Re: Safer linux-headers install

2007-07-13 Thread Luca
> - Original Message - > From: "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:16 PM > Subject: Re: Safer linux-headers install > > >> Unless it's going to be accepted upstream, then I'm not really >> interested in adding a patc

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Craig Jackson
> Um, you seem to be talking as if one must run a 64-bit OS on 64-bit > hardware. That is, of course, utterly ridiculous. IMHO 32-bit OS'es > running on 64-bit hardware are still the norm. See this recent post from > an Intel employee for example: I'm not implying that, in fact i completely agree

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything >>> other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other >>> architectures. >> Ken, That is a little u

Re: {B,C}LFS State of Things (was Re: SVN-20070706: ...)

2007-07-13 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: > This should not spark a flame war, you make a very concise and to the > point statement/question that deserves discussion. However, the CLFS > fork was mostly due to some dev's dissatisfaction with the decisions > that were made a *long* time ago. It's my belief there is sti

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Greg Schafer
Craig Jackson wrote: > It seems futile for me to attempt > to test for LFS for the simple fact that the x86 architecture's days > are limited. You can barely buy a new system off the retail shelf > that isn't at least a single-core athlon64. Um, you seem to be talking as if one must run a 64-bit

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything > > other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other > > architectures. > > Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't kno

{B,C}LFS State of Things (was Re: SVN-20070706: ...)

2007-07-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Craig Jackson wrote these words on 07/13/07 18:02 CST: > I don't know how to say this > delicately, so I will just say it. And being one that appreciates such candor, I applaud your message. > It seems futile for me to attempt > to test for LFS for the simple fact that the x86 architecture's da

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/13/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything > > other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other > > architectures. > > Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't know of any LFS o

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Craig Jackson
On 7/13/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything > > other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other > > architectures. > > Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't know of any LFS o

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything > other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other > architectures. Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't know of any LFS or BLFS developers that think non-x86 is unsupportable. We ha

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:49:06PM -0600, Jon Fullmer wrote: > I don't understand. I'm aware of CLFS (and even for the PowerPC). > This is assuming I want to build a system on a platform other than > its destined platform. I'm actually building it on a PowerPC box > running LFS-6.2. That's

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Ivan Kabaivanov
Jon Fullmer wrote: > Gentlemen, > > Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, > so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. > > Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to > generate the specs file: > > gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL PROT