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[arch-general] RFC: Mesa and shared LLVM libraries
by Armin K. 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Hello everyone, First, I am aware that ArchLinux is against patching packages to implement some features, but this might be worth the effort. Tom Stellard of AMD has announced a R600 backend patch against LLVM 3.2 few days ago [1]. It's basically his repository (llvm-amdgpu-snapshot) diffed against upstream LLVM (llvm). By applying the patch to ArchLinux LLVM package, one could benefit from enabling Mesa to link against LLVM shared library. Doing so, space would be saved and so the memory at runtime, too (I guess since it will use shared mappings). I've done some work regarding that. I've managed to split libLLVM-3.2.so from llvm package and put it into libllvm package. The package is a bit big though - the shared library contains all (~100) static libraries linked into one single library. The result is like this: Targets (1): libllvm-3.2-5 Total Installed Size: 21.77 MiB Building MesaLib against shared libLLVM-3.2.so saves space drastically. For all MesaLib produced packages, the output is like this one: Targets (6): ati-dri-9.1-2 intel-dri-9.1-2 mesa-9.1-2 mesa-libgl-9.1-2 nouveau-dri-9.1-2 svga-dri-9.1-2 Total Installed Size: 82.13 MiB Net Upgrade Size: -282.07 MiB 260 MB saved ... Looks nice to me. R600 backend will be part of LLVM 3.3 anyways, and this can be used in the future without patching anything. I am attaching patches for llvm and mesa PKGBUILDs to incorporate these changes. Do as you may please. If someone is interested in forwarding this to -dev-public list it would be nice. Have a nice evening. (As a side note, somehow llvm tarball sha256sum was wrong when I downloaded it). [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-March/035561.html

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[arch-general] Qt4 documentation?
by Huang KangJing 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Hi, I'm here to ask whether the qt4 documentation package will still be provided officially after such an upgrade from qt4 to qt5. I noticed that after qt5 was supported officially, certain qt packages were replaced by qt5 packages and qt4 packages were introduced, but as qt-doc was replaced by qt5-doc and qt4-doc didn't come up, I wonder whether this one will be supported officially.. Thanks. -- Huang KangJing 2012 Undergraduate, School of Physics,Peking University

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[arch-general] Order of udev and autodetect HOOKS
by Sergi Pons Freixes 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

Hi All, Is there any impact on the system depending on the order of udev and autedetect? I mean, is the same HOOKS="base autodetect udev ..." than HOOKS="base udev autodetect ..." ? Cheers, Sergi

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ISO image announcements
by Cody Maloney 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just uploaded a new installer image. I did not write any announcement > for the last two. Some people were asking for a news item. What is your > opinion on this? Should we post announcements even if there are no > exciting changes? I could also generate a list of updated packages that > are available on the new iso compared to the old one. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > I'd like to have just a feed of when ISO releases come out (Esp. since sometimes, even if there aren't major changes to the iso, some things like the interface naming change occur because of just package upgrade). Looking at the release page generated HTML there is an RSS feed (https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/releases/) but this doesn't seem to be visibly linked from the page. Be nice if the link was added to the current releases section of the page. Thanks, Cody Maloney

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio-encrypt-multi
by Karsten Rode 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi I'm using btrfs on two LUKS encrypted partitions as root. This is working perfectly with the mkinitcpio hook "encrypt-multi" from the aur package "mkinitcpio-encrypt-multi". Does anybody know if there is a plan to include this functionality in the "encrypt" hook from core/cryptsetup ? regards, Karsten

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[arch-general] Can't build virtualbox
by Manuel Reimer 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hello, I have a reproducible problem with virtualbox on my system. To find out which version was the first one that causes those problems for me, I want to build virtualbox on my own and step back until the problem no longer exists. I've checked out the community PKGBUILD's using git. If I try to build virtualbox, it always ends with the following messages: kmk_builtin_rm -f /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/gsoap_copy_all_ts kmk_builtin_mkdir -p /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_soapxml /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_headers /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_namespacemaps kmk_builtin_mv -f /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_headers usage: kmk_builtin_mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target or: kmk_builtin_mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory or: kmk_builtin_mv --help or: kmk_builtin_mv --version kmk: *** [/home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/gsoap_copy_all_ts] Error 64 kmk: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... info: soapC-1.cpp info: soapC-2.cpp info: soapC-3.cpp info: soapC-4.cpp info: soapC-5.cpp info: soapC-6.cpp info: soapC-7.cpp info: soapC-8.cpp info: soapC-9.cpp info: soapC-10.cpp info: soapC-11.cpp info: soapC-12.cpp info: soapC-13.cpp info: soapC-14.cpp info: soapC-15.cpp info: soapC-16.cpp info: soapC-17.cpp info: soapC-18.cpp info: soapC-19.cpp info: soapC-20.cpp split-soapC: Created 20 files. kmk: *** Exiting with status 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... I'm building with "-j2". Can someone please tell me what I have to do to make the build succeed? Thanks in advance Yours Manuel

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[arch-general] tomoyo-init on linux 3.8.0-2
by Alexander Diana 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Regardless of what I add in kernel flags, tomoyo-init is never loaded. I see no noticable error messages anywhere in the logs. I have confirmed tomoyo-init works when manually loaded, and confirmed that tomoyo itself is working and loaded. Anyone with ideas will be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance, Alexander Diana <alexander.a.diana(a)gmail.com>

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.7.10-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi guys, please signoff 3.7.10 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.8.1 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Cannot get GNOME Keyring to work well with lightdm-razor-greeter and razor-qt
by Hexchain Tong 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi everyone, I recently switched to razor-qt desktop and lightdm (for a faster startup), but I can't get gnome-keyring-daemon to run. I've tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Keyring#Use_Without_GNOME , but ~/.xinitrc doesn't seem to be executed at all. Plus, I don't want to add anything into ~/.bashrc, because I think $SSH_AUTH_SOCK and some relevant variables should just be set in the session. Is there any better idea? Thanks, Hexchain

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[arch-general] Svntogit looks broken
by Armin K. 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, are there any problems with Archlinux' svntogit? Latest changes are shown from ~22 hours ago.

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