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Deprecated pam_cracklib: this module is no longer built by default and will
be removed in the next release, use pam_passwdqc (from passwdqc project)
or pam_pwquality (from libpwquality project) instead
Slackware-current is using cracklib/pam_cracklib (which is a stellar idea IMHO), so I guess changes will have to be made. Perhaps it would be a good idea to do so before the release of Slackware 15?
I had a look at the man pages for pam_passwdqc and pam_pwquality, and although the former claims to be "a simple password strength checking module", the latter sure seems simpler to use. Again, IM(NS)HO, of course.
UPD: It seems to compile fine on -current without systemd.
FWIW 0.99.11 is shipped in Slint since Thursday 17 October 2019 as well as XFCE 4.14 with no reported issue so far. Takes this with a pinch of salt, I vaguely remember people mentioning issues here @ LQ about other software, maybe KDE4?
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 06-11-2020 at 02:40 AM.
I suggest this patch for meson from nixos to fix a design failing that prevents files being installed outside of the prefix. For example "--prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin" doesn't work.
Code:
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -375,18 +375,13 @@
'''
if option.endswith('dir') and os.path.isabs(value) and \
option not in builtin_dir_noprefix_options:
- # Value must be a subdir of the prefix
# commonpath will always return a path in the native format, so we
# must use pathlib.PurePath to do the same conversion before
# comparing.
- if os.path.commonpath([value, prefix]) != str(PurePath(prefix)):
- m = 'The value of the {!r} option is {!r} which must be a ' \
- 'subdir of the prefix {!r}.\nNote that if you pass a ' \
- 'relative path, it is assumed to be a subdir of prefix.'
- raise MesonException(m.format(option, value, prefix))
- # Convert path to be relative to prefix
- skip = len(prefix) + 1
- value = value[skip:]
+ if os.path.commonpath([value, prefix]) == str(PurePath(prefix)):
+ # Convert path to be relative to prefix
+ skip = len(prefix) + 1
+ value = value[skip:]
return value
def init_builtins(self):
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,095
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by bassmadrigal
The newer upower doesn't work with KDE4, so it is likely going to be upgraded when Plasma5 is added to Slackware.
In the past I had trouble running upower-0.99.11 with Xfce-4.12 and reverted to 0.9.23.
After upgrading to the 5.7.1 kernel this last Sunday and reading a more recent question about upower, I installed upower-0.99.11, again, to see if it would work. It does. It is working perfectly, as I far as I can tell, with both Xfce-4.12 and kde4.
Ditto with the 5.7.2 kernel I installed yesterday.
Last edited by cwizardone; 06-11-2020 at 11:45 AM.
I have tried to compile it under -current using the SlackBuild-script from 2.13 but the compilation fails:
Code:
Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
CCLD libpurple-client.la
CCLD purple-client-example
CC mediamanager.lo
mediamanager.c: In function 'purple_media_manager_unregister_gst_device':
mediamanager.c:2242:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'PurpleMediaManager' {aka 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'}
2242 | for (i = manager->priv->elements; i && !done;) {
| ^~
At top level:
mediamanager.c:2413:1: warning: 'purple_media_manager_register_static_elements' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
2413 | purple_media_manager_register_static_elements(PurpleMediaManager *manager)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:2305:1: warning: 'purple_media_manager_init_device_monitor' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
2305 | purple_media_manager_init_device_monitor(PurpleMediaManager *manager)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:1346:1: warning: 'element_info_to_detail' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
1346 | element_info_to_detail(PurpleMediaElementInfo *info)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:1175:1: warning: 'get_recv_application_element_info' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
1175 | get_recv_application_element_info ()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:1154:1: warning: 'get_send_application_element_info' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
1154 | get_send_application_element_info ()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1155: mediamanager.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1272: all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:893: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:638: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1'
make: *** [Makefile:542: all] Error 2
root@hp-laptop:/home/mats/Downloads/pidgin#
I have tried to compile it under -current using the SlackBuild-script from 2.13 but the compilation fails:
Code:
Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
CCLD libpurple-client.la
CCLD purple-client-example
CC mediamanager.lo
mediamanager.c: In function 'purple_media_manager_unregister_gst_device':
mediamanager.c:2242:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'PurpleMediaManager' {aka 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'}
2242 | for (i = manager->priv->elements; i && !done;) {
| ^~
At top level:
mediamanager.c:2413:1: warning: 'purple_media_manager_register_static_elements' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
2413 | purple_media_manager_register_static_elements(PurpleMediaManager *manager)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:2305:1: warning: 'purple_media_manager_init_device_monitor' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
2305 | purple_media_manager_init_device_monitor(PurpleMediaManager *manager)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:1346:1: warning: 'element_info_to_detail' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
1346 | element_info_to_detail(PurpleMediaElementInfo *info)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:1175:1: warning: 'get_recv_application_element_info' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
1175 | get_recv_application_element_info ()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mediamanager.c:1154:1: warning: 'get_send_application_element_info' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
1154 | get_send_application_element_info ()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1155: mediamanager.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1272: all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:893: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:638: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/pidgin-2.14.1'
make: *** [Makefile:542: all] Error 2
root@hp-laptop:/home/mats/Downloads/pidgin#
This seems to be more a pidgin code problem than a slackwares one. Would be good to see in any case the configure output also.
This seems to be more a pidgin code problem than a slackwares one. Would be good to see in any case the configure output also.
Here is my configure output:
Code:
./configure --disable-avahi --disable-meanwhile --disable-vv
pidgin 2.14.1
Build GTK+ 2.x UI............. : yes
Build console UI.............. : no
Build for X11................. : yes
Enable Gestures............... : yes
Protocols to build dynamically : gg irc jabber novell oscar simple zephyr
Protocols to link statically.. :
Build with GStreamer support.. : yes
Build for GStreamer version... : 1.0
Build with D-Bus support...... : yes
Build with voice and video.... : no
D-Bus services directory...... : /usr/share/dbus-1/services
Build with GNU Libidn......... : yes
Build with NetworkManager..... : yes
SSL Library/Libraries......... : Mozilla NSS and GnuTLS
Build with Cyrus SASL support. : no
Use kerberos 4 with zephyr.... : no
Use external libzephyr........ : no
Use external libgadu.......... : no
Install pixmaps............... : yes
Old tray icon compatibility... : no
Install translations.......... : yes
Has you....................... : yes
Use XScreenSaver Extension.... : yes
Use X Session Management...... : yes
Use startup notification...... : yes
Build with GtkSpell support... : yes
Build Unity integration plugin.: no
Build with plugin support..... : yes
Build with Mono support....... : no
Build with Perl support....... : yes
Build with Tcl support........ : yes
Build with Tk support......... : yes
Print debugging messages...... : no
Pidgin will be installed in /usr/local/bin.
Warning: You have an old copy of Pidgin at /usr/bin/pidgin.
configure complete, now type 'make'
bash-5.0$
Compilation still halts:
Code:
mediamanager.c:2242:18: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
for (i = manager->priv->elements; i && !done;) {
~~~~~~~^
./media.h:242:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
struct _PurpleMediaManager *purple_media_get_manager(PurpleMedia *media);
^
6 warnings generated.
mediamanager.c:2311:9: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
manager->priv->device_monitor = gst_device_monitor_new();
~~~~~~~^
./media.h:242:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
struct _PurpleMediaManager *purple_media_get_manager(PurpleMedia *media);
^
mediamanager.c:2313:42: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
bus = gst_device_monitor_get_bus(manager->priv->device_monitor);
~~~~~~~^
./media.h:242:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
struct _PurpleMediaManager *purple_media_get_manager(PurpleMedia *media);
^
mediamanager.c:2318:39: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
gst_device_monitor_add_filter(manager->priv->device_monitor, NULL, NULL);
~~~~~~~^
./media.h:242:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
struct _PurpleMediaManager *purple_media_get_manager(PurpleMedia *media);
^
mediamanager.c:2320:34: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
gst_device_monitor_start(manager->priv->device_monitor);
~~~~~~~^
./media.h:242:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
struct _PurpleMediaManager *purple_media_get_manager(PurpleMedia *media);
^
mediamanager.c:2322:44: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
i = gst_device_monitor_get_devices(manager->priv->device_monitor);
~~~~~~~^
./media.h:242:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
struct _PurpleMediaManager *purple_media_get_manager(PurpleMedia *media);
^
mediamanager.c:2339:18: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
for (i = manager->priv->elements; i; i = i->next) {
~~~~~~~^
./media.h:242:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct _PurpleMediaManager'
struct _PurpleMediaManager *purple_media_get_manager(PurpleMedia *media);
^
CC mime.lo
7 errors generated.
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1155: mediamanager.lo] Fel 1
make[4]: *** Inväntar oavslutade jobb...
make[4]: Lämnar katalogen ”/home/mats/Programming/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple”
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1272: all-recursive] Fel 1
make[3]: Lämnar katalogen ”/home/mats/Programming/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple”
make[2]: *** [Makefile:893: all] Fel 2
make[2]: Lämnar katalogen ”/home/mats/Programming/pidgin-2.14.1/libpurple”
make[1]: *** [Makefile:638: all-recursive] Fel 1
make[1]: Lämnar katalogen ”/home/mats/Programming/pidgin-2.14.1”
make: *** [Makefile:542: all] Fel 2
bash-5.0$
Last edited by mats_b_tegner; 06-13-2020 at 09:14 AM.
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