Andrey wrote: > As far as I know, none of ALFS or jhalfs doesn't build full system at once. > You need some hacks, if you want to build all. It uses instructions from the > book. And stops after building any package (not in LFS - it builds all). The > best choice is write your own scripts, that uses only that packages you > want. I wrote scripts for BLFS a year ago, and every time I need new system > I just rewrite something (like order of building or depensies). > Oh, yes, and about chroot... Some package says "don’t build it in chroot > environment"... > So my opinion: build LFS using for example FLS-livecd, and after use some > scripts. On my athlon-3000 full system with kde, gnome, apache etc needs > about week to build (if I build than a 4 hour a day).
jhalfs builds LFS perfectly (once you work out the configuration steps before you start) and it also builds a few additional packages that help getting BLFS going. (It can also be used to build CFLS, HLFS, BLFS) There is a recently added tool as part of jhalfs that lets you build your chosen BLFS packages too. It works out dependencies and just goes on through. If I were you, get a copy of the jhalfs scripts and start playing with them on a small partition so you get the idea of how it works. Manuel and George on the alfs-list always seem to be willing to help. On my current machine (AMD64 3200+ 1G RAM) I get through a complete LFS build in about 2 1/2hrs and I can go and do something else whilst it is happening :-) The great thing about jhalfs is it builds "the book" either a released or SVN version - you choose. You get a flawless reproduction of the book. No typos introduced! It will take a little playing to understand how to set up the configuration but it is just like make menuconfig in the linux Kernel so it is pretty easy to follow. nALFS is basically dead - all features, fixes are going into jhalfs currently. HTH Al -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
