Michael Kearns wrote: > J. Greenlees wrote: > >> Michael Kearns wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Having decided to have another go at LFS (been through the process a >>> couple of times before, a few years back), I grabbed the 6.3 (amd64) >>> LiveCD, and followed the latest development book. >>> >>> >>> >> It's usually recommended to use CLFS for building 64 bit right now. >> since: >> /Adding capabilty for x86_64 hosts is a major objective of the upcoming >> LFS 7.0 currently under development./ >> >> > > Hi Jaqui, > > Thanks for that. I had just assumed the 64-bit would be handled under > the basic LFS, as there is a seperate LiveCD. I'll restart and give it a > go following the CLFS book - can I still use the same LiveCD ? > >
Yup, you can use the same livecd, or any installed distro or other livecd where you have cross compiling tools to build the base tools with. >>> I downloaded all of the latest tool sources and patches (would be great >>> to have a txt file on those pages, containing all of the URLs, to use >>> with wget -i ), and followed through the book (which doesn't mention how >>> to unpack the sources, not that it's very difficult, but...) >>> >>> >>> >> This functionality is in the scripted install in jalfs. :) >> >> > > I'd avoided any automation, as it's been a while since my last rebuild > and so I wanted to ensure I was very much hands on with every aspect. I > did find that I could get the list from a copy-paste using the browser > page-info->links dialog though ;) > > I personally always build hands on, I'll try different conf options, or even different packages [ like the init-ng instead of sysvinit ] so the automation isn't really an option for me. I'll start reading up. I always read the book(s) before starting a build, it save me most issues when actually building. :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
