Robert Connolly wrote: > With HLFS I'm leaning towards bootstrapping the chroot toolchain. It's how > the > GCC developers would want it.
You cannot speak for the GCC developers, so please don't. IMHO you are WAY off the mark anyway. > I don't know if LFS has also considered the top level makefile build method > being promoted by GCC/GNU, so that GCC and Binutils are built together in the > same tree. The difference here is that Binutils is also bootstrapped like > GCC. I have considered it, but ruled it out for obvious reasons. What's more, I don't know why you think this is something new. Building "combined tree" toolchains has been an integral part of the top level build system ever since the Cygnus Solutions days. What *is* new is the fact that the assembler and linker can now also be bootstrapped as part of the 3-stage GCC bootstrap process. You have apparently overlooked the obvious fact that combined tree builds are designed for *developers* working from svn trunk. They are clearly not suitable for builds based on tarballs which is what we as *consumers* are using. Just look at the hacks you have to use to create the combined tree. If the big distros ever start using a combined tree, that's when we should look at it IMHO. Regards Greg -- http://www.diy-linux.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
