Getting into LFS 6, I find myself running in circles without being able
to compile much.
Ch. 3, & 4 went in without much problem, as did most of ch 8 & ch 9.
Xorg got installed as well. But something became very clear
If you go only on the "Requirements", you can get things
installed fairly easily. If you try to have the optional packages
installed as well, it seems basically impossible to get going. So unless
maintainers have been kind to you, './configure'_actually_ means
./configure --without-this --without-that --without-the other
and I end up with a system with a number of features compiled out. The
other problem is that you end up with the rpm type syndrome of
installing 15 rpms to get a 100k program. For example is gtk-doc, used
by packages for building documentation (vaguely useful) and plenty of
things use it. It seems the sort of thing you would compile early.
GTK-doc needs OpenJade-1.3.2, libxslt-1.1.12, DocBook XML DTD-4.3 and
DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.67.2
Openjade needs OpenSP-1.5.1
libxslt-1.1.12 needs libxml2-2.6.17, Python-2.4 and libgcrypt.
DocBook XML DTD-4.3 needs libxml2-2.6.17 and UnZip-5.51
DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.67.2 needs libxslt-1.1.12
How important are these optional packages? I'm not an IT guru, aware of
what everything does.
Have people tried either
a). Downloading & compiling everything and if so can you mention
disk spaces involved? I have a 10 gig partition for this, and one or two
tricks up my sleeve, but space is not limitless.
b). Streamlining your builds to get a reasonable progression? I'm
running your standard pc, I want X, browsers, OO, Evolution(someday)
gnome & kde libs, mebbe gimp, ssh, a database, and a bit more multimedia
stuff than last time, and a good range of libraries. And I don't want to
find I have compiled out features and need to recompile in circles until
everything has all features.
c) Has anyone a handy process for scanning the book for items with no
dependencies?
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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