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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > > I suggest that you cut out the middleman (I) and download the
> > > uClibc rootfs to compile lynx yourself when the next version
> > > arrives.
>
> uClibc rootfs comes with gcc 3.4, which worked quite well with
> lynx, openssl, dosemu, and many other packages that I have
> compiled with it.
>
> To use the rootfs image, you need a partition with several hundred
> MB of disk space to grow into. bunzip2 it, then mount -o loop.
> Then do cp -a /mnt /newdirectory, where /mnt is where it is mounted,
> and newdirectory is where you want to keep it permanently. You
> can then umount /mnt and chroot to newdirectory and start building.

The above made a /uclibc/mnt to which everything was copied, so I cd'ed to 
/mnt and then cp -a * /uclibc and got under 86MB of files including 
automake and autoconfigure, which I have never used that I know of. gcc 
3.4.3.  There is support for a lot of things I don't think I have - 
sunrpc, raid, isdn, ubda, magic.  108K of terminfo, including sun.  I 
thought this was for i386 only.  Anyone want to strip this file system for 
use with BL?

> Most programs should work fine, but you might want to set up some
> symlinks such as ln -s /usr/bin/cpp /lib/cpp.

Done.  Any others?

Now I copy over some source code, chroot there, and compile?  Is there 
some way to actually download source code while chrooted to /uclibc? I 
found busybox but there is no wget or ftp*.  Busybox ash, 460K bash. 
Full mount and more and mv and many others.

Sindi

> David