-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch>
To: lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org
Sent: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:51
Subject: Re: [lfs-support] suggestion
On 10/25/15 19:37, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, but you have three meaningless cp commands in your script. Part of
>>> the LFS goals is to teach how to visualize what the commands are doing.
>>> You are not doing that yet. Why do you think the cp commands are
>>> needed?
>>> They are not in the book.
>>>
>>
>> But the book says to 'Unpack each package into the GCC source
>> directory' so I
>> copy the files into the gcc source directory and unpack them.
>
> You are copying the tarballs, but then unpacking the originals, not the
> copies. The cp commands actually don't do anything except use space.
Not necessarily. I'm not really an expert in Linux memory management,
[File system is not memory (RAM). -- jl]
but they may well also fill the buffer cache and therefore help to
increase overall compile time. If that's what one wants...
>
> Look up FBBG. http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FBBG
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
>
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