On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:04:50 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Benton wrote: > > > Bing. You hit the nail on the head there. As Richard said, Fedora Core 4 > > isn't a suitable distro to build the stable version of the book. It > > should work OK for the development version but that may not be suitable > > if it's your first attempt at LFS. I've had good results building from > > Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu because it's all on one CD. Like the LFS live CD > > in fact. > > One important point. If you get an error building binutils, don't think > > it doesn't matter and try to build gcc. Fix the errors as they come up. > > Erm. Didn't we fix this issue for 6.1.1? (Of course development should > be fine, too). We now patch binutils: > > "If you are building from a host running Gcc-4 or later, it is necessary > to patch the first build of this version of Binutils so that it can be > compiled by the host system." > > Of course that's not true for 6.1, but since as of yesterday, stable is > 6.1.1, FC4 *should* be suitable as a host. IIRC, Fedora patches the hell out of GCC-4 so that it isn't a regular GCC-4 anymore. I don't feel up to searching out all the threads on this. I think the best advice is still 'Don't build LFS from FC-4'. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
