On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Ken's Farce is probably good enough for our needs. However I did take a brief look at Greg's scripts and he does a couple of other interesting things, such as de-compressing all .gz files and un-archiving all .a files before running the comparison.
Yeah, gzipped files contain a timestamp - farce does a cmp of the data after the stamp, it just seemed more interesting than decompressing. I'm hopeful that the .a archives are adequately processed now (my fix to make the testar function work again).
Also, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, talking with Ryan set me on a little bit of a purity path. One thing he suggested, however, which I'm finding hard to put faith in at this point. He mentioned the purity of the build is shown, in part, by being able to build on old and broken hosts, ie, RH 6.2. I can see his point, in that it shows we've broken from that environment and have built ourselves a robust and sane toolchain. However, current LFS has requirements far above RH 6.2, such as a host with a 2.6 kernel because of the step up to NPTL. Also, (at least with RH 6.0; I don't have 6.2) the version of 'make' is too old to even parse the 2.6 kernel's make system. So, to really break free from such an environment, we'd have to first build a sane set of gnu-tools on it. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how showing purity by building on such old hosts at this time has merit.
Interesting comments, I hadn't thought about that. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
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