On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 03:50:47PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: > Dear Development LFS Book Administrators: >
For development, you ought to post to lfs-dev, but you'll need to subscribe before you do that. The devs (primarily Bruce and Matt) might read this here, I'm not sure. > I would like to submit for your consideration the following changes > to the Section "III. 6.7. Linux-3.12.6 API Headers" of the > "Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20140102" book. > > 1. After the paragraph > > " ..: This is done by > way of sanitizing various C header files that are shipped in the Linux > kernel source tarball.", > > I would insert: > > Note: > For the meaning of the action "sanitizing" (in this context), run command > sh scripts/headers_install.sh | sed s/echo// > and in the output read the section between "Prepares " and " keywords." > (output, lines 3-6). > I don't find that helpful. At all. > 2. After section > > "They are placed in an intermediate local ", > > I would insert: > > "subdirectory (named by us, 'dest', in the command below)" > If the user does not understand that we are creating a directory called 'dest' then LFS is probably too hard for them. In everything, a balance is needed between explaining and teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. > 3. After > > "copied to the needed location", > > I would change to > > "copied to the intended user-space standard location, '/usr/include/...' " > Again, that should be obvious from the command. > 4. I would change the command > > cp -rv dest/include/* /usr/include > to > cp -prv dest/include/* /usr/include > > That would synchronize the file times in the '/usr/inlude/' tree to the > times > of the files created in the kernel directory on running the command > 'make headers_install', and not assign them an arbitrary time when I get > around to > run the copy after taking out the garbage and then getting a well deserved > rest > before being finally able to complete the procedure :) > So, you think that the time(s) when the files were initially created in dest/ are more important than the times when they were finally installed to /usr ? Why ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
