Once a get a spare hour or so I'll take a look at this thread properly
> to see what you lot have been so busy with :)
Firstly, thanks to everyone who participated in this discussion. It's been a while since we've had such an in-depth, informative and well reasoned debate!
Secondly, there were some concerns regarding having to reboot into the target environment. Note that this is a technical requirement because for the majority of host != target builds, the host won't be able to run binaries built for the target environment. Obviously though, not everyone will be cross-building. Therefore it would be prudent to provide the 'chroot' instructions where a reboot isn't required. I believe the XML can be massaged into allowing the correct set of instructions dependent on whether or not the reboot is required. Failing that, we simply give folks a choice. I realise this deviates slightly from the "linear" style that the book has followed up until now. However, building LFS is complex as it is - even more so when considering the cross-building techniques. I don't think asking the user a simple question of "is your host the same arch as your target box" is unreasonable.
I think the only other point of contention is the necessity of some additional tools (SSH, etc.) to facilitate building on some non-x86 arches. I believe these can be added by the maintainers of those arches, and surrounded by the necessary XML magic to prevent those that won't need them from seeing them.
Was there anything else I haven't addressed? If so please speak up now.
I think that the cross-lfs build method will offer benefits to all of us, in terms of preventing the host infecting our chapter 6 environment, and also by allowing the building of LFS on a wider range of architectures. If the above two concerns are the only ones to come out of such an extensive change in the build method, I think we're doing alright :)
Regards,
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