Published on 16 May 2003
The crosscompiling hint is now maintained by Daniel Baumann.
Published on 04 Jul 2002
I have updated the crosscompiling hint with the following:
- fixed typo in toc
- added workaround for a weird procps behaviour
- added chapter for netkit-base 0.17
Published on 04 Jul 2002
I have stopped maintaining the crosscompiling hint for the Linux From Scratch project because I can no longer invest the time required to update and enhance the hint.
Published on 03 Jul 2002
I have updated the crosscompiling hint with the following:
- removed processor table
- updated bin86 to 0.16.3
- sync’d bzip2 with the book
- fixed typo in man 1.5j
- updated psmisc to 21
- updated simpleinit to 1.1
Published on 13 Apr 2002
I have updated the crosscompiling hint with the following:
- corrected the toc and the bin86 heading as i forgot to update the version there after updating bin86 to 0.16.2
- added AMD Athlon and Duron to the list of processor architectures
- corrected processor architecture list (AMD K6* is i586)
- updated lilo to 22.2
- updated bin86 to 0.16.2
- simplified kbd 1.06 commands
- replaced the original uname hack kernel module with an easier to use by Yann Guidon
Published on 03 Apr 2002
I have updated the crosscompiling hint with the following:
- replaced bzip2 patch with sed
- unified and condensed the changelog
- reversed changelog; latest entry now at the top
- added note about website
- updated bzip2 to 1.0.2
- added notes section
- added man optimization
- corrected perl targetting
- corrected heading of sysvinit section
Published on 04 Mar 2002
I have updated the crosscompiling hint with the following:
- removed the uname hack
- added targetting description for perl
- added net-tools patch
- added psmisc optimization
- added note about packages which are left out
- added optimization for bin86, lilo, sysvinit
- added optimization for simpleinit, pam
- added description of the traditional and the kernel module uname hack
- added a table of intel architecture names
- moved non-standard packages to separate chapter
Published on 27 Feb 2002
I have updated the crosscompiling hint with the following:
- corrected the uname hack sed’ing
Published on 21 Feb 2002
I have updated the crosscompiling hint with the following:
- added some more explanations in the uname hack section
Published on 16 Aug 2001
I have submitted a new hint to the Linux From Scratch project describing modifications to the build process to compile on a fast machine and use the result on an older and slower machine.