On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Jorge Almeida <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:51 AM, code monkey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I can't answer the eglibc static question but I can say that in my >> experience, newer tools chains usually work. Sometimes you have to >> tweak -Werror flags to get it to build with the newer tools (since >> newer tools sometimes find new warnings...) but that is the only >> problem that I have run into. > > I already ran into problems yesterday, when trying to compile m4 (some header > file not found). Googling suggested that it had to do with the version of > glibc, but no solution. I once used the LFS livecd to extract the fs image and > then chroot to use it as host. If the LFS site would provide some images of > systems known to work as hosts, it would solve this kind of problem, but of > course it would be more overhead for the devs (much lighter than keeping a > live > CD, though). > > Thanks > > Jorge Almeida
I've had luck in the past with using a chroot into a Gentoo Stage3 for the host, but the oldest I see a mirror of [1] is Glibc-2.14 based, making it a step beyond what CLFS 1.2.0 lists as tested. Still might be worth a shot, given the fact that it's a quick, pre-built, solid toolchain. [1] http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20120710/stage3-i686-20120710.tar.bz2 -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org
