[Clfs-dev] Is CLFS still alive?

[Rob Landley]

On 12/28/18 2:51 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
> Dear Reader,
> 
> After many years on the LFS en BLFS lists, having used their insight to build my
> own systems and learned from it, it is time to move on. So, CLFS was the next
> route since I have plans to use other hardware too.
> 
> I found out , however, that CLFS is not that vibrant. At least looking at the
> site where mid-2017 is the last time with any significant development. Of course
> I have looked elsewhere to see how to build a cross-compiler in the first place
> and then continue with following the CLFS route. Alas until now to no avail.
> Many projects, but all are old or based upon old projects and do not work
> properly with current gcc tools.

https://github.com/landley/mkroot has a toolchain build script that configures
Rich Felker's musl-cross-make for several architecture targets. There are
binaries of the output at http://mkroot.musl.cc/mcm-i686-gcc-7.3.0/ if you want
to skip the source build. (What mkroot itself does is build minimal
boot-to-a-shell-prompt systems for each of those architectures.)

I'm also engaging with the Android NDK guys to try to get that fleshed out a bit
more as a bionic build toolchain.

I don't have any glibc variants, but in theory there are debian toolchains for
that? (Sorry, gnu/libc isn't very interesting anymore...)

> So, I keep searching for proper and most of all clear, explanations when to use
> which switches on gcc. Also hoping that CLFS will be updated.
> 
> Although that might be wishful thinking looking at the state of the CLFS site it
> self.
> So, any plans to revive the site and project itself?

I'm vaguely trying to do something like LFS for Android:

  https://landley.net/toybox/about.html

But that's a longish-term project aimed at a moving target...

My previous project along these lines was a lot closer to LFS:

  https://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html

Rob