On 4/30/19 8:21 AM, Scott Harvey wrote:
My last question (for now), and it’s a serious one, if slightly OT from
the thread title.
Trying to do this has illuminated the enormous gaps in my knowledge, and
I’ve tried to bluff my way through it.
Would you guys be willing to share a few “must-read”-style items I
should study up on? I’ll take tips for books, websites, other
projects... anything you care to share.
I just turned 50 and have learned what I know by hacking and poking at
things - but I’ve clearly missed some fundamental material. I would
appreciate one last burst of advice.
Then I’ll go off quietly and study and not bother the group until I can
ask more accurate questions.
Most of the advice you get here was developed via years of building
software and solving problems. When problems come up we do things like
searching google, seeing what other distros do, reading code, and asking
others, including upstream developers.
Doing all this increases the ability to recognize where things might go
wrong and develop solutions for new problems. LFS is a great teacher.
It is common to make mistakes and have to figure out what went wrong.
I've had students make mistakes where I can't find a workaround and the
only solution is to start over. Generally that's because of omitting a
fundamental instruction like not having the LFS environment variable set
for the root user or trying to build in Chapter 6 without going into
chroot.
My best suggestion is to keep building what you want to use in BLFS and
just ask questions when you are stumped.
-- Bruce
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