I just came back and did a quick scan through several hundred messages; I
only found one thing still worth saying ...
Well actually two ...
The most important is: Tomsrtbt Yay! :-)
But also,
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Tom Oehser wrote:
> I am working on a "foolproof libc5 compilation environment". This is
> going to be MUCH easier, and bombproof, but will be a larger
> download. The idea will basically be a distribution of gcc, binutils,
> headers, and basic tools, that you run through chroot. That is, un-tar
> the package into /libc-5-environment, then do "chroot libc-5-environment",
> then you can build and compile and customize to your hearts content,
> without *any* worries about incompatabilities and conflicts with your
> normal libc6 environment.
> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:54:06 -0400 (EDT)
>
> You are probably better off with the Red Hat libc5 package or the Debian
> libc5 package, I mean to make an easier libc5 kit with less bugs, but it
> has slipped down the priority list... -Tom
This is a rather old rant message but it looks like you haven't had time
to build this yet so I'll add ...
It would be great if this environment came in the form of a bootable ISO
image, using tomsrtbt as the linux version, complete with all the
sources.
Burn it on a CD, boot and you're running:
"The tomsrtbt development distribution"
:-)
It'd be nice to just type 'make clean floppy' for a full rebuild too. :-)
(I know; not enough ramdisk for all those objects, still a linktree on
a HD partition could work ... )
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
