Greg Schafer wrote: [snip]
> this is an assumption). The whole 2 phase build method approach is > designed to try and provide as sane an environment as possible. The goal > is to produce an end result identical to that which would have been > produced as if you had produced it in a sane environment. This is what ICA > can verify! > > Here are the basic steps to ICA: > > - build Chapter 5 (as normal) > - build Chapter 6 (as normal) > - take a snapshot > - remove /tools from the PATH > - use Chapter 6 to rebuild itself (overwriting everything as it goes) > - take another snapshot > - AGAIN use Chapter 6 to rebuild itself (for good measure) > - take yet a third snapshot > - now binary diff the snapshots (1 versus 2, 2 versus 3) > - explain any differences > - any unexplainable differences are BUGS in the build method. Thank you. This makes more sense. There's a couple of things in there that were escaping me before. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
