On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:58:08 +0100 Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Actually, for some of us they *are* scary. I thought I was making > some progress (persuaded autoreconf to complete without errors using > the attached -A.patch), but then configure went into an infinite > loop spewing out '=no' lines. That's around the check to see if we > only want udev. But after the test for whether to build static > libraries I also got the same result from trying to make Dan's patch work, just after checking whether to build the static libraries it started spewing out '=no' lines. If I redirected it to a file (to try and see the start) the file quickly grew to be enormous. To me, the problem with autofoo isn't that it's scary it's just that it's obscure and difficult to follow. I agree that the autofoo approach is the one most likely to be accepted upstream but Bruce's more direct approach seems to be paying dividends in the short term. When they merged udev and systemd they said that it'd be possible to install just udev without systemd but with the very first merged release it is impossible to install udev without all of systemd's dependencies...it makes me wonder if we should move away from using udev. Xorg would seem to be the problem there. I'm tempted to try and get Xorg to work on a system without udev. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
