On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 17:53, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > If I could just add that, in my many years of experience in a number of different fields, and not just IT, generally speaking far more is learned about an area of concern when things go wrong than when they run without a hitch. Richard
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