And these are the packages I had to install on a base Debian Etch system
in a chroot environment on RHEL5.
gcc
make
perl
libc6-dev
mkisofs
patch
scponly
flex
bison
mtools
bzip2
gawk
uuid-dev
g++
libncurses5-dev
and remove mawk (apt-get remove mawk)
the base system is installed with "d
The following packages are what I install to successfully build the latest
CVS linuxboot bits on CentOS5:
autoconf
gcc
gcc-c++
bison
flex
expat-devel
e2fsprogs-devel
ncurses-devel
libtermcap-devel
mkisofs
mtools
expect
texinfo
cvs
I just thought I'd put it out there in case others are interested