Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

[Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>]

On 30 May 2006, at 08:53, Alexander Shishkin wrote:

> On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net> wrote:
> > On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
> > Yes, I can see that could be handy. I'm guessing SLIND is based on
> > woody?
> No, it is based on testing/unstable. Host part is mostly sarge (it was
> in the 0.1 prerelease, now most of it is sid).
>
> > Well ideally I'd like to have a complete system with the bare minimum
> > number of patches required to make packages build & work on uclibc.
> > Removing Java was an idea for a short-cut to get to that stage.
> What does Java have to do with compiling packages?

gcc-3.3 depends on gettext which depends on fastjar which is built by  
gcc-3.4

If one cuts out Java, gettext is that much smaller and easier to  
build, and so is gcc. Simple really.

> > Once again this is just a shortcut to get build-dependencies out of
> > the way first. Once most of the packages are present this would be
> > rebuilt to be the full package.
> Once you want the build-dependencies back, I tell you, it will be a
> pain you-know-where to put them in correct shape. And this is going to
> happen once you get to the point of compinig X11 stuff and glib/gtk.

Just make a list of everything you have installed and rebuild each  
package one-by-one until you've covered everything. I can't see where  
the problem is.

> Regards,
> --
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