Christoph Ostarek wrote: > and where can I get the 64-compiler and the tutorial for it?
http://trac.cross-lfs.org/ The CD has only a 32-bit compiler, but a 64-bit kernel is all that is needed to follow that book. A 64-bit compiler is build by a 32-bit compiler as one of the first steps. > why isn't there a 64-edition? 1) Because CLFS is a complete fork over LFS. An attempt to create combined Makefiles that can build both LFS and CLFS was conducted in 2005 and resulted in that crappy 64-bit CD that you downloaded first. The result was unmaintainable, because the books are too different and Makefiles were plagued with a lot of ifdefs that were easy to get wrong. 2) Because nobody bought me a laptop with a 64-bit CPU yet. Thus, I can't compile a 64-bit CD natively myself (on the latest development CD, the 64-bit kernel is cross-compiled, but cross-compilation doesn't work for all packages). If you want to create and maintain your own 64-bit CD, you are welcome to use my CD as a base. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
