Mike McCarty wrote: > In the vein of being able to build small systems, I hereby make > this modest proposal for an enhancement to JHALFS. Currently, > the system builds in a subdirectory of the configurable sources > directory, which must, therefore, be on read/write storage. > > I suggest that the actual directory in which builds take place > also be configurable, and not be required to be a sub directory > of the sources directory. > > This would have two desirable consequences. First, the sources > could reside on an immutable medium, like a CD-ROM,
Nothing prevents you keeping a copy on CD-ROM now. and not > consume precious (on small systems) disc space. Second, the > sources would be immutable, and hence not subject to accidental > modification. This doesn't make sense to me. If you want to put it on a small system, build it on a workstation and copy it to the small system. It sounds like a painful process to build on a small system, especially when there is no need. After all, if you do this, you don't need to copy *any* sources to the small system. There are other considerations. The build process takes a lot of room. glibc takes 1.2G, but the final system is only about 250M and a *lot* less if you strip it down. That said, I'm sure the JHALFS team will look closely at any patches you want to submit. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
