The Testing Area :: April extensions

Quote (WDef @ April 07 2008,02:54)

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Conclusion:
Still can't find the origin of
/usr/local/lib/libXau.so.0 and
/usr/local/lib/libXfont.so.0 in DSL.

Don'tJohn and Robert offer to send a cd containing all dsl sources for a few dollars (or something) as part of satisfying the GPL?

In which case, the sources to these libs must be on there.

Just checked DSL v0.4.10 published on October 16, 2003. Which predates me!

And there is
/usr/local/lib/libXau.so.0 and
/usr/local/lib/libXfont.so.0

This would suggest to me that its likely source would be when John compiled Keith Packard's Kdrive code for tinyX.

FYI: John is the maintainer of all things source. That is one of the main reasons why I write script. I am always losing things and that means source. Over the years I have only slightly modified jwm, xtdesk, and dfm. That source I made sure to give to John.

Thanks Roberts!

Re: Version of X11 in DSL chroot
I'm using xorg 7.3, because:
- xorg 7.x is modular, so the size of the sources altogether is very small.
- xorg 7.x is modular, it is very easy to build individual pieces. xfree86 works just as well, but building it is much "messier".

Re: DSL chroot
I finished the textfile version of the howto.
Now I have to format the howto in wiki markup.
These are the expected files:
debootstrap.tar.gz -- ???K
dsl_chroot.tar.gz -- ??M
dsl_chroot_docs.tar.gz -- ??K
lfs_sources.tar.gz -- ???K
("lfs_sources.tar.gz" contains wget urls to source tarballs.
Source tarballs are not included.)

A 100MB partition is needed to debootstrap Debian Woody.
Another 2.5G partition is needed to build everything.
(~400M safety margin.)

Estimated build times:
P-M/Athlon 64: Fast
P4/Athlon XP: OK
Pentium 3: Slow
Pentium 2: Horrifyingly slow

Quote (WDef @ April 07 2008,16:27)

I always use a toram dma boot from livecd, usually with java JRE uci and gtk2 installed (perhaps a conflict there?).

I am writing this post with your configuration:
DSL 4.2.5 from liveCD
boot options: dma toram
load extensions: jre1_5_0.uci and gtk2-0705.unc
then I load guipdftk.dsl

works OK!!

perhaps you have to try another time.

Tell me something!

Re: DSL chroot
I am trying to shorten the build process so that the user only needs to build gcc and glibc once, instead of twice.

That means that gcc will be compiled against glibc-2.2 on Woody, not LFS's glibc-2.3.2.
As long as no compatibility problems arise, this will save alot of time on slower systems.

p.s.
I will be very busy for the next few weeks, so I won't be able to come on here at all.

On testing/compile-3.3.5.uci (Juanito), downloaded April 2nd:

.../lib/libreadline.so.4.3 can be invalid because it points to /ramdisk/...
Should be just from /

.../lib/gconv points to an invalid reference to /KNOPPIX/usr/lib/gconv

I ran into some problems using bison, but it was noted in the .info that some old version was used for xf421.
I did not think the xf version used was 421, and looked at the notes/forums - which seems to indicated that 0.4.10 was the version that the tinyx servers were updated from cvs.
DSL v0.4.10 was released in October 2003, whereas xf430 was released in February 2003. So my guess is that it is probably some version based on 430.
My guess is that you saw the version from the packages page..?
Links: http://www.xfree86.org/xnews/#release43 and http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....4;t=756 and notes/archives

Did you consider adding glib-2.0 support in it? Libs seem to be in the base.

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