Hi Dan Von: "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Steven Locher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Now my question, which tests are mandatory? You can guess why > > I'm asking ;-( > > Ken will disagree, but I'd say that for your class I wouldn't run the > testsuites, only the book's sanity checks. While running the toolchain > testsuites are vital if you want to ensure that your new system will > work properly, you're just creating temporary development > environments. Furthermore, the toolchain tests are not going to be the > interesting part for your students. Thanks for the hint! > I'd suggest that when you're preparing the course, you do all the > tests on your setup to make sure that the system will work as > advertised if you follow the instructions. But when you're following > the book in class, the testsuites will just be a waste of time, IMO. > You can pound through pretty quickly without them and get to the heart > of what your class will be interested in: using a minimal Linux > system. > > I would also suggest that you keep a master system copy that you know > works. It's inevitable that a few of your students will miss an > instruction or make a typo. LFS is not easy to debug in those cases as > the problems usually show up much further up the road. Since you're > using VMware, it should be trivial to keep a clean image around. I realized that on my way. I simply underestimated the work involved. So there going to be milestones which people can omit by taking a prepared VMware appliance > Good luck. Sounds like a fun course to me. Looks like I need luck, or more time. In the step 5.7 Adjusting tool-chain I realized that in my VMware system "gcc -dumpmachine" gives i486-pc-linux-gnu! Why's that? The directory I made sofar under /tools is i686-pc-linux-gnu/ What is the way out of that? (Yep, this game _is_ fun!) Steve -- Psst! Geheimtipp: Online Games kostenlos spielen bei den GMX Free Games! http://games.entertainment.web.de/de/entertainment/games/free -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
