On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:46:20 pm Alexander Haley wrote: > Thanks for the responses - I'm still chewing on them to see what > I understand or misunderstand. The bigger context of my questions > was: > > "So, I'm doing LFS for the second time .. and this time I > thought 'GNU Stow, awesome! I'll make it sit up and do tricks for > me' ... however during Chapter 6 .. when gcc behaved differently > depending on whether its installation tooldir was /usr or > /usr/stow ... well then I started making concessions and fudging > things ... and I felt as though my understanding of things went > south. Thats when I started questioning what my actual toolchain > understanding was in the first place .. and realized I didn't > know much about how these pieces fit together in a practical > sense" > > What is to stop me from telling glibc to install itself into > /usr/weird/path/foo and gcc into /bar/zap/ .. and then somehow > configuring them to understand their relationship? Is that even > feasible? Would doing this somehow create a deeper understanding > (for me) of how gcc and glibc fit together? > > Time will tell. > > Basically, the fundamental thing that bugs me is ... I type 'make > install' and scads of files arrive on the file system ... and I > really don't quite know their role, purpose or importance ... Do > I really need to know the purpose of each and every library file > that is installed? Probably not .. but, I am irked that I'm > typing 'make install' and just crossing my fingers that the > system is getting it right .... (of course the system often gets > it right .. but does it teach me? no. or at least, not yet.) > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Alexander Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a hard time conceptualizing how the tool chain > > becomes broken during an upgrade (of any piece of the tool > > chain) ... so I wonder if I might write my 10,000 foot big > > picture view of 'how this all works' and you folks can > > contribute to my understanding ...
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