See comment inline below:
M.Canales.es wrote:
> El Jueves, 13 de Septiembre de 2007 12:34, Jean-Luc Delatre escribió:
>
>
>> The check_prerequisites() in common/libs/func_check_version.sh fails on
>> FIND and GREP because "fancy" version numbers on Knoppix 5.1 contain
>> intermediate noise words which confuse the 'cut -d" " -f4'.
>>
>
> There is no way to make happy all that distros that insist on customize the
> default version string output for some tools. I such cases jhalfs will prompt
> you:
>
> "If you are sure that you have installed a proper version of {prog_name}
> but jhalfs has failed to detect it, press 'c' and 'ENTER' keys to continue,
> otherwise press 'ENTER' key to stop jhalfs. "
>
>
>
>> And this does come from Config.in
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> config MKFILE
>> string "Makefile"
>> default "$JHALFSDIR/Makefile"
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>
> You are doing wrong assumptions. MKFILE define the full path to the build
> Makefile to be generated after parsing the book, NOT the master Makefile
> included in the jhalfs sources.
>
> Plus, that setting is under a "Internal settings" sub-menu that is labeled
> "WARNING: for jhalfs developers only".
>
> I think that the GUI is very clear here saying that you must not to change
> the
> settings founds inside that menu.
>
>
>
>>> To use this tool you MUST:
>>>
>>> - have experience building {c,h,b}LFS packages
>>>
>> NO! I don't want to, on the contrary I want to use ALFS to get this
>> experience even if the learning curve is steeper
>>
>
> By design and developers decision, jhalfs is designed to be used for users
> that have experience building manually *LFS systems. If you have never build
> a *LFS system, you can still try use jhalfs, but don't cray if you don't know
> how to use it.
>
It seems to me that a big part of the reason LFS exists is as a learning
tool to learn exactly how to go about build a linux system from source
from the ground up. So, I think Manuel's comment above is well founded.
>
>>> If you do not have the above skills, please don't use this tool.
>>>
>> If you do not have software engineering skills beyond "cleverness" I
>> suggest you read this: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
>>
>
> Instead of flame us, you should send constructive criticisms, discuss ideas
> about how to improve the tool, and/or send patches to fix possible bugs.
> After all, that is the open source philosophy.
>
>
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