Changeset b0aabe0 for prologue

Timestamp:

09/23/2017 10:22:37 PM (7 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, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, 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

Children:

6699f0f

Parents:

8da63ab

Message:

Add Meson-0.42.1.
Add Ninja-1.8.2.
Add Python-3.6.2.
Add libffi-3.2.1.
Update to eudev-3.2.4.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11303 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• prologue/why.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

prologue/why.xml

@@ -328 +328 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Libffi</para>
+
+        <para>This package implements a portable, high level programming
+        interface to various calling conventions.  Some programs may not know
+        at the time of compilation what arguments are to be passed to a
+        function. For instance, an interpreter may be told at run-time about
+        the number and types of arguments used to call a given function. Libffi
+        can be used in such programs to provide a bridge from the interpreter
+        program to compiled code.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Libpipeline</para>
 
@@ -382 +395 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Meson</para>
+
+        <para>This package provides a software tool for automating the building
+        of software. The main goal for Meson is to minimize the amount of time
+        that software developers need to spend configuring their build
+        system.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>MPC</para>
 
@@ -393 +416 @@
         <para>This package contains functions for multiple precision
         arithmetic.  It is required by Gcc.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Ninja</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains a small build system with a focus on speed.
+        It is designed to have its input files generated by a higher-level build
+        system, and to run builds as fast as possible.</para>
+
       </listitem>
 
@@ -445 +477 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Python 3</para>
+
+        <para>This package provides an interpreted language that has a design
+        philosophy that emphasizes code readability.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Readline</para>