Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.1 patch

2013-11-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matt Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 23:01 +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just a note, current svn-version referres to kbd-2.0.1-backspace-1.patch but >> only the 2.0.0 version is on the server. > > Thanks for the report. I forgot to commit that patch, but it turns out > that Igor

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.1 patch

2013-11-12 Thread Matt Burgess
On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 23:01 +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi, > > just a note, current svn-version referres to kbd-2.0.1-backspace-1.patch but > only the 2.0.0 version is on the server. Thanks for the report. I forgot to commit that patch, but it turns out that Igor committed it on my behalf bac

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-19 Thread Igor Živković
On 2013-09-18 18:50, Igor Živković wrote: > On 2013-09-18 18:36, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Matthew Burgess wrote: >>> >>> >>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tools/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/usr >>> --disable-vlock >> >> ??? That's already in the book at SVN-20130915. > > Yes, indeed, it is. Somehow jhal

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-18 Thread Matt Burgess
On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 11:36 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > > > Darn! I hit that, changed it locally but somehow lost it prior to the > > commit. I'll fix up tonight. In the meantime, if you haven't already > > done so, you can use: > > > > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tools/lib/pkgco

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Igor Živković wrote: >> On 2013-09-18 18:36, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Matthew Burgess wrote: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tools/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-vlock >>> >>> ??? That's already in the book at SVN-20130915. >> >> Yes, indeed, it is. Someho

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-18 Thread Igor Živković
On 2013-09-18 18:36, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> >> >> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tools/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/usr >> --disable-vlock > > ??? That's already in the book at SVN-20130915. Yes, indeed, it is. Somehow jhalfs didn't pick it up. By the way, the latest generate

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Igor Živković wrote: > On 2013-09-18 18:36, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Matthew Burgess wrote: >>> >>> >>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tools/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/usr >>> --disable-vlock >> >> ??? That's already in the book at SVN-20130915. > > Yes, indeed, it is. Somehow jhalfs didn't pick it up. By

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:00:27 +0200, Igor Živković > wrote: > >> checking for CHECK... no >> configure: error: Package requirements (check >= 0.9.4) were not met: >> >> No package 'check' found >> >> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you >> ins

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:00:27 +0200, Igor Živković wrote: > checking for CHECK... no > configure: error: Package requirements (check >= 0.9.4) were not met: > > No package 'check' found > > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you > installed software in a non-standard

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 05:34:32PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> Yes, I intend to make 7.3 from svn on Friday, but I can delay that if we >> think we need to. I do hesitate to put things off because new packages >> just keep on turning up. On average, a new package in LFS is

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 05:34:32PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Yes, I intend to make 7.3 from svn on Friday, but I can delay that if we > think we need to. I do hesitate to put things off because new packages > just keep on turning up. On average, a new package in LFS is released > once eve

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:25:55PM +, Matt Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 22:47 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > So perhaps we should just disable them again ? I've given up > > caring wither way, I'd just like the book to be consistent in what > > is documented ;-) > > Like you, I'm

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:56:10PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> Since I don't use normally kbd at all, my experiences are limited. I >> almost never use the 'console' except via ssh and fonts are then >> controlled by the remote terminal program. >> >> I'll defer to your jud

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Matt Burgess
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 22:47 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > So perhaps we should just disable them again ? I've given up > caring wither way, I'd just like the book to be consistent in what > is documented ;-) Like you, I'm not particularly fussed either way. As it's useless without a BLFS package

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:56:10PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Since I don't use normally kbd at all, my experiences are limited. I > almost never use the 'console' except via ssh and fonts are then > controlled by the remote terminal program. > > I'll defer to your judgement. Just give me

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > In LFS-7.2 we removed resizecons because at that time it only > installed on "i386" and it was generally useless for LFS users. My > explanation said: > > Remove the redundant resizecons program (32-bit x86 only, needs the > defunct svgalib, which predates linux-2.6 and is in

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5 : resizecons

2013-02-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:22:11PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > In LFS-7.2 we removed resizecons because at that time it only > installed on "i386" and it was generally useless for LFS users. My > explanation said: > > Remove the redundant resizecons program (32-bit x86 only, needs the > defunct s

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-1.15.5-backspace-1.patch missing

2012-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: > May be need a symbolic link OK, done. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-07 Thread g . esp
- Mail original - > De: "Ken Moffat" > À: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" > Envoyé: Jeudi 7 Juin 2012 01:27:34 > Objet: Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86 > > > 2. How did you decide on that date and time ? In a just un

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> 2. How did you decide on that date and time ? > > Um. Yeah. I looked at what "ls -l" with no special configuration was > telling me, and picked a time that was comfortably earlier than the > mtime on aclocal.m4. > > This is probably completely unusabl

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > It's a neat exercise to get it as small as possible. Not very critical > though when RAM is $4/G, disk is $0.50/G, and even SSDs are down to $1/G. Again, it's not just about disk space or available RAM. It's about (as one example) the time it tak

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Ken Moffat wrote: > 2. How did you decide on that date and time ? Um. Yeah. I looked at what "ls -l" with no special configuration was telling me, and picked a time that was comfortably earlier than the mtime on aclocal.m4. This is probably completely unusable for people in other timezones; I d

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 6/6/12 9:21 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> >>> (Major tangent now) My main motive for wanting to keep a very >>> lightweight base system isn't so much size on disk as image size (a >>> complete base system image). This is a somewhat important conside

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 6/6/12 9:21 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > >> (Major tangent now) My main motive for wanting to keep a very >> lightweight base system isn't so much size on disk as image size (a >> complete base system image). This is a somewhat important consideration >> if you want to be ea

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > (Major tangent now) My main motive for wanting to keep a very > lightweight base system isn't so much size on disk as image size (a > complete base system image). This is a somewhat important consideration > if you want to be easily transferring / duplicating / manipula

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 6/6/12 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > 1. It may encourage the people who are resurrecting the "drop > autotools from LFS" suggestion :) Too late, I'm already encouraged! :P Seriously though, I really didn't intend to bring up that discussion again. I only wanted to get rid of popt. :) But that

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:41:39PM -0700, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > That doesn't explain why it gets run in this particular case though. > We're editing configure, which should set its mtime to "right now", > which should be later than configure.ac. Unless configure.ac is > shipping with an mtime

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:51:23PM +0100, Matt Burgess wrote: >> Why is sedding configure not enough? I don't doubt it isn't, but >> can't think why. My understanding is that configure.ac is used as >> input to generate configure. Therefore, whatever Makefile rules >> are in

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:51:23PM +0100, Matt Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 17:35 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:26:34PM +0800, xinglp wrote: > > > I got it. We need to sed configure.ac instead of configure. > > > configure was regenerated after ./configure >

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-05 Thread Matt Burgess
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 17:35 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:26:34PM +0800, xinglp wrote: > > I got it. We need to sed configure.ac instead of configure. > > configure was regenerated after ./configure > > Doh! Sometimes I'm a slow learner You and me both, evidentally..

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:26:34PM +0800, xinglp wrote: > I got it. We need to sed configure.ac instead of configure. > configure was regenerated after ./configure Doh! Sometimes I'm a slow learner : Bryan explained this a little while ago. In this case, sedding configure.ac and then manual

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-04 Thread xinglp
2012/6/5 Ken Moffat : > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:45:54PM +0800, xinglp wrote: >> I just finished the SVN-20120603 lfs build. The resizecons was still >> there, only the manpage removed. > >  I stopped building 32-bit x86 a long time ago, so I don't have a > build environment to prove the change w

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd resizecons was still build on 32-bit x86

2012-06-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:45:54PM +0800, xinglp wrote: > I just finished the SVN-20120603 lfs build. The resizecons was still > there, only the manpage removed. I stopped building 32-bit x86 a long time ago, so I don't have a build environment to prove the change works. But, a quick test shows

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Thomas Pegg
On May 18, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/18/12 3:36 PM, Qrux wrote: >> I'll let you and Bruce continue on about experimentation, etc. I would >> ordinarily chime in (and suggest probably more flame-worthy stuff like >> moving to git would foster more experimentation, because th

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 5/18/12 3:36 PM, Qrux wrote: > I'll let you and Bruce continue on about experimentation, etc. I would > ordinarily chime in (and suggest probably more flame-worthy stuff like > moving to git would foster more experimentation, because the effort of > merging would be front-loaded on forkers--not

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Qrux
On May 18, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/18/12 5:22 AM, Qrux wrote: >> But, let's not make it a crime to clarify. If Ken would rather assert >> that I'm not "new" to the community, then to the extent that his >> assertion is valid I'd say that I see a lot of GroupThink(TM) in L

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 5/18/12 12:34 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > I agree with all these points, but being stable and > re-thinking/experimenting are not mutually exclusive. Again, it's a > matter of process and organization. But the typical behavior I've seen > is to nay-say new ideas because it does not fit in with

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 5/18/12 11:37 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jeremy, I think you overstate the issues. To me, LFS is a leading edge > system, > but not a bleeding edge system. On one hand we try to keep up to date with > the > current package releases, but we try to stay away from intermediate versions > that lie

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 18 May 2012 10:28:11 +0100 Qrux wrote: > > On May 17, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > Since you are using Applemail, I think the problem is that it is using \r > > for > > newlines instead of \n. I see your mail wrapped, but when replying, it > > doesn't > > wrap automat

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > The world is not a static place, especially the world of computing. Just > because we've done something a certain way for a long time and it > brought us successfully to this point doesn't mean that there is not now > a compelling reason to do it differently. Perhaps we

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 5/18/12 5:22 AM, Qrux wrote: > But, let's not make it a crime to clarify. If Ken would rather assert > that I'm not "new" to the community, then to the extent that his > assertion is valid I'd say that I see a lot of GroupThink(TM) in LFS. > Most is probably good. But there are often ruffled f

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Markku Pesonen
Qrux wrote: > @Markku...I meant no offense. I've always just assumed that devs > work on the console in English, with a US keyboard layout. A lot of > devs have to do that, since i18n isn't always a top prio for bleeding > edge stuff (e.g., Xen). I just figured devs would choose the path of > few

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Qrux
On May 17, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Since you are using Applemail, I think the problem is that it is using \r for > newlines instead of \n. I see your mail wrapped, but when replying, it > doesn't > wrap automatically. It's easy enough fo rme to to edit->rewrap though. That's

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 06:18:30PM -0700, Qrux wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Qrux wrote: > >> > >> Console fonts (and asking people to build FB support in kernels) seem like > >> a waste of effort when most people probably spend 99% of their time SSH'ed > >> in to th

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: > On May 17, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Qrux wrote: >>> Console fonts (and asking people to build FB support in kernels) seem >>> like a waste of effort when most people probably spend 99% of their time >>> SSH'ed in to their LFS