I have an old Pentium2 machine that was out in the barn for a couple of years because the processor failed.I figured I might find another used processor one day so I kept it and I did run across a used P2, but by that time I had already scavenged one of Dimms so now it only has 125 M of memory and I couldn't find the the hard drive box so I tied a similar one with tie staps (at least I used the same length tie straps) and set it up as a router using the jhalfs install from the live cd. Today I decided to upgrade it using jhalfs and the stable book and its running right now and has been since 5 PM and it is 11 PM now and has not finished the toolchain yet. GCC first pass took 110 minutes and the SBU estimate is 5 so if my math is correct that is ~ 16 hours for the final gcc install.If it errors out it will become a debian router.
Which brings me to something that bugs me somewhat. This machine is running on a devel build from July is which is now current stable. I had around 18 libmudflap errors then and my previous build back in March (LFS-6.6,gcc 4.4.3) had 8. That is really no big deal, but I use a lot of older software and a lot of things that compiled cleanly on on gcc 4.4.3 error out on gcc 4.5.1. Mostly its just one or 2 errors of adding a const char , but after 20 of these it get's a little tedious. Sometimes it is beyond my limited C or C++ expertise, and always a screen full of warnings about data types and so forth. I know I'm free to use any compiler I choose , and I would like to use newer versions whenever possible, but I want it to work at least as well as the last version. Gerard said anything goes on this list, so I guess whining is allowed. I can't speak on the price of beer as I have not had one in 6 months; I'm getting thirsty thinking about it. -- Mike Hollis -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
