Simon Geard wrote: > I'm all for making sure the book is clear and unambiguous. But to use > your analogy of training wheels, I think they're a bad idea, giving > people an unjustified sense of competence because it looks easy. It's > *not* easy, and if people are in over their heads, they need to realise > that quickly.
I agree, Simon. I think that most people who start the book are smart enough to finish it properly if they concentrate on what is written. I think the most common problem we have on -support is that people read the book casually. The may skip the preface and not check the system prerequisites, or they read the General Compilation Instructions in Section 5.3 too casually and end up not applying the instructions there when doing the build. I'm glad gcc comes early because that's where users seem to misapply the instructions a lot. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
