On 25 June 2015 at 21:56, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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 version from a USB flash drive (or DVD if old and outdated technology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.
>

Ah, Knoppix; I built my first LFS on a Windows (I can barely remember it
now) box booted from a Knoppix live CD.

Richard
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