[CALUG] GCC Woes

[Rob Payne]

On 2/9/10 2:02 PM, Bryan J Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:06 -0500, John Alan Hastings wrote:
>> Ben,
>> It has been a few years since I had to do some backbuilding, and I do
>> not remember what all the issues were, but I do remember that what
>> worked for me was to build a clean room in a chroot jail.  Rather than
>> link the libraries, I copied them so that no matter what happened in the
>> chroot I would not damage my working system.  In addition, I knew
>> exactly what was going on.
> 
> This is not only highly recommended, but it's how DPKG and RPM does it
> as well.
> 
> Ever since "make mrproper" (aka "make Mr. Clean") blew away kernel
> libraries that the system also used, I've always used a chroot
> environment to build kernels.
> 
> You don't want to be mixing build toolchains and run-time toolchains if
> you can help it, even if they are the same versions.  For those of us
> that cross-compile, it's required.  ;)

One additional thing you might consider, although it's not OSS, is
building in a virtual environment.  I personally like VMware, because of
its "snapshot" feature.  I can rollback to a last known good if things
go wrong.