Re: Which host distribution?

Sebastian wrote:

Hello,

I'm getting problems more and more, so now I'm going to ask here.

What linux distribution uses a 2.4 kernel and XFree86 3.3.6 and is able to
compile BusyBox?

Background:

I want to compile some kind of minimalistic linux for my notebook
(i486SL/33) using Kernel 2.4, BusyBox 1.3 and XFree86 3.3.6. (Later
versions don't support the graphics chipset and binaries are too
large/slow because of the many drivers included.)

It works, but I am not able to compile the XF86_SVGA server for this
system. My compiling distribution is Debian Woody (and RedHat 6.2). The
latter uses XFree86 3.3.6, but BusyBox doesn't compile on this
distribution (it uses gcc 2.92). I compiled gcc 3.3.6 and tried to compile
BusyBox using this, but I failed also.

This is a bit strange. I have busybox running with this debian 2.4 kernel on
a arm processor board. busybox hasn't to do with xfree86 or am I wrong?
I would NEVER copy libraries to your /lib directory unless you want to have
severe problems. copy them to usr/lib or usr/local/lib and add it to the
search environment LDpath variable.
Did you try perhaps some older versions of busybox?


As I have not gained much experience (apart from that I got when I put
things together - this is the state I am now) I don't know how to handle
the libraries. Right now I simply copy over the needed libs to /lib/ on
the notebook. Do you know some howto which simply describes the steps
needed to be able to build a glibc/uClibc on a host to run on a guest?

Please help me...

Regards,
Sebastian

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