I have an old laptop that would work great without the bloat that many distros encourage. I have built one other lfs system in the past. This laptop does not have enough room for a host system and the build system, which is why I am planning on building it on my amd64 desktop and then transferring a tarball (or more if necessary) to the laptop. The laptop though is of the i386 architecture.

I saw a great response to a similar situation here.

My question is:

If I install an i386 distro on my amd64 desktop to compile lfs , do I need to use the clfs instructions or can I follow the lfs book?

Thanks for any and all help,

Matt

You do not have to cross-compile. All you have to do is to compile everything without optimization. To ensure the compiler will not optimize, issue This will produce code executable on ANY x86 machine.

Hope this helps

Vitalie CIUBOTARU

Thanks for your reply - I will do that and when all is done I will post my results.

Matt