mintCast 264 – Building Linux Woes
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Main Topic:
- Rob talks about the problems and solutions he encountered as he works his way through Chapter 6 of building Linux From Scratch. Isaac does a quick run through of Chapters 7 and 8, while realizing he needs to get started on BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch).
Tips & Websites:
- Rob realizes the power of StackOverflow
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- “Yesterday’s Conversation” by Angus Wallace
- “The Red Stone” by Ground & Leaves
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I don’t have much feedback, but since no one else left a comment I just wanted say this was a nice episode.
I have tried really hard not to learn bash syntax (because I find it so convoluted) but I have still picked up a lot of it over the years. Rob might consider writing the scripts in another language. If I need any control flow or more complex data structures, I often switch to python and do something like this:
import shlex
import subprocess
def run(command):
subprocess.check_call(shlex.split(cmd))
run(‘make’)
run(‘make install’)
…etc.