One hand clapping » Linux http://warped.org/blog Max Baker -- A Man with a Hand Mon, 10 May 2010 03:26:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 ch0wned – Adding Open Office 3.x and Java on EL4 for X86_64 in your homedir http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/07/ch0wned-adding-open-office-3-x-and-java-on-el4-for-x86_64-in-your-homedir/ http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/07/ch0wned-adding-open-office-3-x-and-java-on-el4-for-x86_64-in-your-homedir/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:11:52 +0000 max http://warped.org/blog/?p=132 ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don't have root access.

Intro

Continuing my install series, here’s how you get OpenOffice 3 and Java w/ the Browser plugin working out of your homedirectory on an old linux install (EL4) without root access. I assume you already have a working 64-bit firefox compiled.

This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.

Downloads

  • OOo_3.2.0_LinuxX86-64_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz
  • jdk-6u19-linux-x64.bin

Building

  1. Open Office

    After unpackaging open office run ./setup in the directory it creates. Select $HOME/share/oo-3.2 as a destination and now you will run into your first error:

     error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lock/rpm/transaction

    This is due to a janky version of RPM that comes with EL4 and maybe EL5. Create the file ~/.rpmmacros with the following line :

    %_rpmlock_path %{_dbpath}/__db.000

    Now go run ./setup again. Choose Advanced, uncheck “Gnome Integration”. Here you will run into the second error :

    Package Name: ooobasis3.2-core04-3.2.0-9483.x86_64.rpm 
 
rpm --upgrade --ignoresize -vh --relocate /opt=/home/$USER/share/oo --dbpath /home/$USER/share/oo/.RPM_OFFICE_DATABASE OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/RPMS/ooobasis3.2-core04-3.2.0-9483.x86_64.rpm 
Returns: 1 
Error during installation  
error: Failed dependencies: libfreetype.so.6()(64bit) is needed by ooobasis3.2-core04-3.2.0-9483.x86_64

    But since we know we already have this dependency installed in from my previous ch0wned post in $HOME, we can work around this. Create a file $HOME/bin/rpm that will override this for the time being:

     #!/bin/sh
 
exec /bin/rpm --nodeps "$@"

    And now you can re-run setup a 3rd time, select advanced, deselect gnome integration and GO. Last step is to create some symlinks to the sbase / scalc / sdraw / swriter / smath / soffice executables in your $HOME/bin directory. You may need to create a small wrapper that calls them with run_gapp. Be sure to remove that $HOME/bin/rpm script when you’re done.

  2. Java x86_64 w/ Firefox Plugin

    Download the .bin copy of the JDK.

    chmod +x jdk*
./jdk*
mv jdk* $HOME/share 
cd $HOME/bin && ln -s $HOME/share/jdk*/bin/j* .

    Now for the browser plugin part

    cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s ~/share/jdk*/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so .

    Restart your browser and go to “about:plugins” et viola.

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Intro

Having just gone through my guide on installing Firefox now you’re ready to do basically the same thing for Thunderbird.

This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.

Prerequisites

Building

Follow my guide on installing Firefox for all the prereqs.

Thunderbird 3.0 Building

Configuring

Make a file called mozconfig-tbird

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-tb-release
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"
 
ac_add_options --enable-application=mail
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --prefix=/home/$USER/share/thunderbird
# required for make package for tbird now?
ac_add_options --enable-static
 
# Optimization
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations"
ac_add_options --enable-strip
 
# Features
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-installer
#ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --enable-xinerama
 
# Libraries / Dependencies
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify
ac_add_options --disable-gnomevfs
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-nss-prefix=/home/$USER
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-nspr-prefix=/home/$USER
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite

Building

I had to patch firefox to use OSS instead of ALSA because EL4 doesn’t have a working ALSA by default. If you have ALSA working, you may not have to do this step. I got the guts of this patch from somewhere, but I can’t find it now, thanks whoever you are!

The patch is on my build firefox page referenced above.

The following is a fork of my config_gapp script. There are some tricky bits because I’ve left off some -L’s to avoid the NSS and NSPR libs that are installed in /usr/lib64. 

#!/bin/sh
 
LOCAL_HOME=/home/$USER
export PATH=$LOCAL_HOME/bin:$PATH
 
export CPPFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include $CPPFLAGS"
export CFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include $CFLAGS"
export CXXFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss  -I/usr/X11R6/include  $CXXFLAGS"
#export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_HOME/lib -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 $LDFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_HOME/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 $LDFLAGS"
export PKG_CONFIG=$LOCAL_HOME/bin/pkg-config
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64:/usr/lib64"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64"
 
# NOTE: I had to hardcode the path for some reason
export MOZCONFIG=/path/to/mozconfig-tbird
 
make -j 4 -f client.mk build 
 
# make package
# look in dist/*.tar.bz2

Installing

First you make a .tar.bz2, then you go install it.

cd objdir-tb-release
make package
cp mozilla/dist/*.tar.bz2 /somewhere
cd $HOME/share
tar xvfj /path/to/that/*.tar.bz2

Now make a wrapper script $HOME/bin/thunderbird :

#!/bin/sh
 
exec run_gapp /home/$USER/share/thunderbird/thunderbird "$@"

Errors

Here are some of the error messages I encountered along the way that were solved w/ the prerequisites and patch. Hopefully this helps future googlers.

nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:(.text+0x678): undefined reference to `inflateInit_'
nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:(.text+0x69c): undefined reference to `inflate'
nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:(.text+0x6d4): undefined reference to `inflateEnd'

Changed thunderbird-3.0.4/objdir-tb-release/mozilla/toolkit/components/build/Makefile to add libz to the compile. I’m sure there’s a classier way of doing this.

EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS += \
    $(LIBS_DIR) \
    $(EXTRA_DSO_LIBS) \
    $(MOZ_UNICHARUTIL_LIBS) \
    $(MOZ_COMPONENT_LIBS) \
    $(MOZ_JS_LIBS) \
    $(NULL) \
    -lz
/path/to/thunderbird-3.0.4/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries/libprldap/ldappr-public.c:45:27: /$HOME/include/nss/private/pprio.h: Permission denied

Fix yer permissions. duh.

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Intro

So you want Firefox 3.new on your EL4 workstation and don’t have root access? Worse off it’s an x86_64 machine? This is not for the faint of heart, and you will run into some snags, but hopefully with my help you can make it work.

This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.

Prerequisites

Building

  1. SQL Lite

    Make sure you get the “amalgamation” package.

    config_gapp
make
make install

  2. NSPR

    Cheers to the Linux from Scratch gurus. See above link.
    Apply this patch using “patch -p1 < file.patch" . You might have to change 1 to another number. I did this on the above newer version of NSPR/NSS w/out a problem. 

    Submitted By: DJ Lucas (dj at linuxfromscratch dot org)
Date: 2009-08-28
Initial Package Version: 4.8
Upstream Status: not applicable
Origin: self
Description: Adds pkg-config file for nspr.
 
diff -Naur nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/config.mk nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/config.mk
--- nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/config.mk	2005-04-29 16:02:53.000000000 -0500
+++ nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/config.mk	2009-08-28 15:42:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -162,3 +162,4 @@
 RELEASE_INCLUDE_DIR = $(RELEASE_DIR)/$(BUILD_NUMBER)/$(OBJDIR_NAME)/include
 RELEASE_BIN_DIR = $(RELEASE_DIR)/$(BUILD_NUMBER)/$(OBJDIR_NAME)/bin
 RELEASE_LIB_DIR = $(RELEASE_DIR)/$(BUILD_NUMBER)/$(OBJDIR_NAME)/lib
+RELEASE_PC_DIR = $(RELEASE_LIB_DIR)/pkgconfig
diff -Naur nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/Makefile.in nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/Makefile.in
--- nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/Makefile.in	2009-03-03 16:04:23.000000000 -0600
+++ nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/Makefile.in	2009-08-28 15:42:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@
 
 # autoconf.mk must be deleted last (from the top-level directory)
 # because it is included by every makefile.
-DIST_GARBAGE	= nsprincl.mk nsprincl.sh nspr-config
+DIST_GARBAGE	= nsprincl.mk nsprincl.sh nspr-config nspr.pc
 
 RELEASE_BINS	= nspr-config
+RELEASE_PC	= nspr.pc
 
 include $(topsrcdir)/config/config.mk
 
diff -Naur nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/nspr.pc.in nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/nspr.pc.in
--- nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/nspr.pc.in	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/nspr.pc.in	2009-08-28 15:43:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+prefix=@prefix@
+exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
+libdir=@libdir@
+includedir=@includedir@
+
+Name: NSPR
+Description: The Netscape Portable Runtime
+Version: @MOD_MAJOR_VERSION@.@MOD_MINOR_VERSION@.@MOD_PATCH_VERSION@
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lplds@MOD_MAJOR_VERSION@ -lplc@MOD_MAJOR_VERSION@ -lnspr@MOD_MAJOR_VERSION@ -lpthread 
+Cflags: -I${includedir}
+
diff -Naur nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/rules.mk nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/rules.mk
--- nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/config/rules.mk	2009-05-01 18:08:01.000000000 -0500
+++ nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/config/rules.mk	2009-08-28 15:42:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
 	rm -rf $(wildcard *.OBJ *.OBJD) dist $(ALL_TRASH) $(DIST_GARBAGE)
 	+$(LOOP_OVER_DIRS)
 
-install:: $(RELEASE_BINS) $(RELEASE_HEADERS) $(RELEASE_LIBS)
+install:: $(RELEASE_BINS) $(RELEASE_HEADERS) $(RELEASE_LIBS) $(RELEASE_PC)
 ifdef RELEASE_BINS
 	$(NSINSTALL) -t -m 0755 $(RELEASE_BINS) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
 endif
@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@
 ifdef RELEASE_LIBS
 	$(NSINSTALL) -t -m 0755 $(RELEASE_LIBS) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(lib_subdir)
 endif
+ifdef RELEASE_PC
+	$(NSINSTALL) -t -m 0644 $(RELEASE_PC) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/pkgconfig/
+endif
 	+$(LOOP_OVER_DIRS)
 
 release:: export
@@ -272,6 +275,23 @@
 	fi
 	cp $(RELEASE_HEADERS) $(RELEASE_HEADERS_DEST)
 endif
+ifdef RELEASE_PC
+	@echo "Copying pkg-config files to release directory"
+	@if test -z "$(BUILD_NUMBER)"; then \
+		echo "BUILD_NUMBER must be defined"; \
+		false; \
+	else \
+		true; \
+	fi
+	@if test ! -d $(RELEASE_PC_DEST); then \
+		rm -rf $(RELEASE_PC_DEST); \
+		$(NSINSTALL) -D $(RELEASE_PC_DEST);\
+	else \
+		true; \
+	fi
+	cp $(RELEASE_PC) $(RELEASE_PC_DEST)
+endif
+
 	+$(LOOP_OVER_DIRS)
 
 alltags:
diff -Naur nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/configure nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/configure
--- nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/configure	2009-05-08 08:12:31.000000000 -0500
+++ nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/configure	2009-08-28 15:42:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -6037,6 +6037,7 @@
 config/nsprincl.mk
 config/nsprincl.sh
 config/nspr-config
+config/nspr.pc
 lib/Makefile 
 lib/ds/Makefile 
 lib/libc/Makefile 
diff -Naur nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/configure.in nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/configure.in
--- nspr-4.8-orig/mozilla/nsprpub/configure.in	2009-05-01 18:08:00.000000000 -0500
+++ nspr-4.8/mozilla/nsprpub/configure.in	2009-08-28 15:42:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -2871,6 +2871,7 @@
 config/nsprincl.mk
 config/nsprincl.sh
 config/nspr-config
+config/nspr.pc
 lib/Makefile 
 lib/ds/Makefile 
 lib/libc/Makefile

    Once patched, run this script to configure and build NSPR

    #!/bin/sh 
 
cd mozilla/nsprpub
config_gapp \
            --with-mozilla \
            --with-pthreads \
            --enable-64bit \
            --disable-debug \
            --enable-optimize="-O2"
 
run_gapp make -j4
 
run_gapp make install
cp -v -f -LR dist/include/nspr $HOME/include
  3. NSS

    Again cheers to DJ for this gem. Apply it.

    Submitted By: DJ Lucas (dj at linuxfromscratch dot org)
Date: 2009-09-05
Initial Package Version: 3.12.4
Upstream Status: not applicable
Origin: self
Description: Adds auto-generated nss.pc and nss-config script, and allows
             building without nspr in the source tree.
 
diff -Naur nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/config/Makefile nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/config/Makefile
--- nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/config/Makefile	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/config/Makefile	2009-08-31 19:15:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+CORE_DEPTH = ../..
+DEPTH      = ../..
+
+include $(CORE_DEPTH)/coreconf/config.mk
+
+NSS_MAJOR_VERSION = `grep "NSS_VMAJOR" ../lib/nss/nss.h | awk '{print $$3}'`
+NSS_MINOR_VERSION = `grep "NSS_VMINOR" ../lib/nss/nss.h | awk '{print $$3}'`
+NSS_PATCH_VERSION = `grep "NSS_VPATCH" ../lib/nss/nss.h | awk '{print $$3}'`
+PREFIX = /usr
+
+all: export libs
+
+export:
+	# Create the nss.pc file
+	mkdir -p $(DIST)/lib/pkgconfig
+	sed -e "s,@prefix@,$(PREFIX)," \
+	    -e "s,@exec_prefix@,\$${prefix}," \
+	    -e "s,@libdir@,\$${prefix}/lib," \
+	    -e "s,@includedir@,\$${prefix}/include/nss," \
+	    -e "s,@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@,$(NSS_MAJOR_VERSION),g" \
+	    -e "s,@NSS_MINOR_VERSION@,$(NSS_MINOR_VERSION)," \
+	    -e "s,@NSS_PATCH_VERSION@,$(NSS_PATCH_VERSION)," \
+	    nss.pc.in > nss.pc
+	chmod 0644 nss.pc
+	ln -sf ../../../../security/nss/config/nss.pc $(DIST)/lib/pkgconfig
+
+	# Create the nss-config script
+	mkdir -p $(DIST)/bin
+	sed -e "s,@prefix@,$(PREFIX)," \
+	    -e "s,@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@,$(NSS_MAJOR_VERSION)," \
+	    -e "s,@NSS_MINOR_VERSION@,$(NSS_MINOR_VERSION)," \
+	    -e "s,@NSS_PATCH_VERSION@,$(NSS_PATCH_VERSION)," \
+	    nss-config.in > nss-config
+	chmod 0755 nss-config
+	ln -sf ../../../security/nss/config/nss-config $(DIST)/bin
+
+libs:
+
+dummy: all export libs
+
diff -Naur nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss-config.in nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss-config.in
--- nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss-config.in	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss-config.in	2009-08-31 19:16:56.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+prefix=@prefix@
+
+major_version=@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@
+minor_version=@NSS_MINOR_VERSION@
+patch_version=@NSS_PATCH_VERSION@
+
+usage()
+{
+	cat < <EOF
+Usage: nss-config [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES]
+Options:
+	[--prefix[=DIR]]
+	[--exec-prefix[=DIR]]
+	[--includedir[=DIR]]
+	[--libdir[=DIR]]
+	[--version]
+	[--libs]
+	[--cflags]
+Dynamic Libraries:
+	nss
+	nssutil
+	smime
+	ssl
+	softokn
+EOF
+	exit $1
+}
+
+if test $# -eq 0; then
+	usage 1 1>&2
+fi
+
+lib_nss=yes
+lib_nssutil=yes
+lib_smime=yes
+lib_ssl=yes
+lib_softokn=yes
+
+while test $# -gt 0; do
+  case "$1" in
+  -*=*) optarg=`echo "$1" | sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]*=//'` ;;
+  *) optarg= ;;
+  esac
+
+  case $1 in
+    --prefix=*)
+      prefix=$optarg
+      ;;
+    --prefix)
+      echo_prefix=yes
+      ;;
+    --exec-prefix=*)
+      exec_prefix=$optarg
+      ;;
+    --exec-prefix)
+      echo_exec_prefix=yes
+      ;;
+    --includedir=*)
+      includedir=$optarg
+      ;;
+    --includedir)
+      echo_includedir=yes
+      ;;
+    --libdir=*)
+      libdir=$optarg
+      ;;
+    --libdir)
+      echo_libdir=yes
+      ;;
+    --version)
+      echo ${major_version}.${minor_version}.${patch_version}
+      ;;
+    --cflags)
+      echo_cflags=yes
+      ;;
+    --libs)
+      echo_libs=yes
+      ;;
+    nss)
+      lib_nss=yes
+      ;;
+    nssutil)
+      lib_nssutil=yes
+      ;;
+    smime)
+      lib_smime=yes
+      ;;
+    ssl)
+      lib_ssl=yes
+      ;;
+    softokn)
+      lib_softokn=yes
+      ;;
+    *)
+      usage 1 1>&2
+      ;;
+  esac
+  shift
+done
+
+# Set variables that may be dependent upon other variables
+if test -z "$exec_prefix"; then
+    exec_prefix=`pkg-config --variable=exec_prefix nss`
+fi
+if test -z "$includedir"; then
+    includedir=`pkg-config --variable=includedir nss`
+fi
+if test -z "$libdir"; then
+    libdir=`pkg-config --variable=libdir nss`
+fi
+
+if test "$echo_prefix" = "yes"; then
+    echo $prefix
+fi
+
+if test "$echo_exec_prefix" = "yes"; then
+    echo $exec_prefix
+fi
+
+if test "$echo_includedir" = "yes"; then
+    echo $includedir
+fi
+
+if test "$echo_libdir" = "yes"; then
+    echo $libdir
+fi
+
+if test "$echo_cflags" = "yes"; then
+    echo -I$includedir
+fi
+
+if test "$echo_libs" = "yes"; then
+      libdirs="-L$libdir"
+      if test -n "$lib_nss"; then
+	libdirs="$libdirs -lnss${major_version}"
+      fi
+      if test -n "$lib_nssutil"; then
+        libdirs="$libdirs -lnssutil${major_version}"
+      fi
+      if test -n "$lib_smime"; then
+	libdirs="$libdirs -lsmime${major_version}"
+      fi
+      if test -n "$lib_ssl"; then
+	libdirs="$libdirs -lssl${major_version}"
+      fi
+      if test -n "$lib_softokn"; then
+        libdirs="$libdirs -lsoftokn${major_version}"
+      fi
+      echo $libdirs
+fi      
+
diff -Naur nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss.pc.in nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss.pc.in
--- nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss.pc.in	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/config/nss.pc.in	2009-08-31 19:15:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+prefix=@prefix@
+exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
+libdir=@libdir@
+includedir=@includedir@
+
+Name: NSS
+Description: Network Security Services
+Version: @NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@.@NSS_MINOR_VERSION@.@NSS_PATCH_VERSION@
+Requires: nspr >= 4.8
+Libs: -L@libdir@ -lnss@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@ -lnssutil@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@ -lsmime@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@ -lssl@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@ -lsoftokn@NSS_MAJOR_VERSION@
+Cflags: -I${includedir}
+
diff -Naur nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/Makefile nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/Makefile
--- nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/Makefile	2008-12-02 17:24:39.000000000 -0600
+++ nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/Makefile	2009-08-31 19:15:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 # (7) Execute "local" rules. (OPTIONAL).                              #
 #######################################################################
 
-nss_build_all: build_coreconf build_nspr build_dbm all
+nss_build_all: build_coreconf build_dbm all
 
 nss_clean_all: clobber_coreconf clobber_nspr clobber_dbm clobber
 
@@ -140,12 +140,6 @@
 	--with-dist-prefix='$(NSPR_PREFIX)' \
 	--with-dist-includedir='$(NSPR_PREFIX)/include'
 
-build_nspr: $(NSPR_CONFIG_STATUS)
-	cd $(CORE_DEPTH)/../nsprpub/$(OBJDIR_NAME) ; $(MAKE)
-
-clobber_nspr: $(NSPR_CONFIG_STATUS)
-	cd $(CORE_DEPTH)/../nsprpub/$(OBJDIR_NAME) ; $(MAKE) clobber
-
 build_dbm:
 ifndef NSS_DISABLE_DBM
 	cd $(CORE_DEPTH)/dbm ; $(MAKE) export libs
diff -Naur nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/manifest.mn nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/manifest.mn
--- nss-3.12.4-orig/mozilla/security/nss/manifest.mn	2008-04-04 15:36:59.000000000 -0500
+++ nss-3.12.4/mozilla/security/nss/manifest.mn	2009-08-31 19:15:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@
 
 RELEASE = nss
 
-DIRS = lib cmd
+DIRS = lib cmd config

    I had to add the following line to nss-3.12.6/mozilla/security/coreconf/location.mk to get it to find the newly installed NSPR.

    INCLUDES += -I$HOME/include

    Then run this:

    #!/bin/sh
 
export BUILD_OPT=1 
export NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1 
export NSPR_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/$USER/include/nspr 
export USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 
export ZLIB_LIBS=-lz 
export USE_64=1
 
#patch -Np1 -i ../nss-3.12.5-standalone-1.patch 
 
run_gapp \
    make -C mozilla/security/nss nss_build_all

    Then run this to install it :

    #!/bin/sh
 
LOC_HOME=/home/$USER
 
export NSS_LINUXDIR=$(basename `ls -d $PWD/mozilla/dist/Linux*`)
 
echo "NSS_LINUXDIR=$NSS_LINUXDIR"
 
cd mozilla/dist
install -v -m755 $NSS_LINUXDIR/lib/*.so $LOC_HOME/lib 
install -v -m644 $NSS_LINUXDIR/lib/{*.chk,libcrmf.a} $LOC_HOME/lib 
install -v -m755 -d $LOC_HOME/include/nss 
install -v -m755 $NSS_LINUXDIR/bin/{certutil,nss-config,pk12util} $LOC_HOME/bin 
install -v -m644 $NSS_LINUXDIR/lib/pkgconfig/nss.pc $LOC_HOME/lib/pkgconfig 
cp -v -RL {public,private}/nss/* $LOC_HOME/include/nss 
chmod 644 $LOC_HOME/include/nss/*

  4. Python

    See my other post here : http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/02/ch0wned-installing-taskcoach-and-all-its-depenencies-in-home-for-el4/

Firefox

Configuring

Make a file called mozconfig-firefox or some such.

export BUILD_OFFICIAL=1
mk_add_options BUILD_OFFICIAL=1
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
# the following line uses 4 CPUs to build
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"
 
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --prefix=/home/$USER/share/firefox
 
# Optimization
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations"
ac_add_options --enable-strip
 
# Features
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --enable-xinerama
 
# Libraries / Dependencies
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify
ac_add_options --disable-gnomevfs
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-nss-prefix=/home/$USER
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-nspr-prefix=/home/$USER
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite

Building

I had to patch firefox to use OSS instead of ALSA because EL4 doesn’t have a working ALSA by default. If you have ALSA working, you may not have to do this step. I got the guts of this patch from somewhere, but I can’t find it now, thanks whoever you are!

diff -ur firefox-3.6.2-orig/media/libsydneyaudio/src/Makefile.in firefox-3.6.2/media/libsydneyaudio/src/Makefile.in
--- firefox-3.6.2-orig/media/libsydneyaudio/src/Makefile.in	2010-03-16 02:56:36.000000000 -0700
+++ firefox-3.6.2/media/libsydneyaudio/src/Makefile.in	2010-04-01 10:13:27.000000000 -0700
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 ifeq ($(OS_ARCH),Linux)
 CSRCS		= \
-		sydney_audio_alsa.c \
+		sydney_audio_oss.c \
 		$(NULL)
 endif
 
diff -ur firefox-3.6.2-orig/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_oss.c firefox-3.6.2/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_oss.c
--- firefox-3.6.2-orig/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_oss.c	2010-03-16 02:56:36.000000000 -0700
+++ firefox-3.6.2/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_oss.c	2010-04-01 10:15:40.000000000 -0700
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@
 #include "sydney_audio.h"
 
 // for versions newer than 3.6.1
-#define OSS_VERSION(x, y, z) (x < < 16 | y << 8 | z)
+#define OSS_VERSION_(x, y, z) (x << 16 | y << 8 | z)
 // support only versions newer than 3.6.1
-#define SUPP_OSS_VERSION OSS_VERSION(3,6,1)
+#define SUPP_OSS_VERSION OSS_VERSION_(3,6,1)
 
-#if (SOUND_VERSION < SUPP_OSS_VERSION)
+#if (SOUND_VERSION < SUPP_OSS_VERSION_)
 #error Unsupported OSS Version
 #else
 
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
         case SA_PCM_FORMAT_S16_BE:
             *fmt = AFMT_S16_BE;
             break;
-#if SOUND_VERSION >= OSS_VERSION(4,0,0)
+#if SOUND_VERSION >= OSS_VERSION_(4,0,0)
         /* 24-bit formats (LSB aligned in 32 bit word) */
         case SA_PCM_FORMAT_S24_LE:
             *fmt = AFMT_S24_LE;
@@ -563,6 +563,8 @@
 #if 0 /* TODO */
   AudioOutputUnitStop(s->output_unit);
 #endif
+  close(s->output_fd);
+  s->output_fd = -1;
   pthread_mutex_unlock(&s->mutex);
   return SA_SUCCESS;
 }
@@ -581,10 +583,11 @@
    * The audio device resets its mSampleTime counter after pausing,
    * so we need to clear our tracking value to keep that in sync.
    */
-  s->bytes_played = 0;
+  //s->bytes_played = 0;
 #if 0 /* TODO */
   AudioOutputUnitStart(s->output_unit);
 #endif
+  sa_stream_open(s);
   pthread_mutex_unlock(&s->mutex);
   return SA_SUCCESS;
 }
@@ -615,7 +618,7 @@
   if (s == NULL || s->output_fd == -1) {
     return SA_ERROR_NO_INIT;
   }
-#if SOUND_VERSION >= OSS_VERSION(4,0,0)
+#if SOUND_VERSION >= OSS_VERSION_(4,0,0)
   int mvol = ((int)(100*vol)) | ((int)(100*vol) < < 8);
   if (ioctl(s->output_fd, SNDCTL_DSP_SETPLAYVOL, &mvol) < 0){
     return SA_ERROR_SYSTEM;
@@ -637,7 +640,7 @@
   if (s == NULL || s->output_fd == -1) {
     return SA_ERROR_NO_INIT;
   }
-#if SOUND_VERSION >= OSS_VERSION(4,0,0)
+#if SOUND_VERSION >= OSS_VERSION_(4,0,0)
   int mvol;
   if (ioctl(s->output_fd, SNDCTL_DSP_SETPLAYVOL, &mvol) < 0){
     return SA_ERROR_SYSTEM;

The following is a fork of my config_gapp script. There are some tricky bits because I’ve left off some -L’s to avoid the NSS and NSPR libs that are installed in /usr/lib64.

#!/bin/sh
 
LOCAL_HOME=/home/$USER
export PATH=$LOCAL_HOME/bin:$PATH
 
export CPPFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include $CPPFLAGS"
export CFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include $CFLAGS"
export CXXFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss  -I/usr/X11R6/include  $CXXFLAGS"
#export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_HOME/lib -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 $LDFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_HOME/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 $LDFLAGS"
export PKG_CONFIG=$LOCAL_HOME/bin/pkg-config
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64:/usr/lib64"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64"
 
export MOZCONFIG=../mozconfig-firefox
 
make -j 4 -f client.mk build

Installing

First you make a .tar.bz2, then you go install it.

make package
cp dist/*.tar.bz2 /somewhere
cd $HOME/share
tar xvfj /path/to/that/*.tar.bz2

Now make a wrapper script $HOME/bin/firefox :

#!/bin/sh
 
exec run_gapp /home/$USER/share/firefox/firefox "$@"

Errors

Here are some of the error messages I encountered along the way that were solved w/ the prerequisites and patch. Hopefully this helps future googlers.

../../staticlib/components/libpipnss.a(nsNSSCallbacks.o)(.text+0x150a): In function `RegisterMyOCSPAIAInfoCallback()':
: undefined reference to `CERT_RegisterAlternateOCSPAIAInfoCallBack'
../../staticlib/components/libpipnss.a(nsNSSCallbacks.o)(.text+0x154d): In function `UnregisterMyOCSPAIAInfoCallback()':
: undefined reference to `CERT_RegisterAlternateOCSPAIAInfoCallBack'
../../staticlib/components/libpipnss.a(nsNSSCallbacks.o)(.text+0x2aa9): In function `HandshakeCallback(PRFileDesc*, void*)':
: undefined reference to `SSL_HandshakeNegotiatedExtension'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/mbaker/firefox-3.6.2/toolkit/library'
make[3]: *** [libs_tier_toolkit] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/mbaker/firefox-3.6.2'
make[2]: *** [tier_toolkit] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/mbaker/firefox-3.6.2'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/mbaker/firefox-3.6.2'
make: *** [build] Error 2

That one was solved by installing NSS and NSPR separately with the linux-from-scratch patches.

error: system NSPR does not support PR_STATIC_ASSERT

Look in config.log and then fix your permissions in $HOME/include/nss.

]]> http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/06/ch0wned-building-your-own-firefox-on-el4-for-x86_64-in-your-homedir/feed/ 2 ch0wned – Building Amarok 1.4.10 in $HOME on Redhat EL4 http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/05/ch0wned-building-amarok-1-4-10-in-home-on-redhat-el4/ http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/05/ch0wned-building-amarok-1-4-10-in-home-on-redhat-el4/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:49:40 +0000 max http://warped.org/blog/?p=94 ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don't have root access.

Intro

All I wanted to do was play Internet radio via a SOCKS proxy. Is that too much to ask for on Redhat EL4? Apparently so. So after many hours of frustration, here is how you get Amarok 1.x (1.4.10 was the last one made) to compile and run from your homedir on Linux 2.ANCIENT.

This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.

Prerequisites

  • amarok-1.4.10.tar.bz2
  • binutils-2.20.1.tar.bz2
  • xine-lib-1.1.18.1.tar.bz2
  • taglib-1.6.1.tar.gz
  • ffmpeg-0.5.1.tar.bz2
  • My Patch

Building

For taglib, ffmpeg, and binutils:

config_gapp
make
make install

For xine-lib :

config_gapp --without-speex
make
make install

For amarok:

config_gapp

Then apply this patch :

diff -ru amarok-1.4.10/amarok/src/mediadevice/generic/genericmediadevice.cpp amarok-1.4.10-max/amarok/src/mediadevice/generic/genericmediadevice.cpp
--- amarok-1.4.10/amarok/src/mediadevice/generic/genericmediadevice.cpp	2008-08-13 14:21:51.000000000 -0700
+++ amarok-1.4.10-max/amarok/src/mediadevice/generic/genericmediadevice.cpp	2010-04-05 16:21:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@
     args["artist"] = artist;
     args["albumartist"] = albumartist;
     args["initial"] = albumartist.mid( 0, 1 ).upper();
-    args["filetype"] = mb.url().pathOrURL().section( ".", -1 ).lower();
+    args["filetype"] = mb.url().url().section( ".", -1 ).lower();
     QString track;
     if ( mb.track() )
         track.sprintf( "%02d", mb.track() );
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@
 
     if( !kioCopyTrack( bundle.url(), desturl ) )
     {
-        debug() < < "Failed to copy track: " << bundle.url().pathOrURL() << " to " << desturl.pathOrURL() << endl;
+        debug() << "Failed to copy track: " << bundle.url().url() << " to " << desturl.url() << endl;
         return 0;
     }
 
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@
 void
 GenericMediaDevice::dirListerClear( const KURL &url )
 {
-    QString directory = url.pathOrURL();
+    QString directory = url.path();
     GenericMediaFile *vmf = m_mfm[directory];
     if( vmf )
         vmf->deleteAll( false );
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@
 void
 GenericMediaDevice::dirListerDeleteItem( KFileItem *fileitem )
 {
-    QString filename = fileitem->url().pathOrURL();
+    QString filename = fileitem->url().path();
     GenericMediaFile *vmf = m_mfm[filename];
     if( vmf )
         vmf->deleteAll( true );
diff -ru amarok-1.4.10/amarok/src/plugin/plugin.h amarok-1.4.10-max/amarok/src/plugin/plugin.h
--- amarok-1.4.10/amarok/src/plugin/plugin.h	2008-08-13 14:21:51.000000000 -0700
+++ amarok-1.4.10-max/amarok/src/plugin/plugin.h	2010-04-05 16:07:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -9,9 +9,11 @@
 
 #define AMAROK_EXPORT_PLUGIN( classname ) \
     extern "C" { \
-          KDE_EXPORT Amarok::Plugin* create_plugin() { return new classname; } \
+           __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) Amarok::Plugin* create_plugin() { return new classname; } \
     }
 
+          //KDE_EXPORT Amarok::Plugin* create_plugin() { return new classname; } 
+
 #include <qmap .h>
 #include <qstring .h>
 
--- amarok-1.4.10/amarok/src/amarokcore/amarokconfig.cpp	2010-04-05 17:19:09.000000000 -0700
+++ amarok-1.4.10-max/amarok/src/amarokcore/amarokconfig.cpp	2010-04-05 15:46:37.000000000 -0700
@@ -465,8 +465,8 @@
   KConfigSkeleton::ItemBool  *itemMonitorChanges;
   itemMonitorChanges = new KConfigSkeleton::ItemBool( currentGroup(), QString::fromLatin1( "Monitor Changes" ), mMonitorChanges, true );
   addItem( itemMonitorChanges, QString::fromLatin1( "MonitorChanges" ) );
-  KConfigSkeleton::ItemPathList  *itemCollectionFolders;
-  itemCollectionFolders = new KConfigSkeleton::ItemPathList( currentGroup(), QString::fromLatin1( "Collection Folders" ), mCollectionFolders );
+  KConfigSkeleton::ItemString *itemCollectionFolders;
+  itemCollectionFolders = new KConfigSkeleton::ItemString ( currentGroup(), QString::fromLatin1( "Collection Folders" ), mCollectionFolders );
   addItem( itemCollectionFolders, QString::fromLatin1( "CollectionFolders" ) );
 
   setCurrentGroup( QString::fromLatin1( "MySql" ) );
 
</qstring></qmap>

Then go ahead with:

make
make install

Errors

Here are some of the error messages I encountered along the way that were solved w/ the prerequisites and patch. Hopefully this helps future googlers.

/usr/bin/ld: .libs/xine.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `xine_event_send' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value

Needs a newer version of binutils that handles X86_64 better.

amarokconfig.cpp: In constructor `AmarokConfig::AmarokConfig()':
amarokconfig.cpp:468: error: `ItemPathList' is not a member of `KConfigSkeleton'
amarokconfig.cpp:468: error: `itemCollectionFolders' was not declared in this scope
amarokconfig.cpp:469: error: `class KConfigSkeleton::ItemPathList' has not been declared

This is due to the old version of KDE 3.3 on EL4. Needs the patch above to amarokconfig.cpp.

void-engine.cpp:22: error: visibility arg must be one of "default", "hidden", "protected" or "internal"

Again, some ancient KDE 3.3 bug that is fixed by the patch above.

genericmediadevice.cpp: In member function `QString GenericMediaDevice::buildDestination(const QString&, const MetaBundle&)':
genericmediadevice.cpp:560: error: 'const class KURL' has no member named 'pathOrURL'
genericmediadevice.cpp: In member function `virtual MediaItem* GenericMediaDevice::copyTrackToDevice(const MetaBundle&)':
genericmediadevice.cpp:660: error: 'const class KURL' has no member named 'pathOrURL'
genericmediadevice.cpp:660: error: 'const class KURL' has no member named 'pathOrURL'
genericmediadevice.cpp: In member function `void GenericMediaDevice::dirListerClear(const KURL&)':
genericmediadevice.cpp:836: error: 'const class KURL' has no member named 'pathOrURL'
genericmediadevice.cpp: In member function `void GenericMediaDevice::dirListerDeleteItem(KFileItem*)':
genericmediadevice.cpp:845: error: 'const class KURL' has no member named 'pathOrURL'

More ancient KDE 3.3 stuff — pathOrURL() doesn’t exist yet, so we use either url() or path().

Last thing : doc/ was giving me issue, so I removed it from the Makefile under TOPSUBDIRS.

Running

I kept getting errors about “no sound-engine plugins found” until I added the two paths to $KDEDIRS as below :

#!/bin/sh
 
export KDEDIRS=/usr:$HOME/lib64/kde3:$HOME
 
exec run_gapp amarok "$@"

]]> http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/05/ch0wned-building-amarok-1-4-10-in-home-on-redhat-el4/feed/ 0 ch0wned – Installing TaskCoach and all its depenencies in $HOME for EL4 http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/02/ch0wned-installing-taskcoach-and-all-its-depenencies-in-home-for-el4/ http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/02/ch0wned-installing-taskcoach-and-all-its-depenencies-in-home-for-el4/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:48:37 +0000 max http://warped.org/blog/?p=96 ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don't have root access.

Installing TaskCoach and its dependencies in $HOME for EL4

This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.

Requirements

  • Python-2.5.5.tar.bz2
  • wxPython-src-2.8.10.1.tar.bz2
  • TaskCoach-1.0.1.tar.gz

Directions

  1. Python

    Install it like normal unless you have a modern distro that has a decent install of Python 2.5, in which case you will need to install the following things into $HOME. Not sure how to do that in Python, so you might as well have your own local version.

    config_gapp
make 
make install
  2. wxWidgets (included w/ wxPython)
    Install the following patch from This Thread :

    --- wxPython/src/gtk/_gdi_wrap.cpp.orig 2009-08-08 16:26:48.000000000 +0200
+++ wxPython/src/gtk/_gdi_wrap.cpp      2009-08-08 16:32:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -4195,6 +4195,10 @@
     virtual wxGraphicsBrush CreateRadialGradientBrush(wxDouble , wxDouble , wxDouble , wxDouble , wxDouble ,
                                                       const wxColour &, const wxColour &)  { return wxNullGraphicsBrush; }
     virtual wxGraphicsFont CreateFont( const wxFont & , const wxColour & ) { return wxNullGraphicsFont; }
+
+    // patch required as explained in
+    // http://groups.google.com/group/wxPython-users/browse_thread/thread/129ba27e2f868c3c?pli=1
+    wxGraphicsBitmap CreateBitmap( const wxBitmap &bitmap ) const { return wxNullGraphicsBitmap; } 
 };

    Then run :

    config_gapp --enable-unicode
make install
cd contrib/src/gizmos && make install
  3. wxPython 
    cd wxPython
vim config.py
   # Turn off all the contrib features except gizmos
run_gapp python2.5 setup.py build_ext
run_gapp python2.5 setup.py install
  4. TaskCoach 
    run_gapp python2.5 setup.py build
run_gapp python2.5 setup.py install
]]> http://warped.org/blog/2010/04/02/ch0wned-installing-taskcoach-and-all-its-depenencies-in-home-for-el4/feed/ 0 Getting Accents / UTF8 in Mutt using Xterm with TrueType http://warped.org/blog/2009/06/08/getting-accents-utf8-in-mutt-using-xterm-with-truetype/ http://warped.org/blog/2009/06/08/getting-accents-utf8-in-mutt-using-xterm-with-truetype/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:43:16 +0000 max http://warped.org/blog/?p=68 Overview

I’m starting to adopt Unicode/UTF-8 into my world to allow for more internationalization in my projects. Someday I might play with Perl6’s UTF-8 stuff too. I also want to be able have different charactersets render correctly while using Mutt. I often get email from people in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and SouthEast Asia, and they are all using different character sets. UTF-8 is the “universal” one.

Shows Hebrew, Chinese and Western European characters all at the same time.

Shows Hebrew, Chinese and Western European characters all at the same time.

The Components

Xterm

In order to have a nice playing Xterm with UTF-8, 256-colors and TrueType, I have to roll my own.

  1. Download the latest one from ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.tar.gz.
  2. Compile it 
    ./configure \
     --disable-desktop \
     --with-x \
     --enable-256-color \
     --enable-load-vt-fonts \
     --enable-paste64 \
     --enable-readline-mouse \
     --enable-tcap-fkeys \
     --enable-tcap-query \
     --enable-wide-chars \
     --with-Xaw3d
 
make
make install

    Note the crucial –enable-wide-chars needed for UTF-8. Your xterm may already be compiled with some or all of these options.

Once I have that, I create a small shell script that I call xt that launches it for me :

#!/bin/sh
# None of these have extended charsets :-(
font="Consolas"
#font="DejaVu Sans Mono"
#font="Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"
#font="luxi mono"
#font="Andale Mono"
#font="courier"
font_size=12
 
exec xterm -bg black -fg white \
    -fa "$font" \
    -fd "$font" \
    -fs $font_size \
    -j -s \
    -sb -si -sk -vb -sl 1024 -rightbar \
    +sf +dc -cr darkgreen  \
    -u8 -geometry 100x40 \
    $@ & 
exit

The important options here are -u8, -fa and -fd. This would be perfect, except that I can’t find a good mono-spaced TrueType font that has all of the character sets. More on that in the font section.

If you want support for all character sets, you can use the “fixed” font built in to X, which has a very
complete character set. I use this script inspired by Marjan Parsa instead :

#!/bin/sh
 
exec xterm -bg black -fg white \
    -j -s \
    -sb -si -sk -vb -sl 1024 -rightbar \
    +sf +dc -cr darkgreen  \
    -u8 -geometry 100x40 \
    -xrm "xterm*font:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1"  \
    -xrm "xterm*wideFont:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1"  \
    $@ & 
exit

Fonts

You have two choices here : Fixed fonts and TrueType fonts. In my experience, the TrueType fonts look better, and the Fixed fonts have more characters supported.

TrueType

I can’t seem to find a perfect TrueType “Console” font that is fixed-width, looks great, and supports all the Unicode (UTF-8) character sets like Europe, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, etc. So I compromise the character set support and just get the pretty one. So far I am most happy with Microsoft’s “Consolas”. Yes, Microsoft!

Here are some good ones to check out:

If you would like to add TrueType fonts to your account / home directory locally, just create a ~/.fonts directory and then copy the .ttf fonts into it. Try these command to explore what fonts you have :

fc-list                 #  see what fonts are loaded.
xfd -fa "DejaVu Sans Mono"  #  explore a certain font

Fixed / System Fonts

I use the following two options when launching Xterm to specify the system fonts :

-xrm "xterm*font:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1"
-xrm "xterm*wideFont:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1"

Try these commands to see what UTF-8 fonts you have and what’s in them :

xlsfonts | grep 10646
xfd -fn "-ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1"

This is the settings / fonts I used for the above screen shot. See also this Linux Font Tutorial.

Shell / Environment Variables

Key to all of this is that you have your LANG environment variable set correctly

Edit ~/.bashrc and make sure this line is happening :

export LANG=en_US.utf8

Remember, you will need this on two machines : the machine you are creating the X-Term window on, and the machine that you are launching mutt on. These may be the same machine, maybe not.

To get a list of the locales available use this command :

locale -a | grep -i utf

Note that these are case-sensitive, so if you have it set to en_US.UTF8 instead of en_US.utf8 you will get some wanky errors.

Mutt

Mutt works pretty well out of the box w/ UTF8. For reference see The Mutt FAQ.

I used these options in my .muttrc:

set allow_8bit
set allow_ansi=yes                  # in msgs
charset-hook us-ascii iso-8859-1
set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1"

So what this is doing is still using UTF-8 as my LANG setting and encoding for the terminal, but it’s sending my messages out as iso-8859-1. It also is assuming that anything that comes in as “us-ascii” is actually iso-8859-1.

]]> http://warped.org/blog/2009/06/08/getting-accents-utf8-in-mutt-using-xterm-with-truetype/feed/ 0 chown3d Part 2 – GTK+ and GLIB in your own home directory http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:44:16 +0000 max http://warped.org/blog/?p=34 ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don't have root access.

For today’s installment we go over getting some basic libraries up to shape. If your Linux distro is old enough, you can’t use 3rd party binaries like Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread), Firefox, and Flash because the GTI+ and GLIB libraries that they are compiled against are just too damned old. So we have to both install local copies, and have the applications find those copies instead of the system ones.

On Versions

It’s good to note that you can upgrade a newer version of most things, but don’t expect to always get the newest version. Instead you need to find the next newest version that still works on your old Linux distro while satisfying the prerequisites for your favorite applications.

GTK+ and GLIB and RHEL4

Here are the packages I installed in order to get GTK+ and GLIB up to date enough to use Firefox, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Acrobat, and some other goodies on Red Hat EL4 (Fedora 4 should be similar) :

  1. atk-1.25.2.tar.bz2 – Needed by Pidgin
  2. pixman-0.13.2.tar.gz
  3. libxml2-2.6.30.tar.bz2 – Needed by Pidgin, the EL4 version is horribly broken and Gtalk / Jabber end up w/ a very weird send-only behavior
  4. pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz – Needed by most everything. You will have a new package repository in $HOME/lib/pkg-config for your new libraries.
  5. cairo-1.8.6.tar.gz
  6. dbus-1.2.12.tar.gz
  7. dbus-glib-0.78.tar.gz
  8. glib-2.19.5.tar.bz2
  9. pango-1.22.4.tar.bz2
  10. zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 – RHEL4 version is crap.
  11. gtk+-2.14.7.tar.bz2

Order does count, but I don’t remember what order I compiled and installed these in. Trial and error will tell. Use config_gapp from Part 1 to compile.

You will need to do this on each of the above :

$ tar xvfj gtk+-2.14.7.tar.bz2
$ cd gtk+-2.14.7
$ ../config_gapp
$ make
$ make install

Remember this is installing these libraries into $HOME/lib using the config_gapp script.

Some of the libraries might take some extra args to make things happy.

  1. zlib – I need to add -fPIC to make mozilla happy 
    $ CFLAGS=-fPIC ../config_gapp
  2. gtk+-2.14.7 – I had to add –without-libjasper 
    $ ../config_gapp --without-libjasper

Some blood sweat and tears later, and now you should be able to run a binary version of Firefox if you are on a 32-bit RHEL4 machine.

Running Apps using the Libraries in your Home Directory

In order to have applications grab the libraries in your home directory instead of the system ones, I use a wrapper script that sets up a bunch of needed environment variables. I call this script “run_gapp” :

#!/bin/sh
#
# install apps using local versions of libraries for this platform
#
# This script is for an x86_64 machine
# Remove 64 anywhere below if you are on a 32-bit build
 
LOC_HOME=/home/me
 
export CPPFLAGS="-I${LOC_HOME}/include -I/usr/X11R6/include $CPPFLAGS"
export CFLAGS="-I${LOC_HOME}/include -I/usr/X11R6/include $CFLAGS"
export CXXFLAGS="-I${LOC_HOME}/include -I/usr/X11R6/include $CXXFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L${LOC_HOME}/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib64 $LDFLAGS"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${LOC_HOME}/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LOC_HOME}/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64:/usr/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 
exec "$@"

Now to run a binary we just use the wrapper

run_gapp /path/to/firefox

Next up we’ll explore building some applications like pidign, firefox, amarok, xine-lib and more.

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ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don't have root access. 

This is the case for a lot of people working Corporate jobs as engineers, including me.   I realized chr00ted is a more appropriate term, but then I couldn’t work 0wned into it.

So this post is the first in a serious of HOWTOs about maintaining a Linux distro out of your home directory.  This allows you to download, compile, and use the latest software while being restricted to god-awful old version of Linux.   When I say old, I’m talking about my company just “upgraded” me from Red Hat Enterprise 3 (RHEL 3), circa 2003 to Red Hat Enterprise 4 (RHEL 4) circa 2006.   If I want to use a browser or e-mail client that has the latest security patches, forget it!

Compiling

About 90% of the open source apps out there use autoconf to setup compilation using gmake.   The first thing we need to do is tell it that we are going to install this directory into our home directory.

./configure --prefix=/home/me

However, if you happen to have a lot of dependency libraries installed in your home directory we will need to setup a few environment variables too. So instead I setup a shell script that sets-up the environment and calls configure. I call this script “config_gapp”

#!/bin/sh
#
# install apps using local versions of glib
# into home directory
#
# This version setup for x86_64 full 64-bit
# Remove "64" anywhere below for a 32-bit build.
 
LOCAL_HOME=/home/me
 
export PATH=$LOCAL_HOME/bin:$PATH
 
# I try not to maintain my own gcc, but sometimes you gotta :
# export CC="$LOCAL_HOME/bin/gcc"
# export GCC=$CC
 
export CPPFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I/usr/X11R6/include $CPPFLAGS"
export CFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I/usr/X11R6/include $CFLAGS"
export CXXFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I/usr/X11R6/include  $CXXFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_HOME/lib -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 $LDFLAGS"
export PKG_CONFIG=$LOCAL_HOME/bin/pkg-config
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64:/usr/lib64"
#export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /home/maxb/share/aclocal"
 
./configure --prefix=$LOCAL_HOME \
  --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include \
  --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib "$@"

The astute reader will notice that I have already compiled and installed my own copy of pkg-config because the one on EL4 is too old for most things to use. I’ll cover that in the next post where I go over getting a somewhat modern version of the GTK+ and Glib libraries installed. These are required for most anything modern like firefox, thunderbird, acrobat, and flash.

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