Rafał -rsm- Marek wrote:
for lfs - in my opinion it's much better to experiment with some build
automation. if you know nothing about shell scripts - it's great moment to
learn some. you will soon discover building lfs is, well, boring. there is
a lot of repetition - extract archive, configure, compile, install. it
takes a lot of time. and you will make mistakes. or wake up next day and
continue, missing some command... and you will want to restart the process
from some point. and when it means sitting in front of computer for a day
or two issuing some command now and then, the same you issued yesterday,
and day before when you accidentaly put this space character after \ at
the end of line during libc configuration and realised 3 hours later
something is going terribly wrong... yeah... ok... i'll get back to it...
next year maybe... ;) so, automate the process.
For first time LFS users we recommend a manual build. You learn a lot
more that way. It can be a bit repetitious, but that reinforces the process.
After that, building scripts also becomes a good learning vehicle.
The base LFS system is not very useful from a user's point of view, but it
is a reasonably complete development system upon which to build exactly
the system you want using packages in BLFS or other packages that you may
want.
-- Bruce
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