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 personally would just download the packages onto the target partition once you have the system booted. But that's up to you. > > 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. I could not tell you, most of us do not follow lfs anymore. > > 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? Multilib contains both 32bit and 64bit libraries. It is useful for running 32bit binary programs or stuff like wine.
x86_64 is pure64, it contains no 32bit counterparts. > > 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
