From a19caf7bd7642a8484a64a7583465c279b59c02e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Müller Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:30:12 +0000 Subject: Add readme how busybox is created. This needs more work after the 4.1.0 release. git-svn-id: http://svn.openslx.org/svn/openslx/trunk@962 95ad53e4-c205-0410-b2fa-d234c58c8868 --- tools/README.busybox | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/README.busybox (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/README.busybox b/tools/README.busybox new file mode 100644 index 00000000..55cf25f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/README.busybox @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +How busybox is created + +1. Get the current sources from busybox.net and untar them. +2. Change to the busybox- dir and create a sym link named patches + pointing to ../busybox-patches +3. Use 'quilt push -a' to apply all patches from the busybox-patches/series + file. Or apply the patches in the order shown in the series file. +4. Create a sym link named .config pointing to ../busybox-config +5. Call make oldconfig and adjust the configuration if required. +6. Call make to create the busybox binary. +7. Copy the binary to ../busybox. + + +Current open issues + +- The process is not automated. +- Should be moved to a place outside of the OpenSLX sources. +- Ensure to create the binaries with an older Linux version. Else the binary + might use newer features of libc which are not available on the used host. + For the last builds suse 10.1 systems created with slxos-setup had been used. -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522