Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
I assume you're using the LiveCD as a host and are wishing to build LFS onto your prepared partitions. Is it not practical or possible to create a separate temporary partition for the build, mount it at /mnt/build_dir and then when the build is done, mount your real partitions and copy over each directory to the partition you wish it to reside on?
It's extra work that requires having a partition for that purpose available. In this case, yes, that would be an option.
The changes, however, to the Makefile file to support the way I'm doing things aren't very extensive. It requires two symlinks in $BUILDDIR (tools and sources) and so far one change to the Makefile target that sets up the toolsdir (change mkdir -v to mkdir -vp).
That seems like something that's easy to do by jhalfs if you were to turn some feature on. It can create these two symlinks and change the mkdir command accordingly. All the commands from the book remain unchanged and everything works just fine otherwise.
It a few minutes to make these changes and it saves the shuffling of temporary to permanent partitions after the build is complete.
Anyway, just brought it up in case other people need to do something similar. Your call if you want jhalfs to support this or not :)
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