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Wow I didn't notice when i build lilo,the compiled binary package didn't include lilo command.
To build lilo i need dev86 and sharutils.
This is the new dep list
This is an amazing project.
Apart from glibc and gcc, what other packages have you upgraded?
I finished rebuilding my base install with glibc-2.19 and kernel-headers-3.12.15. After that I followed your sum-up the LFS book chapter 6 and dependencies according to salix to get the build order.
There are a few packages that were a bit hard and some I could not or haven't tried to update.
Some examples: gdbm, texinfo, readline, python and a few others.
Could you post which versions you are using and did you use the slackbuilds or did you build/compiled it another way?
I used original slackbuilds as much as possible.
I again rebuild my slackware the past week with the new kernel-headers. I changed the order a little bit and continued up to xorg-server-1.15 succesfully.
There are a few packages I did not update but only rebuild because the change might be to big or they gave me problems I am unable to fix, yet.
A shortlist of rebuild packages I would like to upgrade:
Of course, upgrading binutils will need a complete rebuild but I still am perfecting/improving the build order for a rebuild so I don't mind to try.
My goal is to have a way of upgrading an existing linux install (here it is Slackware) with currently available buildscript (mostly original slackbuilds I used).
Finding out what is needed for my system to work and being able to update this, if there would ever cease to be support or a big change, is a good feeling.
In the meantime I might help the developers by trying out things they did not thought users might try.
Well i build binutils 2.24,upgrade gmp to 6.0.0 ,upgrade readline to 6.3 ,texinfo to 5.2 ,xorg-server to 1.15.But you need xproto -7.25,you need to build presentproto,you need to upgrade libxcb to vers 1.10,you need to add libxshmfence-1.1 ,add dri3proto,upgrade glproto to 1.47 and then upgrade xorg-server
Well i build binutils 2.24,upgrade gmp to 6.0.0 ,upgrade readline to 6.3 ,texinfo to 5.2 ,xorg-server to 1.15.But you need xproto -7.25,you need to build presentproto,you need to upgrade libxcb to vers 1.10,you need to add libxshmfence-1.1 ,add dri3proto,upgrade glproto to 1.47 and then upgrade xorg-server
When I have build xorg-server 1.15 I upgraded/added xproto 7.0.25, glproto 1.4.17, xextproto 7.3.0, dri3proto xcb-proto 1.10, libxcb 1.10, presentproto, libxshfence, libdrm 2.4.52. Well, I am going to write up my list because it's beginning to get quite long.
What symlinks do I need to create when I update gmp to 6.0?
Seems a new rebuild is needed on my laptop with all this info.
By rebuilding your packages or even upgrading the toolchain and rebuild everything from there, I guess there will be a performance gain. If you are interested in that, you could even change the CFLAGS but I kept them standard. For me the education part is more important.
This is what I am going to try, I already build in this order but only did a rebuild for binutils and gmp. Rest is the same so this hould do the trick.
Code:
U kernel-headers-3.12.15
U glibc-2.19
R zlib-1.2.8
U file-5.17
U binutils-2.24
R oprofile-0.9.7
U gmp-6.0.0a
R mpfr-3.1.2
U libmpc-1.0.2-1
Create symlink:
cd /usr/lib64
ln -s libmpc.so.3 libmpc.so.2
Install gcc-gnat, gcc-go and gcc-java
R gcc-4.8.2
R libtool-2.4.2
R kernel-headers
R popt
R glibc
R binutils
R oprofile
R gcc
R libtool
@tuxbg:
What patches did you use for binutils and gmp and did you change the slackbuild?
After this I would:
Code:
R attr-2.4.46
R acl 2.2.51
R sed-4.2.2
R bzip2-1.0.6
U pkg-config-0.28
R ncurses-5.9
R shadow-4.1.5
R libtermcap-1.2.3
R/U procps-3.2.8(-ng-3.3.9) with newest psmisc-20.22
R libcap-2.22
U coreutils-8.22
R m4-1.4.17
R flex-2.5.37
U bison-3.0.2
U grep-2.17
U readline-6.3
U bash-4.3
R libtool-2.4.2
U gdbm-1.11
R net-tools-1.60.20120726git altough this might be replaced by inetutils
U perl-5.18.2
R autoconf-2.69
U automake-1.14.1
R diffutils-3.3
R gawk-4.1.0
R findutils
U gettext-0.18.3
R xz-5.0.5
R less-451
R gzip-1.6
U kbd-2.0.1
U kmod-16
U make-4.0
R patch-2.7
R sysklogd-1.5
R sysvinit-2.88dsf
U tar-1.27.1
U texinfo-5.2
U readline-6.3
R bc-1.06.95
R/U man-1.6g(-db-2.6.6)
U man-pages-3.63
R db48-4.8.30
R expat-2.1.0
R openssl-1.0.1f and openssl-solibs
R libpng-1.4.12
U freetype-2.5.3
U fuse-2.9.3
R libelf-0.8.13
R libffi-3.0.13
U python-2.7.6
R gamin-0.1.11
U glib2-2.40.0
R gamin again
R udev-182
U util-linux-2.24
R udev
R groff-1.22.2
U e2fsprogs-1.42.9
U mdadm-3.3
R lvm2-2.02.100
R grub-2.00
R libmnl-1.0.3
R libnetfilter_conntrack-1.0.4
R libnl3-3.2.21
U libusb-1.0.18
U libpcap-1.5.3
U iptables-1.4.27
U iproute2-3.12.0
R nano-2.3.2
R sysvinit-functions and salix 14.1 scripts. The scripts are built with SLKBUILD.
R kinitrd-1.4.8
R sudo
U wget-1.15
My previous rebuild had this order but used rebuilds for readline, bash, net-tools, kbd, make, texinfo, man and python instead of updates.
Do I need to alter the slackbuilds for those packages and are there newer packages you are using? I could have made some mistakes and the build-order might not be optimal. I rebuild some packages twice because they depend on eachother according to salix slapt-get dependencies.
I would also like to try out uedev or an extracted udev from a recent systemd tarball. Anyone tried this?
After this I also did a rebuild/update of xorg but I will try to improve the build-order and update even more. If I can get there, everybody can try it out, I will provide detailed steps/slackbuilds. At this point tuxbg's input would help me a lot.
I start with a 14.1 slackel-openbox 6.0 install .
Could you post your binutils-2.24 buildscript, my attempts are unsuccesfull.
Perhaps you could also provide the slackbuilds for gmp-6.0.0a, readline-6.3 and texinfo-5.2. Unless they are no different from the official ones apart from the version.
I used original ones SlackBuild scripts except readline.And for binutils i use ld.gold to be my deffault not ld.bdf.
ps
Do you want to share my binutils,gmp,readline and texinfo packages ?
Ok, somehow I tried with the official slackbuild for 2.23 but with the 2.24 source, what did you edit? Removed patches, extra sed-commands?
If I manage to upgrade/rebuild my entire system again with even more upgrades, I will try the binaries on a different testbox and then I am planning on trimming down the amount of packages and setting up a repo.
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I didn't notice when i build lilo,the compiled binary package didn't include lilo command.
