From the bleeding edge...

[Charles Johnston]

In case anyone is interested,

I ran a complete build with very few issues using the following:

Glibc 2.5 branch snapshot (it hasn't changed since early October)
GCC 4.2 20061127 snapshot
Binutils 2.17.50.0.6

and using Jim Gifford's kernel headers.

Aside from that, identical to the current reference build.

The only issues I had were the need for the patch to build Perl 5.8.8 with 
gcc 4.2, and a small patch to util-linux 2.12r to build fdisk (still 
researching...)

Passed all the tests like it should, the only unexpected failures are in the 
gcc testsuite that everyone else is seeing too.

I haven't gone past the base DIY system yet, I'll get a chance to do that 
this weekend.  I plan to build most of BLFS.


Charles