And I might have been better off copying and pasting. It's difficult to tell the difference, in the book, between the number one and the letter L (lower case). I checked man pages and went with whichever seemed more sensible, but got it wrong a couple of times with the -W1 option.
On Jan 6, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Baho Utot <baho-u...@columbus.rr.com> wrote: > Simon Geard wrote: >> On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 11:39 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> The idea of the script was that it should be short. Generally the >>> problem is that the symlinks are not set and occasionally makeinfo is >>> not installed. Rarely is the problem an out-of-date executable. >> My issue with the script isn't whether it's short or long - it's whether >> the reader understands that they need to read the script output, and >> check it against the list of requirements. >> >> As such, I'm not particularly in favour of making the script smart >> enough to do that checking for the reader. The reader *must* understand >> that doing an LFS build involves some thinking - that it's not just a >> bunch of stuff to copy-paste without understanding what they're doing. >> >> Simon. >> >> > I am better off not thinking. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
