Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 11/29/05 10:34 CST: > Just thought of another advantage of the fake root method. If the > package installation fails for some reason, we don't have an half > installed package in the final destination. For example, when the user > is building gcc in BLFS and he runs into a problem during make > install.
Though I've never seen a situation where I 'ran into a problem during make install', I suppose it could happen. Probably about as many times that you'd have a problem copying files from the fake root into the final destination. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 10:54:00 up 65 days, 20:18, 3 users, load average: 0.47, 0.26, 0.17 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
