On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:35:10PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:02:18PM -0500, Trent wrote: > > > > Your explanations helped a lot, and taught me something. > > > > What I had been doing is putting what I want doing in a text file, then > > copying the whole section, then pasting it into the command line all in one > > go. > > > > It turns out I had a typo in there, and everything was going by so fast I > > did not see it, nor even see the typo I had because some of it was > > successful, and part not. The successful part had pushed up the unsuccessful > > part so I did not see it had gone bad. > > > > > > Thank you so much! > > > Glad you found the problem. We always recommend doing your first > LFS manually, and yes that takes for ever and sometimes people get > confused by warning messages. > > But after that there are the joys of scripting (pasting the commands > counts as scripting), and more specifically the joys of understanding > where, and how, your own scripts can fail. Good luck with the rest > of the build. Perhaps adding '&&' in a section, then checking the > status in $? at the end might help. Or, for tests, run them and > look at failures before trying to install (some test failures are > inevitable and not necessarily a reason to question the build). > > Me, I'm still repeating my own past mistakes (currently, a typo in > building rust manually for a new prefix - builds fine, then fails in > the install). > > ĸen
This 'thread' was so strange. I never saw any message, just the reply to messages that went somewhere else first. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
