I dunno why but I can't seem to "reply" to the emails sent to the "list" on this subject. Every time I try to reply to one it gets bounced as "spam". Yes, I've already sent an email to the postmaster about it.
Anyway, No, the version checking stuff didn't complain about anything. The comment about it not being an ALFS problem is completely idiotic. I am a professional software supplier for linux and if a customer of mine has a problem with my stuff on the distro he decided to use, it's up to me to fix the problem if I want to keep him as a customer. Telling him it's a problem with his distro will guarantee he will go away. At least I supplied a couple of simple changes that would likely guarantee that it would not only work with probably about every linux distro, it would probably be generic enough to make it work on just about any *nix system. I don't get that luxury with my customers. They just complain then it's up to me to figure out how to fix it so it works for them AND doesn't break for other distros. Regarding "build-essentials", it's already installed. Please note that other than the problems I noted, everything else worked. Meaning, once I got past that point, the entire build completed. It took 28 hours (yes it's a slow machine), but it did complete successfully and work. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
