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On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 09:23, Anders Eriksson wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> I've used uclibc for quite some time for embedded projects of mine, |
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> and begun using gentoo about a year ago. I'd like to take your |
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> uclibc-only work for a spin, but have failed at that. Is there a |
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> setp-by-step writeup of how to do it? |
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no docs yet.. It's all a work in progress now. |
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> I'm not familiar enough with the |
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> gentoo internals (yet) to find it out myself I'm afraid (is there a |
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> doc on masking in gentoo somewhere??). |
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man 5 portage |
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> What I did, |
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> 1) Get and install stage1 tarball intoan empty dir, |
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unless you used Peter's stage one this is not going to work. I had to |
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learn this the hardway myself. In the end I used Peter's fauxed stage1 |
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and did a USE='-* build uclibc' |
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> 2) mount -o ro -bind /usr/portage /playground/usr/portage |
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> 3) chroot /playground /bin/bash |
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> 4) cd /usr/portage |
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> 5) scripts/bootstrap.sh |
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the profile is a cascading on and you must use bootstrap-cascade.sh |
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> 6) changed /etc/make.profile to point to ../usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/hardened |
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> as a guess having read the REAME in there. |
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> 7) emerge -pve system (seemed to remove glibc) |
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> 8) Nothing else happened, and no sightings of uclibc (thought the profile change would bring that in, HOWTO on profiles anywhere?) |
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> 9) emerge uclibc complains about missing kernel sources (should I have installed stage2? I figured the less stuff in there the less things to fork-lift to uclibc, I guess everthing needs to be recompiled for uclibc) |
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> Stuck. Should I apply some patches to something? Following the list |
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> discussions I figured that you have most of the work-in-progress in |
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> the tree and use of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86" would pull it in, and we/I |
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> could report any breakage.... (masking is a bit unchartered territory |
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> for me, so there might be aspects of this I dont get yet...) |
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I sent a mail to the uClist about this a few days ago with a few details on how to get started for developers here http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2004-July/009336.html |
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> I'd be glad to test this if you can provide guidance.... |
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> BR, |
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> /Anders |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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