GCC-4.3.1, Linux-2.6.26.2

[Ken Moffat]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:32:32PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote:
> > Anybody tried that combo yet?  I got bored and I am flying 
> > blind..haven't done an experimental/SVN build in a long time (pre 
> > 6.3?). 
> Okay, finished...not tested at all, haven't even booted it yet, but the 
> build completes.  Since I was using jhalfs anyway, I went ahead and 
> updated a local export of the book.  I'm uploading my modified SVN 
> export, rendered book, and patches in my home directory just in case 
> anyone would like to review it. LFS-20080825/  The probably 'not so 
> liked' changes are at the top of the changelog in big paragraphs, then 
> the usual mess of package updates to all latest and greatest.  Maybe it 
> is usable, maybe not, but it'll be there shortly if anybody wants to 
> look at it.  The changes to existing packages really aren't that much, 
> but they are there.
> 
 The warning that it hasn't been booted is good, the comments about
no iterative analysis nor real-world testing are perhaps a little
excessive for a version of the develoment book (if a development book
causes problems that's par for the course).  I'm glad someone is
developing again.

 Of the 'not so liked', I'd be happy to see the back of Man-DB (and
therefore move Berkeley DB back to BLFS - if my memory is correct, it
was a dependency of Man-DB).  In my own builds, I still use groff-utf8
to render UTF-8 man-pages.  [ nostalgic memory: before shadow was
orphaned and then taken over by debian, it used to have a nice
selection of UTF-8 pages. ]

  For the bootscripts, I've no opinion at the moment.

 When I do get back to development (maybe in October), I've got a lot
of desktop things to look at for my own needs so I don't expect to
be contributing much for a while.  The package updates in your version
don't look exceptional (I assume MPFR is now needed for gcc).

 Good luck!

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