On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:39:29AM +0000, timothy ince wrote:
>
> I have just finished installing LFS 6.2. Can i carry on and install
> BLFS 6.3 or should i redo LFS again to 6.3? Any advice before i
> start would be most welcome.
Short answer: it almost always works, so have a go and take sensible
precautions!
Long answer: I have been building BLFS-6.2 and BLFS-dev packages on
LFS 6.1.1 for a while. The only glitches I can recall are:
* LFS 6.1.1 man pages are installed by the man package and
configured by /etc/man.conf . Modern LFS uses the man-db package
which is configured by /etc/man_db.conf . If a package needs to
update the man-db configuration you will have to adapt the
instructions to the man package.
* Some BLFS scripts use a short -t flag to the ln command, which my
ln does not support. I had to use the long
--target-directory=<...> flag. Presumably a later coreutils
version added the short flag?
* When building Xorg-7.1 as per BLFS-6.2 the server fails to build.
I had to patch the source with:
sed -i -e '/CONFIG_H/i #include <linux/types.h>' \
hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_agp.c
I Googled this fix so I am not certain what it does. I think it
is a workaround for my older kernel headers.
Regards,
Jeremy Henty
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