Changeset 675606b for chapter04/aboutsbus.xml

Timestamp:

06/16/2020 11:56:28 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

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9a05e45

Parents:

560065f (diff), 1cd5961 (diff)
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Message:

Split Chapter 5 into three separate chapters.
Implement a new method of cross-building the LFS tool chain
and other tools to simplify the method of isolating the
new system from the original host. This will be the start of
LFS-10.0.

Move old trunk/BOOK to branches/old-trunk.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11946 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter04/aboutsbus.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter04/aboutsbus.xml

@@ -21 +21 @@
 
   <para>The SBU measure works as follows. The first package to be compiled
-  from this book is Binutils in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>. The
+  from this book is binutils in <xref linkend="chapter-cross-tools"/>. The
   time it takes to compile this package is what will be referred to as the
   Standard Build Unit or SBU. All other compile times will be expressed relative
@@ -28 +28 @@
   <para>For example, consider a package whose compilation time is 4.5
   SBUs. This means that if a system took 10 minutes to compile and
-  install the first pass of Binutils, it will take
+  install the first pass of binutils, it will take
   <emphasis>approximately</emphasis> 45 minutes to build this example package.
-  Fortunately, most build times are shorter than the one for Binutils.</para>
+  Fortunately, most build times are shorter than the one for binutils.</para>
 
   <para>In general, SBUs are not entirely accurate because they depend on many
@@ -42 +42 @@
     make" by either setting an environment variable or telling the
     <command>make</command> program how many processors are available.  For
-    instance, a Core2Duo can support two simultaneous processes with:</para>
+    instance, an Intel i5-6500 CPU can support four simultaneous processes with:</para>
 
-    <screen role="nodump"><userinput>export MAKEFLAGS='-j 2'</userinput></screen>
+    <screen role="nodump"><userinput>export MAKEFLAGS='-j4'</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>or just building with:</para>
 
-    <screen role="nodump"><userinput>make -j2</userinput></screen>
+    <screen role="nodump"><userinput>make -j4</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>When multiple processors are used in this way, the SBU units in the