[Clfs-dev] CLFS 1.1.0-rc2 , Chapter 5 -- some pedantic views

[db m]

Greets,

Working my way through - Version 1.1.0-rc2-x86_64-Multilib

Just finished Chapter 5.....I'm *really* nit-picking here, but FWIW...


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5.6.1. Installation of File
Note:
'You only need to install File if your host does not have File installed or has a version older than 4.23.'

Could be just me, but I thought this note to be a little ambiguous.

'Old hands' will read it and know the inference is -- 'if you are sure
you have file 4.23 installed on your host, you can skip this bit'...

'First time' builders *may* end up with 'do I install it or not?'....

As long as the host file-4.23 doesn't end up fighting with this
/cross-tools/file-4.23 installation (and it shouldn't), it should be fine to 
install it now anyway (in /cross-tools), regardless of what the host has installed.

Perhaps... 'if in any doubt, do not skip this bit'....<shrug>...I'm being a
pedant here ;)

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....following on from the above....
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5.6. File-4.23  --> should be 5.6 Cross File-4.23 (if indeed one does
install file-4.23 at this point in Chapter 5)....

If one -does- install file-4.23 as part of chapter 5 cross-tools, then...

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5.7.1. Installation of Cross Binutils

'It is important that Binutils be the first package compiled because....'

Would be technically incorrect, because file-4.23 may have been 
compiled -first-. If ppl are unsure whether or not to install file-4.23
in the previous section, reading this may give them the impression
that they don't need file-4.23, or that {cross} binutils-2.18 should be
compiled first (regardless of the version of File their host is using)..
...or something sillier...

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I would also wonder if ;

5.9. Glibc-2.7 32 Bit
5.10. Glibc-2.7 64-Bit

should read something like ;

5.9. Cross Glibc-2.7 32 Bit
5.10. Cross Glibc-2.7 64-Bit

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Like I say, I'm being a right pedant here, but for the sake of ..err...
'consistency within the book', these things sort of stood out for me.

Otherwise Chapter 5 seems good -- moving on, more later....

Regards,

Don


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