Greg Schafer wrote these words on 08/01/05 17:15 CST:

> Can you stomach case statements within the build cmds? ie:

I thought of this, but kind of leaned to just using one set of
instructions to fit the BLFS past method of producing a book that
matched a specific version of LFS. Though I'm glad you mentioned
it so that others may comment as well.

It wouldn't be difficult to programatically figure out what gcc
someone is using and act according for packages that need a patch
or some other different set of instructions, however, I'm just not
sure BLFS is ready to support multiple sets of instructions (poor
phrasing in that it is not really multiple sets of instructions,
but you know what I mean) depending on what version of something
the reader may have on his system.

This would open up a huge precedent to begin support of multiple
LFS' or what-not. Bruce has already mentioned that Cross-BLFS is
not something likely to happen, and though this isn't the same as
Cross-BLFS, it is supporting multiple platforms.

Bottom line is I was leaning to keeping the instructions to fit
one specific version of LFS. Not sure how this thought planning
comes into play if/when LFS is ever a fully cross-platform build.

Gotta cross that bridge when we come to it.

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