On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, at 12:40 AM, William Harrington wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Martin Ward wrote: > > > I put bc-1.06.95 in cross-tools and cross-compiled it into tools, > > didn't encounter any problems > > I decided to toss it into cross-tools and final-system. Didn't bother > cross-compiling it into tools as cross-tools will provide the bc > binary to generate the timeconst header during kernel build in the > boot method section. > > I was going to decide that the host system should install Bc, then we > wouldn't need to install it during cross-tools, but it's an if this > then you need this in the host system requirements page. As Bc isn't > required for all sections of the book for a complete build. I think > this is the best way.
Sorry I'm late to the party on this, but would it be worth patching Linux to remove the need for bc? http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/file/tip/sources/patches/linux-noperl-timeconst.patch -Andrew _______________________________________________ Clfs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-dev-cross-lfs.org
