I'm hoping to soon complete a build of IcedTea-2.4.5. (The reason I say "hoping" is that I tried (accidentally) building a previous version while running a 3.13.5 kernel, and had some pain, the first part of which is summarised on lkml). With more consequential pain to follow :-( I'm now back on 3.13.4, for the moment.)
For many of the things I've built with 7.5, it's easy to say that they work - either there is an application I can try to run, or in BLFS the package is just a build dependency for something else. But there are a few others, and this is one of the more significant (at least, in terms of the hoops you have to jump through to build it). So, is there any _simple_ test that an editing monkey can run, to satisfy people that it is "known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform" ? In this case, I happen to be running the testsuite, but the book's comment doesn't fill me with any confidence that jtregcheck is an adequate test. For programming languages, which this claims to be, I can hack shell, to an extent, and on a clear day with the wind in the right direction I might manage a little perl, but otherwise I'm mostly limited to my recollections of COBOL, JCL (specifically, JES2), and AMS (Access Method Services - call it VSAM if you prefer). 8-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
