Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 12/06/05 03:11 CST: > Andrew Benton wrote these words on 12/06/05 01:58 CST: >>But the reasons the configure switches are used are not in the book. If it >>really is "Your distro, your rules" then the book should give enough >>information about the configure switches for people to make an informed >>decision. If you don't know what a particular configure switch does, don't >>use it. > > It really isn't that difficult to find out the info.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. Using ./configure --help (the same as most other BLFS packages) provides descriptions of the complete list of parameters. Though it is not stated anywhere in a general sense (it *is* however mentioned in several of the package instructions), we expect everyone to at least try ./configure --help if they are unsure what the parameters used in the book (plus any additional ones readers may be considering using) are for. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 03:26:00 up 72 days, 12:50, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.88, 0.92 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
