Hi,

I just want to know if someone had successfully build a pure 64bits CLFS, and how.
I've tried several times and everything seemed fine until I compiled libcairo which seems to link itself with stuff in /sources/gcc-build. Too bad...

Now, I'm just wondering if building a LFS (not using CLFS) from a good 64bits host would produce a real 64bits and stable LFS.

Thanks in advance

Yup. I have successfully built a pure 64-bit CLFS on an AMD64 platform. I followed the instructions in the CLFS book for the pure 64-bit build. After completing the base system build, I built Xorg and GNOME and many other packages. Something went wrong with your build if that is the problem you're getting.

The commands for building several of the packages in the toolchain and elsewhere are different for a 64-bit build (CLFS) than they are for a 32-bit build (LFS). You might get a stable 64-bit build using LFS and adjusting the commands therein appropriately, but you're better off using CLFS.

Also bear in mind, the x86_64 ABI is considered a multilib architecture. The pure 64-bit CLFS book doesn't treat it that way (see this mailing list post http://lists.cross-lfs.org/pipermail...h/000587.html). The CLFS gcc-pure-64 patch undoes what is *correct* according to the standards in the gcc code. The pure-64 CLFS is not standards compliant whereas the multilib CLFS is. You really should use the multilib book for an x86_64 architecture.

Then, the CLFS book for the pure 64-bit build should work... I've used the developpement book; maybe that's the problem...
seems broken...
hum, I still don't know if I'll build a pure or a multilib one. If you say GNOME can be build with a pure 64bits, essential packages could be build, then.
Which CLFS version did you use ? What about you're feeling about the toolchain ?

Yeah, the only thing I had problems with on a pure 64-bit build were the precompiled Java (JDK) binaries and the nVidia driver. The mailing list post I pointed you too explains why -> http://lists.cross-lfs.org/pipermail...ch/000587.html (If this one doesn't work, its in the clfs-dev list in March 2007).

I used an SVN version of the current stable release. Something got hosed in your build of the base system. Could be one of many things that is wrong. Could be a problem in the SVN version you used, but not likely.