Am 2019-04-10 12:03, schrieb Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev:
On 10/04/2019 11:09, Julien Lepiller via lfs-dev wrote:
Hi!
I've helped a few lfs newcomers on the French IRC channel who all made
the same mistake: because there are two python archives, they
decompressed the wrong one and got stuck. It's not hard to imagine
them doing tar xf python<tab>. The tarball is actually named
Python-&python-version;.tar.xz with an upper-case letter. Since a few
users don't pay enough attention (and I can't blame them for that) I'd
like to suggest adding a note about the tarball name. What do you
think?
Thank you!
+1, Seems useful. Waiting for others to comment.
Yes sure, everything what helps to prevent users from making errors is
good.
OTOH using the correct tarball as it is named in the book is not that
error-prone as some other strange seds in some other instructions. If
starting from an empty sources-dir, there is only a python-docs tarball
beside the Python tarball; so no version mismatch should occur and if
you accidently unpack the docs instead of the source, no configure
script appears. At least here user should recognize that something went
wrong.
Anyway, at least a small note might be added to the phyton chapter(s?).
--
Thomas
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