Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jim Gifford
Archaic wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:44:10PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: What about when you build on x86 for a different platform then chroot is not an option at all. That's the reason we added that to the book. For that I would suggest a livecd. How exotic must we get? Would

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Archaic
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:44:10PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > > What about when you build on x86 for a different platform then chroot > is not an option at all. That's the reason we added that to the book. For that I would suggest a livecd. How exotic must we get? -- Archaic Want control, edu

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 05/26/05 16:46 CST: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > >>Keep it all on the same machine, but >> change the chroot to a reboot section so that you can reboot into a >>kernel that supports 64-bit. Where there is need to do that all on >>another machine (an entirely d

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Keep it all on the same machine, but change the chroot to a reboot section so that you can reboot into a kernel that supports 64-bit. Where there is need to do that all on another machine (an entirely different arch family) you get pointed toward a hint. Am I reading

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 26 de Mayo de 2005 23:03, Jim Gifford escribió: > Matt, that was one of the purposes of the cross-lfs was the > multi-architecture build, the reboot section is needed. I have it > working and have been making the changes. It's just at the reboot point > where there seems to be an issue.

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jim Gifford wrote: Matt, that was one of the purposes of the cross-lfs was the multi-architecture build, the reboot section is needed. I have it working and have been making the changes. It's just at the reboot point where there seems to be an issue. I think that's what he was saying - Keep i

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jim Gifford
Matthew Burgess wrote: Then the book should point you at a 'how to move target files from host to target where target!=host' style hint. Although the cross-lfs book is an enabler for cross-lfsing, I'm not convinced that the majority of our readers will in actual fact be cross-building their

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jon Ringle wrote: On Thursday 26 May 2005 16:44, Jim Gifford wrote: What about when you build on x86 for a different platform then chroot is not an option at all. That's the reason we added that to the book. I am working with the cross-lfs scripts to target an arm processor from an x86 host

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Ringle
On Thursday 26 May 2005 16:44, Jim Gifford wrote: > What about when you build on x86 for a different platform then chroot is > not an option at all. That's the reason we added that to the book. I am working with the cross-lfs scripts to target an arm processor from an x86 host. I certainly can't

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: This one, IMHO is the worst possible option to support in the book. The others of course, too, have drawbacks, but this one is by far the worst. I would rather see the book *only* have a chroot path than have a tar/copy files for your new system. In fact, the more I

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 26 de Mayo de 2005 22:11, Archaic escribió: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:05:41PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > After spending some time on the "reboot" section, I think it's a mistake > > to include any of that extra stuff in the book. Esp. when it still seems > > that more will be t

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Archaic
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:05:41PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > After spending some time on the "reboot" section, I think it's a mistake > to include any of that extra stuff in the book. Esp. when it still seems > that more will be taking the chroot path anyway. Exactly what I was saying..

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: In an attempt to get this info both archived, and presented to the larger community, I am writing up a synopsis of ideas that have been floating around on IRC as to how to handle the chroot/reboot phase of the cross-lfs book. I will list them and give a brief pro/con for each as I