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Jeremy Huntwork | 1 Dec 2008 11:29
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libidn update

Hello,

I'm writing here because I figured that someone knows more about this 
than I do. BLFS currently has libidn-0.6.14 which was released in May of 
2007. On libidn's home page, http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/, there 
is a note saying that libidn-1.0 was released in July of 2007 and it's 
listing download locations on GNU's main ftp server instead of the alpha 
ftp server. The latest stable version appears to be 1.9 which was 
released in July of 2008.

Is there a particular reason that BLFS never updated (apart from lack of 
time/resources)? I just want to make sure there's no technical reason.

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Ken Moffat | 1 Dec 2008 15:01
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Re: libidn update

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 05:29:49AM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm writing here because I figured that someone knows more about this 
> than I do. BLFS currently has libidn-0.6.14 which was released in May of 
> 2007. On libidn's home page, http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/, there 
> is a note saying that libidn-1.0 was released in July of 2007 and it's 
> listing download locations on GNU's main ftp server instead of the alpha 
> ftp server. The latest stable version appears to be 1.9 which was 
> released in July of 2008.
> 
> Is there a particular reason that BLFS never updated (apart from lack of 
> time/resources)? I just want to make sure there's no technical reason.
> 
 I found it a month or two ago.  I could say 1.9 'works for me', but
as a native English speaker I'm not convinced I'm actually using it.
OTOH it _is_ linked from among others curl, xine, epiphany, cmake, yelp,
gnash, all of  which I've used.

 Probably it's a minority interest.

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Alexander E. Patrakov | 1 Dec 2008 15:15
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Re: libidn update

> OTOH it _is_ linked from among others curl, xine, epiphany, cmake, yelp,
> gnash, all of  which I've used.

Testcase (I think it should even be put into the book):

LANG=en_US xterm
in that xterm: curl http://räksmörgås.josefsson.org/

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DJ Lucas | 2 Dec 2008 06:28
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Re: ffMPEG

DJ Lucas wrote:
> *(September 8, 2008)* FFmpeg is undergoing major changes in its API/ABI. 
> The last valid revision for libavcodec version 51 is r15261.
>
> Guess we should go with this version for BLFS.  Anybody tried it yet?
>   
BTW...after getting completely ticked off looking at it better than 100 
times to figure out why libswscale wouldn't export....I took a day off.  
Apparently I needed it...I have no better excuse than tired eyes. :-)

Anyway, if you do an svn export (typical practice before generating a 
tarball), ffmpeg will not export correctly because libswscale/ is 
imported from another repo.   Do a cp -a and then remove libswscale/.svn.

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DJ Lucas | 2 Dec 2008 06:44
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Re: libidn update

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Testcase (I think it should even be put into the book):
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> LANG=en_US xterm
> in that xterm: curl http://räksmörgås.josefsson.org/
>   
Thanks for the testcase Alexander.  All of them have been invaluable to 
my limited uni-lingual mind (is that even a word?). Might be nice if an 
expectation was set.  :-)  I don't have curl installed yet so I haven't 
tried it. 

I assume the expected outcome is something to the effect of 'Resolving 
r\303\244ksm\303\266rg\303\245s.josefsson.org... failed: Name or service 
not known.', as it does with an old wget if not working...otherwise 
we'll be greeted with a raw copy of the index.

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Alexander E. Patrakov | 2 Dec 2008 11:30
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Re: libidn update

2008/12/2 DJ Lucas <dj <at> linuxfromscratch.org>:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>> Testcase (I think it should even be put into the book):
>>
>> LANG=en_US xterm
>> in that xterm: curl http://räksmörgås.josefsson.org/
>>
> Thanks for the testcase Alexander.  All of them have been invaluable to
> my limited uni-lingual mind (is that even a word?). Might be nice if an
> expectation was set.  :-)  I don't have curl installed yet so I haven't
> tried it.
>
> I assume the expected outcome is something to the effect of 'Resolving
> r\303\244ksm\303\266rg\303\245s.josefsson.org... failed: Name or service
> not known.', as it does with an old wget if not working...otherwise
> we'll be greeted with a raw copy of the index.

The expected outcome is a portion of HTML. Obviously, this works only
if you really have the en_US locale, i.e., the "locale" command in the
xterm doesn't print any errors. And your locale setup is indeed
incorrect, as "\303\244" appear, as if the paste resulted in UTF-8
bytes instead of ISO-8859-1, and as if bash treats these characters as
unprintable (this happens only in the "C" locale).

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Jeremy Huntwork | 2 Dec 2008 13:04
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Missing patch for libxcb

The instructions include the command:

patch -Np1 -i ../libxcb-1.1-sloppy_lock-1.patch

But the patch is not listed in the downloads section.

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Jeremy Huntwork | 2 Dec 2008 18:28
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xkeyboard-config and intltool

Hi,

I see on the xkeyboard-config page that intltool is listed as an 
optional dependency, but if I try building the current instructions as 
is without intltool, I get the following configure error:

checking for intltool >= 0.30... ./configure: line 3519: 
intltool-update: command not found
  found
configure: error: Your intltool is too old.  You need intltool 0.30 or 
later.
make[2]: *** [compile-stage2] Error 1

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

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Dan Nicholson | 2 Dec 2008 20:14
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Re: xkeyboard-config and intltool

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Jeremy Huntwork
<jhuntwork <at> linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see on the xkeyboard-config page that intltool is listed as an
> optional dependency, but if I try building the current instructions as
> is without intltool, I get the following configure error:
>
> checking for intltool >= 0.30... ./configure: line 3519:
> intltool-update: command not found
>  found
> configure: error: Your intltool is too old.  You need intltool 0.30 or
> later.
> make[2]: *** [compile-stage2] Error 1
>
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Wow, the autoconf macros for newer intltool have been totally changed.
Now you actually need intltool to be installed. That's pretty
unfortunate:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490620

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Jeremy Huntwork | 2 Dec 2008 20:35
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xorg-server and pixman

Hello,

I know there has been a lot of discussion on Xorg lately, so sorry if 
this is bringing up a known issue, but xorg-server also appears to 
require pixman now. The instructions in BLFS svn break for me at 
xorg-server because pixman is missing.

If I build and install pixman as per the instructions in the Xorg 
Libraries section, then xorg-server builds fine. Should be enough to 
just add the file name of the latest pixman file to the lib wget file.

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