Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. >> >> Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate >> Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectively. > > The host requirements specify _Gawk_ 3.0. I really would prefer people > just check the host requirements instead of shoehorning temporary > packages at the beginning of the chapter. For an automated > environment, maybe, but it would just be clutter in the book.
For a regular distro, I would agree. For a third-party LiveCD, I disagree. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
