As y'all know, I'm new here... well, mostly new.
Was wondering if someone could fill me in on this...
What's the deal with cross-lfs? Ok, I know it's a book (or, really, a set of books) for people compiling LFS on a system other than the one it will be used on.
My understanding, from what I've read here, is that the reader will initially be presented with an option similar to this:
Q: How will you be compiling LFS? A: I will be compiling LFS on [[choice #1]] to be used on [[choice #2]]
Where [[choice #1]] will be, for example, a drop-down menu with choices "an x86 (aka IA32, Pentiums)", "an Alpha", "an x86-64 (aka IA64)", etc. And [[choice #2]] will be either the same, or perhaps the same with the extra option "the same machine".
Will cross-lfs eventually replace the standard LFS? So, and equivalent of the standard LFS (as it is today) would be choice1="x86", choice2="the same machine".
If cross-lfs is everything I've mentioned here, then it sounds like an exciting challenge to the dev team.
If cross-lfs isn't going to cover "Compiling on the same machine it will be used on", then might i suggest such a thing here and now? I can see, however, that it may slow down progress, since to upgrade mypackage-2.3.8 to mypackage-2.4.0 would require thorough testing on a great many more machine combinations than previously needed.
Anyway, sorry to ask questions that I'm sure everyone's sick of answering :/
Take care, Tony
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