On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 8:46 PM Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
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>
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:53:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >
> > If I get time, I'll try building with gcc (8.2.0) to see if the
> > results are better or worse.
> >
> Started it off (ld.bfd, disable debug symbols, gcc) and got back to
> it in time to watch the final link : again, that was over in the
> blink of an eye.  And the fastest of this set of builds.  I had over
> 7.5 GB ov available real memory, so no comment on how little I can
> get away with for this.
>
> The total space and install were marginally smaller than with clang,
> but since the details of both seem to fluctuate by a few KB I don't
> regard that as significant.  The important thing is that the disk
> space, and presumably the virtual space for the linker, is
> significantly smaller.  Maybe it will even build on i686.
>
> But that's the end of this series of tests.  I need to get back to
> my other machine where I've been doing the first "tuning" run, dot
> the i's and cross the t's, tweak one of my scripts, and then branch
> my git tree so that I can update at least LFS to current (gcc-9.1)
> and build that on this machine.
>

Hello, I thought I'd mention that the sed used for building with
system icu is not need with icu 64.1 and up.
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