On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:25:21PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > I dunno if anybody has managed to build from a ubuntu live CD. The > package versions should be ok, it's a question of whether they > include all the necessary packages and headers.
Well, we'll see. I guess the good thing about Gentoo is that you *know* you're getting the complete development environment. Does anyone *have* a link to the AMD64 Gentoo Live CD? I've hunted high and low to no avail. > If you build gcc on a native x86_64, it will default to trying to > build biarch/multilib, i.e. lib and lib64. I've never built from > that sort of host, I'm not sure what else has to change. Drat! After reading through the mailing lists I decided pure64 or lib|lib32 was the right way to go. It still sounds doable, I was planning to go with whatever video pure X.org can give me, I can do without firefox plugins and I'm happy to stick with lilo (which I assume is the only option if grub is out). I was just hoping to avoid hacking gcc. > ... I believe you'll need to sed or patch gcc any time you run 'make > bootstrap' (both in chapter6|native and in future builds from this > system). This refers *only* to rebuilding gcc, right? If so, that's bearable. BTW, how do I check that my gcc will do the right thing? Is it encoded in the hieroglyphics of "gcc -dumpspecs" (which I just ran for the first time on my current system and have *nearly* stopped shaking)? > > (Sorry to pepper you all with questions ... > > ... if you wanted an easy and well-travelled path you wouldn't be > here :) Yes, I comfort myself by remembering that I moved to LFS because I wanted to learn more, so if I wasn't struggling to understand stuff it would have been a waste of time. I hope you and Jim Gifford will let us know when you release your work. I'm looking forward to putting it into practise. Thanks for your efforts! Cheers, Jeremy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
