Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Rafael Diniz <rafael@××××××.net>
To: solar@g.o
Cc: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] gentoo linux in 386 and 486
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:50:43
Message-Id: 200403150501.14756.rafael@riseup.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] gentoo linux in 386 and 486 by Ned Ludd
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4 Em Dom 14 Mar 2004 00:51, Ned Ludd escreveu:
5 > > I'd like to "save" some older and very cheap machines like 386s and 486s
6 > > to use then as standalone workstations, to teach, use and donate then for
7 > > for multiple porpuses like teach programing, teach using email clients,
8 > > irc, www, icq, etc, here in Brazil.
9 >
10 > For the most part you need nothing special here at all. Just grab a
11 > standard basic x86 stage1 and install as normal. The stages will be
12 > reconfigured for either i486 or i386 by default which is exactly what
13 > you want.
14
15 But glibc takes too much memory for 8Mb boxes. I'd like to have a uClibc
16 system :-)
17
18 > A uclibc-buildroot does exist for building the uclibc toolchain but it's
19 > completely missing include paths when you try to compile something.
20 > This can be seen if you trying anything that uses #include <blah.h>
21 > otherwise it compiles an 'int main() { return 0; }' just fine.
22 > If you have some spare time you could try and help solve this problem if
23 > you wanted a pure gentoo built uClibc toolchain with profile support.
24
25 I'm trying to compile slack 9.1 'a' and 'n' packages right now with a system
26 made by buildroot and I'm with some troubles too.
27
28 > Rob McMullen has a pretty nice uClibc with Gentoo Linux HOWTO at his
29 > site. http://flipturn.org/uclibc/ but I'm not how sure up2date it is
30 > right now.
31
32 Is there any image file of this beauty?
33
34
35 Bye,
36 Rafael Diniz
37
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