On 27 July 2015 at 19:28, Bruno Cardoso Lopes <bruno.cardoso at gmail.com> wrote:> Let us know if you have examples of that, and we'll pass that up to > the editor to fix in further editions.The cross-compilation chapter has entire identical phrases and the general structure is very similar. Of course, I'd expect any half-decent book to have the official documentation as one of the primary sources, but not in a paste-then-modify kind. I was looking for that chapter in particular, given that I wrote the original docs on cross-compilations, and I know I didn't do a good job at it. I was expecting a more thorough description of the issues, system particularities, toolchains you can choose and how, but it ended up being as lacking as my original docs, which is a shame, really. cheers, --renato
Hi Renato, On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:> On 27 July 2015 at 19:28, Bruno Cardoso Lopes <bruno.cardoso at gmail.com> wrote: >> Let us know if you have examples of that, and we'll pass that up to >> the editor to fix in further editions. > > The cross-compilation chapter has entire identical phrases and the > general structure is very similar. > > Of course, I'd expect any half-decent book to have the official > documentation as one of the primary sources, but not in a > paste-then-modify kind. > > I was looking for that chapter in particular, given that I wrote the > original docs on cross-compilations, and I know I didn't do a good job > at it. I was expecting a more thorough description of the issues, > system particularities, toolchains you can choose and how, but it > ended up being as lacking as my original docs, which is a shame, > really.I agree that it could have covered more topics and etc, but it was out of our intended scope. I double checked in the cross-compilation chapter and I don't find the general structure similar nor did find identical phrases :-) We do in fact use the same generic triple used in the docs "<arch><sub>-<vendor>-<sys>-<abi>", but this one was intentional, as to make it easier for the reader to relate the content on the book with stuff in the official docs. Thanks for the feedback, -- Bruno Cardoso Lopes http://www.brunocardoso.cc
On 27 July 2015 at 20:42, Bruno Cardoso Lopes <bruno.cardoso at gmail.com> wrote:> I agree that it could have covered more topics and etc, but it was out > of our intended scope.I understand, not many people are interested in cross-compilation... :)> I double checked in the cross-compilation chapter and I don't find the > general structure similar nor did find identical phrases :-)It's probably me reading it with the same mind set. :) Sorry about that.> We do in fact use the same generic triple used in the docs > "<arch><sub>-<vendor>-<sys>-<abi>", but this one was intentional, as > to make it easier for the reader to relate the content on the book > with stuff in the official docs.Makes sense. cheers, --renato