this topic has covered numeric times, unfortunately, some really good threads are long time ago, search function of this site are limited to only few years back.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-begin-558415/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware-674426/

there are more but just to lazy to optimized my search words. good luck.

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And this thread (not one of the better ones):

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...os-4175458495/

Slackware from source... Would anyone care?

Yes

So go ahead - it is a topic that has been mentioned before and will always be mentioned until someone goes ahead and does it.

I think it it would be a great step forward for Slackware and open up yet another area where it can contribute and attract other contributors.

Pragmatism and utilitarianism stand high in these discussions - but don't be fooled - that's just to hide how much these wonderful people do things for the sheer fun and the love of doing things

Nobody's stopping anyone from doing SFS. The problem is trying to build a bootstrap/temporary build system with the Slackware sources can not be done without patches, and those patches do not exist.

Slackware can build packages to import and install on another system, but it is not designed to build a bootstrap/temporary build system like LinuxFromScratch uses.

It is simple for the maintainer for Slackware. So it is simple for me, too.

On the opposite, this unique process is the secret recipe for Slackware's stability and usefulness.

Others try rebuilding 20k packages from source, patching all of them to get them to build, then freeze them for years to hunt bugs and regressions. Or they give up and just call their unstable snapshot a "rolling release". Or they have time-delayed snapshots (like Manjaro), so they also delay important security updates.

Slackware is the oldest still maintained Linux distribution for a reason.

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My ARM bootstrap script builds just that, a bootstrap / build root filesystem. I used this to bootstrap my own ARM hardfloat port of Slackware. It should not be difficult to change a few variables in the top of the script so that that ARCH target will be x86_64 (or i486) instead of armv7hl.

I never tried it with anything else but ARM architectures, but it would be a fun exercise. It would also be the way in which I would attempt to bootstrap a 64-bit multilib from scratch these days.

Eric