x86 Reference Build - First Cut

[Greg Schafer]

Hi Guys

I've uploaded my current build scripts to:

  http://www.diy-linux.org/downloads/contrib/greg_schafer/gsbuild/

The contents of the current snapshot will always be available here:

  http://www.diy-linux.org/downloads/contrib/greg_schafer/gsbuild/current/

Please take a look at the README here:

  http://www.diy-linux.org/downloads/contrib/greg_schafer/gsbuild/current/README

The docs for the reference build will be stored in a more suitable place
once they actually get written :-)


Note this is a long way from finished. It currently stops at coreutils in
the chroot phase. But it should give everyone a good idea of the changes
I've made to the bootstrapping (temptools) phase of the build. I've tested
builds from RH6.2 and other more modern hosts and so far so good. This
should be much more robust than current LFS. There is plenty of commentary
within the scriptlets to try and explain the rationale behind the changes.

While preparing this build I've been studying the current testing/unstable
LFS build commands and made some comments about them too. I haven't looked
at LFS for some 6 months or so but I must say I'm quite shocked and
disappointed at the degeneration of the textual content quality (eg: "How
work these bootscripts?" - FFS, that's ridiculous). But on the good side the
presentation of their HTML in the "book" has improved outta sight.

Anyhoo, testing this stuff would be good, even just the temptools phase,
especially from older distros. I'll get to all the old distros myself
eventually. Glibc currently passes its testsuite for me but Binutils is
failing 1 test which I haven't looked into yet. GCC testsuite is as expected
for stock 3.4.1.

Please feel free to comment.

Regards
Greg