On 12/31/2012 3:19 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 28/12/2012 23:36, Pierre Labastie a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> This is a long overdue patch for trying to automate the retrieval >> of minimal tool versions from the "host requirements" section, to >> use them in jhalfs' check_version. I have not tested all >> configurations. It works well with a local book. >> >> It is not really an automation: if a new requirement is added, it >> has to be manually added to jhalfs. But if a version updating >> occurs, it will be automatically ported to jhalfs. >> >> Regards Pierre >> >> > The patch I sent worked only with a local copy of the book. Here is > another one, which works with SVN and tagged versions (I tried SVN, > 6.3, 7.2), too. I had to change the order of operations: if you > want to extract host requirements from the book, and you require > the book to be downloaded, you have to download the book first. So > this patch runs the check_prerequisite function just before running > the build. In some way, I would say it is how it should be: > checking prerequisites is (should be) the first step in building > LFS...
Pierre, I applaud your effort, but as the patch stands currently it would break CLFS support in jhalfs. That being said though this might be a good time to evaluate whether support for that should be maintained. I'll address that in another email to the list. Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
