Ken Moffat wrote: > Why ? > > I can see that in (at least) x86_64 and x86_64-64 this is included in a > page-by-page path through chapter 6. In ppc64, it isn't. So, I built > a chroot ppc64 without it last month. Works fine. > Ken? It's There, Unless I'm completely missing something: http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn/ppc64/temp-system/xz.html > The obvious fix would be to correct the links in ppc64 to match the > other books, but is there really a reason why we need this before we > build the final system ? Yes, I understand the "compresses better" > idea (even though my own tests haven't identified any use case where > the difference is significant), but unless it is available on the host it > can't be used for any packages which appear before chapter 9. > > Some gnu packages started distributing in lzma only. I forget which ones off the top of my head. But It's there because we download autoconf and libtool in a .tar.lzma. > Please note that I haven't moved to git yet, so I won't be altering > this. Feel free to fix it if there is consensus. > > Don't know what to fix.
Let me know if I missed something. Joe _______________________________________________ Clfs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-dev-cross-lfs.org
