stop disabling hashing

[Xi Ruoyao]

The +h option for bash should be unneeded since LFS 10.0. Note that it can't be tested with jhalfs, as jhalfs spwans a new bash instance for each page. I'll run a manual build to test.

[Bruce Dubbs]

I don't know why you want to do this. The only possible advantage of using hashing is to speed up some lookups, but the time saved would be negligible. Not using hashing just gives a bit of assurance that the latest version of a file will be used during the build process.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to Bruce Dubbs:

The only possible advantage of using hashing is to speed up some lookups, but the time saved would be negligible.

The main reason is: the description for disabling hashing is no longer correct in the book.

Not using hashing just gives a bit of assurance that the latest version of a file will be used during the build process.

In Pierre's method using two utilities with the same name but different location would be a bug.

[pierre]

We at least need to change the description, but I'd rather disable hashing: doing something useless is not good from a pedagogical viewpoint. And hashing is useless. I kept it when I made the change to the build because I was not sure it was useless. Now I am sure (but I'd forgotten about it, thanks to Xi Ruoyao for bringing this up).

[Bruce Dubbs]

To do this we need to change several pages:

chapter08/bash.xml
chapter08/revisedchroot.xml
chapter07/createfiles.xml
chapter07/chroot.xml
chapter04/settingenviron.xml

[Xi Ruoyao]

Fixed for trunk.