Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Matt Darcy wrote:
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.
Yes, although I know that Greg Schafer will disagree with me and say
that it is a major cop-out. The question is where to draw the line
between supported and unsupported distros.
There should be some general criteria, not just a list of distros. E.g.,
for Greg's unmodified DIY-linux, the host must be glibc-based, not
uclibc-based. For LFS, my proposal is to require that the host must be
able to build Chapter 5 up to gcc pass2 (feel free to draw the line
earlier, but not later). According to this scheme, all build errors
prior to gcc pass2 are classified as "insane host" bugs (wontfix), and
all issues that pop up after that are LFS bugs.
Only after agreeing upon such a criterium, we can list individual
distros as unsupported hosts, explaining the exact failure mode in each
case.
Are there really enough distros that won't build lfs (other than the
ones that are just too old and ones that don't meet other basic
criteria) to justify creating a such a list? We already have FAQ entries
for a couple of problematic distros...just add more to the FAQ as needed...
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