On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote: > >> Howdy all. You might have noticed the nosym branches in SVN. This removes >> the /usr/lib64 symlink and replaces the /lib64 symlink with a directory >> containing only the symlinks to the dynamic loader for x86_64. The changes >> are actually pretty minimal, excluding the change to t-linux64 in the gcc >> builds and all of the removed changes to ltmain.sh (..lib/whatever.la has >> been moved), there are changes to eight packages in BLFS and one in LFS >> (where libdir must be specified). AFAICT, those nine changes should have >> no effect on builds where GCC is not modified. Although it's already been >> tested pretty thoroughly, I'd appreciate just a tad of wider testing >> before the changes land in trunk. If you've already built from the patches >> that have been floating around in my home directory over the past few >> months, then you are already up to date with the branches. >> > > I've built a sysv version of the latest svn LFS using this branch and have > continued through xorg (and Ken's changes to xorg fonts). > > For xorg, we can remove the three lines at the end of the intro: > > install -v -m755 -d $XORG_PREFIX && > install -v -m755 -d $XORG_PREFIX/lib && > ln -sf lib $XORG_PREFIX/lib64 > > So far, so good. > > The only lib64 entry is /lib64 with two symlinks to > ../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 as already documented. > > I think we can probably put this in trunk as it is simpler than the > symlinks we have now and will avoid all those 'seems to be moved' warnings. > > I'm also thinking that this may be a big enough conceptual change (it's > not really a dramatic change in instructions) to make this LFS 8.0. If we > do that, we should probably do it now so we have a lot of experience with > it when we do the final tests for a March release. > > What do you think? > > -- Bruce > > I wholeheartedly agree. It's about time for an 8.0 release, and this is the perfect time. I think we should put this in as soon as possible. I've been holding back on things to make it easier for DJ to merge back into the nosym branch.
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