-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:20 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure
Loren Foret wrote: > More like linux from any distro. But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more than a book", it may be worthwhile to reconsider the "somewhat arbitrary" host requirements, or at least point out that certain distros may have the tools but they may not be invoked by default. Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Well what I mean is that LFS can be "spawned" from any distro, and is a distro all it's own. True enough, there are plenty of tools and things missing from LFS and BLFS but what I guess is the point of LFS, BLFS, etc is to assist in understanding how if it doesn't contain it, look at the dependencies, install, install the source, and there ya go. There is plenty work to be done to even compare this to some of the mainstreams distros, example: I use SUSE 10.3 for my main server. The sheer amount of packages that has will probably make your fingers cramp trying to compile all that stuff. I just started banging my head trying to figure out how to get KDE4 loaded. It's my guess that the "tools may not be all there" is somewhat implied or stated somewhere. I guess to get this out there... I agree with you that LFS has plenty of weird issues like the AWK issue. (I actually ran into that myself looking into SELinux support). But once you have done this a few times I guess the better advice would be "not" to follow the book and start adjusting things yourself. Also, I guess this would make a good disclaimer... If you want to use LFS... Get used to searching for solutions to error messages. :) Speaking of... Anyone got QCA 2.0.0 working with QT4.3.4 as compiled from the svn? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
