2009/9/6 William Immendorf <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Marcus Wanner<[email protected]> wrote: >> I followed the lfs book 6.5 up to section 5.7 glibc-2.10.1, but couldn't >> get that to build. >> So, I switched to the LiveCD, which is designed for the lfs book 6.3. >> Rather than risk more problems, I decided to stick with that version and >> try to update older packages once the system is up and running. >> >> The question is, how dificult will this be to do? >> And, is there anything I need to look out for or do/not do? > Try building 6.5 with the LiveCD. If you do that, you'll thank > yourself when it's done. > > William
A slightly less terse reply : LFS is NOT designed to upgrade the toolchain (binutils, gcc, glibc, and these days I guess we have to include mpfr and gmp as part of the toolchain) in a running system. The only safe way to upgrade the toolchain is to build a new LFS (so, at a minimum you will want two partitions for root filesystem, for the current version and for the next version. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
