On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Michael Tsang<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2009 17:09:02 Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Ken Moffat<[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> > 2009/7/15 Rajinder Yadav <[email protected]>:
>> >> LFS_Book-SVN-20090708 : Section 5.6.1
>> >>
>> >> $ uname -a
>> >> Linux K64x2 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC
>> >> 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> call to "make headers_check" leads to the following 'userspace'
>> >> warning message? I am at a lose what to do next?
>> >>
>> >>  CHECK   include/linux/wimax (1 files)
>> >>  CHECK   include/linux (350 files)
>> >>  CHECK   include/mtd (6 files)
>> >> /mnt/custom_linux/sources/linux-2.6.30.1/usr/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h:21
>> >>: extern's make no sense in userspace
>> >>  CHECK   include/rdma (1 files)
>> >>  CHECK   include/sound (9 files)
>> >>  CHECK   include/video (3 files)
>> >>  CHECK   include (0 files)
>> >>  CHECK   include/asm (52 files)
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Kind Regards,
>> >> Rajinder Yadav
>> >> --
>> >
>> >  It's only a warning, directed at kernel hackers.  You can ignore it.
>> >
>> >  I was going to say "I'll be interested to see if the current book will
>> > produce a working x86_64 build" (I haven't built any LFS newer than
>> > 6.4), but then I remembered that it uses grub, so it won't (32-bit
>> > assembler code in grub).
>> >
>> >  If /boot is a separate filesystem, you can use the version of grub
>> > installed by your host system.
>> >
>> >  Lilo (with bin86) works on pure64 systems - see cross-lfs.
>> >
>> > ĸen
>> > --
>>
>> Ken, thanks for the info. I am finding it a bit of a pain to build for
>> x86_64, so I've gone back to 32bit and will try to get my first LFS
>> system working with out the extra struggle. I was not able to build
>> glibc on 64, possibly because of ignoring userspace warning when
>> building the kernel headers.
>>
>> I'll wait for the next kernel release before trying to continue with x86_64
>> LFS.
>
> I've successfully built LFS on x86_64 for a few times flawlessly using the
> latest SVN. For GRUB, I use the version from the host. (I have a seperate
> /boot/grub partition.)
>
> --
Michael, this is good (encouraging) info for me to work with.
May I ask what base x86_64 Distro you're using for build LFS?

-- 
Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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