On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:51:25AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Pierre's explanation is pretty clear in my opinion, but there are a few > other changes that are necessary. /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, > /etc/shadow, /etc/fstab, and possibly the /etc/sysconfig/* files all need to > be updated for the new system. > > Also, it is not possible to build on a x86_64 and copy to a 686. It *might* > be possible to go the other direction, but I wouldn't recommend it. > One further consideration, if you intend to make a distribution. For your own systems, you can do as you please. If you start to make the system available to other people, you need to ensure that you comply with the licenses of the packages - mostly that is not a problem, but for some things your choice of configure switches can make the result not distributable.
On my own build of ffmpeg, which I think matches the book's options, the output from configure includes License: non-free and unredistributable. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
