Re: [Astlinux-devel] Astlinux base system

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

> On Apr 11, 2020, at 7:24 AM, Armin Tüting <arm...@tu...> wrote:
> 
> Am Freitag, den 10.04.2020, 21:30 +0200 schrieb Michael Keuter:
>>> Am 10.04.2020 um 21:15 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>:
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 9, 2020, at 3:52 PM, David Kerr <Da...@Ke...> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I think you know my opinion... I'm always one that likes to keep up-to-date so I definitely support the move.  I am not concerned about filesize increases, though it is definitely something to highlight and find out if other users care.  I just don't know if this runs the risk of not working on very old h/w.
>>>> 
>>>> ...
>>>> I have been testing a new crosstool-NG 1.24.0 version.
>>>> 
>>>> I settled in on a good update:
>>>> 
>>>> glibc 2.27, binutils 2.29.1, gcc 6.5.0
>>> 
>>> What are your thoughts on whether we should offer the toolchain as a binary download for a x86_64 host build environment ?
>> 
>> If this would be easily possible, that would be great, cause it would simplify the initial build process a lot, and would save a lot of time.
>> Maybe that move would attract more users to try to build own images in the future.
>> 
>>> We can still show how to use crosstool-NG 1.24.0 and .config to generate the toolchain.
>>> 
>>> I built the toolchain on a Debian 10.3 box, but it should run most anywhere given a glibc x86_64 host, correct ?
>> 
>> I also think Debian 10 is a good choice. Either as small netinstall ISO or as template for hypervisors.
>> I use an LXC container on Proxmox.
> I think it's a bad idea to move to debian only though.  At least we
> should still consider CentOS7 at least.
> If we move to Debian only the GA cycle needs to be considered as far as
> security fixes are concerned.

Hi Armin,

I just tested the toolchain build on Debian 10.3 and it does not run on CentOS 7
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$ /home/dev/astlinux/x-tools-1.24.0-3.16-2.27/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc --version
/home/dev/astlinux/x-tools-1.24.0-3.16-2.27/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by /home/dev/astlinux/x-tools-1.24.0-3.16-2.27/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc)
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Sad, but not totally unexpected.  Looks like each user will need to build the toolchain if we can't standardize on a build host environment.

Lonnie