> Paul, Thanks, Ken. It occurred to me perhaps some medication is making it worse. (In any event, don't get old! It's a bitch watching one's capabilities slip away.) I don't take much, but I had taken some benadryl once last weekend. Never noticed an effect like that before.
> > I think the key point of what you are doing is cross-compiling from > i686 to i586, and most of us have no recent experience of that. Perhaps not, but we all always build a "contaminated" Stage-1 in Ch5 and in Stage-2 have to adjust the toolchain per Ch6. I can't believe that bit changes much. > Specifically, for us host and target are the same. Yeah, but as you note, building (B)LFS on my i7 for whatever makes it bearable! 233MHz vs 2.93GHz x 8 cores? > > I remember you mentioning about compiling i686 on a newer i686 for > an older one, perhaps something will jog your memory about what you > have done in the past. I scriptify it all, and am doing this using the same (B)LFS-6.6 code, but made for an i686 on my i7. So the scripts are right there on my host. I certainly try to fix any recordable glitches in the scripts along the way--part of my process is to make my systems rebuildable like this. I'm not off by much. I'm not certain I *am* off, just appears that way and I've learned to not overlook warnings. > > My first suggestion is "Try carrying on, see whether the resulting > system builds for i586, and if necessary try installing it to see if OK, but I'll stop if I get an i686 triplet for gcc in Ch6! That can't be right. > it boots". I was almost going to suggest copying it over to the > i586 and chrooting, but I can just about recall how slow those were. ;-] It has a LFS-6.1 on it. Why not bump it up a bit? This *should have been* a piece of cake! > > Failing that, I vaguely remember there was a uname hack for this > sort of thing. Ummm, no, I don't think so. FBBG! That should certainly not be necessary. > but those are both "antique" and who knows if any of it is still > relevant (apart, obviously, from setting -march). I have -CTARGET set in all the configures already. > ĸen Thanks, again. I suppose I'll wait a couple days for the meds to certainly have worn off. Besides, we're crushing grapes tomorrow! Matter of priorities. ;-) -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- 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
