Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Wilson
<piercing_male@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and "PC" development, however I know
> what I want to do but don't know where to start!
>
> What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from
> scratch/source like the pro's do.
>
> ie. Get all the debian source for the latest arm port (just the source)
> and then compile/build it till I have a working system.
>
> Why would I want to do this? Well first of I want to optimize the final
> code to specific processors (OMAP3530 and ARM926EJ-S) and also customise
> the builds to use different application/graphic components such as
> gnome, E17, samba, etc. I also figure this is a great way to learn about
> Linux/debian and fixing any bugs will give me some insight into the
> various languages (C/C++ specifically)
yeah - i'd like to know how to do this, too. i installed buildd (and
wannabuild) but there appears to be some "manual" steps involved, and
i was kind-of expecting it to be automatic and recursive.
what i was expecting was that there was a simple way - e.g. grab all
the packages of a task - and just "shove" them at buildd, and i was
expecting it to just... go ahead and recursively grab all build
dependencies and all source dependencies, right down to coreutils and
build them all from the top down.
a bit like openembedded.
... but there's absolutely nothing that can be found, like that: it
seems more that buildd is designed to be a half-way house, which is
kinda useless for this sort of task, creating entire specialised
rebuilds (a la gentoo) for specific architectures.
yes, basically, i want to rebuild an entire suite of debian packages
for the arm cortex A8 processor (the S5PC100).
l.
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