On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> I've revised a local copy of the latest book to include some build
> adjustments. The original concept was suggested on this list a couple
> years ago by Ryan Oliver. I've been using it and adjusting it for the
> past couple of years. It's how LightCube OS was bootstrapped.
>
> The main differences (I'll outline all of them shortly) are the
> pre-adjusting of gcc in pass 1 along with the use of sysroot and
> newlib. The advantages are that it uses upstream mechanisms for cross
> compiling without having to revert any features, it doesn't require an
> adjustment of the specs file after glibc, doesn't require manual use
> of -B, and more completely separates the temporary tools from the host
> system.
>
> Below are all the individual changes:
>
> ...
Holy cow--this is for 7.1? Could this be tabled until 8, given the scope of
the changes?
BTW, on the subject of changes: if I had realized how volatile the package
order was in a given major version, I would have really designed my scripts
differently. Is there a reason 7.1 went through a huge renumbering in Chapter
6...?
Q
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