Re: Xorg Dependencies

2007-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/10/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >>> * in xorg-server, but there's no way to enable it through configure. >>>You'd have to manually define "-DUSE_PAM". But, then you >>>could have /etc/pam.d/xserver. I'm not sure why there

Re: Warning: Xorg-7.1 libXfont broken with new Freetype

2007-02-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/10/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/10/07 15:02 CST: > > > Yeah, we'll move to the new series of libXfont when Xorg-7.2 comes out > > (any time now, but no official announcement yet). We can also drop the > > security patch then, too. You co

Re: Warning: Xorg-7.1 libXfont broken with new Freetype

2007-02-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/10/07 15:02 CST: > Yeah, we'll move to the new series of libXfont when Xorg-7.2 comes out > (any time now, but no official announcement yet). We can also drop the > security patch then, too. You could probably use it with Xorg-7.1, but > I haven't looked into

Re: Warning: Xorg-7.1 libXfont broken with new Freetype

2007-02-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/10/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/10/07 14:49 CST: > > > This mail being sent as just an FYI for the archives. > > I forgot to add that there is much more information about this at: > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1988 Yea

Re: Xorg Dependencies

2007-02-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/10/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > * in xorg-server, but there's no way to enable it through configure. > >You'd have to manually define "-DUSE_PAM". But, then you > >could have /etc/pam.d/xserver. I'm not sure why there's not an > >eas

Re: Warning: Xorg-7.1 libXfont broken with new Freetype

2007-02-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/10/07 14:49 CST: > This mail being sent as just an FYI for the archives. I forgot to add that there is much more information about this at: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1988 -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.26] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc

Warning: Xorg-7.1 libXfont broken with new Freetype

2007-02-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Apparently, the libXfont package we use in BLFS has not been updated to use FreeType >=2.2.0. They are still using Internal API calls which are now deprecated, and the build fails. I'm sure we can find a patch. This mail being sent as just an FYI for the archives. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bo

Xorg Dependencies

2007-02-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
[Moving this to blfs-dev, as the discussion is now moving towards book development] Dan Nicholson wrote: > I just grepped all the sources for instances of pam or PAM. There are > only two places it's used. > > * xdm, where it will try to use PAM if it find's it and you can >create an /etc/pa

Re: Vim testsuite

2007-02-10 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Σαβ, Φεβ 10, at 10:46 Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/10/07, Ag. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All I know (from another source but me,A.J.Mechelynck),is that some > > warnings are > > common and unavoidable,such as those that coming when you enable the various > > interfaces e.g p

Re: Glibc-2.5 build errors (limits.h etc)

2007-02-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/10/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My question is: Why does the package try to install something *from* a > location that is outside its own files. Its own files reside on, in > this case, > > {/mnt/lfs}/tools/glibc-build/ and > {/mnt/lfs}/tools/glibc-$glibc-version > > but it

Re: Glibc-2.5 build errors (limits.h etc)

2007-02-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > Yes, but in general it doesn't matter *where* you build stuff, it will > still work fine. > > However, this does seem to be an exception in the case of Glibc > 2.5...I've been testing it myself, and I get a build failure due to the > same problem, as it keeps complaining t

Re: Glibc-2.5 build errors (limits.h etc)

2007-02-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/10/07, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently, if there is an "include" dir one level up from the Glibc > build dir, it automatically copies headers from there into the default > include dir. Obviously, this means that if you build Glibc in /tools, it > tries to copy from "glibc

Re: Dependencies on debuggers

2007-02-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 02/09/07 23:59 CST: > The issue is that sometimes Electric Fence is used not for testsuite, but > for some other purpose (e.g.: in order to allow the person who develops the > application to do better debugging). I wouldn't like it if one puts > debugg

Re: Glibc-2.5 build errors (limits.h etc)

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Staub
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Saturday 10 February 2007 06:23, Dan Winkler wrote: > >> i unpack the package in /mnt/lfs/tools then follow the instructions. > > Why? It's recommended that all packages should live in /sources and be > unpacked there. See 3.1: Introduction > > "Downloaded packages

Re: Install Vim to /bin?

2007-02-10 Thread Aki Tuomi
Gilles Espinasse kirjoitti: > - Original Message - > From: "Robert Connolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hardened LFS Development List" > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:10 AM > Subject: Re: Install Vim to /bin? > >> I copied vim, symlinked vi to it, in a chroot with just bash and > l

Re: Glibc-2.5 build errors (limits.h etc)

2007-02-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Saturday 10 February 2007 06:23, Dan Winkler wrote: > i unpack the package in /mnt/lfs/tools then follow the instructions. Why? It's recommended that all packages should live in /sources and be unpacked there. See 3.1: Introduction "Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stored so