On 07/30/2011 06:22 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 07/29/2011 07:29 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> I am open to suggestions, let the community speak out! C'mon, we need >> to keep BLFS alive! > > So I grabbed the SVN, which produced nothing interesting in the top > level directory, guessed I wanted "book", there was a readme in there, > told me I could run make, and I did. It sat there for three minutes > "validating the book" before I gave up and killed it. 3 minutes seems excessive. What kind of machine are you building on? My dev machine is no speed demon, wouldn't necessarily call it a slouch, but a full render of BLFS for distribution takes 1:56 for me. > Looked at the > readme some more, it said I could do "make nochunks", which i did, and > it started validating xml again. Killed it, opened up the makefile, > searched for nochunks, it didn't have an obvious dependency on > validating (oh great, another crawling makefile horror) searched for the > "Validating the book" string, put an echo in front of its targets, that > did nothing, searched again and found a SECOND instance of this, put an > echo in front of THOSE targets, and then make nochunks died with: > > Generating profiled XML for XHTML... > warning: failed to load external entity "tmp/blfs-full.xml" > unable to parse tmp/blfs-full.xml > make: *** [tmp/blfs-html.xml] Error 6 > You broke something in the makefile. > That was about the limit of my interest for the moment. I have a guess > why you have no new developers. It's good to have a fresh perspective. I mean, I've been working on BLFS for 10+ years now, so I know what to expect. But as Bruce said earlier, BLFS is a big book. The PDF is what, 1300 pages now? Patience is certainly going to be a requirement in its current form. > Rob -- DJ Lucas
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