I remember when make-3.82 came out. There were a few packages which needed seds to build, but it took some time for them all to get discovered. Since make-4.0 has one intended backward incompatability (looks pretty obscure to me), and because everything has recently been build-tested for 7.4, I figured I'd take a look.
Didn't realise their were so many packages in the book ;-) Counting each tarball as a package (so, gimp with gimp-help counts as two and each xorg proto/lib/app/font/driver counts as one), I think there were about 740 packages in the book at 9th October when I last updated my repo. Spent the last couple of days working out what I had built, in what order, and what is in the book. As of Tuesday I'd built 365 of them (plus several more where I was building older versions - deliberately for gtk/gnome [ I'll test gnome in a separate build, so on this one I've got the existing versions where I know the deps are correct ], accidentally for a few others (some, such as the bootscripts, I just missed - for parts of Xorg it looks as if I might have screwed up a git merge when I was sorting out my scripts a few months ago, in which case I've benefitted from this. Tonight I built another 9 without issue. Apart from finding I was using old versions, I did start to question if this was a waste of my time. And then I tried qemu. Both 1.6.0 and the newer 1.6.1 fail to build with make-4.0, a post from the summer suggests make should be invoking submakes with ARFLAGS="rv", perhaps something in that area has changed. And I did confirm that 1.6.0 builds with make-3.82. Hopefully I'll get a fix from the qemu-devel list. One day, when I think I've completed the first build I'll post my results in my LFS space. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
