----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:03 PM Subject: Re: Thoughts
> Who's not getting a chance to decide? Isn't the motto "Your distro, > your rules"? All it says in the book is that these are tested > instructions. The same thing applied when we were talking about > filesystems. It says to format your disk as ext2, but that's just a > known working method. > Hi Dan. I didn't say that but simply that in current stable/svn books there are is mention (at least last time I read the books) about other possibilities (there are some hints). Anyway you put under evidence a point: these are tested instructions, why not testing others? I know the use of the "-B" option to solve the unsupported hash but my "argument" was another one: instead of putting the "-B" option why not testing newer binutils, glibc etc... ? I know the statement of LFS book and the one Matthew quoted. > I'm very interested in hearing about your experience with > --hash-style, though. If you compile a binary with gnu HASH, you can't > move it to another machine unless the glibc supports gnu HASH, right? > > -- > Dan I had this problem, but really binutils must support it first; it's the only trouble I had trying to move binaries to another machine, the advantages I found are basically in a reduced dynamic linking time (about 50%) leading to a "faster" system; I tried gcc-4.3.0 too (and using it by default) without much troubles (I had only to patch a lot of glibc sources to compile it with gcc-4.3.0) and then these innovations with reiser4: the major bug I found in reiser4 is a system "stasis" after 10 working hours: a 10 minutes freeze. About this one: why not adding a note in lfs book about the grub patch to support it? Anyway, as already said, these are only my opinions, nothing else. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
