SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov
>>  For a regular distro, I would agree. For a third-party LiveCD, I disagree.
> 
> I still don't think instructions should be special for this situation.
> If you chose a host that doesn't provide the necessary development
> environment and doesn't provide the means to acquire the necessary
> environment, then that probably wasn't the best choice. Instead, I'd
> rather that the hostreqs page said "If you're host doesn't contain the
> necessary requirements and doesn't provide a means to acquire them,
> see the instructions in Ch. 6 as a guide to building them."

Maybe it is a good idea. But my point is that there are almost no LiveCDs other 
than (no longer existing) LFS LiveCD that serve as a good starting point (by 
meeting the host requirements). Some people think it is a problem with the 
LiveCD-based hosts. Other people think that it is a problem with our 
requirements. Both viewpoints are valid, but as long as LFS mentions the 
possibility to build from _a_ LiveCD, it has to have host requirements 
compatible with LiveCDs. Or maybe the whole paragraph about using a LiveCD 
should be dropped from 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter01/how.html

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov