> From: "Rob" <captinlo...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 06:02:20 -0500 > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Force i386 > > Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > Building LFS for the first time is hard. Many people have trouble. > > And multilib is harder still (or perhaps just "more tedious", but > > "harder" is probably a better starting assumption). > > I wouldn't say harder but tedious definitely. There aren't a lot of > instructions out there, either. The stuff I found says things like, enable > multilib repository in xx distribution; or edit your apt sources and install > these packages. Nothing about enabling a multilib toolchain from source. I'm > beginning to think I'll have to read C programming books to figure everything > out. >
Slackware's multilib acknowledges 'Slamd64' and 'CLFS' as the two principal references used: http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:multilib . > > Cross-lfs may well be using older packages than LFS - they have even > > fewer developers and builders than we do - but to suggest they are > > "a few years behind" is an overstatement. > > Well it's using kernel 3.14. We're at kernel 4.7.2. I am not sure about the > security risks of running such old stuff. The copyright date is 2014. That's > what I meant by a few years behind. > You can usually drop-in a newer kernel no-probs. > > > My suggestion to Rob is that he should build LFS, plus whichever > > parts of BLFS are useful to him. > > This is my third build of LFS/BLFS. The first two times, I built for i686. > This time, I wanted to build for x86_64, but still be able to run a couple of > i686 binaries and libes on there. Here is where I ran into problems, and > which is what prompted my questions. > I eventually gave up trying to figure out the multilib/arch stuff, and > yesterday I just built LFS 7.10 on an i686 machine. Another way is to run a 32-bit os as a vm. > As I said earlier, I think I'll have to find a good C reference and try to > figure everything out. The problem I've found with that is a lot of C books > figure you already have everything installed already--all your toolchains and > stuff. So they don't talk about it. Or just read gcc docs first. rgds, akh p.s. pls wrap your lines to ca 74-80 chars' width. -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
