i'm probably a brand stupid newbie .. but . how to chroot the thing ? mean, under linux or under *bsd ? :)
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:11:42PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > hi! > > > > my GNU/FreeBSD chroot jail is finaly self-hosting. i > > could build Glibc 2.3, GCC 3.2.3 and binutils (cvs) > > within the jail, and these worked fine to compile > > other packages like coreutils, etc. > > > > i've uploaded a tarball of the system, you can get > > it from: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~rmh/gnu-freebsd/ > > > > (note for those of you interested on a GNU/FreeBSD > > production system: this tarball is _USELESS_ for > > anything other than development or bug fixing.) > > > > there are also some patches you might find useful > > in the patches/ dir (some updated from Bruno's or > > Nathan's, other added myself) > > > > the build environment seems realy sane for being > > in alpha stage, but it's unable to bootstrap Debian > > yet. there are basicaly two problems that prevent > > building and using perl: > > > > - dynamic executables don't work. Glibc's dynamic > > linker triggers a "ELF file OS ABI invalid" error > > (see [glibc]/elf/dl-load.c) when loading an > > executable that is linked against Glibc. i'm > > not sure wether the problem is in ld.so, binutils > > or libc.so itself. > > > > the workaround i used for now is to link > > everything staticaly, by either using [BOOT_]CFLAGS > > variables or a /usr/bin/gcc wrapper. > > This IIRC, was simply a bug in the ld.so. I attach a patch that might > fix it. > > > - getpw{nam,uid} always fail (return NULL, errno=success) > > this could be a problem in NSS, since other > > NSS services are broken also (hostname resolving) > > > > This is probably because of the problem above. DNS is broken, unless > Bruno fixed it, but the NSS uses the dynamic loader. > > ---Nathan >
