> I assumed the help tarball *provides* the help files. No idea about a > wiki version of them - to be honest, if you can spare time and space > to install a conventional distro somewhere, even though you'll hate it > (you are an LFS user, after all) with LO it might help you decide if > there is any benefit.
I didn't think of that. I do have Centos-6.6 installed on my i7, planning to use it for some virtualization experience. (Again. Finally. I was system programmer/administrator on a an VM/SP-4 mainframe in '85, a dual processor w/ (eventually) 8MB of memory.) > For somebody in the USA, unless you write in Spanish, if you have to > ask the question then other languages, translations, dictionaries are > probably not useful. For the most part I've been using --disable-nls when offered. > ISTR that the build system has been improved - out with the old Mebbe so, but I've still got a list of 23 dependencies to log in my package manager. > At least you will probably build it quicker than I do (6hr30m on my > test machine with -j4 on x86_64 gcc5, current LO version - that is the > box only building en_GB, the others are "somewhat slower" ;-) That's another reason I thought 3.6.7 would be good enough! ;-) > I hope you find that building it is worthwhile. Not so much expecting THAT, but it's one of the things that's really expected to be there. <shrug> > No need to "install a conventional distro...", just boot a "live" > version from a USB flash drive (or DVD if old and outdated technology > is preferred). That's something that's always useful to have lying > around and at one's disposal. Yeah, could do that too. I always like to have a Knoppix CD/DVD around. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
