Hi,

This is just a question, not technical, just want to know is someone has managed to do a 64bit compilation of LFS or it's just too far from the scope of the LFS project...

Julio

Ok, ok, maybe the post was kinda' stupid... just wondering if someone managed to do it and have success...

Julio

i hopefully haven't misread anything in this post...

since LFS is build completely from source, all programs will build to whatever they can for your system; there is no such thing as "native"; some programs may not have the capability to use 64-bit but will run just fine with a 32-bit emulated layer

also, the book makes note of 64-bit systems; they can be built, just make sure your dynamic loader library file is used correctly during the course of your builds

Thanks for replying,

I made this post just because I had the idea of compiling a 64bit LFS system for my just-received-2-days-ago laptop computer powered by an AMD Mobile Athlon64 3400+ CPU, so I wanted to make this post as some sort of a 'probe' to be able to obtain advice on how to do it, or just receive your personal impressions about this

Currently I haven't started the compilation, I'm too busy at the moment and hey, even turned off it's still the cutest mobile pc I've seen

My intention on this is to build in 'full' 64bit mode the following:

- linux system (binutils, glibc, gcc, etc, etc...)
- xfree86 4.x.x along with the propietary ATi drivers
- gnome 2.x.x (currently 2.6.1 if I remember correctly)

and several programs and utilities like:

- evolution
- pan
- firebird
- x-chat
- xmule
- kino

and so on...

My fears were just thinking on the nasty chance to find 32bit inline asm code that could trash my project and not letting me make a good use of the -march/mcpu=k8 flag...

Julio

P.D BTW i've seen many times the -O2 optimization flag, and as far as I've seen, there's 3 levels of optimization, but what level is the best for the best code production? I mean... what if I use -O3? will it be... faster? slower? maybe more 'reliable' code?

i don't think you can build absolutely everything you would need in a linux system in 64 bit right now; for one, mplayer won't compile in 64-bit afaik, but the underlying stuff (glibc, gcc) should all be fine

as for the optimization flag -O3, be careful.... this requires Extremely High Level amounts of math, but for things that compile successfully with that optimization, they are generally faster, smaller, but less reliable (because so many things can go wrong with the routines involved); just because it compiles doesn't mean it won't segfault

LFS does provide optimization hints, and tells you what base programs will not compile well with this optimization.... if you are game for trying that level of optimization (and perhaps willing to sacrifice a bit of stability), go for it!