Tiny improvements to ESP Ghostscript build rules

Dear List, pst/espgs.html, for ES Ghostscript 8.15.2, was last updated 006-06-21 11:26:07 -0500, but could do with some more work. The 'configure' script tests for the presence of glib-2.0 (by way of gmodules-2.0) and also for glib-1.2. You don't mention glib-2.0, though glib-1.2 is

Re: Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18

Greg Schafer wrote: > unifdef will be included in the kernel tree for 2.6.19. It's already > committed in Linus's tree post 2.6.18. Oh. Well, that's better once we get 2.6.19, then... > It seems silly adding a crufty pkg to LFS that'll soon be ripped out. Yeah, I'd agree with that. Especially

"Explanation" in Unzip-5.52 needs work

Dear List, in general/unzip.html (for Unzip, version 5.52: 'live' version was last updated on 2006-06-21 11:26:07 -0500) LOCAL_UNZIP=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is 'explained' with /LOCAL_UNZIP=.../: This sets the compilation flags to allow UnZip to handle files upto 4 GB I suppose it's t

BLFS Exim instructions are randomly out-of-date

Dear List, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/mail.html#exim was "Last updated on 2006-06-21 11:26:07 -0500", and seems to have rather too many old version numbers. The references to *exim-4.43-2 should, of course, be updated to the relevant version (4.61 in Book

JDK (1.5.0_08): wrong .jar file name?

Dear List, your mileage may vary (depending on how you get to the file in question), but the name given for the binary .jar component of the JDK sources doesn't match what I found on the Sun web-site. jdk-1_5_0_08-fcs-bin-b03-08_aug_2006.jar is given (with MD5 sum 267653f0e425b4c

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I am signed up for the daily digest but nothing has come through for a few days. There are messages on gmane so it should be working. Is there a problem? Thanks, Peter -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above i

Re: BLFS Exim instructions are randomly out-of-date

On 9/26/06, Bernard Leak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/mail.html#exim was "Last updated on 2006-06-21 11:26:07 -0500", and seems to have rather too many old version numbers. The references to *exim-4.43-2 should, of course, be updated to the rel

Re: Xorg datadir [[was:::Re: BLFS 6.2]]

On 9/23/06, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Here's my main concern. Most packages install their app-defaults > settings and other info in ${datadir}/X11. What directories (and non > libraries) do you have in ${libdir}? IIRC, some things install their > configuratio