On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:22:52 -0500 Rob Landley <[email protected]> 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. 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 > > That was about the limit of my interest for the moment. I have a guess > why you have no new developers. Getting the book to render is easy. The hard part of editing BLFS is dealing with the bile filled hateful emails you get from Randy McMurchy after you've committed a change. Life's too short to deal with that shit. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
