Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Grub is currently the only package on the x86_64 CD that uses 32-bit, but I don't think that 32-bit was included just for the sake of grub. The original idea was that the 32-bit libs would be available for a person on that CD should he choose to use them.
The initial design I had planned for the CD 32-bit was to be included so you could do multilib builds from, but that was when I was trying to make it work with the way LFS is built in SVN. But I found through a lot of testing and confirmation from Ryan that this was bad idea so I shifted it to use CLFS. And I as I was told from Joe and Matt on IRC once, that the CD being multilib is unnecessary to build both x86_64 variants. So for x86_64 I would say we could shift to pure64. Though I will admit I have not done a lot of testing with pure64, I've been more interested in multilib, since I need to run things that will work only in 32-bit (OOo for example).
But as Jeremy pointed out there is the sparc64 build to consider as well, but that will be up to him to test that as I think he's the only one with the hardware.
Removal of 32-bit libraries will also allow me to create a branch that builds a 64-bit CD on 32-bit host by means of using qemu (as a 64-bit emulator for everything except gcc) and cross-distcc.
And what would be the purpose of such a branch? Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
