On 12/03/2011 04:53 AM, Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > Hi Andy, thanks for your quick answer. I understand that the two > solutions are equivalent: so I kept at work the symlink. > Now, another question, yet discussed - as I could verify - in > lfs-support, but with some residual doubt as concerns myself: the > notorious target triplet. Running config.guess from binutils, I > obtain, as expected, "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", but "echo $LFS_TGT" > furnishes this answer: "x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu". To avoid future > problems, must I change something (eventually, where?), or I go ahead > not worrying about this discrepancy? > Sorry to disturb, but I think the same question will hit other neophytes. >
The book explicitly says to set $LFS_TGT so that "lfs" will appear in it - it is *supposed* to be different from the triplet given by config.guess - that is the point. As explained in the book, it's used to help with cross-compiling the initial toolchain. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page