Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Dennis Taylor <Dennis_T1@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:29:37
Message-Id: 5196544A89ECC64F8310D22DFF3E7993015CB754@TPANTMAIL.verifone.com
1 Having followed the other link to
2 http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more up to
3 date, am still having problems. At step 3 I get the following response.
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5 clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc
6 Calculating dependencies
7 !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "uclibc"
8 !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
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10 I thought all the previous steps went OK. Even some of the workarounds
11 seem to no longer be needed. Any ideas?
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17 From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@×××××××××××.com]
18 Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
19 To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
20 Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
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23 This is what I use:
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25 http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
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27 My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't
28 tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526
29 boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build you
30 filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
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32 Remove /usr/include
33 Remove all .keep files
34 Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially /etc
35 and /var
36
37 I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process
38 described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them shortly,
39 but please don't hold your breath. :)
40
41 -Josh
42
43 On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
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46 I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
47 to no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that
48 someone out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target that
49 must fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
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52 The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
53 site fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but
54 the HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
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56 Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
57 greatly appreciated.
58
59 Dennis Taylor
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63 Joshua ChaitinPollak
64 Software Engineer
65 Kiva Systems

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