On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Natanael Copa wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:52 +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote: > > > I have gotten working a working xorg-x11 though, using xfce4, but all the > > needed stuff won't build as of current portage tree. > > This is really interesting. I've ended up with making a gentoo based > mini distro (2.6 kernel/uclibc/busybox) that was originally ment as a > RAM only x86 router. It seems like the step to run from disk is very > small (use another initrd-image and replace some of the init scripts) > > xorg got compiled once out of the box. I think the current xorg has some > problems with libtool but I haven't had time to investigate yet.
not xorg itself is the prob, the other apps fail for uclibc common reasons: 1. nocxx (xfce4.eclass could epunt_cxx for all, there are at least 10 apps needing it) 2. uclibctoolize and some others I can't recall > > If we could get xfce4 compile smoothely gentoo could be a very cool > option for very old computers. Just compile everything on a bigger > computer and skip portage. (is gentoo without portage and without > compiling really gentoo?) > > Do you know how much RAM would be minum needed to make xfce4/uclibc be a > pleasant experience? no idea Peter -- Peter S. Mazinger <ps dot m at gmx dot net> ID: 0xA5F059F2 Key fingerprint = 92A4 31E1 56BC 3D5A 2D08 BB6E C389 975E A5F0 59F2 -- [email protected] mailing list
