On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[email protected]> 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
