Re: Multiarch LFS

On 02/10/2013 02:05 PM, Armin K. wrote:

> I don't think it is worth the effort for 32/64bit only distros. Debian
> runs on nearly everything and it's worth the effort - especially for
> ARM. I've watched their multiarch talk at Debconf in Bosnia and
> Herzegovina. Major advantage of the multiarch is so you can easily
> "cross compile stuff". Useful if you have powerful x86_64 machine, but
> want to build packages for ARM or Mips platforms ...

I only cross for arm-linux-eabi currently (Android), but another 
advantage is that you can supposedly run locally via qemu if desired. I 
plan to check out FFOS at some point in the future too, but I already 
have other ways of doing that in place. I was really more interested in 
killing off the /lib<qual> issue (the ongoing standards debate). I'm 
already running multilib with /lib and /lib64, the "current" standard 
(as of 2004). This just seems to be a much cleaner way of handling it 
when it comes up again in a few years.

> As for running the packages, it's simply not worth. I did a bootstrap of
> multilib compiler and glibc on "Pure 64bit LFS" - using /lib32 and
> /usr/lib32 ... I don't have any issues, althrough I don't remember what
> I really did to bootstrap it all - I had to build GCC and Glibc 2 or 3
> times :|
>

It's been a while since I had that setup. The default Android toolchain 
that shipped in the SDK gave some issues, although I complained about it 
for a bit and don't really remember what the problem was, it turned out 
not to be a big deal to work around, but by the time I had found that 
out, I had already started on the standards path.

-- DJ

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