Trent Shea wrote: > On November 30, 2008 10:29:25 pm Stealth wrote: >> Is there anything on this page (book 6.3 ch 5.2) that needs to be >> done before going to 5.3 to follow the binutils build instructions? > > Everyone has been amazingly patient with your criticism of the book.
Just for the record, this comment is more about the historical attitude of the LFS community, not about the questions raised. Trent has a point. Especially in times past, the community did not really take much time to answer questions that were documented elsewhere. The general build method in LFS has been around for several versions now (read, several years) and most of us get along with it fine. So, typically, the reply to this kind of question would have been: FBBG (or the more rude version). The replies to Stealth's questions have been a lot more patient than they would have been before. I think perhaps because we're acknowledging that the book _can_ be confusing and perhaps it is time to consider revising a few basic things. In any case, it is always a better teaching method to show patience with individual students than to let them fall to the wayside with a harsh reply. Of course, I don't think we want to spoon-feed anyone. We do want them to be able to find the answer themselves. But I think sometimes a nudge in the right direction is appropriate and definitely as a rule patience with our readers is better. > Please take the time to re-read the following sections: > prologue/prerequisites > prologue/typography > > And please understand there is a certain amount of 'homework' that > you're going to be expected to do on your own; this may even include > getting a feeling for the book's layout, which I feel is quite clear - > just execute the stuff in the blue boxes ;). And Stealth, if you look a little closer, I think you should be able to see that with the above two paragraphs, Trent was actually trying to give you some patient nudges in the right direction. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
