Changeset e4ab232

Timestamp:

10/05/2008 11:13:55 PM (16 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, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 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:

f3c13ba

Parents:

f950b79

Message:

Add note about symlink reqt in Host Requirements
Add simple compilation check in Host Requirements

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8583 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• prologue/hostreqs.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

prologue/hostreqs.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
     <listitem>
       <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis> (/bin/sh
-      must be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
+      should be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -34 +34 @@
     <listitem>
       <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc
-      must be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
+      should be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -56 +56 @@
     <listitem>
       <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk
-      must be a link to gawk)</para>
+      should be a link to gawk)</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -129 +129 @@
   </itemizedlist>
 
-  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
+  <para>Note that the symlinks mentioned above are required to build an LFS
+  system using the instructions contained within this book. Symlinks that
+  point to other software (such as dash, mawk, etc.) may work, but are not
+  tested or supported by the LFS development team, and may require either
+  deviation from the instructions or additional patches to some
+  packages.</para>
+
+  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, and
+  ability to compile programs, run
+  the following:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
@@ -161 +170 @@
 tar --version | head -n1
 makeinfo --version | head -n1
+echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c &amp;&amp; gcc -o dummy dummy.c
+if [ -x dummy ]; then echo "Compilation OK"; else echo "Compilation failed"; fi
+rm -f dummy.c dummy
 </literal>
 EOF