BTW-- now that I have done what the book told me to do, CC="gcc" /usr/bin/perl scripts/test-installation.pl /sources/glibc-build/ Your new glibc installation seems to be ok. make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.14.1' root:/sources/glibc-build#
:) Joy. --- ==================================== David Scott Williams twitter: @dscott_williams blog: http://deadpenguinsociety.org ==================================== On 29.11.2011 11:10, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > On 29/11/2011 11:04, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> David Scott Williams wrote: >>> Here is the section I did not do. I did not realize that it was >>> mandatory (I thought it was cosmetic ;)) >> Building an OS is complicated. Don't assume. There are a couple of >> places where we say an item is optional, but not many. >> >> The most general recommendation for the first few times is do things >> *exactly* as specified in the book. > > In David's defense I can understand his point too. If all the book > says > is "to remove the I have no name! prompt" then I can see where that > sounds like it's not all that significant. In our defense, passwd and > group files are core/essential Linux files that no *NIX system lives > without so we also make our assumptions that certain things are just > understood by Linux users. > > It's definitely a bit of a grey area. Cleaning up the text a bit > would > not necessarily be a bad thing either (not to be confused with > excessive > hand-holding but have it be more correct as there are additional > reasons > beyond that I have no name prompt although that's probably the most > visible of reasons). > > Gerard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
