e2fsprogs-1.41.8 test failures

Chris R. Jones chris at versecorp.net
Tue Jul 21 09:22:25 MDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:23:50AM +0100, Guy Dalziel wrote:
> It is not a defect when the LFS book only currently supports a 32-bit
> platform.
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/prologue/hostreqs.html:
> "This version of the book builds a 32-bit Linux system and requires an
> existing 32-bit version of the kernel on the Intel/AMD x86 architecture.
> Adding capability for x86_64 systems is a major objective of a future
> version of LFS. Support for 64-bit systems and additional architectures
> can be found in the Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch (CLFS) project at
> http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn."
> LFS certainly has plans to go 64-bit but as of this very moment it does
> not support it, therefore if you want a 64-bit system you should be
> using CLFS.

Ah I see, thanks for the clarification.

Chris




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