Better safe than sorry! Does your system boot?

Boots fine

Is it ready? Look at the screenshot... My only complaint is that PaleMoon won't build with either GCC-9.2.0 or glibc-2.30, dunno which one is causing the issue.

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It's gcc. Palemoon won't build with any recent gcc because some of its headers contain syntax that isn't valid any more. gcc-6 should work.

FWIW, Firefox 60.8.0 esr will not build with glibc-2.30. I'm in the process of rolling back to to glibc-2.29. The issue is the same as with the current Seamonkey browser - there is a solution in the book for that and i tried to apply it to firefox esr but it didn't work.

I won't be making a fresh build of 9.0 this time. I've been rolling along with the SVN version and it works great. I'm current on just about everything but glibc. I build a lot of non-lfs items for my desktop and no telling how many things the new glibc will break. I'm not gonna risk it.

Yup, boots!

I just saw a blfs-dev post that blfs-9.0-rc1 will be released on Sunday, so I will continue after that. Actually, I'm surprised they managed to freeze it; there's been a huge amount of problems on that list.

The new release, 28.7.0 will build with GCC-9.2.0 if you add some CFLAGS to the build command. As a matter of fact, I'm posting this from that build.

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Hi All,
I finished the blfs 9.0 rc edition with only a couple of problems. Rustc gave me some trouble
when installing librsvg for abiword.Never could get it to install. Now that the stable version is out today I will do it.
Just wondering if my 9.0 rc-1 stable lfs is good enough or should I rebuild lfs 9.0 stable?
Any thoughts?
thanks

You can check "change log" to see whats changed

When I build with a release candidate, I don't rebuild. In my experience there's no need. The only hitches seem to be minor ones.

PS: Release 9.0 of both LFS and BLFS just announced on the mailing list.

Thanks to ALL

Everything has installed fine and even some of my usually problem programs worked good.
Firefox, Thunderbird and the dreaded rustc worked perfect. Before I ran into problems with rustc and librsvg for Abiword with 9.0 rc-1. Will be working on Media players and sound next.
Good luck to all

I'm ploughing through BLFS 9.0 and feeling increasingly unhappy about it. There seem to be all kinds of extra dependencies compared with earlier versions. It used to be so easy to craft a system that just contained what I wanted. It was fun, and now increasingly it isn't fun at all, it's frustrating. I think I am getting too old for this lark.

I can understand that. After 8.3 I thought it would be easier with what I learned. 8.4 gave me a hard time and 9.0 is acting strange
with sound.

Moin,

Yeah, this is also my experience after a couple of years of LFS/BLFS (starting with LFS-3.3). But seems there is no way back.
It's not only full-bloat-software like KDE, which needs (for my taste) absolutely unnecessary things like PAM or pulseaudio, but also small, tiny things like e.g. ntp start to need couples of perl modules, where i'd suspect, that a link against openssl should be sufficient.

But to be a little bit positive: This makes building a BLFS much more easier. You do not have to think any longer: Do i need this package? No, it's almost sure, that _every_ package will be needed ;-)

Cheers
WK