Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 22:08 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: > SLIND sounds interesting indeed, I've been using a buildroot-built > system for mine so it was difficult getting dpkg built in the first > place, but I've got it mostly all going. All the arch-independent > packages help a lot too.
In fact, I want it to work as a native debian system. This way, buildroot causes a lot of problems (I think that's the motivation behind SLIND). And they already have a binary base system which is a hell lot of work already done... Mixing this with dpkg-cross, well... it's perfect :) > > The challange is to compile the other packages that compose the > > build-essential package list. With that, in theory, you can setup a > > buildd. > That's what I'm aiming for as well, but unfortunately there's a hell > of a lot of dependencies in all that lot! That's where SLIND helps more... the base system is already built. > There seem to be ways to build a minimal gcc built into the build > scripts, but I can't seem to be able to trigger these to successfully > build a compiler. It keeps dying with: I think it's possible to just use dpkg-buildpackage -auclibc-i386 and get a functional package (after some changes, probably)... I'm trying to stay as close as I can from the stock debian packages. > > * libgdbm3 > > * libdb4.2 (I'm very near on finishing this one) > > * perl (which depends on the two libs above) > I've built perl without having either of the two prerequisites > installed, works for most things and satisfies lots of dependencies! :-) As I said, I aim to have a standard debian machine, so I do want to deal with the dependencies correctly to have a real package. > Maybe we could join forces to speed things along? Sure... Actually, I think we should both join forces to emdebian, which is doing a great job... What I do think it would be really nice is to have a "contrib-builds" SLIND repository (like backports do). This would make things easier for sharing this effort. daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]