[uClibc]dilema -- compile system without root

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:

> > Any suggestions?
>
> Visit
>     http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/
>

Ok, will check it out. I figured it was solving a different problem.

A couple of notes for my build system/environemnt.

1) I am using devfs, so I don't need no stinkin' /dev entries :-)

2) I am producing RPMs. So, after the build is complete, I have these
directories:
	rpms-base/ -- a filesystem rpm, very minimal, prerequisites for
all other rpms.
	rpms/	-- what is needed for boot. busybox, perl, pciutils,
	rpms-devel/  -- rpms to be installed in the buildroot so other
rpms can be installed. uClibc, zlib, bzip2, etc
	rpms-extra/ -- anything not needed to boot the machine. python,
ncurses, strace, thttpd.

The goal of my build system is not to generate a bootable image, I just
generate RPMs. To generate a bootable image, you just install these
rpms into a loopback fs. You can mix and match and do not need to re-build
the rpms.

I'll check out the buildroot.

--
Michael