Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 03:50:47PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: >> Dear Development LFS Book Administrators: >> > > For development, you ought to post to lfs-dev, but you'll need to > subscribe before you do that. The devs (primarily Bruce and Matt) > might read this here, I'm not sure.
Yes. I read everything here. I respond as time permits. I agree with everything Ken says. My reaction was generally, "If a user doesn't see that, then LFS is too advanced for them." -- Bruce >> I would like to submit for your consideration the following changes >> to the Section "III. 6.7. Linux-3.12.6 API Headers" of the >> "Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20140102" book. >> >> 1. After the paragraph >> >> " ..: This is done by >> way of sanitizing various C header files that are shipped in the Linux >> kernel source tarball.", >> >> I would insert: >> >> Note: >> For the meaning of the action "sanitizing" (in this context), run command >> sh scripts/headers_install.sh | sed s/echo// >> and in the output read the section between "Prepares " and " keywords." >> (output, lines 3-6). >> > > I don't find that helpful. At all. > >> 2. After section >> >> "They are placed in an intermediate local ", >> >> I would insert: >> >> "subdirectory (named by us, 'dest', in the command below)" >> > > If the user does not understand that we are creating a directory > called 'dest' then LFS is probably too hard for them. In > everything, a balance is needed between explaining and teaching your > grandmother to suck eggs. > >> 3. After >> >> "copied to the needed location", >> >> I would change to >> >> "copied to the intended user-space standard location, '/usr/include/...'" >> > > Again, that should be obvious from the command. > >> 4. I would change the command >> >> cp -rv dest/include/* /usr/include >> to >> cp -prv dest/include/* /usr/include >> >> That would synchronize the file times in the '/usr/inlude/' tree to the >> times >> of the files created in the kernel directory on running the command >> 'make headers_install', and not assign them an arbitrary time when I get >> around to >> run the copy after taking out the garbage and then getting a well deserved >> rest >> before being finally able to complete the procedure :) >> > So, you think that the time(s) when the files were initially > created in dest/ are more important than the times when they were > finally installed to /usr ? Why ? > > ĸen > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
