Re: [lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-06 Thread Paul Rogers
> I don't think gcc ever exports any gmp code into its output. Rather, gcc > just uses gmp for its own internal purposes. I don't think that's my concern. My question is whether gcc will build SSE-4.2 instructions into code just because the host can use them. Seems something like that

Re: [lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-06 Thread Michael Shell
> So it must be the kernel's crypto functions tripping over it, and I > can understand new instruction set evolutions wouldn't be > backwards-compatible. Still, if gcc weren't trying to embed those > instructions in the kernel and were just setting the kernel up to use > gmplib, it seems more

Re: [lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-05 Thread Paul Rogers
> Kernel code tends to dictate/control things at the lower levels > (e.g., directly inserted assembly code, variables held in specific > CPU registers, "volatile" memory regions, etc.) more than is typical > in normal applications. Perhaps these kinds of special compile > requirements things

Re: [lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-04 Thread Michael Shell
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:47:16 -0700 Paul Rogers wrote: > I do find it ironic the kernel has to do these strange math calculations > no other packge uses, except apparently gmp. Not the kernel code per say, but rather gcc while compiling a kernel. And gcc in turn calls

Re: [lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-04 Thread Paul Rogers
Turns out my solution way easier than the path I started on--my brain often does that to me, coming up with the better solution, but tardy. I went back to the original finished build on the i7-940, my "Iron Horse" candidate. (Apologies if I misunderstood you about that.) I added that --build

Re: [lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-04 Thread Paul Rogers
> > So what fix would you recommend? > > Try just building gmp (and possibly mpfr, mpc, and gcc) in the local > system without rebooting. gmp just installs libraries so a reboot would > not be needed. After installing gmp, retry the kernel. If it doesn't > work, try the next package, etc,

Re: [lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: I built it on my i7-940. When finished, with both linux-4.7.2 and 4.9.30, and the rough edges knocked off, e.g. networking, X, Firefox working, I updated my "clone" script and cloned it to my i7-870. That required a bit more work to get a clean clone from the book's "setup"

[lfs-support] My finished LFS-7.10 x86-64 build

2017-07-04 Thread Paul Rogers
I built it on my i7-940. When finished, with both linux-4.7.2 and 4.9.30, and the rough edges knocked off, e.g. networking, X, Firefox working, I updated my "clone" script and cloned it to my i7-870. That required a bit more work to get a clean clone from the book's "setup" bits, e.g. useradds,