Am Samstag, 8. März 2008 16:27:36 schrieb Randy McMurchy: > DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/08/08 09:06 CST: > > Hi all, I wanted to see if there were any objections to commenting out > > the JDK source build for now. > > If you think the existing source build is too old, then it looks like > you don't have any choice (remember that we are targeting a rather > old LFS/BLFS system). Myself I'd like to see it stay, but we'll let > the community decide. > > The downside is that you'll have to comment the whole page out. I > don't want it to look like we support binary packages in a stable > BLFS release. I'm not really sure we can be flexible here either. > In fact, just the few seconds I'm thinking about it makes me sort > of lean really heavy of establishing policy of no binary packages > in the book unless it's used to bootstrap a source build. I would say that this is a must that we are allowed to! There are other packages than just JDK which needs binaries too. The Compiler of FreePascal (btw, a really nice reincarnation of Borlands TurboPascal) needs itself to create the compiler. There you need to download the binaries first (a full functional environment). Than you can download the sources and compile them with the compiler in form of the binaries. Finally you have replaced the installed binaries with the version compiled from the source. That is some bootstrapping manner. It is quite similar to Java - there you have the choice to redo the installation by compiling the package or just use the binaries. But you have no choice in not using the binaries first. Ok, FP isn't in the book - but it could. It could definitely not, if those binaries are not "allowed".
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