Re: [lfs-support] 64 bit host machine build question

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Arnold
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:04:42 + Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 09:15:35PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: I'm doing the 5.7 glibc-2.19 step and everything seems to be going along swimmingly. But the test program mentioned in the Caution isn't exactly

[lfs-support] questions about chapter 5.5.1

2014-03-27 Thread François Bissey
Hi, I suspect it may be a case of to much knowledge is dangerous. Having some experience in building cross compilers and bootstrapping systems in the past I found some elements in that chapter troubling enough to stop and post here first: 1) There are instructions to download and unpack

Re: [lfs-support] questions about chapter 5.5.1

2014-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
François Bissey wrote: Hi, I suspect it may be a case of to much knowledge is dangerous. Having some experience some experience is indeed a dangerous thing. in building cross compilers and bootstrapping systems in the past I found some elements in that chapter troubling enough to stop

Re: [lfs-support] questions about chapter 5.5.1

2014-03-27 Thread Robin
On 28 March 2014 03:07, François Bissey francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Hi, I suspect it may be a case of to much knowledge is dangerous. Having some experience in building cross compilers and bootstrapping systems in the past I found some elements in that chapter troubling enough