On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:44:10 +0200 thorsten via lfs-dev <lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> > I have a modified LFS running on Rpi 3b+ (aarch64) and on a bananapro > board (arm). I use them as Wireless accesspoints and low budget servers. > Basically the modifications to LFS are not too big. Getting the > Crosscompiler ready is the biggest trouble. Seconded. I cross-built ARM version of LFS 7.1 from a x86-64 distro. Then a few months later, I natively built LFS 7.4 on that ARM LFS 7.1. I still had to build a cross-compiler for LFS 7.4 because the only way I could get anything done, was to use distcc, and that required a cross-compiler. It was a roller-coaster ride back then because gcc had to be tweaked for armhf and glibc didn't support arm directly (I had to use one of the glibc "ports"). The resulting ARM distro got used for many things, but one that still runs until today is a remote-access server with openvpn, running on raspi 2+. The little train that could, that one, LOL :) Sadly it is no longer maintained. and the reason is the same as what everybody has said: life is just too short. If I have infinite spare time I can easily resurrect it with the latest LFS - which I'm sure will be a lot easier now that both the compiler and glibc support ARM natively these days. > > If or if not LFS should support ARM(64) is not my point to make. However > a thank you to everyone at (B)LFS -- without that great book I would > have learned less, experimented less and accomplished less. > Seconded. LFS is volunteer work, you don't demand them to do your work. You volunteer yours and offer it to the maintainer so everyone else can benefit. Take the LFS, experiment it on ARM, and offer patches where needed. Hence my thanks for the volunteers and maintainers who keeps LFS and BLFS going for all years, and hopefully, to the next decade too. cheers! -- James B -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
