>
> The only consideration, to my mind, would then be: should LFS worry
> about providing multilib support or not?
>
> --
> JH
How many programs don't run in 64-bit mode now? I'm running 64-bit LFS
and the only ones I can think of are Flash and GRUB. There are probably
more, but I haven't n
>
> > So I think the project needs a challenge. Trouble is I can't think what
> > it is!
>
> Yep, and that's why I can both understand Randy's and the community's
> concerns about the lack of activity, but then wonder what activity it is
> they'd like to see.
Maybe replacing sysvinit with
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:02 -0200, Renato Riolino wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm still using LFS 5 on my desktop computer (Athlon XP 2800+) and now
> I'm thinking of installing it on my laptop too. My laptop is a Athlon 64
> CPU and I like to know if is already possible to a newby like me to
> build
>
> BTW, this is the first I have heard of maintainers recommending *not*
> to use DESTDIR based approach since that is how packages are installed
> by most of the distros (including the source based ones like Gentoo).
>
Isn't DESTDIR something that the autoconf package automatically
provides?
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:30 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:13:16PM -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > I didn't like the network scripts, especially the ifconfig.* directory
> > structure.
>
> <..>
>
> > I would like the network script
I didn't like the network scripts, especially the ifconfig.* directory
structure. It seemed too complex, especially for my needs. I looked at
some Linux books to see other ways to set up network cards. I finally
decided to have a configuration file, in my
case, /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.d/ath0, ho
I've been reading the bootscripts. They are well written. I do have a
few comments, however.
In the rc script, I think line 53 should say, ...can't be stopped in
runlevel..." instead of "...can't be started in runlevel..."
In rc, why not say
previous=${PREVLEVEL:-N}
inste
