On 9/30/07, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are an increasing number of users who report errors building LFS, > and then say they are attempting it on a 64-bit host system. It really > needs to be stated on the LFS website that LFS assumes a 32-bit system, > and point users with 64-bit systems either to the 64-bit LFS > book/livecd, or CLFS.
Very good point. Seems we're getting support requests on this every other day now. I've never been very fond of the ambiguousness in LFS about what hardware is supported. The only thing that's fully supported right now is x86. Full stop. If people in the know want to make it work on PPC or x86_64, that's great, but we shouldn't give that impression to people who are just following along. First, where should this be placed for LFS? I'd say in the book (can't decide where) it should be really clear what is and is not supported. Unfortunately, LFS-6.3 is in the wild already. We can change trunk to say x86 only until the jh branch is merged. For everything else, we should point to CLFS. If this info is already in the book, it needs to be made a lot clearer. Second, the LFS website should say this. Probably right up front: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ Third, I think the LiveCD currently says "linux64 - A 64-bit kernel for use with CLFS" in the options. While that seems plenty clear to me, I think it needs to be even clearer that building LFS does not work from a 64 bit kernel. IMO, of course. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
