[BusyBox] Re: [uClibc]Still having booting problems...

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Oct 18, 2001 at 03:19:07PM -0500, Cam Mayor wrote:
> Thomas Cameron writes:
> > 	Is there any way to download and compile the gcc source _without_
> > actually installing the binaries (sort of like the functionality you can
> > get from uClibc)?  The problem being is that gcc-2.95 is not available
> > for my version of Mandrake.  Moreover, after doing some studying, I have
> > found that if I were to, say, replace a package with another one,
> > something will break.  Things are tied together pretty tightly with
> > Mandrake, and I've already screwed up this system enough.
> 
> I have not personally tried this yet, but i have been planning to do so...
> check out
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
> 
> for linux-within-linux.  it will allow you to test stuff on linux
> without breaking your current setup.  (i feel for your woes.  i have
> broken mine many a time :)
> 
> It's not exactly what you were looking for...but is probably better :)

My buildroot system creates and uses a user mode linux kernel,

 -Erik

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