OO.o from rawhide build
by Behdad Esfahbod
Hi
I'm trying to build OO.o from rawhide SRPM. The configure is
called as:
./configure --enable-libart --enable-libsn
--with-lang="%{languages}" --disable-java --with-mozilla
But I still get:
checking whether to build with Java support... no
checking for javac... no
checking for java... /usr/java/jre/bin/java
checking the installed JDK... configure: error: JDK is too old,
you need at least 1.3
Weird,
behdad,
20 years, 6 months
FriBidi needed?
by Behdad Esfahbod
Hi all,
AFAIK fribidi is included in FC as AbiWord requires it, but just
now I found that abiword SRPM contains a copy of the fribidi it
needs. So is there any other reason for it to be in? I'm asking
it because fribidi is going to have a major release which is not
ABI compatible, so if there's no reason for the inclusion, I (as
the maintainer) prefer it not to be.
behdad,
20 years, 6 months
rhgb-0.10.2-1
by Kevin Worthington
I've been reading about how nice the new graphical boot up looks, so I just installed the latest (to my knowledge) rhgb (rhgb-0.10.2-1) via yum, and changed my runlevel in /etc/inittab to 5. (I usually just ssh in to the box on runlevel 3) The boot process looks very clean and professional. I really like the way it is shaping up. Many newbies will feel comfortable with the look and feel of the graphical boot, rather that the "cold white on black" console mode.
I have a few suggestions and questions, in order of the boot process (excuse me if some or all of these have been addressed before):
1. Is it possible to suppress the initial "console-ish" dmesg, before the graphical interface kicks in?
2. Why is there a pause between the bootup, and the graphical login screen? It seems like X kicks out, and then restarts. It seems a little "un-refined", for lack of better words.
3. Now that there is a nice looking boot up process, what about a nice shutdown process? Are there any plans to make the shutdown/reboot look as nice as the graphical boot up? Would anybody else be interested in something like this?
Thanks in advance...
-Kev
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20 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20031014 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
curl-7.10.6-6
-------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 7.10.6-6
- add OpenLDAP copyright notice for usage of code, add OpenLDAP
license for this code
dia-0.91-3
----------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 1:0.91-2
- Fix font size (backport from cvs). Fixes bug #106045
- Fix libxslt issue (bug #106863)
* Wed Jun 04 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Wed May 28 2003 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 1:0.91-1
- Update to 0.91
- Remove printing patch, it doesn't nearly apply yet, and might
not be needed since dia is all utf8:y now.
* Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Fri Jan 10 2003 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 0.90-9
- Remove duplicate desktop files
* Fri Dec 06 2002 Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild
* Tue Sep 03 2002 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 0.90-8
- dia-0.90-printing.patch: applied to support CJK printing. (#67733)
* Thu Aug 29 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com>
- Fix problems with the manual DTD
* Wed Aug 28 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com>
- Pass --enable-db2html to configure so we get docs
* Fri Aug 23 2002 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 0.90-6
- Made desktopfile symlink absolute, fixes #71991
* Tue Aug 13 2002 Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com>
- remove libpng10 patches, now using libpng12, #71416
* Mon Jul 29 2002 Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com>
- put pristine upstream tarball back
- fix up desktop files
* Tue Jul 23 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- fix menu entry (#69564)
* Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- automated rebuild
* Tue Jun 11 2002 root <alexl(a)redhat.com> 0.90-1
- Updated to 0.90 from upstream. Removed outdated patches, updated png10 patch.
* Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- automated rebuild
* Wed Jan 30 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild against png10
* Thu Jan 24 2002 Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild in rawhide
* Thu Jul 19 2001 Havoc Penningtoon <hp(a)redhat.com>
- Add some more build requires, #44732
* Tue Jul 10 2001 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com>
- Disable doc generation, since it breaks.
* Mon Jul 09 2001 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com>
- Updated from upstream (0.88.1)
- Removed source1 (ja.po) since it was in upstream
- Disabled patch1 since it breaks 8bit non-multibyte locales.
- Updated patch 3
* Fri Jun 15 2001 Havoc Penningtoon <hp(a)redhat.com>
- add some BuildRequires
* Fri Feb 23 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(a)redhat.com>
- langify
- use %{_tmppath}
* Fri Feb 09 2001 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com>
- -2
- Fixed install po.
- Updated Japanese translation.
Note: Please remove Source1: when release the next upstream version.
- Added Japanese patch.
- -3
- Fixed text render bug.
* Mon Jan 29 2001 Preston Brown <pbrown(a)redhat.com>
- upgraded to fix i18n issues (#24875)
* Fri Aug 11 2000 Jonathan Blandford <jrb(a)redhat.com>
- Up Epoch and release
* Fri Aug 04 2000 Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com>
- Whatever, 15321 was already fixed (it's under plain Applications),
change the group back
* Fri Aug 04 2000 Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com>
- Put it in Applications/Graphics bug 15321
* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla(a)redhat.com>
- automatic rebuild
* Tue Jun 06 2000 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- fixed manpage location
- use %makinstall
* Mon May 01 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- updates to 0.84, added alpha back in
* Mon Nov 08 1999 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- updated to 0.81
* Mon Aug 30 1999 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- changed group
* Tue Aug 17 1999 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- exludearch alpha dumps core when you do anything
* Mon Jul 12 1999 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt for 6.1
* Wed Apr 28 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown(a)redhat.com>
- initial build for Powertools 6.0
gkrellm-2.1.21-1
----------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 2.1.21-1
- update:
- fix temperature reads from /proc/acpi
- Use username instead of userid in session management userid property.
Fixes no session restarts in KDE 3.1.4.
- de.po update
hwbrowser-0.12-1
----------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 0.12-1
- update language list (bug #106607)
kdebase-3.1.4-4
---------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.4-4
- add patch to allow different icon size in kicker menu
- don't reset icon size to 20x20 if it's greater than 20
* Fri Oct 10 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.4-3
- add patch files from Hans de Goede, (bug #63473, #80650, #80651)
kdegames-3.1.4-2
----------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.4-2
- backport from CVS to fix atlantikdesigner crashed on startup
- fix miscompiled code, (bug #106198, #106888)
man-1.5k-12
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* Thu Oct 09 2003 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 1.5k-12
- restore russian locale (#81929)
- force utf locale with jnroff (#105764)
- don't let awk in makewhatis scan files that aren't man pages (#105594)
mozilla-1.0.2-2.7.3
-------------------
* Fri Aug 09 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> 1.0.1-14
- Update to newer snapshot.
- Require htmlview since the redhat-web.desktop is going to use it.
* Thu Aug 08 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Update to a newer snapshot
- Native themes patch (really, merge theme changes back from the trunk)
* Sun Aug 04 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Update to a newer snapshot.
* Thu Aug 01 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Update to a newer snapshot.
* Wed Jul 24 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Use redhat-menus files.
- Use over-the-spot by default.
* Fri Jul 12 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Fix Comment section in desktop file.
* Thu Jul 11 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Rebuild with newer snapshot.
* Wed Jul 10 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Rebuild using gcc 2.96.
* Mon Jul 08 2002 Chris Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Include patch to try to get flash working
- Update to newer 1.0.1 snapshot
* Mon Jul 01 2002 Chris Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Update to newer 1.0.1 snapshot
- Move libs into the system that need to be there
* Tue Jun 25 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Change mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl to remove compreg.dat as well as
component.reg.
* Sun Jun 23 2002 Chris Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Move nspr + nss back into /usr/lib
* Thu Jun 20 2002 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com>
- Time for a new changelog.
mozilla-1.4.1-8
---------------
net-snmp-5.0.9-2
----------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 5.0.9-2
- Due to rpm-devel we need elfutils-devel, too (#103982).
php-4.3.3-4
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* Mon Oct 13 2003 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.3-4
- drop recode support, symbols collide with MySQL
* Sun Oct 12 2003 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.3-3
- split domxml extension into php-domxml subpackage
- enable xslt and xml support in domxml extension (#106042)
- fix httpd-devel build requirement (#104341)
- enable recode extension (#106755)
- add workaround for #103982
prelink-0.3.0-9
---------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 0.3.0-9
- avoid prelink crash if first dependency is to be prelinked because
of address space overlaps
rawhide-release-20031014-1
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redhat-config-keyboard-1.1.5-2
------------------------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.5-2
- pull in Croatian translation (bug #106617)
* Thu Aug 14 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.5-1
- tag on every build
* Wed Jul 02 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.3-2
- bump release and rebuild
redhat-config-language-1.0.16-1
-------------------------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.0.16-1
- rebuild for latest translations (bug #106618)
redhat-config-mouse-1.1.2-1
---------------------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.2-1
- rebuild with latest translations
redhat-config-xfree86-0.9.10-1
------------------------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 0.9.10-1
- make sure current is initialized (bug #106884)
* Mon Oct 06 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 0.9.9-3
- add a Requires for XFree86 (bug #105992)
s390utils-1.2.1-1.1
-------------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- rebuild for development stream
* Thu Oct 09 2003 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 2:1.2.1-1
- secound round at updating to 1.2.1
* Thu Oct 09 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- first round at updating to 1.2.1
xcdroast-0.98a14-2
------------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 0.98a14-2
- added patches from xcdroast.org to work again
with the cdrtools-2.01a17 or newer.
xmms-1.2.8-2.p
--------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:1.2.8-2.p
- workaround to fix arts crash
xpdf-2.03-1
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* Mon Oct 13 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:2.03-1
- 2.03
- remove xpdf-2.02pl1.patch, which is included in 2.03
- fix warning issue (bug #106313)
- fix huge memory leak, (bug #89552)
20 years, 6 months
/etc/redhat-release?
by Michael Schwendt
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Is known yet what will happen to /etc/redhat-release?
In case the 2nd Severn Beta will be the first Fedora Core "test"
release, will /etc/redhat-release be gone already and reappear as
/etc/fedora-release?
Sort of
$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 0.90.94 (Severn)
or similar? Or will there be a different transition?
Any known details would be interesting in order to prepare some
src.rpms in Fedora.us's Severn repository for Cambridge.
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20 years, 6 months
sane dependencies -- a positive look at 'fix your packages'
by Andy Hanton
I think that the 'Kind request: fix your packages' thread is going off
course by discussing how to fix what we have instead of what we need to
implement to make Sean's vision possible while making it possible to
support older systems easily.
I think that we need development tools that work more like the tools on
Mac OS classic. Macs didn't actually have libraries so they got some
very cool features for free. You can actually build an application on
Mac OS 9 and run it on Mac OS 1. You don't need a chroot environment or
any other fancy setup. All you need to do is stick to the API that Mac
OS 1.0 supported and it just works. The bad part was that if you used a
function that wasn't supported the application would crash at runtime.
Because Linux has library versioning it should be able to get the
flexibility of compiling easily for older systems while knowing for sure
that the binary will work on the old systems.
On Linux the dependencies of a library or binary get inflated by the
system. For example all binaries built on Redhat 9 depend on libc 2.3
but they usually don't depend on any new APIs introduced in 2.3. If
each developer compiled against the minimal library versions necessary
then the resulting binaries would be nearly universal when used with an
rpm repository. For example it would be possible to compile abiword 2.0
with gnome support on RedHat 9 or Fedora 1.0 and have the same binary
run on redhat 7.3. The package manager would automatically the gnome2
platform libraries from the Fedora 1.0 release and install them.
Although it would require more disk space, end users would probably
prefer to have only one Linux/i386 binary just like there is only one
Windows binary.
I am not a compiler guru, so I don't know how we get there. It might be
a good idea to compile the core of the OS inside a LSB chroot. Another
possibility might be using pkg-config to request a specific minor
version of a library. It might look something like gcc -o foo foo.c
`pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0:2.0 libgnome-2.0:2.0 libc-2:2.2`
The library would implement this by specifying a preprocessor macro to
set with the requested library version number. Then it would add ifdefs
to the headers so that only the symbols available in the particular
version would be available. It would be cool to support aliases for
different versions. For example gtk+-2.0:LSB_2_0 might be equivalent to
gtk+-2.0:2.0.
There might be some extra linker magic necessary, but since RedHat
employs lots of compiler tool chain experts I don't think it would be
impossible. It might be possible to reuse whatever tools the LSB
project is using to generate stub libraries for each minor version of
every library.
To make the automatic dependency fetching work right the repository
should probably provide a mapping between library names and package
names. I would think that it would be easy to write a script that would
extract this information from all the rpms in a yum or apt-get
repository and write it to a file with a standardized name and
location.
In this setup a few programs that can optionally use a feature that a
newer distribution has would need to be compiled more than once.
Packagers wouldn't need to figure out the dependency information because
the developer would have already done that work. Unfortunately, if a
single binaries could be built to run on any recent Linux system, then
the author of the code would probably package the binary themselves.
Some Fedora developers would need to find a new way to spend their free
time. ;-)
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20 years, 6 months
GCC-3.3 and OO.org
by Thomas Dodd
Two quickies (I hope).
1) What problems would ugrading from gcc-3.2.2-5 to gcc-3.3.1-6 pose?
2) Why does OpenOffice.org-1.1 have a buld requirement of gcc-3.3.1?
http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_linux.html states:
gcc: OpenOffice.org has been successfully build under Linux using the
gcc versions 3.0.x, 3.1.1, and 3.2.x. Older versions were built with gcc
2.95.2. Version 2.96 does not work! gcc 3.3.0 works on the 1.1, 3.3.1
does not work yet.
So what "fixes" to get 3.3.1 working broke 3.2.2?
-Thomas
20 years, 6 months
new release
by Thomas Vander Stichele
Hello,
I released a new version of mach. 0.4.1, "Get A Room", is out the door.
mach is a tool that's useful for setting up clean root environments, and
build clean packages in them as well.
Changes since last release:
- added Red Hat 7.0, 7.1
- added Yellowdog 2.3, 3.0
- added Fedora Core 0.94
- added FreshRPMS targets
- make "mach apt-get" run interactive
- implemented "mach status"
- fix permissions on copied sources
- unlock root on successful build
- allow "." in mach-helper
Release notes are attached.
Homepage is at http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach
Enjoy and give me feedback.
Thomas
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20 years, 6 months