installing LFS under AMD64

Basel · 07-26-2005, 06:51 AM

Hi,

Is it possible to build LFS 6.1 for the 64-bit architecture? As other people said, the instructions from LFS 6.1 book will build a 32-bit Linux not a 64-bit linux.
What about reading the help under ./configure --help? Do I need to do a lot of change to get a 64-bit Linux up and running?

Currently I am running SuSE 9.3 Prof 64-bit under AMD64.

ParticleHunter · 07-26-2005, 08:04 AM

Hi,

before acquiring my 32bit laptop computer I had an Athlon64 MiniPC by Shuttle, the fact is I acquired it with building Linux in mind, but the fact is the LFS book will fail to make you being able to construct your LFS system 'as is', you need cross-LFS instructions, and there's a page on the internet where you can build a bi-arch LFS, but for the pure 64bit LFS (that was the system I wanted to build) I couldn't do it

so search for cross-LFS and see if you can do it

Julio

TGWDNGHN · 07-26-2005, 04:44 PM

I'm still in the process of building my first LFS system, and having a hard with it

But isn't there a porition in chapter five where you copy "the Respective" Linux Headers? I remember one of them being for the 64-bit architecture. i'll definately keep that in mind because once I manage building it on my 32-bit PC, I will definately do it on my AMD64... if I ever get to it

Basel · 07-26-2005, 11:11 PM

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so search for cross-LFS and see if you can do it

I will do that.

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But isn't there a porition in chapter five where you copy "the Respective" Linux Headers? I remember one of them being for the 64-bit architecture.

I will make sure to read tha before starting the build process.

tooly · 07-26-2005, 11:55 PM

Hallo,

would you build an pure64 or an cross (has 32 and 64bit libs)?

If you plan an pure64 System, so look at my side www.schneider-berlin.net and you find how did i build my system. My english is to bad, so my side is in German.

mfg
tooly

Basel · 07-27-2005, 12:58 AM

Hi tooly,

How do find the system? is it stable?
Is it ok to use the following scripts:
Tools Chapter 5 Skripte
Basis Chapter 6 Skripte

I am not sure whether I want to build a pure 64 or with 32 libs.

ParticleHunter · 07-27-2005, 01:01 AM

a bi-arch would be interesting as a first-experience system as there's some packages that won't compile in 64 bits (I was told, for example, vim doesn't compile in 64 bits), although the ideal compilation is a pure 64bit LFS as running the processor in compatibility mode isn't exactly the way to harness all the power the Ahtlon64 has to offer, but... you can choose whatever option suits best for you

Julio

Basel · 07-27-2005, 01:06 AM

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OS: LFS x86 (XFree86 + GNOME 2.10.2)

Have you tried to install LFS for a bi-arch 64-bit?

ParticleHunter · 07-27-2005, 01:27 PM

Hi Basel,

yes, when I had an Athlon64 machine I tried to build LFS for my system, both pure and bi-arch, with pure 64bit LFS I couldn't do a thing, I was getting errors from the very early stage of GCC building, I managed to pass the GCC build phase if I gave the ./configure script the parameter --disable-multilib, but as the GLibc installation expects GCC to have the standard C++ library (stdc++) and without multilib it just doesn't exist, the compilation failed...

the fact is in the page I encountered (I think it was http://home.ix.netcom.com/~ejohns/glfs-amd64/) there was the same case, to be able to obtain a bi-arch system you first have to compile a GCC without multilib and after building it you have to build a GCC with complete feature set, but at the time of making the final try, I received an interesting monetary offer for my rig and I sold it to buy my laptop, so...

I didn't managed to build the bi-arch system, but tried it

Hope you don't feel deceptioned with this

greetings from spain,

Julio