On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:59 AM, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I meant to say was that I, for one, would be grateful for any > additional documentation of the subject.
It's pretty straightforward, although I might butcher some of the terminology. The main goal is to see if the bootstrapping introduces any differences in the build. So, you want to compare the boostrapped build to a build that has been done against a totally in-place system. Actually, as Greg says, the best results come from using 3 builds - then you can see whether any differences are repeatable. So, you have: Build 1: Bootstrapped against /tools Build 2: Built against in-place bootstrapped system Build 3: Built against in-place system After Build 3, there's no reason to keep building since it would just be the same as the 2 -> 3 build. Using 2 builds is useful if you know what you're looking for, but 3 builds truly ensures that you don't get false positives in the diffs. The actual implementation mostly involves preparing to diff/cmp, and is probably better explained by the comments in gsbuild. Look at the bottom of the functions file for do_ica_prep() and do_ica_work(). http://cvs.diy-linux.org/index.cgi/gsbuild/common-sh.functions?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
