Am Mittwoch, den 31.01.2018, 18:48 +0100 schrieb Pierre Labastie: > On 31/01/2018 18:16, thomas wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > does (B)LFS "officially" support i686 platforms or did we silently > > drop > > 32-bit? There were a few comments about this question in Sept/Oct > > last year as > > Bruce brought this up. I cannot find a final decision. > > > > I ask this question because of the issue occured by upgrading > > binutils to 2.30 > > with which grub2 cannot be compiled [1]. Since there are no other > > complains > > than from i686 systems, it looks like that this issue does not > > occur on x86_64 > > systems. If LFS supports 32bit, shouldn't we then refuse upgrading > > packages to > > version which do not compile on all platforms? > > > > I know, there is that good feeling of living on the bleeding edge - > > but what > > does make us feel that we have to have the most recent version in > > the book? > > The intention of the book is to show how things work - that can be > > pretty much > > achieved with not-that-new version too. This allows us to stay on a > > previous > > version if the new one does not work proper. Making a comment in > > the package's > > chapter why this is not upgraded to the last version right now > > should be > > sufficient. > > > > Yes, there may be security issues fixed in newer versions. But is > > that that > > much relevant for a LFS system where we hardly care about security > > fixes? > > > > Personally, i do recompiling LFS on 32bit for some of my older > > machines. It's > > as fast as for 64bit as I'm doing it in a VM (which is not realy > > much slower > > than bare metal). So compile time isn't that important to me, i > > think its not > > an argument at all. I'd be kind of sad if 32bit support would be > > dropped. > > > > Whats your opinion? > > Looks like all the devs (except you maybe) only compile on x86_64, so > 32-bit > support has not been dropped, but it is much less tested. For the > binutils > issue, have you tried my suggestion on support? > > Pierre
Yes, I placed a message on the grub-bug-list with a lot of logs (see link http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2018-01/msg00006.html). To my text above, to make long text short: Shouldn't we downgrade to binutils-2.29.1 for a while (until a fix comes up somehow)? -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
