J. Greenlees wrote: > Michael Kearns wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Having decided to have another go at LFS (been through the process a >> couple of times before, a few years back), I grabbed the 6.3 (amd64) >> LiveCD, and followed the latest development book. >> >> > It's usually recommended to use CLFS for building 64 bit right now. > since: > /Adding capabilty for x86_64 hosts is a major objective of the upcoming > LFS 7.0 currently under development./ >
Hi Jaqui, Thanks for that. I had just assumed the 64-bit would be handled under the basic LFS, as there is a seperate LiveCD. I'll restart and give it a go following the CLFS book - can I still use the same LiveCD ? >> I downloaded all of the latest tool sources and patches (would be great >> to have a txt file on those pages, containing all of the URLs, to use >> with wget -i ), and followed through the book (which doesn't mention how >> to unpack the sources, not that it's very difficult, but...) >> >> > This functionality is in the scripted install in jalfs. :) > I'd avoided any automation, as it's been a while since my last rebuild and so I wanted to ensure I was very much hands on with every aspect. I did find that I could get the list from a copy-paste using the browser page-info->links dialog though ;) >> On the first pass of building the toolchain, binutils worked fine, but >> on coming to build gcc it complains at the first compilation that it >> can't find stubs-32.h - I checked, and sure enough it's not there. >> >> Not knowing enough about how the 32/64 bit stuff is handled, what could >> I have done wrong, and is this something that needs changing ? >> >> > /There are quite a few differences in building 32 bit and 64 bit, CLFS > has this covered more than LFS does at this time. > I'll start reading up. Thanks again, Michael. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
