Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?
Hi all,
I'm starting work again on a thinned-down version of Debian I call PicoDebian.
The idea of this new version is to replace glibc with uClibc, and generally slim
down various packages to fit nicely in confined environments.
I've managed to build several of the base-system packages already, mostly
forcing dependencies to be ignored as a start, but there are some that I'm not
entirely sure how to get around.
For example, a huge number of packages depend on gettext. While I've installed a
local version from vanilla upstream source, this isn't good enough! The gettext
source package itself would be better, but requires Java related tools to build.
I'd rather keep Java and other such less-used stuff out of my distro, which also
means thinning down GCC so it no longer requires quite so much to build, and no
longer building Java.
Can anybody give me a helping hand in building a basic base-system that I can
use to recompile other packages? How about removing all the Java dependencies
from gcc-3.3, gettext, et al?
Many thanks,
Chris
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Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net
http://www.bootc.net/
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