On 31 July 2017 at 18:07, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Alain Toussaint wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm in the middle of building the LFS system for my build server (had >> to be postponed for a clients urgent request but I'm back at it) and >> googled LFS-DEV archive to see if there was any mention of the x32 ABI >> which would be useful for small machines and also, the linode I bought >> for said client (a 5$ linode running >> http://launchpad.alphafinancialservices.net/ and >> http://mailtrain.alphafinancialservices.net/ on LFS-svn with one of >> their linode kernels). >> >> I tried to build an x32 configuration many times previously using LFS, >> CLFS or some kind of combinations which failed all the times. That >> said, this time, I do plan to investigate the failures in questions. >> > > I use linode. Why use an x32 ABI? I've done 64-bit builds there several > times and the native system is 64-bit. > > Be sure to have plenty of swap space for the small systems. It will take > a while, but it works. I like the Debian host to start the build and I use > their kernel and boot loader for LFS.
I've heard the name Linode, but I know nothing about them (probably because I don't use "cloud" storage), so I turned to Wikipedia for info in case I was missing something. It seems that since 2012 there have been security breaches almost annually. The 2013 attack was in their Adobe ColdFusion Application Server. I didn't think anybody was still using that in 2013. I'd say "caveat emptor" applies. Richard
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