On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 01:42:41PM +0000, Roger Koehler wrote: > I am amazed at how dedicated you guys are to this project! Kudos. > > Just a suggestion: I think it would be really cool if there were an appendix > in the BLFS book listing proven build orders. I know that you should be > able to just go back through all of the dependencies for what you want to > build, but that can be kind of a pain. I'm curious what order you guys > build in. > > Thank you for all of your hard work! This is the coolest Linux project on > the internet! >
I used to list what I built (for desktops - I update my server much less frequently), and the order in which I did it, in my LFS space - but that was back in the days when there was much less in BLFS, much of what I built was not in the book, and (at first) much of the book, particularly gnome, was old versions. But there is still a lot of the book that I do not normally build. Nowadays, most of what I build is in the book. The only area where I diverge a bit is in xorg - I omit almost all the core fonts [ I used to omit all of them, but the xscreensaver splash screen, and any error text from it, is easier to read if one of the font-adobe fonts is present ]. I do have fonts, but apart from adobe they are all TTF and OTF. I also omit some of the xorg 'apps'. Also, I do not always use recommended dependencies - and that simplifies my build, at the costs of extra configure switches and omitting functionality. For optional deps, I treat them on a package-by-package basis. So, what works for me might not work for you. The final problem is that build orders can change overnight. We had the tcl/sqlite business on Monday, I would like to see that reinstated. I already build sqlite before booting the new system, with that change tcl has to come before it. When firefox-31 came out, I had to move Python2 after openssl. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
