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authorXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2022-02-19 10:28:54 +0800
committerXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2022-02-19 10:29:47 +0800
commitd6006ef769bf0f99d35adb47687bcb34579d3b08 (patch)
treeedd432423ef848d9ae48d798bf404a90a80dfadf /chapter02
parent9904ecb1de9e4bde5a4b86756a5fdcaf557fdb34 (diff)
relax host system requirements
A requirement on Glibc is not needed at all. It's enough once $LFS_TGT-* is runnable. A test on Alpine (using musl as libc) has practically proved this. We'd raised binutils and GCC requirements mostly for Glibc. But now Glibc is cross compiled by our cross toolchain with latest GCC and binutils release, the host tools really does not matter. In the Glibc building process only two .c files are build with BUILD_CC (the C compiler from the host), and they are highly conservative (mostly unchanged for years). Binutils does not have too much requirement on host GCC & Binutils: there is even a Binutils commit in this week fixing a build failure with GCC-4.2! So the most strict limitation comes from GCC. GCC requires host GCC to support ISO C++ 11 so GCC >= 4.8 is needed. And both GCC-4.8 and latest GCC-11.2 claims a requirement for Binutils-2.12 (for x86_64) or 2.13.1 (for 32-bit x86), so we make minimal Binutils version 2.13.1. And, host bzip2 is never used now: the only .tar.bz2 files are elfutils and python docs. They are not decompressed before entering chroot.
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter02')
-rw-r--r--chapter02/hostreqs.xml21
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/chapter02/hostreqs.xml b/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
index dc3073b33..1fb05af24 100644
--- a/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.25</emphasis> (Versions
+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.13.1</emphasis> (Versions
greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
not been tested)</para>
</listitem>
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.4</emphasis></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-6.9</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
@@ -60,17 +56,12 @@
should be a link to gawk)</para>
</listitem>
- <!-- glibc-2.30 requires gcc-6.2 or later -->
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-6.2</emphasis> including the C++
+ <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.8</emphasis> including the C++
compiler, <command>g++</command> (Versions greater than &gcc-version; are
- not recommended as they have not been tested)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis> (Versions
- greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
- not been tested)</para>
+ not recommended as they have not been tested). C and C++ standard
+ libraries (with headers) must also be present so the C++ compiler can
+ build hosted programs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -180,7 +171,6 @@ else
echo "yacc not found"
fi
-bzip2 --version 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt; /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
diff --version | head -n1
find --version | head -n1
@@ -196,7 +186,6 @@ fi
gcc --version | head -n1
g++ --version | head -n1
-ldd --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2- # glibc version
grep --version | head -n1
gzip --version | head -n1
cat /proc/version