On 06/26/2010 05:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I'm not commenting on the $GNOME_CONFIG question, it's not > something I've ever looked at, and I'm happy to go with whatever is > decided. >
4 months old, but the instructions are a little bit easier on the eyes. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/GNOME_CONFIG/index.html > If we do go for either 6.6 or svn, the SBU/space measurements become > a problem - x86_64 is fully supported in LFS. I happen to only build > x86_64 these days, and I'm fairly sure one or two packages need special > action to build correctly (e.g. passing -fPIC). I can't see any editor > feeling disposed to build on both arches as a matter of course. > I have yet to do a pure 64 system. Seems like the way to go. Wonder if any of us but me are building on real 32 bit machines. > If we move to LFS-svn, the tag "known to build against LFS-svn" is > not particularly useful because things change. Arguably, a pair of > "built on x86/x86_64 using LFS-svn-ccyymmdd" tags might have a > little purpose, but doing that would only really show when a package was > last tested. After Alexander has long departed, I'm in agreement that > there is *too much* in the book - it can't all be kept up to date for lack of > interest. > > Meanwhile, I'm off to update my buildscripts for icecat-3.6.4 (trying this > instead of firefox for political reasons ) now that I've finally got it > building > on 32-bit ppc64. Only took 94 minutes to build, and that was after I'd > found the magic words to get through xptc and then ipc. I think I might > be a bit "the worse for wear" by the time I've built and installed it using > my script ;-) Might be difficult to build IcedTea with icecat, but I plan to sign the SCA, and put up a fully tested tar.gz release for LFS users (so that we can bootstrap without gcj and still use free software). ;-) -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
