On 09/28/2018 02:57 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
As I observe students building LFS, I see them make a lot of mistakes.
This is not necessarily bad as making and correcting errors is a good
part of the learning process.
What I would like to do though is to provide sanity checks during
Chapters 5 and 6 to try to catch mistakes earlier in the build process.
I've seen students progress well into Chapter 6 when they've made some
errors in Chapter 5 and they then need to go back and restart Chapter 5.
One problem that seems to pop up a lot is students running make and then
forgetting make install.
What I have thought about is to produce a simple list of files of
critical directories at appropriate times where a comparison to a
reference list could highlight missing files.
I've created a static html page to address this issue.
http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/sanity.html
Note that missing make install is not the only error. Sometimes new
users do not read the output of commands and miss a flagged error.
Usually this is caught fairly quickly, but not always.
-- Bruce
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