Hi all,
I believe this has been discussed before, but after reading a post on
lfs-chat recently and some pretty frustring issues within the support
IRC channels, I thought I'd post this open question.
Should there be an "unsupported distro" page in the book.
eg: the slamd64 distro is totally unsable without some pretty massive
changes to it, thats the only way I could get it to build anything LFS-ish.
The problems with redhats gcc4 (intially) cause major pain, issues with
suses 9.X 64 distro's handling of multi-lib with gcc caused pain.
These are just a few recent examples that sping to mind.
What are peoples thoughts on having an "unsupported" or "known bug" page
within in each book - or on each projects page
something along there lines of
These distros are known to not be compatible/stable to build an LFS relelase
slamd64
These distros are know to have minor issues that cause addational steps
to build LFS
Fedora Core 4
Suse 9.3 AMD64
Yes, this would be a pain to keep maintained (although I don't think too
much effort if the contributors/projects work together and keep each
other informed)
Yes, should we really have to provide this information
Yes, this is probably over kill.
However the average level of experience of people trying LFS is falling
in a big way (first exposure to linux for example) and an additional bit
of information (assuming they read the book - which most don't) may
prove helpful.
I'm not saying "lets do this"
I'm canvasing for thoughts on this.
Matt
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