Re: xorg X11R7.0

2005-12-27 Thread DJ Lucas
Thomas Pegg wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/blfs-xorg7/x/xorg7.html EXAMPLE ONLY...none of it has been tested at all. It's only there to show one possible screen/book layout, IMO the most presentable. I'll beat it into shape over the next few days as I build it

Re: Packages that don't work in UTF-8 locales

2005-12-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: "This package doesn't work correctly in UTF-8 based locales". This can never be placed on a BLFS page. Something needs to be placed on the page that accurately describes the breakage, or limited functionality you *may* see. "Doesn't work correctly" is simply too vague. [s

Re: Packages that don't work in UTF-8 locales

2005-12-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:33:57PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Links-2.1pre17: no way to properly configure for UTF-8 based character cell display, there is no UTF-8 terminal encoding in the menu. If run on the framebuffer console, doesn't properly accept keystrokes. If

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-27 Thread Greg Schafer
Dan Nicholson wrote: > I think you may be right about not > installing the locales for the purposes of ICA. I'm gonna change the > locale installation to check for RUN_ICA in my scripts. Don't be too concerned with the locale-archive. It's just data and not program code. I once spent some time l

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote: bison, perl, vim - for me, these differ between my second and third builds, but not for my third and fourth, nor for the first and second - I guess this is the whole point of ICA and the build will be assumed guilty unless an explanation can be produced.

Re: XFree86

2005-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Hello world, It seems that XFree86-4.5.0 has issues with coreutils-5.92. Do you mean 5.92 ? LFS-svn has been on 5.93 for a few weeks, and some of the behaviour is definitely different between the two versions. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, d

XFree86

2005-12-27 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello world, It seems that XFree86-4.5.0 has issues with coreutils-5.92. The build fails like this DNARROWPROTO -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API AuWrite.c rm -f libXau.a ar clq libXau.a AuDispose.o AuFileName.o AuGetAddr.o AuGetBest.o AuLock.o AuRead.o AuUnlock.o AuWrite.o r

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-27 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Did LFS use to build bison and flex in /tools? When we used HJL binutils (before FSF binutils supported TLS/NPTL), yes. HJL binutils require bison and flex (or at least, they used to). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/26/05, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been attempting to run an ICA on my CLFS ppc builds (CLFS from > 20051214, but modified to also build a minimal 64-bit toolchain in > /opt/kgcc because the cpu is a G5). So, my observations have very > little to do with the alphabetical b

Re: RFC: GDBM or Berkeley DB?

2005-12-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jason Gurtz wrote these words on 12/27/05 13:52 CST: > It is worrisome about the seemingly ever-changing API, but not always > upgrading to the latest BDB could help alleviate that. They don't seem to > have a bad history of many security updates that would necessitate > upgrading often. :) Howe

Re: RFC: GDBM or Berkeley DB?

2005-12-27 Thread Jason Gurtz
On 12/27/2005 01:50, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: That was very thorough, thank you. While it would be nice to avoid another dependency the reality is that I usually end up with both GDBM and BDB on my systems. Yea, I know that's not really an argument... To me the most convincing argument is

Emacs (was Re: About AMD64 support...)

2005-12-27 Thread Ken Moffat
[Taking this part to clfs where other people might find it useful. Please drop lfs-dev from any replies] On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Dennis J Perkins wrote: Most of the BLFS packages that I have built so far compile fine. Emacs says it doesn't recognize the architecture. Head to your favourite ge

Re: Packages that don't work in UTF-8 locales

2005-12-27 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:33:57PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Links-2.1pre17: no way to properly configure for UTF-8 based character > cell display, there is no UTF-8 terminal encoding in the menu. If run on > the framebuffer console, doesn't properly accept keystrokes. If run from

Re: About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis J Perkins
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:02 -0200, Renato Riolino wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm still using LFS 5 on my desktop computer (Athlon XP 2800+) and now > I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop too. My laptop is a Athlon 64 > CPU and I like to know if is already possible to a newby like me to > build

Re: About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Jim Gifford
We have all the necessary information in cross-lfs. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/clfs/ -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe:

About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Renato Riolino
Hi all! I'm still using LFS 5 on my desktop computer (Athlon XP 2800+) and now I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop too. My laptop is a Athlon 64 CPU and I like to know if is already possible to a newby like me to build the full system for 64 bits? I now how to compile applications, apply

About AMD64 support...

2005-12-27 Thread Renato Riolino
Hi all! I'm still using LFS 5 on my desktop computer (Athlon XP 2800+) and now I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop too. My laptop is a Athlon 64 CPU and I like to know if is already possible to a newby like me to build the full system for 64 bits? I now how to compile applications, ap

Re: RFC: GDBM or Berkeley DB?

2005-12-27 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Archaic wrote: > In order to make LFS usable in UTF-8 locales, and different man > program was chosen, man-DB. That program requires a database backend. > It can support GDBM or Berkeley DB. Let me play dumb here for a minute: Why? ;-) Would it be possible to do something similar to what we did

Resubmitting UTF-8 patch

2005-12-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, a number of typos and other mistakes have been found in my original UTF-8 book patch. Many thanks to Randy and Archaic for reading the whole thing. The corrected patch is at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/patches/lfs_book-r7236-utf8-1.patch Issues dealt with: * almost al

Dec 26th 2005 - 2006 is looing good - RYNL looks better

2005-12-27 Thread Terrance Gary
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