[Clfs-support] building packages

[Doug Reiland]

I am still going thru the document. I am at section 6.4 gcc-4.2.4.
 
First, I hit the SSIZE_MAX undefined error in linux-host.c. I see a couple of hits in the mailing-list, but no real solution. I am surprise there isn't a patch for this if it is really a problem.
 
Second, so far I have built binutils and now gcc twice. I understand the need for this, but am I suppose to create new build directories for these the second time around. Maybe a miss something, and I don't want to get too far down the road. As documented, you end up applying patches twice (getting warnings),  and doing configure twice. 
 
binutils errored the second time I built it, saying configuration changed and there is an old config.cache laying around. I ended up doing make distclean and rm all the config.cache files, but I am surprised this isn't documented either.
 
It seems like documentation should tells us to rm the untarr-ed source, untar again, apply patches, rm old build directories or create different ones, ...
If patches are all the same the second phase, don't document the patch steps.
 
 
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