[Clfs-dev] Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch - Version GIT-20140611-x86_64-Pure64

[Martin Ward]

Hi Everyone

Just finished building the above  and all in all , its in good shape, 
the changes to the boot method have worked great with one or two exceptions

1. I though we were in a package freeze, found two updates to packages ?
2 . There does seem a penchant for alphabetising the order of the 
packages for no particular reason other than abc, which undoubtedly 
works fine if you are scripting but if you are trying to read the book, 
doesn't work for me. I much prefer a functional approach, but do 
appreciate its a moot point.

However I do have what I think would be some improvements, mostly text 
explanations

Section 5 Cross Compile Tools
  Some of the wording in why we are doing what we are doing, i think 
needs to be expanded a little
ie we install these particular versions of the programs as we need these 
versions, rather than making do with ones that are already on the host 
system which could be unsuitable for a variety of reasons.
example
5.4.1
"Here we will install an *m4* binary that can run on the host system, as 
this program is required by GMP"

Perhaps we should be more explict, in saying we install this particular 
version of m4 as it provides the required features needed by GMP in this 
chapter and in the basic tools chapter,as the host may not have m4 or 
one that is compatible with the particular version of  GMP . ditto file 
5.3.1

Chapter 6  constructing a temp system loooks good

Chapter 7
if your going to boot

7.1 No idea why Bc was moved here , to me it fits better in chapeter 5 
as its a "host" program but moot point
7.3 Bootscripts , really should go either before or after compiling the 
kernel, flows much better and then is in line with chapter 10

These seem to work great apart from the setclock script, either i did 
something wrong, or after the reboot, my clock was always set to UTC , 
whatever value I set the environment variable to.
I suspect a hard coded path in util-linux some where.

7.14

both  nogroup and nobody have the same GID
suggest change nobody to 65534

10.4.1 Temporary Perl , this seems a better fit in section 9 test suite 
tools, but moot point again

10.26.1 Adjusting the hwclock location, doesn't seem necessary, as 
systemd uses /etc/adjtime to hold the data

10.67 Man-db should come after 10.54 Libpipeline, flows better

Otherwise good job
No particular errors that looked serious in the gcc, glibc testsuites

cheers

Martin