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How would I go about compiling a system based on uClibc and busybox? I have seen tutorials but they are too old and don't work today. I would like to ...
  1. 06-08-2008 #1
    dandart
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    Creating new small distro, uclibc

    How would I go about compiling a system based on uClibc and busybox? I have seen tutorials but they are too old and don't work today.
    I would like to compile for i586-pc-linux-uclibc and use as little space as possible. I have looked at Linux from Scratch, but can't think of a way to adapt the system like it, and it would need hefty adaption. I thought I'd build in /tools which links to /mylinux/tools then chroot to /mylinux and build with the development system in /tools and everything else in /. This would enable me to package everything except tools for a normal system and everything including tools for a devel system. I can't get any further.

    Can anyone help?
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    Check the Linux From Scratch Hints page. One of the hints is about compiling LFS using uClibc. It's a 2005 tutorial, but should still be relevant. You'll need to redo the patches they have listed yourself, though.

    Another option is to look at uClibc's "buildroot":
    Buildroot
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    ugh, buildroot won't compile...eeeek
    ok thanks for the hint about hints
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    They also have pre-compiled tarballs of buildroot, at least they used to.
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  5. 06-19-2008 #5
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    Oh ok, that's kind of useful. More useful than giving me broken svn's.
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