On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Its buried fairly deeply in the autoconf documentation. Its always
useful to point out these types of things. That's really one of the
primary purposes of the whole project.
You do speak the truth. I don't remember how I came across config.site
but I
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 20:28:40 -0500 (GMT+5)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Doesn't anyone read the documentation anymore? :) I can understand
> needing to teach them about configure...
One big problem for new Linux friends, and indeed for new users of most large
programs, it the wealth of documenta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
>> I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the
>> user about config.site, and the book already sets other variables at
>
>
> Doesn't anyone read the documentation anymore? :) I can understand
> needin
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote:
I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the
user about config.site, and the book already sets other variables at
Doesn't anyone read the documentation anymore? :) I can understand
needing to teach them about configure...
Ste
On 11/1/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/31/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In any case, it might be useful for KDE or possibly Gnome where there
> > are related packages, but its usefulness seems to be a bit limited for
> > LFS in general.
>
> I think this would
On 10/31/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In any case, it might be useful for KDE or possibly Gnome where there
> are related packages, but its usefulness seems to be a bit limited for
> LFS in general.
I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the
user about conf
Lennon Cook wrote:
> The idea of it is that the options to configure simply cause it to set
> some vars. To find the right values for everything, configure parses
> the command line options, then parses config.site, then applies it's
> defaults. config.site is just a shell script. So, we can set
>
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I don't see how PREFIX is set. When I look at configure, thee is the
> code:
[...]
> Secondly, can I use this file to do more than define prefix and the
> other directories? For instance, in KDE, I would like to automatically
> define --enable-final --disable-debug and
> --
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>
>> In any case, are you asking that Cross-LFS investigate the idea of
>> using a
>> config.site for their build?
>
>
> Yes, for both Cross-LFS and regular LFS.
I was not aware of config.site and feel it may be appropriate for some
packages
