Well, I modded the profile included with LiveCD 6.0-1, and I was able to get a full compile with the -j switches...
I guess I have a few questions, before I go much further:
1) is there going to be any more work on the 6.0-1 LiveCD? If not, then my mods are pretty much pointless, at least as far as the future's concerned. [ Good learning exercise and all, but... ;-) ]
No, the 6.0 cd is pretty much "as-is". I don't intend to do any other additions or fixes to it. Sorry for the trouble. :)
2) At what point in time are the packages included on the 6.1-pre CDs going to be "set in stone?" When LFS 6.1 is officially released?
Basically, yes. I think once 6.1 is released, we'll do our best to release at least an 'rc' iso right away, and then release as soon as is shown to be fairly stable, the release version. Version bumps at that point would only be to fix major flaws or discovered bugs before development begins on the LFS 7.x cds (some ways away yet...)
2a) Are there any scripts to automatically build/modify the nALFS profiles to match a certain set of sources? If not, I could prolly write one, but it'd be in Python... I haven't done much Perl in quite a few years. Granted, nothing says the profile generator thingy has to be on the CD or anything... ;-)
Heh, you need to join and get involved in ALFS as well then. We have a whole SRS devoted to a next generation build-tool (slated to be built in Python, by the way) but development hasn't even really started yet. We're a little short-handed on developers with free time.
Until I know more about how to do what needs to be done, I'll just keep reading up on Makefiles and SVN -- I think I have the _basics_ of each figured out, but the macro facilities for make render Makefiles near unreadable for me, at least for now... More to learn, more to learn...
Always is, yes. But that's what makes life fun! ;)
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