On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 06:31:31PM -0600, robert wrote: > > > No, I got the "me hopes" part ... quite Shakespearean, in fact ... as in > methinks ... > > It's the "build itself" part ... still don't understand what that means. > Do you mean just write up a script and cut it loose to build the os? > The idea (in the days of "iterative comparison analysis", and before), was that a new LFS system should have everything it needed to build itself, and that the result ought to be identical (in practice, after stripping files, and removing the different compressed timestamps from gzipped files, and some other "we don't quite know why this always differs" files).
So, some of us used to take a new development or pre-release version, and let it build itself (or rebuild itself in-place for Greg's version of ICA). With modern toolchains, I've given up doing that because there were too many unexplainable differences, perhaps caused by address randomization. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
