--- In Triffid Hunter <>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, j.chitte wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > can someone advise on a method for extending the bare bones
TSlinux
> > image into something more useful.
> >
> > It's a nice compact base but not actually much use for a specific
> > project without a number of additions.
> >
> > I've got a prototype of what I need on the "full" debian image
> > supplied by TS with a few extras but this clearly has many deps
that
> > are not in the bare bones image. This works over nfs.
> >
> > I probably need to build stripped down versions of a number of
> > packages (no doc and remove some options that pull in unwanted
deps)
> > and repack them to .deb for installation on the target SBC.
> >
> > I have crosstools set up on Debian 3.1 for the rebuilding needed.
> >
> > Before diving in I thought I'd poll for ideas , suggestions and
> > caveats to avoid.
> >
> > many thanks, Jacques.
>
> Gentoo's package manager is adept at building highly customised
> distributions using cross compilers.. something to consider :)
>
Thanks , I had not thought of using portage but my initial attempts
to cross-compile on Gentoo floundered because there seems to be too
much difference between my 2.6.20 gcc-4.2 Gentoo and the rather
neolithic Debs 3.1 that all the TS stuff is based on.
I initially looked into Gentoo since that's my main OS but embedded
gentoo looked to be rather dead in the water for the last couple of
years. It seemed better to stick closer to the TS set up at this
stage.
Although eventually I would like to build 2.6.23 eabi for the ARM my
initial requirement is the shortest path to a working image.
I figured a clean partition with std Debain 3.1 and gcc 3.x compiler
would be a safer start.
;)
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