On 02/10/2013 08:18 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Has anybody entertained the idea of multiarch (not current multilib) on > an LFS style build yet? I intend to do this, but if anybody has already > done so, I'd appreciate notes, patches, and what not. > > For those unfamiliar: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/ > From my POV, unlike the previous disagreement of lib<qual> amongst > distributions, this _seems_ to be much cleaner and well thought out, > especially with a couple of examples in place already (Fedora has been > doing this in parallel as well as Debian and Ubuntu, but isn't really in > the spotlight yet). > > -- DJ >
I don't think it is worth the effort for 32/64bit only distros. Debian runs on nearly everything and it's worth the effort - especially for ARM. I've watched their multiarch talk at Debconf in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Major advantage of the multiarch is so you can easily "cross compile stuff". Useful if you have powerful x86_64 machine, but want to build packages for ARM or Mips platforms ... As for running the packages, it's simply not worth. I did a bootstrap of multilib compiler and glibc on "Pure 64bit LFS" - using /lib32 and /usr/lib32 ... I don't have any issues, althrough I don't remember what I really did to bootstrap it all - I had to build GCC and Glibc 2 or 3 times :| -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
