SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov
> <patrakov at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> The host requirements specify _Gawk_ 3.0. I really would prefer people
> just check the host requirements instead of shoehorning temporary
> packages at the beginning of the chapter. For an automated
> environment, maybe, but it would just be clutter in the book.

For a regular distro, I would agree. For a third-party LiveCD, I disagree.

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Alexander E. Patrakov