On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:10 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > Just got a new laptop with an AMD Turion and want to take advantage of > it. My last LFS build was 6.3--I have never used 64-bit. I'm planning > my strategy and want to solicit comments and ask a couple of questions. > > I intend to use lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2160 as my host--I understand from > the CLFS changelog that it has been updated with lfs-6.4 CLFS packages. > However, I want to use the development version of the CLFS book, which, > I think, is using lfs-6.5 packages, patches and scripts. I plan to do > this by remastering the cd and adding the packages. > > I tried to see how close CLFS was to LFS-6.5 but got lost in the > details. How close is the current development to 6.5? Of course, I > would share any info I get from building to further the CLFS development > along. > > My second question. I see "x86-64" and x86-64 multilib." I can't > discover what the difference between the two is, and, when looking ahead > to CBLFS saw "multilib" and "64-bit" build instructions. What exactly > is the difference between the two concepts? >
x86_64 is to have a pure 64 bit system. The "Multilib" book is useful if you want to also install the 32-bit libraries (this could be useful for certain codecs or browser plugins for example, or just if you want to run a closed source application that only comes linked with 32-bit libraries). R. > Any comments, suggestions or warnings about what I'm planning? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > // > _______________________________________________ > Clfs-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org
