On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:30 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 04/25/05 21:19 CST: > > They are non-free. One cannot compile them at all, they just require > > libstdc++.so.5 at runtime. > > To me, even more reason to ditch the old compiler. My understanding > is that this is a Linux From Scratch project. Providing support for > non-free binary packages doesn't fall into the project's goals. > > Perhaps, I'm being too short-sighted, but providing support for > non-free binary packages just seems like something we could avoid > and still meet the project's goals.
I would tend to agree. It seems to detract from the linux/gnu/free software aspects. Mayby you could relegate it to a hint with some kind of pointer in the book? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
