Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-21 Thread loki
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:56 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > This may help: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/files/updating-lfs.html > >-- Bruce Yup. It did. Thanks. That is a procedure that I was thinking about. I will try to combine your procedure and the hints from William and

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-21 Thread loki
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 23:18 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:49:29PM +0100, loki wrote: > > > > Kernel is 2.6.35.3. > > > > For the future, you _might_ want to think about using a > long-term-supported stable kernel (at the moment, 3.10), or even > updating your kernel onc

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:49:29PM +0100, loki wrote: > > Kernel is 2.6.35.3. > For the future, you _might_ want to think about using a long-term-supported stable kernel (at the moment, 3.10), or even updating your kernel once or twice a year. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
loki wrote: > Heya all. > > Need some help. I have an old lfs installation which is in production > use, for the past 5-6 years. I guess it's version 6.3 or something since > it has kernel 2.6 on it. It is time to install a new version on it. But > there are the following problems: > > 1.) Since it

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread loki
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:06 -0600, William Harrington wrote: > If your running kernel is up to at least 2.6.32 then default glibc > configure options will work. If it is less than 2.6.32, then you'll > need to adjust the glibc configure commands otherwise you will get > "FATAL: Kernel too

Re: [lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread William Harrington
On Feb 20, 2014, at 8:47 AM, loki wrote: > So the question is can I compile some version of lfs which can be > compiled on 6.3 and can compile 7.4 and can I do both or more > compilations in chroot? You can build LFS 7.4 (probably go with 7.5-rc1) from 6.3 with some minor tweaks. If your

[lfs-support] Exotic lfs compiling question

2014-02-20 Thread loki
Heya all. Need some help. I have an old lfs installation which is in production use, for the past 5-6 years. I guess it's version 6.3 or something since it has kernel 2.6 on it. It is time to install a new version on it. But there are the following problems: 1.) Since it is in production it can't