Hi, > I've been trawling the mailing list archives re compiling for an i486 > without much success. > I'm trying to build LFS 6.2 but I've made a few changes as outlined below. > > I'm using Fedora Core 6 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) on an Intel Xeon @ 3GHz as > the host. > I've got CFLAGS=CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i486 > > I've done chapt 5 and seem to have an i686-pc-linux-gnu toolchain in /tools > > I've got to chapter 6.9 where I'm trying to build glibc-2.3.6. If I > follow the instructions I get something that only fails the posix/annexc > test as warned in the book. > > If I add --host=i486-pc-linux-gnu to the configure command then lots of > tests fail at the make check stage and it doesn't generate the timezone > data in /usr/share/zoneinfo. > > The cross compiling hint doesn't seem to be available anymore and I'm > not sure if I should be using CLFS. My aim is to build a basic system > that I can put on all of my boxes; i486 and above. All of the mailing > list archive stuff seems to relate to older, less rigorous, versions of > the book. > > I've tried setting -mcpu=i486 in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS but the glibc build > whinges that it's deprecated and produces the same errors as before. > > I have gcc 4.0.3. > Is it still the case that gcc will produce i386 code by default? Does > this apply to the glibc build system? > > > What is currently the best way to build for everything (x86) above an i486? > > > > Thanks for any support you can offer.
Does anyone have any ideas for this one? I'm still struggling to build glibc. PS: Are my messages actually getting through to the list? Many thanks. Regards, @ndy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
