On 10/25/15 20:00, James E. Lang wrote:
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From: Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch <mailto:st...@decentral.ch>>
To: lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org
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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]
Well, the buffer cache is basically files in memory, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_cache. Of course, unused stuff will
get freed when memory is needed, so it's most certainly a very, very
minor issue. However, everything counts in large amounts.
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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