On 6/9/2017 11:11 AM, Paul Rogers wrote:
The book tells me HOW to install it, I'm trying to figure out if it
needs to be installed or in what order it should be installed, e.g.
immediately after gobject? It seems like maybe it's a run-time
dependency, so maybe it can be installed at any point in the order. A
dozen or so packages refer to it as optional or recommended, but I can't
understand what makes it necessary. In the past, with this same
confusion and not building it, it SEEMS everything's been OK. But maybe
I just don't know what has been missing. Even reading its project page
at wiki.gnome.org, that seems to be address developers. Beyond
developing ways I can build and maintain my (B)LFS systems for use,
well, I *use* them. That's what I do, have always done, USE computers.
I wish there were something in the book which clarifies this confusion.
But for the moment, can someone please clarify this?
I've had similar confusions. There are many optional dependencies, some
on programs in BLFS, some on outside programs.
One thing that's often unclear is whether the optional program should be
installed *before* the program you're installing (so that the program
sees the include and library files), or whether it's strictly a run time
dependency.
I often can clear this up by doing "configure --help > configure.help"
and looking at all the flags, like --with-ldap. But sometimes even that
doesn't tell me what I want to know.
Optional software outside of BLFS is sometimes poorly documented, so
there's a lot of legwork getting it to compile and install its
components consistently with LFS. Occasionally I just give up.
Sometimes a bit more explanation about a program would be useful.
For example, systemd has its own network DNS service, but systemv does
not. So in the past, I've installed dhcpcd in systemv. So now I'm
wondering whether dhcpcd would be useful for me in systemd. So far, I
have not installed it, and systemd finds my NIC without trouble. Yet
another thing I have to figure out.
Alan
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