SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 07:28:53 MDT 2008


On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:51 PM, J. Greenlees <lists at jaqui-greenlees.net> wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>  > Dan Nicholson wrote:
>  >
>  >> You really need gawk, not mawk.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate
>  > Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectively.
>  and here I was thinking that a note that bison is required to be
>  installed if using PCLinuxOS as host would be sufficient. The distro
>  does fine by adding their package.
>  [ fewer changes to build process needed thn ]

If anything, it would be a note at the beginning of Ch. 5 to please
not skip the host system requirements page. I don't think we need to
special case things here.

--
Dan


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