Walter Webb wrote: > Since lfs-6.3, I have always built blfs fully on a clean lfs. > I seem to recall that the tiger display worked at one time, but > that might have been with lfs-4.0. (After 4.0, I decided that > lfs wasn't worth the hassle. I was probably still using dial-up. > After DSL, and increased dissatisfaction with other distributions, > I decided to try lfs-blfs again beginning with 6.3.) > > The first time the tiger did not work, I did "make install" anyhow > and ran the tiger test; and it worked. I had no gs problems. > The next lfs-blfs build did the same thing. After the next one, > I decided that it was not something I was doing. > > By this time, I was wondering why no one changed the instructions > and no one commented in the support list. This, and a few other > things, led to my concept of what is too trivial to add to the > noise level of the list.
I just went and built gs-9.07 from a script I had on my development system. The build was without problems and the tiger came up fine. I'll note that I build over ssh and having gs render the tiger happens on the development system, but displays on my normal user system. > Maybe it is time for a rethink, especially if not many people > are building blfs from scratch (blfsfs). It's an acquired taste. It's also an awful amount of work. I've been working on building a 7.4 BLFS on my development for about 2 weeks and am only part way done. On the other hand, BLFS is not really designed for one to build everything. On my day-to-day system, I've only built (upgraded) about 10 packages in the last 6 months. Once you have things the way you want, there's little need to upgrade. My previous version of LFS/BLFS went 7 years before I felt I needed to do a complete upgrade. I have a sever still running LFS-6.4. There hasn't been a need to do a full update there since April 2009. I think that was because the ISP said they couldn't support the old hw. We have another server that was built in 2006 that still runs fine. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
