On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:34:00AM -0800, Paige Thompson wrote: > - I'm not looking for fewer unusual problems, I want to learn how this works > and figure out what's going on so I can solve these problems on my own. > Stage one: follow what others have done, and attempt to understand it. Stage two, make your own changes, and see if you have enough experience and understanding to fix the problems.
> - I'm not using bleeding edge version of everything, I've gone through the > trouble to check out the appropriate branches in all repositories and if > that’s not enough, I've reset to specific commit hashes just to be sure. > OK, I saw you pulling lots of things into git trees. > - I insist on adjusting my versions according to this: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/ if someone else can get > that to work then I should be able to as well. > Mostly - as I said in my reply while you were sending this out, it worked for someone (barring typos in what was committed) but it *might* break something later (typically, something will fail to compile and need a patch or a sed - I've seen that happen with toolchain changes, but also with e.g. bison, grep) > - you guys don’t post section 4.4 and 5.2 here ? > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/ > excuse me? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter04/settingenvironment.html and http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter05/toolchaintechnotes.html > - I'm sorry but the only reason I top-posted was to add additional > information that I thought would be helpful in getting information as to what > is going on with my toolchain. I also use a thread view email client. > And you top-posted again, by failing to trim (or in this case remove entirely, now that the context is effectively lost by putting it somewhere below your individual replies) what I said :-) Yes, I know that is how windows users use email, but that doesn't make it right for a technical list. Not everyone uses thread-view on all lists. 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
