Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread William Immendorf
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Greg Schafer wrote: > Because that way lies madness (as has been discussed many times before). > > IMHO, a saner solution is a 32-bit "build" chroot and a package manger. Eh, I was thinking of a hybrid of LFS, CLFS and DIY for multilib. What do you think of that? W

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Greg Schafer
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:32:28 -0500, William Immendorf wrote: > This has got me thinking: If we are going to build a 32-bit Glibc for > multilib LFS, why don't we do a fully multilib system for 64-bit, like > how CLFS does it? Because that way lies madness (as has been discussed many times before)

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Greg Schafer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:23:53 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> A 32-bit libc is a consideration. I don't know how to do that yet. > > I lied. It's actually 2 extra packages :-/ > > One needs to build a 32-bit libc in Ch 5 too (so that GCC can be multilib) > > This is all co

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Greg Schafer
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:23:53 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > A 32-bit libc is a consideration. I don't know how to do that yet. I lied. It's actually 2 extra packages :-/ One needs to build a 32-bit libc in Ch 5 too (so that GCC can be multilib) This is all covered in the DIY Refbuild (packages a

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread William Immendorf
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > A 32-bit libc is a consideration.  I don't know how to do that yet.  I've only > had a 64-bit system for a week.  Looking at grub-0.97, it also uses ncurses, > so > I think we'd need a 32bit version of that too. This has got me thinking: If we

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Greg Schafer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:27:56 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> From a 64 bit system, we'd need to use cross compile techniques for >> these files >> so they don't try to use 64-bit addresses. > > Umm, what's wrong with installing a 32-bit libc? > > It's 1 extra package, it

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Greg Schafer
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:27:56 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > From a 64 bit system, we'd need to use cross compile techniques for > these files > so they don't try to use 64-bit addresses. Umm, what's wrong with installing a 32-bit libc? It's 1 extra package, it solves the grub problem, and it all

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:34:31 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> The latest version of e2fsprogs now passes all tests on LFS-6.5-64. > > Good news! Out of interest, which boot loader are you using on your 64-bit > machine? The host, ubuntu, installed grub-0.97. I didn't feel

Re: New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:34:31 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The latest version of e2fsprogs now passes all tests on LFS-6.5-64. Good news! Out of interest, which boot loader are you using on your 64-bit machine? Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://

New e2fsprogs

2009-08-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The latest version of e2fsprogs now passes all tests on LFS-6.5-64. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page