Ken Moffat wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Jim Gifford wrote:
Any thoughts on a package freeze for existing packages, particularly
glibc ? (That is, freeze versions unless it becomes clear that a
different version will solve problems). I'm preparing to start some
fresh builds (x86, x86_64-64, x86_64 on the same machine), hopefully
tomorrow, but if we upgrade glibc each week my test results will be
worthless by the time I have them ;)
As far as I'm concerned 20050926 is the last version we will use, it's
stable on all platforms.
Pure64 Builds
Bootloaders, what to do, suggestions welcomed, Biggest concerns
Silo and Grub lack of ability to be compiled as 64 Bit. --
Programmers welcome!!
For x86_64-64 lilo compiles and works now, or at least it did last
time I checked.
That's a possibility but it means adding some packages back. Right now
we have people looking at solving both issues by gettting Grub 2 working.
Book
Update the earilier chapters of the book to reflect cross-compiling
Add all missing configuration lines
Any thoughts on what to do about space/time measurements ? I'm not a
big fan of SBUs, but (at least on non-cross) they have some element of
repeatability if people don't get too finicky with how precisely they
measure them. I think Manuel had a suggestion about what to use as an
approximate SBU when building the final system if this was a true
cross-build. Maybe we could have SBUs for the first part, and NBUs
(native build units) for the temp tools and final system.
I'm fairly sure that the space used in the first part of the build
will depend on both the host and the target (e.g. ppc32 instructions
are all 32 bits, and building glibc back in the days of LFS-5.0 took a
lot more space on ppc than on x86).
SBU's will not be valid in this book, since every platform will be
different, I don't think we have the time to recalculate everytime a
package changes. Honestly most people don't even look at them as evident
from some of the discussions on lfs-support on irc.
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