Hello All, There's a rather ill natured thread on LFS Support at the moment called Chapter 5 questions. Scott Robertson has made an interesting point:
On Fri, 04 May 2012 11:35:32 +0100 Scott Robertson <scottrobertso...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > But do you not see from a newcomers > perspective that you seem to use "source directory" in more ways than one? > > $LFS/sources and (for example) $LFS/sources/binutils-x.x could BOTH be > referred to as "source directories". > > And when you say to build (again for example) the binutils-build directory > OUTSIDE of the source directory, > that can have more than one meaning. It could mean to build it outside of > the $LFS/sources directory > OR it could mean to build it outside of the $LFS/sources/binutils-x.x SOURCE > directory, I think it's a good point and it would help some people who are new to the book if we renamed the sources folder "materials" or "resources" or "packages" or something. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
