Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Spider (DmD Lj)
iginal feeling of loss, the busybox vi implementation. However, the -classic- vi source is a headache and its use of terminfo so horrendous that it causes brain-hemorrhaging if you try to update it. //Spider ex vi maintainer. Now suffering from hemorrhaging brainzombies. -- begin .signature Tortu

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: > > I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of > kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB > ram. Is there an alternative to this? I

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
x FAQ and create a ruleset.. The default one is probably more lenient than you want it ;) //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg yes fdisk no - new HDD

2005-12-07 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
ormatting it in another machine, the drive works perfectly, (it seems, guess I'll know more later;) Though there may be some obscure config option in the IDE/ATA part of the kernel config to avoid this kind of situation. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See M

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
USE="-doc" unless you really want API documentations ) Logs? Logrotate + compression. KDE: perhaps using split builds and only installing the pieces you need/want? //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more informa

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-11-23 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
t; > It also says "See config.log for details", but I can't find config.log - > it doesn't give a full path. Is there a way to repair this without > having to completely reinstall Gentoo? Did you change your CFLAGS? if you change CFLAGS to something invalid , like a ze

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
guessing that I have the later file. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> cvs up use.local.desc ; grep vim-with-x use.local.desc app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm [EMAIL PROTECTED]> head -n 4 use.local.desc |tail -n 2 #

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-11 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
\ that exists to escape the semicolon, therefore telling find to end processing. find . -type f -iname '*.wav' |while read LIST; do command "${LIST}" "${LIST/old/new}" ; done is another possibility. Adding limiters to "find" can prevent it from recu

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
ctory, or even in a hierarchy of directories. > > Thanks, > Mark For bash / zsh and other advanced(?-) shells: for f in *.wav; do command "$f" "${f/.wav/-convert.wav}";done The " " are there to prevent files with spaces in them (evil!) from becoming too annoying

Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory

2005-10-08 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
e I can't get a complete compile of glibc. I have to > restart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete. > > > Let me know what you think. Well, here's a good list to go through.: http://people.redhat.com/davej/hardware-problems.txt //Spider -- begin

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread DmD (Spider) LJungmark
happens. > > Yes, of course I am selecting 3.4. That is the only choice. I've tried > the obvious stuff, trust me. Try this then : Add a brand new sparkling user. Log in to X and KDE. Is the problem persisting then, or not? //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughi

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gnome ... I'm very frustrated

2005-10-05 Thread Spider
e contents of it and remove each and every individual package... Or for that matter, emerge -C gnome and then "emerge depclean" However, be aware that depclean is dangerous and has been known to be wrong. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft

Re: [gentoo-user] Silly CFLAGS - -O9 doesn't make your wang grow longer

2005-05-03 Thread Spider
ect the generated code (Maybe it could break > compilation with bad Makefiles, but thats usually filtered...). Please read the bugs quoted. >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/74072 >> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/91167 >> [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/90973 //Spider -- begin .sign

(OT) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > "BOFH"? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks > Thanks, > rgh. > >-- > >Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >BOFH Excuse #253: > >We've run out of licenses > > *tappeti tap* *click clicketi click* there is some do

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
which is used to send mail via shell scripts. its the classical one to do. otherwise you can use /usr/sbin/sendmail directly. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome config

2005-04-28 Thread Spider
w user)? make sure you are logged out of gnome. Kill all stray gconf processes (gconftool-2 --shutdown ) remove ~/.gnome2 ~/.gconf* And you should be set. The thing is that the gconf process stores its state in RAM, and writes it to disk when it exits. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing but trouble with Gnome-light

2005-04-27 Thread Spider
own. interesting, got a segfault + crashdump? > There is no diference between Gnome-light and > Gnome exept that there are less packages ? Exactly. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-24 Thread Spider
eve. I added it mostly out of nostalgia back when Gentoo was young, since then it became more of a burden to maintain, so it dropped out of the tree. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part