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 version from a USB flash drive (or DVD if old and outdated technology 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