Author: jhuntwork
Date: 2005-05-14 08:30:29 -0600 (Sat, 14 May 2005)
New Revision: 154
Modified:
trunk/README
Log:
Added some comments about the Makefile system to the README
Modified: trunk/README
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--- trunk/README 2005-05-14 14:15:47 UTC (rev 153)
+++ trunk/README 2005-05-14 14:30:29 UTC (rev 154)
@@ -66,11 +66,6 @@
target cd. We need this so that Xorg compiles and runs correctly. This
version of the livecd uses linux-2.6.10.
-* Be sure to have your compiled kernel source tree located at /usr/src/linux
- This is so that a kernel module can be built and installed that will force
- uname to return i486 as your system architecture. This has the desired
- effect of easily producing binaries compatible with 486 machines and later.
-
* These Makefiles rely heavily on an active internet connection.
* Verify that this directory is called 'lfs-livecd' and is located in the
@@ -83,6 +78,34 @@
make
+ If you run into an Error while building, you _should_ be able to resume
+ where you left off after you adjust the build to remove the error. To do
+ this, simply run 'make' again. If for some reason you want to build just
+ one package (at one particular stage of the build) you will need to specify
+ which package to build:
+
+ 1) To build a package for the /tools directory (corresponding to chapter 5
+ in the LFS Book), you would run: make lfs-[package-name]
+
+ 2) To build a package for the final system, (the chroot environment) you
+ would run: make [package-name]
+
+ Following the examples above should properly set up the environment (ie.,
+ switching to the lfs user for packages built for the /tools dir, and entering
+ chroot to build packages for the final system.)
+
+ That is why there are 'double' targets for packages in the main Makefile. One
+ set of targets are targets that you can directly call for the sake of
building
+ just that package in the proper environment, and one set of targets
+ (lfs-[package-name]-scpt or ch-[package-name]) are targets that should only
be
+ called by the make process internally because they expect the environment to
+ be already set up correctly.
+
+ I have tried to make the Makefiles as build friendly as possible, however
+ this being my first real attempt at scripted builds via Makefiles, there
+ are likely many improvements that could (and should!) be made to them.
+
+
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IV. Basic Installation Steps
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