Adapting LFS SVN for multilib

Alexander E. Patrakov patrakov at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 02:06:29 MST 2009


Greg Schafer wrote:
> Sidenote: Now that some toolchain devs are apparently using *native*
> sysroot builds, there is a temptation to pursue a whole new build method
> that bypasses most of Ch 5. However, we would most certainly lose a lot of
> the advantages of the current 2-phase approach, so gut instinct tells me
> this won't be viable. Obviously, ICA verification would be *critical* to
> such a build method.

About good separation of the files between different stages that was 
previously achieved by using /tools: I think that using a package 
manager would solve this. The advantage about immediately gaining these 
temporary tools in $PATH is indeed lost.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov


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