R.Quenett wrote these words on 05/27/05 09:15 CST: > Pardon me for butting in here but, to me in my ignorance, the one > benefit that would justify (again, to me - I'm not trying to speak > for anyone else) almost anything would be the 'purity of the build' > (which I understand to mean the new build containing as close to zero > as possible code resulting from anything but the new source) even > in very small increments. I thought that was why the book had gone > in its present direction. Was I wrong?
I asked a very similar question a while back. After pressing the issue, the answer was that for x86 builds, you end up with the same thing regardless which build method you use. Note, however, this only applies to non-cross builds. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 09:35:00 up 55 days, 9:08, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.08, 0.02 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
