On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Strake <strake888@gmail.com> wrote:

On 15/07/2013, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> - creating a development environment (building binutils, gcc,
> make...)
> - requirements for self-hosting
> - requirements for natively building Linux From Scratch
> - cross vs native compiling
> - bootstrapping to native compiling under emulation.

This. For me, at least, this is often the greatest hindrance.

That makes two of us. There are many tools for making cross compiler (aboriginal, crosstools-ng, buildroot, etc) but I haven't found one that guides how to move to native compiling (=create the native compilers) once one has the cross-compilers and bootable rootfs (I know, aboriginal *does* create native compilers so I should read Rob's scripts for that ...).

That being said, the other topics are pretty relevant too.

Also, anyone thinks that CLFS is good start for this? One thing that I notice about (C)LFS is that the steps are there but the rationale and explanation isn't; so it encourages people to follow a recipe without knowing *why* things have to be done in a certain way (to be fair, the main LFS (not its CLFS variants) does have some kind of explanation but it could be improved).

cheers!