Qrux wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 
>>> Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Matt and I are very reluctant to change a working
>>>> implementation. From what we can gather, gcc-4.7/glibc-2.15(?)
>>>> changes things and will require some LFS changes.  We need to
>>>> be concentrating on that.
>>> ...
>> Until gcc-4.7 comes out I'm recommending we use the exiting jh
>> branch of lfs and go ahead and put in these changes now...
> 
> What does "a working implementation" refer to in your first message?
> Is it an existing version?  If so, which one?

LFS-7.1, LFS-7.0, LFS-svn

> What does "the exiting jh branch of lfs" refer to?  The proposed JH
> --with-sysroot changes?

Within the subversion repository are:

branches
tags
trunk

Tags are something like 7.0, 7.1 and are snapshots of trunk at specific 
times.

Branches are different development streams that started off at trunk and 
differ from the main line.

Browse around a bit at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/browser

> I'm sure it's my own misunderstanding; I only ask because it _sounds_
> like you went from "reluctant to change" to "recommending we use" in
> the space of a morning.  

No, just have parallel implementations for a while until the new system 
has matured a bit.

   -- Bruce

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