On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:07:43AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Are you saying that the BLFS for 6.3 will run fine with 6.4? I'd think > so. Also, as you note, I really don't care about the L&G GUI stuff. > I do my maintenance using a CLI, anyway. I might want a later GIMP > and maybe EOG (mine can't print). > BLFS covers many things. I have little recent experience of server applications, and I certainly haven't tried to build large parts of BLFS-6.3 on a more recent system (my normal builds were using newer xorg and gnome (part of) even before BLFS-6.3 was released).
There are the following changes in LFS-6.4 which are relevant to packages in BLFS: 1. Changes in kernel headers. 2. Changes in glibc (headers, typically moving things around). 3. Newer versions of g++ (4.2 a little, 4.3 a lot) have much tighter 'scope' rules. Sometimes, there is a patch in -patches. Sometimes, the instructions and package version in BLFS-svn will solve the problem (but other times they will require correspondingly newer versions of their dependencies). Sometimes, the wiki may be helpful. I recommend you to look at the BLFS -dev and -support archives since last October. There is no "standard" set of packages in BLFS. Undoubtedly, some of them "just work". ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
