[ncolug] Re: LFS inquiry
- From: "Rob Gibson" <nosbig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:03:04 -0400
LFS is a very interesting project... I have built a system from
beginning to end... It took a full week off and on during the rest of
my daily life.
My installation, which was just LFS (no BLFS), was under 500MB,
including the rest of the source code and intermediate files. The
build environment was not hard to set up... If I were to do it again,
I would do it in a VMWare machine....
It is much easier, of course, to copy a virtual machine and use that
instead of trying to set up the build environment on an actual
machine.
Rob
On 8/30/06, Mike Bell <bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone ever built a LFS (Linux from scratch) build to completition?
Not like I need yet another thing to do. Several other projects I've hit
minor road blocks on, so they are resting for a period. I'm > 50% through
building all the major pieces of software for LFS now. The excitement is
mounting...
Can't say that this is something I'd run for everyday use as the time
commitment to build is high. What a great learning experiance though. Much
of it is redundant, extract archive, configure, make, make check, make
install, over and over. Hidden within there is some great tidbits. Several
of the things I've learned on libraries and the way gcc, linker, and the
loader handle libraries would have saved me countless hours when at MSC.
The ironic thing is Chuck and I always deemed the Solaris there GNU Solaris
after software was installed and things were configured. Much of what I've
done with LFS I did while at MSC. Solaris still seems to be to be a more
difficult platform to build for. Mostly due to the linker and the way their
dynamic loader works.
Mike
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