[Clfs-dev] Linux 3.10

[Andrew Bradford]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, at 12:40 AM, William Harrington wrote:
> 
> On Jul 22, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Martin Ward wrote:
> 
> > I put bc-1.06.95 in cross-tools and cross-compiled it into tools,  
> > didn't encounter any problems
> 
> I decided to toss it into cross-tools and final-system. Didn't bother  
> cross-compiling it into tools as cross-tools will provide the bc  
> binary to generate the timeconst header during kernel build in the  
> boot method section.
> 
> I was going to decide that the host system should install Bc, then we  
> wouldn't need to install it during cross-tools, but it's an if this  
> then you need this in the host system requirements page. As Bc isn't  
> required for all sections of the book for a complete build. I think  
> this is the best way.

Sorry I'm late to the party on this, but would it be worth patching
Linux to remove the need for bc?

http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/file/tip/sources/patches/linux-noperl-timeconst.patch

-Andrew