Greg Schafer wrote:
Using this as a reason for cross building is a hell of a stretch IMHO. Once understood, the problem is minor and easily worked around. It's simply an artifact of the way PATH is handled in the current build. More info here
I think you entirely missed the point of Bryan's post. He wasn't saying that's the reason for using cross-lfs, he was just citing an example of how a host can still affect the final build using our current method. He was showing that things can and will crop up that are unforseen.
Sure there's a solution, and perhaps it is minor in this case, but that wasn't the point was it? It was just an example to show that abstraction from the host system is still very much a desirable thing.
If you want to help make LFS better, by all means keep posting with constructive comments and criticism. If you're posting here just to recruit to diy and to spread links to your site about on the web, go somewhere else.
In fact, cross building introduces a regression in PATH handling in the pre-chroot phase. One no longer gains the advantage of having newly built tools integrated into the build process as they get installed and become available. While not a major problem, it is a factor that must be considered, and it's something likely to bite when building on older hosts. (The solution of course is to first build a bunch of host tools, but how far do you want to go?
We're aware of that. Likely what will happen is a note about certain requirements for a host, just like we currently have. In fact, when it comes down to it, the requirements cross-lfs has for a working host are far less stringent that what the current build method has. If we can get by now with saying, you *need* a Linux system with a 2.6 kernel and a proper set of dev tools, then we can certainly list a set of requirements (a modern gnu toolset) that are likely to be less strict. If they don't have those on their host, then a link to a hint on what they need to get themselves set up could be done.
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