On 2/18/06, Chris Schwemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it seems that right now there is a lot of things going on (UTF-8, hotplug > -> only udev transition).
Well, I think that the UTF-8 stuff is fine. I don't use it, but you don't have to either. Alexander is behind all those changes, and he usually does an excellent job. I've built the development branch with the UTF-8 changes a bunch of times, so I know it'll build. Coverage of UTF-8 in BLFS is an ongoing game that Alexander is leading, but you can use a non-UTF-8 locale and avoid those issues if you want. Hotplug through udev only is still a work in progress, but some people on the list are using it. I haven't tried it yet. I'm waiting a couple more weeks to see how things shake out in the udev_update branch. > I read somewhere that gcc 4 right now should not be > used for a production system. Is that still the case? I've never heard that before. I'm pretty sure RedHat on their current Enterprise Linux uses gcc-4, and that's considered production. Some packages have to be patched to accomidate gcc-4, but that's been pretty much hammered out in the LFS and BLFS development books. > I think that I should find the time to do it (respectively let nALFS do > it...) around the beginning of April. Do you think that LFS development > does/will produce a system stable enough for a production machine? I would think that's more than enough time. It depends on your definition of stable, though. If you really just want to follow the book and not worry about the packages, then wait for the next release. Then, all the major gotchas should be figured out. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
