On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:53:38AM -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: > That would depend on how far back you're interested in going, and > how much you're willing to look into it. For compatibility with most > things, you would be interested in getting a "i386-pc-linux-gnu" > target triplet, which might involve getting older packages, or > setting some options in the environment prior to building anything. > I believe fedora and debian do something like this. In LFS, we have a note on the glibc page: Because Glibc no longer supports i386, its developers say to use the compiler flag -march=i486 when building it for x86 machines.
> On a side note, to be compatible with almost all IBM based > computers, I think you're looking at getting, say, > "i086-pc-linux-gnu" or "i186-pc-linux-gnu" as those would correspond > to the earliest days of the Intel instruction set. > > Elly *smiles* - nice idea. This is now old history (my first pc-compatible used a 286, before that I'd used Z80 machines), but anything capable of running linux always needed to be 386 or greater. When I started using linux (late 1999), I had some 586-class machines (original pentium, and AMD K6. With very rare exceptions (some of the early VIA processors), anything from recent years will be 686. ĸen -- 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
