On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:24:34 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally, I don't think LFS has an obligation to support 16 year > old code that is needed for a boot loader that we don't support. I understand that. However, as far as lilo goes, they seem to have restarted development in 2010 (and I also wonder why this is - what is not liked about current grub?): http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ and I wanted to see what they've done. Heck they even added a graphical Tux boot screen. Even back when lilo was the only game in town, I never liked it that lilo depended on the Dev86 package. Although the 0.16.18 release (which is what I grabbed and why I did not see there were other build problems with 0.16.17, or on x86_64) was as recent as 2010. http://www.debath.co.uk/dev86/ In any case, the Make patch does fix three known bugs in Make 3.82. Dev86 happened to be the only package that I've seen that tripped on Make 3.82 so far, but there might be others out there (the two other bug reports to make did not come from Dev86 users). If anyone happens to know any other names off hand please do let me know. It is my understanding that Make 3.82 did tighten the rules with regard to the use of tabs rather than spaces which causes some existing Makefiles to break, but that is not a bug in Make, but rather its documented behavior and so it is the affected Makefiles that need correction. Eric S. Raymond even once wrote in one of his books that he wished the original author of make had never relied on tabs in the first place. Cheers, Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
