Hi, >>> What is currently the best way to build for everything (x86) above an i486? > > A multilib build to support both 32 and 64 bit has to be manually > enabled. jhalfs will build either, but not the multilib. any i386 or > i486 build will work on any newer system as well, performance won't be > as good as builds for the specific arch, since the i486 build won't take > advantage of what an i686 has to offer.
OK. I'm not bothered about 64 bit at the moment. I will be, but I'll look into a multilib arrangement when I'm up and running. >>> Thanks for any support you can offer. >> Does anyone have any ideas for this one? I'm still struggling to build >> glibc. > > As was suggested to me with an old pentium mmx @ 266 MHz, try with a > very large swap space. for 128mb ram I need to use 571.44 mb swap space > to build even gcc. Yes. My host system is more than capable. It's a 3.0Ghz Xeon with a few GB of RAM and loads of disk, etc, etc. It's just a 'mare trying to ensure (and convince myself) that proper i486 is being generated as it's an i686. As originally stated, I have CFLAGS=CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i486 but when I specifically pass the i486 options to glibc it fails to build correctly. Do I need to do the uname hack? The documentation for this seems to have rotted away. :-( 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
