Aiming for 7.0

[Jeremy Huntwork]

Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> Anything else?

Oh, I also forgot. We could give some thought to using DIY's new build 
method, which is essentially building the first pass of binutils and gcc 
as cross compilers, cross-compiling the first build of Glibc and 
building natively after that. There's several advantages to doing it 
this way. To briefly mention a few:

* Much less chance of anything on the host side creeping in or affecting 
the build.
* If you have 64-bit hardware but are using a 32-bit OS, you can build 
the new system as 64-bit, if you wish.
* There is less complicated toolchain adjustment for chapter 5.

I'm sure Greg would have more...

One thing that does concern me, although I know Greg has a solution 
worked out for this, I'm not sure how long this solution would be valid 
in the future. Upstream appears to think that using sysroot is the 
correct approach, and Greg currently backports a change in GCC in order 
to allow this build method to work. See here, it's an interesting read:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35532

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JH