Nathan Coulson wrote:
> I noticed one person mentioning 64bit LFS on a previous post. It made
> me wonder how LFS may address this in the future.
>
Actually, it's been mentioned a few times in the past week.
> On my own, I took the multilib plunge about 6 months ago. (sortof a
> hodgepodge of LFS's buildsystem, and a few occassional CLFS patch's).
> I had the following ideals in mind in the construction of my own
> system. (I dont know how close these are to LFS values)
>
>
I can't really add a lot here as I haven't tried it yet. I think
pure-64 is ideal, but from what little I've looked into it, that is just
not possible.....yet, not to mention that it breaks the LSB goal.
> -I wanted a pure 64bit os, or at least a system where 32bit could be
> added on later. (To this end, I built a multilib gcc/glibc/binutils,
> but no other 32bit libraries unless I specifically had a program link
> against them)
>
> -I dont like the idea that if I was to install a 32bit version of a
> package, that it would overwrite the 64bit binaries. (goes against my
> first idea, where I wanted 32bit as a addon). [although this one has
> caused a few headaches]. I know one can install the 64bit version
> after, but it just feels wrong.
>
From what I've seen of it, I guess there is no concept of
{,/usr}/{,s}bin64 or /usr/include64 like there is for the lib dirs (or
the alternate). I mean a total separation of the system, side by side
would be ideal IMO. Unfortunately I am just not able to make any useful
comments on the rest of your post yet. Best I can do is point you to
Jeremy's book. I believe this is the correct link:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-JH/
It likely will provide a baseline for which LFS follows (or even much
taken verbatim). At a casual glance, I notice the use of 'uname -m' a
few times, which probably means the building arch only. Jeremy, care to
jump in here with where you were headed? I know that LFS as a whole
would certainly benefit from anything that ya'll can add. I still will
not be able to toy with 64bit for a few more weeks.
Bruce, Randy, ya'll got anything to add?
-- DJ Lucas
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