[clue-tech] Linux from scratch

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

An Indian fellow wants to build Linux From Scratch. I told him that we could start in November. 

LFS teaches you how to build a minimal Linux system. You learn how to download and build packages. You learn what packages are required and how they fit together. You learn how the boot scripts work. You learn how to build the toolchain, and it is critical to build it correctly. 

LFS doesn't require you to create makefiles. It also supplies the patches. The book provides build scripts that you can study and use. You can save these as separate files and create a master build script to automate much of the build process but the book does not cover this. 

When the dust has cleared, we will have a shiny, new CLI system. I don't know if we will proceed with X.org and GNOME or KDE. That depends on what he wants to do. Maybe we will build a lot of the packages in Beyond LFS. 


I actually prefer to use DIY Linux and use LFS's boot scripts, but Greg Schafer has not updated his book since last year. He appears to be doing work on it, so maybe he is overhauling his process. Maybe multilib? 


LFS does not have package management. People can use RPM, Debian packaging, pacman, etc. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike havlicek" <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> 
To: clue-tech at cluedenver.org 
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 10:13:21 AM 
Subject: [clue-tech] Linux from scratch 

Hello, 

It was asked at the end of this months tech center meeting whether anyone 
had interest in Linux from Scratch. I am curious. Its been a LONG time 
since I have built the major systems (E.G. replacing most of my slackware with elvin magic (ELF) bootstrapping gcc). Circa a.out the defacto standard ... fun. Is this building from source at the level of understanding the structure of the makefiles and what has to be in 
them compiler flags etc..? 

Anyway, what was the proposition? So is Linux from scratch a cookbook project? In the spirit of the original way: Get a kernel and go ... 
Geez: reminiscing I remember the first guy that I knew who really knew what he was doing got started with some cross compiling on a sun. He would 
always say to me that he couldn't help unless I was working from source .. 
and that would irk me at first :) 

-Mike 



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