{B,C}LFS State of Things (was Re: SVN-20070706: ...)

Jeremy Huntwork jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org
Thu Jul 19 20:44:16 MDT 2007


On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:59:31PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote:
> LFS could be made to accommodate x86_64 (multilib) with very few changes 
> and a bunch of new pages. Where multilib gets tricky is where lfs stops 
> and blfs begins. With the introduction of pkg-config and all those fun 
> *-config programs and hard coded library paths.

And non-multilib is even fewer changes, and would be much easier for
BLFS to accomodate.  I suppose the only concern is compliance with
standards and/or user expectations. I'm working on getting a LFS-style
native build done on x86_64 with as few changes as possible. I'll let
you know how it goes.

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JH



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