Jim Gifford wrote:
I've been working on our cross-lfs build methods quite a bit lately,
but have ran into some dead ends when it comes to the bootloaders for
all the architectures we support. None of them will build properly on
a Pure 64 bit system. The only way I see to get around this is to
build some 32 bit tools and utilize the gcc -m32 for the bootloader
builds.
I want the communities input before I make this type of change, or if
they have some other suggestions.
Changes that would need to be done to Cross-LFS would be the
following. /lib would be 64 bit and /lib32 would be 32 bit.
x86_64, MIPS
Build 32 bit glibc
Build a multilib gcc
Sparc64
Build 32 bit e2fsprogs libraries
Build 32 bit glibc
Build a multilib gcc
As you probably see from my post about Grub 1.90, the new version of
Grub build on a 64 Bit system, but utilizing gcc -m32.
I have only been a lurker on the list, but since I stirred up all the
trouble over bootloaders with my thread I should probably say
something. I used lilo for my pure 64 bit system and it built just
fine. Since sometime towards the end of 2004 lilo no longer requires
nasm, so it can be a straight swap for grub. On the other hand adding
32 bit headers, a 32 bit glibc and a multilib gcc seems a lot to add for
only one package. Just my two cents.
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