On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:34, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Wed Oct 29, 2003 at 09:07:42AM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > That is a more sensible default I agree. Makes life difficult for the > > ARM7500FE people, but it does seem more sensible than making it difficult > > for everybody else, which is the current state of affairs. If we compile > > everything for soft-float on arm how hard is it to use the real FPU on the > > few chips (one chip?) that do support it - does everything need recompiling > > due to incompatible ABIs? > > > > Even in this case I think it's still worth doing, as FPUed arm chips are in > > such a tiny minority, but Vince might complain (as an arm7500FE machine > > vendor :-). > > There would need to be a separate hard-float distro for that. > Each and every binary and library compiled for soft-float would > be totally incompatible with hard-float. > > > > I built Debian woody vs > > > uClibc with locale support entirely disabled.... After compiling > > > up libintl and gettext, everything works as expected. > > > > Did you use pbuilder or something for this? Sounds like emdebian should > > steal > > your config/set-up for this, as it's presumably pretty-well what's required > > for our scheme, modulo the new emdebian targets. > > Is it in an accessible form somewhere we can take a look at? > > My method consisted of several steps. Step one was to use the > uClibc buildroot to build a fully functional developemnt system > for the target arch (in this case x86) complete with gcc 3.3.2, > make, etc. > > Step two was to use 'apt-get source' on the list of debian > packages included in debootstrap, providing me with unpacked and > ready to compile source for all the base system stuff. > > Step three to install the dev system onto a standalone large hard > drive and configure a bootloader and the kernel so I could boot > into the thing. And then boot. > > Step four was to manually recompile and manually install all the > basics on top of the existing rootfs. Once I had all the > necessary stuff, I then manually built and installed dpkg. > > Step five was to then use 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -d' to build > dpkg and install dpkg (using 'dpkg --force-depends') as the first > properly installed .deb on the system. > > Step six was to then rebuild and install all the basics using > 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -d' until I was able to build and > install 'apt-get' with all of its dependancies met. > > I then was able to begin using 'apt-get source -b <pkg>' to build > around 500 packages by hand, slowly filling in both package > dependancies and build dependancies until I no longer needed to > force everything. This proved somewhat challenging in places > since there are _many_ circular dependancies in the debian source > deps. > > -Erik > > -- > Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ > --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- >
For the rest of us, is it possible for you to create a UserModeLinux rootfs of your development box's harddrive ? this way, the rest of us can use your virtual-ized box as a starting platform.
