This is a rough draft of LFS w/ OpenRC without SysVinit. This is nowhere
close for a merge as I need to confirm this works with LFS. Beyond that,
BLFS also must get support, and BLFS will be a battlefield. Until we get
to that point, please do not have this merged.
This branch has been created because the LSB is getting changed, where
SysVinit will not be part of it. However, OpenRC will be. OpenRC also
provides technology projects like GNOME use. SysVinit simply will not
get those technologies. I believe OpenRC will be the way to go, going
forward for an educational alternative to the Systemd version of LFS.
SysVinit can act as an init system under OpenRC, which would introduce
unneeded complexity. That's why this removes SysVinit.
This shall get rendered at
https://linuxfromscratch.org/~zeckma/. MLFS support is not planned until
merge into trunk.
Feedback is appreciated.
GCC-15 has bumped the C++ standard to C++14, and the required GCC
version to 5.4 because 5.3 and earlier may generate some wrong code with
C++14 and constexpr (that GCC-15 code base uses).
I know some distros are using a different default and we are having
reports of some mysterious permission issue via lfs-support those I
highly suspect as some umask issue. Let's just explicitly set it (like
setting $LFS) to protect us from such distros without changing every
"mkdir -pv" to "install -vdm755".
Use <quote> instead of '"' if possible. Use <literal>,
<computeroutput>, etc. instead of <quote> if possible. Replace
<quote>alpha</quote> with a UTF-8 Greek alpha character.
BTW decorate ".link" with <filename class='extension'>.
"gcc(1)" is really not a file name.
Use <ulink> and link to the online man page on
https://man.archlinux.org/ so the user can refer to the man pages more
easily.
The change is done via a sed command and long lines are wrapped
manually.
We'll use nproc for setting MAKEFLAGS and TESTSUITEFLAGS. And if nproc
is not available, we'll end up with "MAKEFLAGS=-j" which is very
dangerous because it allows make to spawn infinite number of jobs.
Check it early.
The nproc program is added in Coreutils 8.1 so we need to bump the
minimal version.
Update the rationale for min-kernel in hostreqs. Add a note in
general.ent about the EOL of current min-kernel. Realign the
backslashes in glibc instructions.
1. Declare UNIX98 PTY requirement in host system requirements and check
it in the script. All desktop or server distros should have it now,
but let's stop anyone from building on a embedded distro w/o UNIX98
PTY early...
2. Use Expect test suite as a guard against mishandled $LFS/dev/pts.
3. No need to test the basic function of Expect in Binutils anymore
because if ($LFS)/dev/pts is not good, the Expect test suite would
have failed.
- Remove an extra whitespace breaking shebang (though our instruction
does not use the shebang).
- Adjust the regex to allow several letters after the version number,
and match grep version to the text.
- Raise Coreutils to 7.0 (for the host requirement script itself). It
was released in 2008 so I don't think it's a problem.
- Add a colon after the text "Compiler check" to match "Aliases:".
- Use grep -o instead of sed to make kernel version check simpler.
This update changes the default number of cores used to build
packages to 4. A section is also added to host requirements
to recommend a minumum number of cores and memory size.
For example, a swap partition does not contain any FS. And, if you want
to clone a partition, you can use
dd if=/dev/<old-partition> of=/dev/<new-partition>
then it's unnecessary to create a FS on new-partition before operation.
This is sometimes faster than creating a new FS, mounting both
partition, then "cp -av" if the old-partition contains many small files.
