Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Building LFS for the first time is hard. Many people have trouble. > And multilib is harder still (or perhaps just "more tedious", but > "harder" is probably a better starting assumption).
I wouldn't say harder but tedious definitely. There aren't a lot of instructions out there, either. The stuff I found says things like, enable multilib repository in xx distribution; or edit your apt sources and install these packages. Nothing about enabling a multilib toolchain from source. I'm beginning to think I'll have to read C programming books to figure everything out. > Cross-lfs may well be using older packages than LFS - they have even > fewer developers and builders than we do - but to suggest they are > "a few years behind" is an overstatement. Well it's using kernel 3.14. We're at kernel 4.7.2. I am not sure about the security risks of running such old stuff. The copyright date is 2014. That's what I meant by a few years behind. > My suggestion to Rob is that he should build LFS, plus whichever > parts of BLFS are useful to him. This is my third build of LFS/BLFS. The first two times, I built for i686. This time, I wanted to build for x86_64, but still be able to run a couple of i686 binaries and libes on there. Here is where I ran into problems, and which is what prompted my questions. I eventually gave up trying to figure out the multilib/arch stuff, and yesterday I just built LFS 7.10 on an i686 machine. As I said earlier, I think I'll have to find a good C reference and try to figure everything out. The problem I've found with that is a lot of C books figure you already have everything installed already--all your toolchains and stuff. So they don't talk about it. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
