On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 9:48 AM Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Le 23/02/2020 à 09:20, Tadeus Prastowo via lfs-dev a écrit :
> > In other words, the description of the option given in the LFS book
> > about some C library or libgcc not being compiled with a thread
> > support is just wrong.
> >
>
> Because upstream have added an option for a reason does not mean that it is
> the only reason for using it. Upstream does not support the way we do thing in
> LFS, so they may have never had the same problem as I have had. But I can
> swear that at some point, the build could not be done without this option.
> Also on svn versions before 4.8, I had to construct the directory layout of a
> complete build of gcc when building libstdc++ (that is something like creating
> build/<target>/libstdc++ and working from there). That requirement was removed
> at some point before releasing 4.8. Note that svn gcc changes several times a
> day, and sometimes may break completely, so my tests were done without
> following the updates.

Thank you for pointing that out.  Now it makes sense.

> But I agree with you this is old history, and that the option should be
> removed. Not just now though: have you tested on several machines and distros?
> (me neither yet).

No.  I have only one machine with one distro that I have been wanting
to ditch.  In this surveillance age, liberty indeed means hard work,
including building and maintaining one's own operating system.  That's
why I cannot just gulp what the LFS book says.

> Pierre

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Best regards,
Tadeus
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