Hi Ken, Apologize for doing a top-post. I was not aware of it. Now I have provided my reply in interleaved post.
> An now, to answer your question. If this is your first build of >LFS, I'm tempted to say FBBG (Follow Book, Book Good). So, that >would be --enable-kernel=2.6.25 (I'm looking at LFS-svn but I don't >think we've changed that part since 7.1. Oh, wait, for some reason >you are using 7.0 [ checks ... nope, still 2.6.25 ] ). > But to be honest, that is a very old and unsupported version of the >kernel [ http://www.kernel.org ]. The more you add in features for >old versions of the kernel, the more cruft is built into glibc for >compatability. If you are never going to boot a kernel older than >2.6.35, specifying 2.6.35 should be fine. Emerson: Yes, this is my first build. I thought the value for --enable-kernel must be the "same" as Host systems linux version (uname -r). Now, I did little bit research on --enable-kernel option and found the following excerpt from http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Configuring-and-compiling.html >>‘--enable-kernel=version’ >>This option is currently only useful on GNU/Linux systems. The >>versionparameter should have the form X.Y.Z and describes the smallest >>version of the Linux kernel the generated >>library is expected to support. The higher the version number is, the less compatibility code is added, and the faster the code gets. So I understand that, in case I need to boot a linux version lesser than 2.6.35 then it is better to give a smallest version like 2.6.25 in --enable-kernel option. However, I have question now, Is there any dependecy between Host system's kernel version and --enable-kernel option? why the LFS build is not proceeding if we give --enable-kernel=2.6.25 and the actual Host systme linux version is less than it say 2.6.11 as in my previous linux. Now I have upgraded my linux from 2.6.11 to 2.6.35. I will do FBBG (Follow Book; Book Good) now, that is I will use --enable-kernel=2.6.25 and give it a try. Thanks a lot. Emerson
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