Greater emphasis suggested concerning packages and patches

[m-abel@…]

Fabulous book. Two comments (related enough to submit as one report) which I think it should say up front:

1. DON'T install all the patches at the beginning. Install them as specified. Not every patch is suitable for every compile.

(My GCC phase 1 install had some bonkers problems, like stdio.h not found....)

2. DO delete build and source directories immediately, except as directed.

(I'm not 100% sure about this, but I seemed to have problems if I left them around.)

Best regards,

Marc W. Abel Powell, Ohio 614-515-4119 (VOIP, naturally)

[Matthew Burgess]

1. They're not - read

​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/5.0/chapter05/introduction.html again.

Partiuclarly the paragraph that reads: "Several of the packages are patched

before compilation, but only when the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. Often the patch is needed in both this and the next chapter, but sometimes in only one of them. Therefore, don't worry when instructions for a downloaded patch seem to be missing."

2. Again, this is already mentioned in Chapter 5's introduction: "Unless told

not to, you should normally delete the source and build directories after installing each package -- for cleanness sake and to save space.".

Cheers,

Matt.