Thanks everyone for their answers as to why there are two passes. This is the
paragraph I read that confused me about 32 and 64 bit machines, but it looks
like I will be able to proceed according to Bruce's answer:
This version of the book builds a 32-bit Linux system and requires an existing
32-bit version of of the
kernel on the Intel/AMD x86 architecture. Adding capabilty for x86_64 systems
is a major objective
of a future version of LFS. Support for 64-bit systems and additional
architectures can be found in the
Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch (CLFS) project at
http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn/.
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Finished First Pass
To: "LFS Support List" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 4:17 PM
brown wrap wrote:
> I guess its still not quite clear to me why we take two passes on
> various pieces of software to complete the install. Another question
> I have, i thought I read somewhere that 7.0 is meant for 64 bit
> release. I'm installing on a 64 bit machine and things seem to be
> going, though I have ran into a few problems. I have a 32 bit
> machine, but this one os so much faster.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter01/how.html
"Chapter 5 packages are built using this second pass toolchain. When
this is done, the LFS installation process will no longer depend on the
host distribution, with the exception of the running kernel."
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/prologue/architecture.html
"the instructions in this book are known to work, with some
modifications, with both Power PC and 64-bit AMD/Intel CPUs. To build a
system that utilizes one of these CPUs, the main prerequisite, in
addition to those on the next few pages, is an existing Linux system
such as an earlier LFS installation, Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora, SuSE, or
other distribution that targets the architecture that you have."
-- Bruce
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