r8518 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 prologue

[Gilles Espinasse]

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From: "Sukucorp Sukucorp" <sukucorp at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: r8518 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 prologue


> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> >  I was responding to some earlier comments about sh->dash causing
problmes.  I
> >  added the part about yacc and awk because I know thy are sometimes
used, but I
> >  don't know for sure if they are essential for LFS.  It is just making
sure.  I
> >  started to add lex, but I didn't see flex required.
> >
>
> Without any concrete problems I don't think it is advisable to force
> the users to update the defaults on their host system.
>
many glibc versions fail when bash and gawk are not installed

See http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2856 for mawk report
against 2.4 and 2.7

I find nothing (didn't search too much against bash) on the same bugzilla
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/glibc.html say
that.

Gilles