On 5/31/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Author: dnicholson > > Date: 2007-05-31 01:26:14 -0600 (Thu, 31 May 2007) > > New Revision: 6798 > > > > @@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ > > for an x86 PC as the Sun drivers will expect to see SPARC symbols > > exported from the kernel. Failure to follow this warning will result > > in a display lockup, which requires a hard reboot, when configuring > > - <application>Xorg</application> for the first time.</para></warning> > > + <application>Xorg</application> for the first time. For this reason, > > + these drivers have been commented out in the wget > > file.</para></warning> > > Why would this still be a warning? If the drivers have been commented > out (they have), what is there to warn about. Please, Dan, consider > what is *in* the book, not what *used* to be in the book. > > It's my feeling that we don't place warnings in the book for things > that are not there any longer in the theory that folks won't change > their scripts unless they see a big warning box. > > Though it could be thought that someone needs to *uncomment* the > drivers from the wget list if they are building on Sparc, I'd bet > that the BLFS instructions wouldn't work for Sparc anyway, so I > think the warning could be changed to a note or just a simple > paragraph. > > Bottom line is that I feel (and just my opinion) a warning should be > placed to remind a user to *do* something or the build will fail, > but in this case, simply following the book without any special > attention to anything else creates a successful build.
I have no problem removing the warning. The comments in the wget file are more than enough for me. I was just sticking with what's in the book. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
