On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > 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.
If you don't want plugins, about the only 32-bit thing you might want would be grub. > > > ... 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)? > Well, start by defining "do the right thing" ? :) If you see *multilib_defaults: m64 then it will build 64-bit by default. But seriously, I haven't built pure64 from anything except i686. If you've already got a 64-bit host system, you probably want to read Tooly's http://www.schneider-berlin.net/pages/lfs64.html (Text is in German, but the content is mostly shell) > > 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! > Mine is already "released", it just has idiosyncracies. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
