Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 03:26:31AM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em qua, 21/11/12, Tobias Gasser escreveu: it's a pitty lo is not able to check the installed libraries. either you use --with-system-xx (or as for librsvg --enable-xx=system) or lo will build it's own package

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-22 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em qua, 21/11/12, Tobias Gasser escreveu: De: Tobias Gasser Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion Para: LFS Support List Data: Quarta-feira, 21 de Novembro de 2012, 20:52 Am 21.11.2012 14:38, schrieb Fernando de Oliveira: I thought in stripping it, but I am still not sure

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-21 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em ter, 20/11/12, Tobias Gasser escreveu: De: Tobias Gasser Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion Para: LFS Support List Data: Terça-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2012, 21:31 Reading back, my sentence could be misleading, so, to be clear, I was referring LO to build size

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-21 Thread Tobias Gasser
Am 21.11.2012 14:38, schrieb Fernando de Oliveira: I thought in stripping it, but I am still not sure if any problem would appear. What is the command you used to strip? i use DESTDIR on all packages, so i can loop thru all files in DESTDIR to (re)compress all manpages, strip all binaries

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Li, David wrote: Hi, I would like to start building LFS. I have a x86_64 AMD machine. From what I read in the book, it seems 32 bit environment is preferred. So I want to confirm with the list that the followings are OK to start with. 1. Install a 32 bit Fedora 16 as the build

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:56:25AM -0800, Li, David wrote: Hi, I would like to start building LFS. I have a x86_64 AMD machine. From what I read in the book, it seems 32 bit environment is preferred. So I want to confirm with the list that the followings are OK to start with. 1.

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em ter, 20/11/12, Ken Moffat escreveu: De: Ken Moffat Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion Para: LFS Support List Data: Terça-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2012, 16:19 (ii). a couple more partitions of the same 10GB size - this will allow you to build LFS+BLFS in one of them

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em ter, 20/11/12, Ken Moffat escreveu: De: Ken Moffat Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion Para: LFS Support List Data: Terça-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2012, 16:19 (ii). a couple more partitions of the same 10GB size - this will allow you to build

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 01:36:04PM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: For some reasons, I have reached more than 10GB, so I prefer 20GB partition size. Also, remember that some packages use many GB, LibreOffice takes over 7GB in some machines/versions. For builds, I use a ~/tmp directory

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:06:38PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Drive organization is really a personal preference item. Agreed, but I commented because I feel people often read the minimalist suggestions in the book, and then make things harder for themselves in the future. There is a big

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em ter, 20/11/12, Ken Moffat escreveu: De: Ken Moffat Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion Para: LFS Support List Data: Terça-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2012, 19:42 On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 01:36:04PM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: For some reasons, I have reached more

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:40:26PM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em ter, 20/11/12, Ken Moffat escreveu: De: Ken Moffat On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 01:36:04PM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: LibreOffice takes over 7GB in some machines/versions. For builds, I use a ~/tmp

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Tobias Gasser
Reading back, my sentence could be misleading, so, to be clear, I was referring LO to build size, not install size (Bruce just pointed out this, but I feel it needed to be close to my own statement). For install size, it is about the same as OpenJDK, over 440MB, build size also the same order

Re: [lfs-support] A startup quesion

2012-11-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:06:38PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Drive organization is really a personal preference item. Agreed, but I commented because I feel people often read the minimalist suggestions in the book, and then make things harder for themselves in the