I'm preparing for another build. The last one I did was CLFS-multilib, but, in looking at CLFS, LFS-svn seems to be a little more advanced. In particular I noticed that CLFS still uses grub-0.97 and LFS uses grub-1.98. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and have become accustomed to the "new" grub. Also many of the packages are a little newer than in CLFS.
My concern comes in the notes for LFS which I quote: "There are some packages that cannot currently be built in a "pure" 64-bit system or require specialized build instructions. Generally, these packages have some embedded 32-bit specific assembly language instructions that fail when building on a 64-bit system. This includes some Xorg drivers from Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS). Many of these problems can be worked around, but may require some specialized procedures or patches." I looked through BLFS-SVN book and the BLFS WIKI and didn't fined any notes, patches cautions or other informational items about compiling anything from Xorg in 64-bit. I could build a CLFS-Multilib system and try to compile the "newer" packages from LFS. But that smacks of not "following the book" for either build. Is there a place I can go for notes, work arounds or patches for packages in BLFS that don't play well in 64 bit? Thanks, Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
