On Mon, 28/10/13, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have inferred from the book that 'cputimer1' and 'run-conformtest' > > might be 'acceptable' failures, but I was surprised that the test > > suite ended mid-way. > > It didn't. It finished running.
Aha! I see. So I just misinterpreted the messages. OK, my stupid mistake. > > I am also assuming that glibc is one of the packages that can safely > > be installed to a fake root - then tarballed 'slackware style'? (i.e: > > I am intending that my next step would be make DESTDIR=dest install), > > rather then installing directly. > > glibc is the 'Rosetta stone' of the system. There is rarely a > requirement to update it. If you do need to update it, it's time to > rebuild the whole system. > > I went from 2005 to 2012 on one system before I needed to update. OK. I had not realised that. I stupidly assumed that I might need to handle glibc in a similar manner to other packages. I should probably have inferred that from 6.3.1, evidently I did not understand things as well as I thought. Again, many thanks, R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
