Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm trying to decide how best to alter the x86_64 branch. If we adopt > the basic principles from DIY-Linux, it would mean that as far as build > instructions go, we only have to add 3 things: <snip /> > Even with all the above, it seems much simpler than trying to maintain > two separate books. > > -- > JH
Forgive the intrusion but I thought this worth saying... Of course it might be complete hogwash in which case please enlighten me ;-) (I'm quite thick-skinned too) A while ago now I looked at building CLFS for my AMD 64 processor. But after doing some research, IIRC I discovered that there was almost no gain to be had from building LFS as *pure* 64bit and there were quite a few problems, namely: * Bootloader, or rather lack-of * Building BLFS on top of a pure 64b LFS was - at the time - impractical and untested * Several apps and closed-source binaries widely used were not available for 64bit architectures. Unless this has significantly changed (in which case I'll be building a new LFS64 next week ;-)) I think some rather bold and legible text at the start of the book needs to make it clear that there may be little point in doing this unless you know what to do next. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
