Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread M.Canales.es
El Sábado, 14 de Julio de 2007 01:26, Dan Nicholson escribió: I would actually really like to add x86_64 (non-multilib to start) support to LFS and BLFS. It's becoming increasingly uncommon to even be able to purchase a non-64bit processor at this point. We can basically copy what Greg's

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 13 de Julio de 2007 18:18, Ivan Kabaivanov escribió: actually there's a notice just before the command you've quoted. This is what I'm referring to: quote If working on a platform where the name of the dynamic linker is something other than ld-linux.so.2, replace

SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread Jon Fullmer
Gentlemen, Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to generate the specs file: gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread Jon Fullmer
Sorry for the repeat, folks. I sent this the first time in an HTML message, and evidently it took five days to get through the review process. After two days, I resent it in plaintext, and that's what spurred the conversation. Please ignore. - Jon On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Jon

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Sorry for the repeat, folks. I sent this the first time in an HTML message, and evidently it took five days to get through the review process. After two days, I resent it in plaintext, and that's what spurred the conversation. I only go through lfs-dev's pending moderation list about

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Ivan Kabaivanov
Jon Fullmer wrote: Gentlemen, Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to generate the specs file: gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:49:06PM -0600, Jon Fullmer wrote: I don't understand. I'm aware of CLFS (and even for the PowerPC). This is assuming I want to build a system on a platform other than its destined platform. I'm actually building it on a PowerPC box running LFS-6.2. That's

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other architectures. Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't know of any LFS or BLFS developers that think non-x86 is unsupportable. We have

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Craig Jackson
On 7/13/07, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other architectures. Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't know of any LFS or BLFS

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/13/07, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other architectures. Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't know of any LFS or BLFS

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other architectures. Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't know of any

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Greg Schafer
Craig Jackson wrote: It seems futile for me to attempt to test for LFS for the simple fact that the x86 architecture's days are limited. You can barely buy a new system off the retail shelf that isn't at least a single-core athlon64. Um, you seem to be talking as if one must run a 64-bit OS

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other architectures. Ken, That is a little unfair. I don't

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-13 Thread Craig Jackson
Um, you seem to be talking as if one must run a 64-bit OS on 64-bit hardware. That is, of course, utterly ridiculous. IMHO 32-bit OS'es running on 64-bit hardware are still the norm. See this recent post from an Intel employee for example: I'm not implying that, in fact i completely agree

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jon Fullmer wrote: When putting this system for a non-x86 (PowerPC, to be specific), I noticed that this setup is actually wrong. You may want to check out http://trac.cross-lfs.org/ for the PowerPC. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Fullmer
Gentlemen, Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to generate the specs file: gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools@g' \

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Fullmer
I don't understand. I'm aware of CLFS (and even for the PowerPC). This is assuming I want to build a system on a platform other than its destined platform. I'm actually building it on a PowerPC box running LFS-6.2. That's not the point. The reason I mentioned that I was doing this on

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Greg Schafer
Jon Fullmer wrote: I don't understand. Jon, LFS is targeted at x86 and therefore the instructions are only tested there and not guaranteed to work on other arches. I've done ppc builds myself and can confirm that specs files do indeed differ per arch and GCC version. Of course, even the *name*

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Fullmer
On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Greg Schafer wrote: I've done ppc builds myself and can confirm that specs files do indeed differ per arch and GCC version. Of course, even the *name* of the dynamic linker is different for ppc. THAT'S what I wanted to know. Yes, I know that x86 uses

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread William Harrington
On Jul 12, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Jon Fullmer wrote: Gentlemen, Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to generate the specs file: gcc -dumpspecs |