Le 04/02/2020 à 07:47, Walter P. Little via lfs-dev a écrit :
> Hi All -  
> 
> I recently volunteered to give a talk next month about LFS/BLFS to the San
> Fernando Valley Linux User Group (Los Angeles) that one of my employees 
> organizes.
> 
> The main purpose of my talk will be to inspire people in the audience to
> embark on their own LFS journey, as it is probably the *best* way to see how
> all the pieces of a Linux machine are put together (certainly was for me when
> I did my first LFS build in 2003, and has continued to be as I build a new one
> roughly annually since).  
> 
> I plan to outline the basic process at a high level using various pre-staged
> VM snapshots to demo selected points of interest.  The idea being to go from
> zero to a functioning environment in about an hour... so a *lot* of details
> will be omitted (therefore not cheating the audience of the opportunity to
> learn on their own after the talk).  
> 
> If I may ask a couple questions of this group:
> 
> 1. What parts of the process are newcomers tending  to get hung up on that I
> should address specifically? (Host system requirements comes to mind...)

In addition to what Bruce and others said:
- avoid the pdf version for copy/paste, it sometimes insert spaces at the end
of the lines, which defeats the backslash line continuation character. This
leads to weird errors not always easy to diagnose.
- in any case, be very careful with backslash line continuation characters.
One common error I've seen on -support is people believing that settings of
CC, AR, etc in -pass2 pages come as a commands by themselves, instead of being
part of the configure command
- commands for gcc-passx are somewhat complicated. Try to analyze them and
_really_ check that the intended commands are applied
- it's very easy to skip a line or a character when doing copy/paste. Always
double check what is written on screen. If anything goes wrong, erase the
build directory(ies) and extract the tarball again
- refrain from using jhalfs, at least for the first few times when doing lfs,
but it's a good exercise to write scripts for part or all of the build.
- very frequent error: not setting LFS as root, or not su to user lfs after
logging out and logging in.

> 
> 2. Is there anything coming up on the horizon that you’d like me to mention?>
> I am looking forward to promoting LFS and informing  people about this
> wonderful resource you all have worked so hard on all these years.   I don’t
> chime in on this list very often, but I’m extremely grateful for how LFS
> continues to stay current/relevant while staying true to its long standing
> mission of being an educational tool.  That’s because of the dedicated efforts
> of this group of editors and contributors, so thanks for all you do!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -wpl
> 
> 
> 

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