Why aim BLFS at the latest LFS? First let the actively maintained packages get updated with the latest GCC and now GLibc. Other build tools have also broken existing packages. If I were more paranoid (perhaps I should be), I would think M$ was behind the incremental changes to the C and especially C++ languages. C++ is bad enough on its own; addition of a new prototype can cause ambiguities in previously valid code.
LFS 6.8 was apparently a fluke. It took me only about three weeks to get from start to firefox. With 7.0, I have stopped at gtk+-2.20.1. I tried before to use a newer one; it requires upgrading other stuff. I have the sources gtk+-2.24.7 & gtk+-2.23.0, probably tried in that order. Walter Webb -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
