On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Kevin Barlow wrote: > > TheOldFellow, > I'm certainly by no means an idiot I can assure you... > I couldn't even get jhALFS to build from the book never mind anything > else... > I'm not interested in automating anything from BLFS book since I have shell > scripts the does it all for me... > For example, to get KDE the script grabs XFree86 off my file server, copys > it to /src and builds it as well as copying modified files... it then builds > the dependencies for KDE by the same method and the KDE itself followed by > the KDE additional packages... if at any point there is an error, the script > stops and exits... only thing is that it doesn't pick up where it left... > I've only once had a script error, and it errored for a darn good reason... > I know scripts are out of date but I like em, takes me back to the good ol > days of dos 6.22 & windows 3.1, 40mb hard drives and 16MHz 286's... > 16MHz 286 wi' hard drive ? Luxury.
But before I lapse into the Yorkshiremen sketch, scripts are not out of date - jhalfs produces a set of scripts. And if you've only had a script error once, either you're a lot better at it than I am, or you're not trying hard enough ;) Wait till you use modular X. Resuming after an error is conceptually easy - just touch a file (a 'stamp') after each package is completed, then wrap the build within a test to check that the stamp doesn't already exist. ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
