On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 02:35:50PM +1000, Ian Macdonald wrote: > > 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
The rate of change is actually a bigger problem in BLFS :-) As a rule of thumb, I try to keep corresponding versions of gtk, glib, atk, and any gnome, in a build - new point versions usually work (at the moment they might move to meson), new minor versions may require a fuller rebuild. For firefox I always update to a new major version [ and for the moment I'll be testing betas when I can, so that I can be aware of changes to the build and to its toolchain ] and I'll ensure that the ca-certs, libpng, libvpx, nspr, nss, sqlite are current, and that icu, graphite2, harfbuzz are new enough. But at the moment I've stuck on icu59 in the expectation that there might be build problems with 60. I'll hope to try 60 in my next build. For the rest, unless an update is to fix vulnerabilities, or is an area of interest to me (e.g. the texlive extra source packages, graphite2, harfbuzz) then I probably won't bother. But my desktop systems have a short active life - I'll try to keep the released versions (8.1, 8.0, ...) minimally updated for security, but the svn builds will probably get trashed after the next relase. I used to try to keep my older releases usable, but I've now thrown out everything before 7.10 (some old ones went when there were glibc vulnerabilities, those with gcc-4.9 went when it could no longer build current firefox, and in any case would have gone when openssl-1.0.1 lost support) and I'll probably throw out the 7.10 systems when we get to 8.2. For LFS, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/development/ has daily snapshots. For BLFS sysv we don't seem to have daily downloads for the svn book, only for systemd. But in either case, it may be useful to look at the -dev lists and active trac tickets [ http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/report and similarly for s/blfs/lfs/ ] to find out where there are known issues. ĸen -- Truth, in front of her huge walk-in wardrobe, selected black leather boots with stiletto heels for such a barefaced truth. - Unseen Academicals -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
