[lfs-dev] Perl and Groff, plus some issues with BLFS

2012-11-10 Thread Wolf
Why is Perl installed after Groff? If Groff was installed before Perl, the man1dir and man3dir arguments to Perl's configure could be omitted, as far as I know. Also, I noticed some issues with the BLFS book, mostly missing dependencies: - Exo requires Perl Module URI - Xfce4-session has a hard

Re: [lfs-dev] Perl and Groff, plus some issues with BLFS

2012-11-10 Thread Wolf
On 11/10/2012 4:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wolf wrote: >> Why is Perl installed after Groff? > > It's not. Groff uses perl and it is hard coded as /usr/bin/perl in > several places. > >If Groff was installed before Perl, >> the man1dir and man3dir arg

Re: [lfs-dev] Perl and Groff, plus some issues with BLFS

2012-11-10 Thread Wolf
On 11/10/2012 4:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wolf wrote: >> Why is Perl installed after Groff? > > It's not. Groff uses perl and it is hard coded as /usr/bin/perl in > several places. > >If Groff was installed before Perl, >> the man1dir and man3dir arg

Re: [lfs-dev] Perl and Groff, plus some issues with BLFS

2012-11-15 Thread Wolf
On 11/10/2012 4:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wolf wrote: >> Why is Perl installed after Groff? > > It's not. Groff uses perl and it is hard coded as /usr/bin/perl in > several places. > >If Groff was installed before Perl, >> the man1dir and man3dir arg

[lfs-dev] More issues with BLFS

2012-11-22 Thread Wolf
I've noticed the issues I've pointed out getting fixed, so here's a couple more: - Tumbler has optional dependencies on GStreamer, libgsf, and libopenraw. - Wireshark has an optional dependency on libcap2. Lastly, and this is a matter of opinion, BLFS is lacking both an IDE and a programmer's e

Re: [lfs-dev] More issues with BLFS

2012-11-22 Thread Wolf
On 11/22/2012 11:08 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wolf wrote: >> I've noticed the issues I've pointed out getting fixed, so here's a >> couple more: >> >> - Tumbler has optional dependencies on GStreamer, libgsf, and libopenraw. >> - Wireshark has an o

[lfs-dev] BLFS & Freetype patents

2012-11-30 Thread Wolf
Is the sed command in BLFS still necessary for subpixel rendering? The link given, http://www.freetype.org/patents.html says that all the patents have expired, and that the functionality has been enabled by default since version 2.4. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [lfs-dev] BLFS & Freetype patents

2012-11-30 Thread Wolf
On 11/30/2012 4:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wolf wrote: >> Is the sed command in BLFS still necessary for subpixel rendering? The >> link given, http://www.freetype.org/patents.html says that all the >> patents have expired, and that the functionality has been enable

Re: [lfs-dev] BLFS & Freetype patents

2012-11-30 Thread Wolf
On 11/30/2012 6:14 PM, g@free.fr wrote: > > > - Mail original - >> De: "Wolf" >> À: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" >> Envoyé: Vendredi 30 Novembre 2012 23:29:03 >> Objet: Re: [lfs-dev] BLFS & Freetype patents > >> >&g

[lfs-dev] BLFS Xfconf dependencies

2012-12-02 Thread Wolf
Glib-1.262 is only required to build Xfconf's Perl bindings; it is not required to build Xfconf. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] BLFS Xfconf dependencies

2012-12-02 Thread Wolf
On 12/2/2012 5:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wolf wrote: >> Glib-1.262 is only required to build Xfconf's Perl bindings; it is not >> required to build Xfconf. >> > > Wrong list. Use blfs-support or blfs-dev. You might want to add some > more detail too. >