On 2020-06-15 15:09 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 20:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > <lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > In the last few weeks, the LFS editors have been working on a major > > overhaul of LFS. This work can be reviewed at > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/cross2-lfs-book/ > > > > Was there an SVN reference (branch) to pull the sources from? > > > We welcome comments and criticisms large and small. > > > > -- Bruce > > These comments (or maybe criticisms - your interpretation: your rules) > based on a very quick speed read: please take that into consideration > when deciding. > > I'd like to see the "cross-compiling 101" sections, so > > Introduction > Toolchain Technical Notes > General Compilation Instructions > > in "chapter" 5, separated out from the package build sections there. > > Appreciate they would make for a very small introductory chapter > but it somehow feels wrong as it is. > > Not sure if I'd favour the Pass1 and Pass2 sections all being within > the same chapter or not though, or how one would entitle a chapter > that just contained just those five package builds, plus yet another > Introduction. > > I am also aware that Ninja and Meson are still only "required" for > the SystemD version, but that LFS has decided to build packages > in the SysV revision with them, even though all required packages > can still be built using an Autotools-based approach. > (I 'm sure that claim is soon to be rendered invalid though?) > > I appreciate there's a perception that the SysV and SysD books > should align as much as possible, indeed I've even got some > packages re-ordered on the basis of that view, but I'm less > convinced that the SystemD tail should wag the LFS dog. > > Given that LFS used to start from the view that one only built > what was needed to build the LFS-system, and never warming > to the systemd camp fire, i've always felt Ninja and Meson to be > a kind of feature-creep and so was wondering if that could be > made more explicit, so that people could see that Ninja and Meson > could happily be left out until BLFS. > (Though there's no getting away from them there: more's the pity!)
We can throw a note there in SysV book, just like the note in Vim page (Vim is neither strictly "required", considering the dependencies). > Then again, I could make the same claim for Intltool and a > couple of other packages related to it. > > Looking forwards to trying it out though, > Kevin -- Xi Ruoyao <xry...@mengyan1223.wang> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
