Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread Coert Waagmeester
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system (AMD64). But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best rega

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-09, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I don't mind system administration but I don't want to be a programmer >> any more. ??I'd like to hire programmers to work in the manner >> described above. ??They would each work on modules and not know about >> the system as a whole. ??How can something like

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-09, Florian Philipp wrote: > Well, there are two ways to go here: > 1. Modularize what you have. Give every developer only the source he >is supposed to work on and binary interfaces (libs + header files >for C/C++) and documentation for everything else. > >Then the devs w

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-09, Grant wrote: >> So is your question really "how do I modularize my code"? > > I'm most interested in the part about developers not knowing about > the system as a whole. I'd like developers to work on my code, but > prevent them from selling the code or using it themselves. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/9/2010 6:45 PM, Stroller wrote: On 9/11/2010, at 9:03pm, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find someonewhounderstands French and knows the answer to your problem, but the odds arenotgood.

[gentoo-user] Maya 2011 anyone

2010-11-09 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys, I've been trying to install Maya 2011 for some time now. I get the rpms unpacked (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15770983&linkID=9242259) with no major difficulties. The dynamic linking needed is in place (ebuild I'm writing to make life easier for o

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-09 Thread Stroller
On 9/11/2010, at 4:04pm, Alex Schuster wrote: > ... >> I need to mention here that the machine is a laptop which I use >> regularly on train journeys (bumpy ride). The drive has a Seagate >> G-Force Protection™ which is meant to park the head in case of a fall. > > Which probably would not help

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Stroller
On 9/11/2010, at 9:03pm, Fatih Tümen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find >> someonewhounderstands French and knows the answer to your problem, but the >> odds arenotgood. I don't speak French at all,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, wrote: > Selon Alan McKinnon : > >> Apparently, though unproven, at 10:21 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, >> alain.didierj...@free.fr did opine thusly: >> >> > As the subject says, here's what I get: >> >> What's the output just before the section you posted? >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-09 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/11/9 Paul Hartman : > Hi, > > I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was > manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all > those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I > did a few days worth of updating to bring it up to

[gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-09 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I did a few days worth of updating to bring it up to current kernel and ~amd64 package le

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:05:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I suggest you find and post to a French speaking list, or translate the > French error messages to English. LANG="en" emerge foo... should have GCC spit out English error messages. -- Neil Bothwick The best things in life are free, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/9/10, Grant wrote: > I've been working on a particular software project for a long time. > I'd like to hire a team of developers to take over the project, but I > consider the code to be valuable and I'd like to keep the whole of it > secure, even from my own developers. I was thinking I co

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl update = emerge cannot create executables

2010-11-09 Thread Pau Peris
After fixinf fs errors with fsck emerge stopped working so i fixed with http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml Then downloaded a stage3, chrooted, compiled gcc, created a binpkg and emerged it on the broken system with emerge -K Now i'm rebuilding the whole system. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:45, Iain Buchanan wrote: > OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap > usage is up again.  It's firefox: > >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND > 14072 iain      20   0 1369m 897m  15m S    3 29.5 113:14.91 fire

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
2010/11/9 Fatih Tümen > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find someone who >> understands French and knows the answer to your problem, but the odds are not >> good. I don't speak French at all, I can't even make

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find someone > who > understands French and knows the answer to your problem, but the odds are > not > good. I don't speak French at all, I can't even make jokes about "le > BigMac" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
Googling your error messages give Bug #339157 and some forums threads, one of which is in french. The bug still open but there is a patch claimed to be working. Give it a shot after trying Dale's sandbox trick. bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339157 -- Fatih On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 19:56, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.11.2010 19:08, schrieb Grant: >>> "Theoretically, a modularized software project will be more easily >>> assembled by large teams, since no team members are creating the whole >>> system, or even need to know about the system as a whole. They can >>> focus just on the assigned smaller task."

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:08 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, Grant did opine thusly: > It sounds like I'm really going against the grain here. Is it > standard practice to hire a developer on the internet from any given > country, never meet him or her, have them fax a signed NDA, and turn

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find someone who understands French and knows the answer to your problem, but the odds are not good. I don't speak French at all, I can't even make jokes about "le BigMac" and get it right, so I can't help you much :-) I suggest you f

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:10 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, Benyamin Dvoskin did opine thusly: > whats the i468 for ? For any cpu that's less capable than a genuine 686 In other words, it's for ancient machines. It's not supposed to be used lots. > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Dale
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Selon Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 10:21 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, alain.didierj...@free.fr did opine thusly: As the subject says, here's what I get: What's the output just before the section you posted? Here you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 9 November 2010 10:08, Grant wrote: > It sounds like I'm really going against the grain here.  Is it > standard practice to hire a developer on the internet from any given > country, never meet him or her, have them fax a signed NDA, and turn > over your biggest asset to them? :-) No way. :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Jacob Todd
Only expose the teams to what they need, give them prototypes and discriptions to the other parts. Like a man page. On Nov 9, 2010 12:16 PM, "Grant" wrote: >> Read the OP again. He wants to obsfuscate the code to make it >> unreadable for the people he's hiring to work on it. >> >> It would be si

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Grant wrote: >> Read the OP again.  He wants to obsfuscate the code to make it >> unreadable for the people he's hiring to work on it. >> >> It would be simpler and cheaper to hire developers who don't >> understand programming language in question, computers, progr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant
>> "Theoretically, a modularized software project will be more easily >> assembled by large teams, since no team members are creating the whole >> system, or even need to know about the system as a whole. They can >> focus just on the assigned smaller task." >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Alan McKinnon : > Apparently, though unproven, at 10:21 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, > alain.didierj...@free.fr did opine thusly: > > > As the subject says, here's what I get: > > What's the output just before the section you posted? > Here you are : make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread Jacob Todd
Crosstools On Nov 9, 2010 12:39 PM, wrote: > Jarry [10-11-09 18:36]: >> On 9. 11. 2010 18:25, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> >But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get >> >an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? >> >> I think that is what "cross-c

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread meino . cramer
Maciej Grela [10-11-09 18:40]: > 2010/11/9 : > > Hi, > > > > it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system > > (AMD64). > > > > > > But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get > > an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread meino . cramer
Maciej Grela [10-11-09 18:40]: > 2010/11/9 : > > Hi, > > > > it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system > > (AMD64). > > > > > > But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get > > an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread meino . cramer
Jarry [10-11-09 18:36]: > On 9. 11. 2010 18:25, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get > >an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? > > I think that is what "cross-compilation" is good for... > > Jarry > > -- > _

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/11/9 : > Hi, > > it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system > (AMD64). > > > But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get > an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? > gr...@kraken ~ $ cat test.c void main() {} gr...@kraken

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread Jarry
On 9. 11. 2010 18:25, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? I think that is what "cross-compilation" is good for... Jarry --

[gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system (AMD64). But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 9 November 2010 09:14, Grant wrote: > "Theoretically, a modularized software project will be more easily > assembled by large teams, since no team members are creating the whole > system, or even need to know about the system as a whole. They can > focus just on the assigned smaller task." > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant
> Read the OP again.  He wants to obsfuscate the code to make it > unreadable for the people he's hiring to work on it. > > It would be simpler and cheaper to hire developers who don't > understand programming language in question, computers, programming in > general, or even english. > > Then don'

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:00:01 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I'm trying to install it on an Asus EEEPC 1005ha netbook > > i686 if you want a 32 bit OS, x86_64 for 64 bit. The 1005HA has a 32 bit CPU. CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-09 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/11/9 Mick : > Hi All, > > I've had at least 3 fs corruptions on a Reiser4 fs, in as many months. > > I understand that the fs type is experimental, but am wondering if it > is the fs at fault here or Dell's hard drive: > Check your RAM using memtest86. -- Maciej Grela

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
whats the i468 for ? On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Benyamin Dvoskin writes: > > > In the proccess of trying to understand my possible mistake > > I'm wondering , > > which stage3 file should I use ? the i686 or the i486 ? > > > > I'm trying to install it on an Asus EEEP

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > I've had at least 3 fs corruptions on a Reiser4 fs, in as many months. > > I understand that the fs type is experimental, but am wondering if it > is the fs at fault here or Dell's hard drive: [...] > I've run a short and long test with smartmontools and it passed both. You could

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Benyamin Dvoskin writes: > In the proccess of trying to understand my possible mistake > I'm wondering , > which stage3 file should I use ? the i686 or the i486 ? > > I'm trying to install it on an Asus EEEPC 1005ha netbook i686 if you want a 32 bit OS, x86_64 for 64 bit. > which stage should I

[gentoo-user] Openconnect, "Failed to open tun device"

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Anyone out there that has installed Openconnect and has it connecting to a VPN? I need to get into my Uni's vpn, and being on linux, the Cisco thingy is useless. I'm attempting to use openconnect, which I've got from an overlay. I've installed it and when I try to start it up, as root

[gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I've had at least 3 fs corruptions on a Reiser4 fs, in as many months. I understand that the fs type is experimental, but am wondering if it is the fs at fault here or Dell's hard drive: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 series Device Model:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
Hi , Thanks for the suggestions. In the proccess of trying to understand my possible mistake I'm wondering , which stage3 file should I use ? the i686 or the i486 ? I'm trying to install it on an Asus EEEPC 1005ha netbook which stage should I use ? ( and I suppose i'll have to use the same with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Benyamin Dvoskin writes: > Hi Everyone , > I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question > is a newbie one. Welcome :) > anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to > compile the kernel , and for that I've done the following : > > emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Longman
On 11/09/2010 06:04 AM, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > Hi Everyone , > I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question is > a newbie one. > anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to > compile the kernel , and for that I've done the following : > > emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:04 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, Benyamin Dvoskin did opine thusly: > Hi Everyone , > I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question is a > newbie one. > anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to > compile the ke

[gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
Hi Everyone , I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question is a newbie one. anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to compile the kernel , and for that I've done the following : emerge --sync it did the sync , but stated at the end that I must

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-09, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 09.11.2010 05:52, schrieb Grant: >> This is OT, but you guys have proven extremely insightful over the >> years and I would love to hear what you think. >> >> I've been working on a particular software project for a long time. >> I'd like to hire a team

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using consolekit?

2010-11-09 Thread 李健
I don't know how to solve this, but I hope the following messages may help you. >>> Messages generated by process 14982 on 2010-10-18 23:54:00 CST for package sys-auth/polkit-0.96-r1: WARN: postinst If you don't use GDM or KDM for logging in, you must start your desktop environment (DE) as follow

[solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Setup for two graphical logins on one machine

2010-11-09 Thread Markus Oehme
Hi everybody, I managed to get it running as I wished. The only thing, that I couldn't solve in a nice way was using fluxbox instead of Xfce upon login in xdm, but a little hack did the trick. I left my setup as described and added an init-script /etc/init.d/xdm2 which is mostly copy and paste fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:21 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, alain.didierj...@free.fr did opine thusly: > As the subject says, here's what I get: What's the output just before the section you posted? > > /bin/sh: line 3: 10089 Abandon > ../../coreconf/nsinstall/Linux2.6_x86_64_x86_64-p

[gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread alain . didierjean
As the subject says, here's what I get: /bin/sh: line 3: 10089 Abandon ../../coreconf/nsinstall/Linux2.6_x86_64_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc_glibc_PTH_64_OPT.OBJ/nsinstall -D ../../dist/public/dbm make[1]: *** [../../dist/public/dbm] Erreur 134 make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /var/tm