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Bruce Dubbs | 25 May 19:28
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BLFS Status

As of right now, we have

344 packages marked with lfs70_checked
274 packages marked with lfs71_checked
   0 packages marked with lfs6?_checked

There is one package not marked that I know of, icedtea, and that is 
being worked.

There are 15 open tickets.  Two are new apps, 11 are upgrades to 
existing packages (including icedtea).  Two tickets do not involve 
package upgrades.

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Bruce Dubbs | 24 May 01:00
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ssd drives

I decided to explore using an ssd drive.  I purchased a 40G Intel SSD 
and so far it works well with SVN-20120514.

I created a GPT partition table with a 10G partition using parted and 
formatted as ext4.

The performance seems to be good.  htparm gives me about 230 GB/s which 
is more than twice as fast as my usual drives that give about 105 GB/s.

My question is how to best use the new drive in BLFS.  I thought of /opt 
and /usr.  I don't think /home would be very good and of course I could 
try to mount it as /mnt/lfs and use it as /.

What would you try first?

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Bruce Dubbs | 23 May 06:26
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icedtea notes

I've been working on icedtea today.  The notes DJ used seem to build 
fine, but there are a lot of errors in the tests.  I'm going through the 
build a second time.  The first time I tested via ssh and a lot of the 
tests were just timing out so I aborted and started over.

The second time I was in an xfce session and set:

xset s off
xset dpms 0 0 0

to keep the screen blanker from kicking in.

What I've noticed is that the reason the tests take so long is that many 
time out.  If a test is going to pass, it seems to do it fairly quickly, 
but there are a lot of failures where the system is just sleeping.  The 
load factors run down to very small values.

I'm still going through the tests for a second time and these are the 
failures so far:

FAILED: com/sun/awt/SecurityWarning/GetSizeShouldNotReturnZero.java
FAILED: com/sun/awt/Translucency/WindowOpacity.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/connect/spi/DebugUsingCustomConnector.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/redefine/RedefineTest.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/redefineMethod/RedefineTest.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/sde/FilterMangleTest.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/sde/MangleStepTest.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/sde/MangleTest.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/sde/SourceDebugExtensionTest.java
FAILED: com/sun/jdi/sde/TemperatureTableTest.java
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Bruce Dubbs | 23 May 03:24
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nss

Looking at nss, the intro says:

* Estimated disk space required: 70 MB (more than double this to run the 
test suite)

* Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (at least an additional 3.5 SBU to run 
the test suite)

But the instructions say:

   "This package does not come with a test suite."

I looked at the Makefile and could not any test or check.  Is the intro 
data about a test suite just an oversight from prior versions?

The size and md5sum were correct and the build size and time were pretty 
close to what I had.

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Bruce Dubbs | 21 May 23:13
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colord check

I'm getting a failure in 'make check' in colord:

libcolord:ERROR:cd-self-test.c:971:colord_client_func: assertion failed 
(error == NULL): Could not connect: No such file or directory 
(g-io-error-quark, 1)
/bin/sh: line 5: 18614 Aborted                 ${dir}$tst
FAIL: cd-self-test

Has anyone else seen this?  The only dependency I haven't built is sane.

                     colord 0.1.19
                   ===================

         prefix:                    /usr
         datadir:                   ${datarootdir}
         compiler:                  gcc
         cflags:                    -g -O2
         cppflags:
         gobject-introspection:     yes
         PolicyKit support:         yes
         Reverse engineering tools: no
         File descriptor fallback:  yes
         External volume searching: yes
         SANE support:              no
         GUDEV support:             yes
         LCMS2 DICT support:
         Vala API generator:        no
         Daemon user:               root

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Armin K. | 21 May 21:21
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New Trac Tickets

I was in process of fetching source packages for my new LFS build 
(Current LFS SVN + new packages reported in LFS Trac) and I stumbled 
upon those. I'll try to do most of them myself, but help is welcome if 
anyone wants to help. If you want to help, just assign it to yourself. 
I'll mark rest when I get to those. Currently running check on full gcc 
suite which will take a long time I think.
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Andrew Benton | 20 May 02:55
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Holiday

Hello All,
I'll be away on holiday for a week so I won't be able to do any work
for a bit.

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Lars Bamberger | 19 May 12:44
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pan?

Looking for pan ...

I found a commit dated 11 May 2012 from Bruce in which pan was removed
from the book. Pan-0.137 was released just 1 May 2012 and compiles and
runs fine (CMMI with an optional switch to use gtk+3)

Was there any particular reason why this package was deleted?

Lars
(please excuse if I'm not up to date on all the changes in the book, I
have been offline for the last couple of months.)

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Lars Bamberger | 19 May 10:23
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guile-2.0.5

Hello,

trying to rebuild my productive system (gnucash ... ARGH!) .. it's a
long way.

Anyway: Current guile-2.0.5 is broken. I get this when I try to start guile:

> hermes~/build> guile Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 149: 2 [catch #t
> #<catch-closure 82bb550> ...] 157: 1 [#<procedure 82828c0 ()>] In
> unknown file: ?: 0 [catch-closure]
> 
> ERROR: In procedure catch-closure: ERROR: Throw to key
> `decoding-error' with args `("scm_from_stringn" "input locale
> conversion error" 22 #vu8(103 117 105 108 101))'.

This is a known error and fixed in guile commit
5de0053178b4acc793ae62838175e5f3ab56c603 and will be in guile-2.0.6.
(http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11083) However,
guile-2.0.6 is not released yet. I've installed guile-2.0.5.155-20e2d (a
snapshot from guile's homepage:
http://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/guile-2-0/tarball/latest)

This version installs OK, make check runs without any failures (there
was one with guile-2.0.5).

slib-3b3 now installs OK as per blfs instructions. (One more small step
towards gnucash.)

The book should be updated to guile-2.0.6 as soon it's out. Meanwhile,
I'd put a note on the wiki, but I don't have write permissions.
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Bruce Dubbs | 19 May 01:41
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Observations about firefox and xulrunner

I can build both Firefox and Xulrunner on my new SVN-20120514 system but 
had some issues that may or may not be significant.

I could not seem to get FF to build with the xulrunner linkage, although 
each built OK.

For FF, the command

tar -xvf firefox-build-dir/dist/firefox-12.0.en-US.linux-$(uname 
-m).tar.bz2 -C /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 --strip-components=1

hung on me.  I already had a /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 directory with items 
installed from previous builds, but deleting all the files there allowed 
the instruction ot complete.  We may want to do something like:

rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 &&
mkdir /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 &&
tar -xvf \
    firefox-build-dir/dist/firefox-12.0.en-US.linux-$(uname -m).tar.bz2 \
   -C /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 --strip-components=1

-----------

I tried to build xulrunner and use it for firefox, but the instructions 
in the book are a bit confusing.

I built xulrunner by the current instructions (-j1):

SBU=25.628
77188 /usr/src/firefox/firefox-12.0.source.tar.bz2 size (75.378 MB)
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Bruce Dubbs | 18 May 20:47
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pulseaudio

When running make check for pulse audio, I get a hand.  It says 
'sleeping (5s)' but it never completes.  Has anyone else seen this.

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