Multilib/PowerPC support

[willimm]

It seems that DIY supports both X86_64 MultiLib and PowerPC. Mabe 7.0 can support these too.

[willimm]

Close this ticket. For some reason, I made this ticket 4 times. Oops.

[willimm]

Disregard my previous comment.

[willimm]

And assign this to 7.0.

[ken@…]

willimm, why do you think that ppc belongs in 7.0 ? I've built LFS-ppc on 5.0, 6.various, and from Jeremy's branch last year. In my case, all my ppc(32) boxes have died, except for one (a laptop, so slow and with useless audio) which is still running with an old clfs.

Unfortunately, apple hardware tends to be built cheaply and their ppc versions are now obsolete. If there was a consumer-available ppc box then maybe it could be considered, but since the only currently-available 32-bit ppc chips are for embedded use, it seems pointless trying to add ppc back to LFS (it was in LFS in the 2.x days, and was dropped by Gerard).

Also, a general comment on the LFS and BLFS tickets you are raising - just because something *can* be done doesn't mean it needs to be in the books. We've had at least one person building LFS on s390 (IBM mainframes). Doesn't mean the book has to cater for that. Other (old) desktop architectures are mostly covered by clfs (as is multilib, but if people want to support that I won't stop them, nor shield them from the pain of building a multilib desktop - it's an excellent learning-experience ;-)

[willimm]

Ok, so I am going to remove PPC from the equation. But, DIY-Linux also supports PPC, BTW.

[gerard@…]

Closing. PPC support isn't something that belongs in the main LFS book. This may change one day. It may not. Until such a change actually occurs, this is more in the realm of Cross LFS.