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Rebuild for glibc-2.17_multilib in slackware-current
Pat’s inquery on LinuxQuestions.org about how to “backtrack to sanity” in order to stabilize slackware-current and start laying out the next release, resulted in a kernel upgrade (3.8.8) and accompanying glibc rebuild. I built the “companion” update of the glibc multilib packages last night. They can be downloaded from: http://alien.slackbook.org/slackware/multilib/current/ (the primary server, but bandwidth-capped) [...]
Posted: 21 April, 2013 in Slackware, Software, Uncategorized.
Tags: glibc, multilib
Comments: -
Alien’s ARM sources and git
I have been writing regular updates to the Alien’s ARM page on this blog which can be found in the top of left sidebar. Readers of this blog who only visit the blog’s front page, will probably not have noticed, so I decided to write a more visible status update on the main page. When [...]
Posted: 6 April, 2013 in Uncategorized.
Comments: 11
Finally, LibreOffice 3.5.2 compiles
A while ago when Libreoffice 3.5.0 was released, I found out to my chagrin that I was unable to successfully compile it on Slackware 13.37. There was no change when 3.5.1 came out, but thankfully we now have a new maintenance release, LibreOffice 3.5.2. Lo and behold, I could successfully compile packages, but the SlackBuild [...]
Posted: 12 April, 2012 in Uncategorized.
Comments: 29
OpenJDK replacing Oracle’s binaries
I already wrote about it in an earlier post, that I was working on packages for OpenJDK. OpenJDK is an open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition. In 2007, Sun delivered to its earlier promise to make Java open source and released the bulk of its code under a GPL license. Since then, high-profile [...]
Posted: 7 January, 2012 in Slackware, Uncategorized.
Tags: java, jdk, jre
Comments: 47
Huge update to slackware-current and what it meant to my laptop
Today, you may be watching the slackware-current ChangeLog.txt slack-faced, with a feeling of horror… … because the update is HUGE. There are well over 300 lines of updates! That amounts to one-third of the full length of ChangeLog for the current development cycle. Those of you who thought Slackware was calmly drifting toward another stable [...]
Posted: 15 November, 2010 in Slackware, Software, Uncategorized.
Tags: current, mesa, udev, vlc, xorg
Comments: 36