Just a note to document my experience with building LFS on Ubuntu. First I ran through the requirements for 'Host System Requirements' and installed several packages and changed symlinks to conform to what we need.
Then I tried to use jhalfs -- oops, no ncurses. In addition, apt-get install ncurses says it's not found... So I tried to build it from source. It failed. After looking around, I figured out that Ubuntu was missing g++ (it had gcc). I think it's pretty lame to include gcc without g++. In any case, I got ncurses built and jhalfs is now busily building LFS. It will be interesting to see the results. This is a 32-bit version on the same box I did a 64-bit version earlier. I want to compare the results. I'll report back when I'm done. One thing I can report now is that 1 SBU is 94 seconds. Compare to 91 seconds for the 64-bit version. I'm still not convinced that 64-bits is a significant advantage unless you need address space greater than 4G. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
