Re: Ticket 2412 - Toolchain Technical Notes

2009-11-15 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> I agree but I still don't see what is not explained. I've re-read your > post from yesterday several times. Are you saying that we should > explain the process of cross-compilation? To me it is reasonably > obvious that if you use cross-compilation techniques then the system > can't use r

Re: Ticket 2412 - Toolchain Technical Notes

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> You are arguing because of an implication that, quite honestly, I don't see. > I'm not trying to be argumentative. I was using the term argument in a more formal manner: a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion, not in the sense of an alt

Re: Ticket 2412 - Toolchain Technical Notes

2009-11-15 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> You are arguing because of an implication that, quite honestly, I don't see. > > I'm not trying to be argumentative. To me it's just seeing a technical explanation that feels incomplete. Some claims are made that then aren't further explained. I'll have to admit that I don't remember all t

Re: Ticket 2412 - Toolchain Technical Notes

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > >>> An example of how the host can corrupt the temporary libraries when you >>> don't cross-compile would be very educational as well. It helps in >>> proving >>> that cross-compiling really is recommended. >> >> I don't think the above is applicable. > If it's not

Re: Ticket 2412 - Toolchain Technical Notes

2009-11-15 Thread Gerard Beekmans
An example of how the host can corrupt the temporary libraries when you don't cross-compile would be very educational as well. It helps in proving that cross-compiling really is recommended. I don't think the above is applicable. If it's not applicable then that note should be rem

Re: Ticket 2412 - Toolchain Technical Notes

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >>> What more do we need to add? Or can we just close the ticket? >>> I think it was addressed in the updates Matt made about four months >> ago >>> and about 2 months after ticket 2412 was opened. >> I'm happy to close that ticket off, I don't think it needs any more >> exp

Re: Grub configuration

2009-11-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Right now the instructions in the book for configuring GRUB are fairly > minimal. I have been following the GRUB mailing list and found the > following links: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Burg#New%20Menu%20System > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 > > I've

Re: Grub configuration

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Immendorf wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I've been thinking that we might want to add links to these pages in the >> book, We also might want to create a custom LFS splash screen and >> theme. I'm not an artist, so making images is not one of my strong po

Re: Grub configuration

2009-11-15 Thread William Immendorf
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been thinking that we might want to add links to these pages in the > book,  We also might want to create a custom LFS splash screen and > theme.  I'm not an artist, so making images is not one of my strong points. Neither am I, but I thin

Grub configuration

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Right now the instructions in the book for configuring GRUB are fairly minimal. I have been following the GRUB mailing list and found the following links: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Burg#New%20Menu%20System https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 I've been thinking that we might want to