Hello, Now that we have the systemd version as a stable option we need to over-haul the asking for help section.
I am seeing that people are not actually correctly stating what version of the book that they are using. There is also an increasing number of people answering peoples support questions assuming that they are not using systemd and in a number of cases making incorrect assumptions. I do not know what the exact changes should be made but from a support perspective and from my own work background in the field the following really should be asked: 1) The person asking for support needs to provide the full configure line that they have used, and not just state that they followed the book. Reason for this is there are optional switches that they may have added to the base configure options. 2) That they are either using systemd or (If memory serves me correctly) System V. 3) That they attach the full log-file of the error that they are getting and not just the un-helpful error that they receive on the screen. In the case of systemd they need to provide the output of journalctl. 4) Suggest that they turn on de-bugging, even if we do not actually provide exact instructions on how to do that, but refer them to the packages ./configure --help for instructions on how to do this. If we have the output of debug included in the log file we can then more easily assist. It may even be that they can solve the issue themselves with a little help from a search engine. We need to come to a joint conclusion on this as it really does need to be the same for both versions of the book, ie trunk and systemd. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
