----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]>
To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: gmp note (#2648)


> Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Moving this here from trac.  When I put the ABI=32 note in, I
> > screwed up.  But it's only 2 weeks ago that anyone noticed.
> > 
> > In the meantime, building for x86_64 is now supported by LFS, so
> > the current note could also be misinterpreted.
> > 
> > There is a second issue on the ticket - if I've understood correctly,
> > this only happens when you build on one machine to run on a
> > different (probably, "lesser") machine.  If that is correct, I think
> > it's worth noting even though we don't necessarily support this.
> > 
> >  I've taken a first stab at rewording and expanding the note,
> > but I'd appreciate some review.  The page is at
> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tmp/chapter06/gmp.html
> > (only that page, plus images and stylesheets so that it renders).
> 
> The substance looks pretty good.  How about some minor changes:
> 
> If you are building with a 32-bit kernel, but you have a CPU which is 
> capable of running 64-bit code *and* you have specified CFLAGS in the 
> environment, the configure script will attempt to configure for 64-bits 
> and fail. Avoid this by invoking the configure command below with ABI=32
> 
32-bit kernel and 32-bit userland is a different matter.
What matter here is 32-bit userland, not kernel.

Gilles
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