Re: building linux from scratch for the raspberry pi model 5b 8 gig version

On 5/21/2025 7:49 PM, William Harrington ([email protected] via 
lfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2025 13:54:49 -0500
> "Nick Gawronski" ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has built linux from scratch on the
>> raspberry pi model 5b computer as I have the 8 gig of ram version and
>> was wondering if I could natively build this on there? Yes I can build
>> it on the x64 system I have or a virtual private server but was just
>> wondering if doing this on a smaller system would get me any advantages
>> other then not having everything else that the other systems come with?
>> Nick Gawronski
> Hello Nick,
>
> Figured I'd reply to the original e-mail and let you know how the status of my current Wayland Plasma build, and it has gone well. If you get the itch, you can definitely get to a plasma/wayland desktop.
>
> This took me a course of about a week from some trial and error (one I was wanting a pure wayland build, but that is still impossible as parts of kf5 and plasma still require some xorglibs and xcb, even though I tried to hack it out of there).
>
> Attaching my results, so far.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Harrington
>
> Hi, Interesting that you are building a full graphical desktop as I 
> would probably not have done that as it would probably take sometime 
> to build. How long did it take to get the graphical desktop built and 
> what package takes the longest to compile as watching that build on 
> that system would be very interesting.  When doing the desktop build 
> are there any special tasks that I need to do on the raspberry pi 
> system because it is a different system then the normal x64 systems?  
> Nick Gawronski
>

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