On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:16:37 +0000 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 06:31:03PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > > > > > > On 11/20/2017 09:40 PM, Ian Macdonald (by way of Ian Macdonald > > <[email protected]>) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just finished a new build of LFS-8.1 and moving on to BLFS, I > > > have a couple of points of confusion. > > > > > > The libffi package seems to be missing in the development book > > > index and also as a requirement for p11-kit. > > > > Don't mix the books. If you installed LFS is 8.1, you should be > > using BLFS-8.1. If you want to use the development version, you > > should update and install all of the LFS packages. > > > DJ, I have to take exception to that - if people want to build > somewhat safe packages (e.g. browsers, openssl) they *need* to get > the versions from the development book. > > Ian - we've added libffi-3.2.1, Python-3.6.3, and also Ninja-1.8.2 > and Meson-0.43.0 to the development book. The latter two are needed > for recent versions of glib2 etc. > > ĸen Thanks All, In the interim I have run into Ninja, trying to compile libtiff, and eventually worked out what was going on. I have been in the habit of using LFS Stable because, at least once in the past, using LFS Dev, a package version used in chapter 5, has changed by the time I got to chapter 6. ( I am a bit slow at times.) cheers -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
