On 11/1/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/31/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any case, it might be useful for KDE or possibly Gnome where there > > are related packages, but its usefulness seems to be a bit limited for > > LFS in general. > > I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the > user about config.site, and the book already sets other variables at > the start of the GNOME and KDE chapters. I would even say that it > should be added to the Bash startup files section with a short intro. > The variable (CONFIG_SITE=/etc/config.site) could be set, and nothing > will happen if the file doesn't exist. Then an example could be given > of what is contained in the script. A major time saver in BLFS (and > LFS).
Whoops. Forgot to add this. Here's the online manual page about config.site. The same can be found in info autoconf (I think). http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_node/autoconf_138.html -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
