On 09/24/2012 09:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:14:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: >> Hi Members, >> >> I hope to begin the journey of learning to build my own LFS distro and >> have been reading the Essential Pre-Reading Guide for Life with LFS >> (over and over) as well as the LFS book itself. I'm beginning to >> become familiar with all the terminology and would like some advice on >> choosing a host distro. This first step is daunting to say the least. >> > Umm, why ? Seriously, most people came here after either starting > to loathe their current distro (can you say package management? :) > or else because they were using a distro and wanted to learn more. > > In theory, any recent distro should do. At times, fedora has been > *too* new, or difficult (linker options, security features), but I > haven't seen any such reports recently. Conversely, debian and its > derivatives have a liking for old packages (e.g. mawk instead of > gawk) and will need some additions and changes - see William's > reply.
I used fedora 17 to build LFS-6.8 to LFS-7.2, both i686 and x86_64. I just use the kde spin variant. If I remember correctly all you need to do is to add gcc. I can wait to finish the base build of LFS-7.2 and get on to BLFS. This distros of late are just terrible! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
