On 08/26/2015 06:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Simon Kitching wrote:
Hi,
The LFS book and wiki have references to documents from The Linux
Documentation Project (TDLP). Most significantly, tdlp is referenced
from the "Prerequisites" section of the LFS book:
* Software-Building-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html
* The Linux Users' Guide
http://tldp.org/pub/Linux/docs/ldp-archived/users-guide/
Sadly, the documentation on TDLP is _really_ out-of-date. I don't think
the LFS book is doing readers any favour by persuading them to read
these documents.
What do you think about just embedding the relevant parts of the
sofware-building-howto in the LFS book itself - or simply dropping the
link? I'm willing to contribute a day or so to help create suitable
replacements for the software-building-HOWTO if that helps..
The users-guide link could possibly be replaced by a link to the debian
user's guide..
I would prefer a reference rather than embed the information in the
book. If you write a suitable hint or can give me some suggested urls
we can change what is in the book now.
I started writing such a document as a hint, but it feels to me a little
too large for that format. I've therefore put the completed document up
on my website. If you think it is of any use, then you are welcome to
take that and host it on the LFS site if you wish, and welcome to make
any changes you feel necessary. The document is currently licenced under
cc-by-sa, but I'm happy to dual-licence it to the gnu licence if you
wish. Or you could link to the original, but I presume you'll want to
make changes.
It is written in markdown format, so converting to "hint" format would
be easy if desired.
html form: http://moi.vonos.net/linux/beginners-installing-from-source/
markdown form:
http://moi.vonos.net/downloads/markdown/beginners-installing-from-source.md.raw
I hope it's helpful. I can't imagine too many people interested in LFS
who would learn much from that page, but it is certainly less
out-of-date than the TDLP document that the LFS book currently refers to!
Regards,
Simon
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