Matthew Burgess wrote:
Matthew Burgess wrote:
Once a get a spare hour or so I'll take a look at this thread properly
> to see what you lot have been so busy with :)
Firstly, thanks to everyone who participated in this discussion. It's been a while since we've had such an in-depth, informative and well reasoned debate!
Secondly, there were some concerns regarding having to reboot into the target environment. Note that this is a technical requirement because for the majority of host != target builds, the host won't be able to run binaries built for the target environment. Obviously though, not everyone will be cross-building. Therefore it would be prudent to provide the 'chroot' instructions where a reboot isn't required. I believe the XML can be massaged into allowing the correct set of instructions dependent on whether or not the reboot is required. Failing that, we simply give folks a choice. I realise this deviates slightly from the "linear" style that the book has followed up until now. However, building LFS is complex as it is - even more so when considering the cross-building techniques. I don't think asking the user a simple question of "is your host the same arch as your target box" is unreasonable.
We have put in a choice.
I think the only other point of contention is the necessity of some additional tools (SSH, etc.) to facilitate building on some non-x86 arches. I believe these can be added by the maintainers of those arches, and surrounded by the necessary XML magic to prevent those that won't need them from seeing them.
Already done
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