on this host. Found the answer: run ldd on the library not fo

Re: [PLUG] Compile issue: libraries present but not seen

2017-09-03 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 09:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >I'm trying to build gnucash-2.6.17 on my Slackware-14.2/32-bit system. The >build fails because make cannot find libgnc-gnome, which is in turn >dependent on libgtk-x11. Both are present on this host. I have no knowledge of how make fin

[PLUG] Compile issue: libraries present but not seen

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm trying to build gnucash-2.6.17 on my Slackware-14.2/32-bit system. The build fails because make cannot find libgnc-gnome, which is in turn dependent on libgtk-x11. Both are present on this host. Many of you make a living coding and/or administering systems so I hope you can provide me wi