[gobolinux-users] gobolinux on x86_64

[Isaac Dupree]

Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> My answer is "go, try, but I recommend getting some more experience
> with LFS and GoboLinux first." It's worth noting that when we did what
> became GoboLinux 001 I had already been using an 80%-or-so converted
> system so I already knew many of the tricks for "Gobo-ifying" packages
> (fortunately those tricks are documented as Compile recipes nowadays).
> Learning about Compile (even if running it with Rootless GoboLinux
> inside another distribution) would help the process a lot as well.
> 
> So, in short, it's doable, but you'll save a lot of work if you spend
> some time learning all those bits and pieces first.

I feel the same way from my experience.  BTW, is it possible to run 
Bootstrap from within Rootless (on a base non-Gobo system)?  And... back 
when I was on PowerPC, I wasn't entirely successful with Rootless. 
(possibly because of inexperience with Gobo.)

A few recipes may still need fixing to move any x86-specificness into 
i686/ ... and some others will need an x86_64/ added... but most recipes 
aren't arch-specific.


Namaste,
Good luck,
Isaac