Text 16207, 61 rader
Skriven 2013-01-12 23:43:46 av Nicholas Boel (1589.linux)
  Kommentar till text 16206 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: it is all greek to me
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  Re: it is all greek to me
  By: Maurice Kinal to Nicholas Boel on Sun Jan 13 2013 03:37 am

 NB>> Do you mean comment it out?

 MK> Yes.  That is exactly what I meant.  Without knowing for sure I don't
 MK> think it'll break anything.

I can give it a try.

 NB>> I resynced this morning and it compiled just fine, with no changes
 NB>> made whatsoever.

 MK> Excellent.  Personally I prefer the gcc-4.6 branch compared to gcc-4.5. 
 MK> Also for the time being, gcc-4.6 is still an active branch although I am
 MK> starting to wonder about that.

Why do you prefer 4.6 over the last stable version?

And is why you're wondering about the active branch because they're already
working on 4.8? Seeming as though they've started 4.7 but completely dumped it
for 4.8? That was running through my head as I ran through the unstable
packages.

 MK> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ is the homepage.  These specifically may
 MK> be of the most interest to you;

 MK> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/LFS-BOOK-7.2.tar.bz2

Heh. I just had a prolonged argument with another LFS user tonight. It
disappoints me that they tell you to "install another distro" in order to start
your LFS build. IMO, they should provide a small .ISO to start with, including
all your core utilities you need to build your LFS system. It kinda makes me
feel like they're pawning off work that they should have done themselves.

BTW, the .ISO they do provide, tells you it should NOT be used with any 7.0 or
higher installs (LFS wise). So it's seriously outdated.

Why can't you just install Gentoo, or Debian, or Archlinux, and just forget
about their compilers and do the same thing LFS tries to teach you to do?

 MK> which is the latest development as of this date.  What I have is sort of 
 MK> development version except with gcc-4.6.4 (snapshot) and only the c
 MK> compiler (gcc).  Also I modified the bootscripts a tad to suit things like
 MK> flash disks where I chose to limit disk writes.  For example I've been
 MK> mounting /var in a tmpfs instead of using the disk.  Also I have a 2G
 MK> tmpfs mounted as /tmp which I use to build packages and the such.  Only
 MK> the final product gets written to disk.  The biggest problem with this
 MK> strategy is that I find it requires 4G of ram for a development system but
 MK> these days that isn't really a big deal.  As for /var, log files will be
 MK> lost between boots so if there is anything worth saving in them then a
 MK> backup must be made before powering off or rebooting.

I could accomplish the exact same thing with any other distro. I don't
understand why LFS is so important, from what I've read.

Regards,
Nick

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