Which host distribution?

This is a bit strange. I have busybox running with this debian 2.4 kernel on a arm processor board. busybox hasn't to do with xfree86 or am I wrong? I would NEVER copy libraries to your /lib directory unless you want to have severe problems. copy them to usr/lib or usr/local/lib and add it to the search environment LDpath variable. Did you try perhaps some older versions of busybox?

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No, it hasn't. But I would like to have a single box which can create everything I need for my "distribution".

But on my Debian Woody XFree86 doesn't compile and on RedHat 6.2 BusyBox' build fails.

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I don't want to modify the host at all. I only want to create a filesystem image that I can copy onto the destination machine (which is underpowered to compile itself).

I tried BusyBox 1.2 and 1.3.1, neither of these works.

What I want is simply a machine which gives me the possibility (without much hacking) to compile Linux 2.4, some BusyBox, XFree 3.3.6 and some other software I need (e.g. Toshiba utilities, pcmcia-cs, mc, ...).

Does anyone know a well-suited host distribution or some scripts doing the work? Buildroot seems a good starting point, but I didn't succeed compiling X.

Regards, Sebastian

What you want is to get a copy of Dan Kegel's crosstools, then build a X86 toolchain. That way, you can pick whatever compiler you want, and build whatever you want, without impacting your native install.

However, what you're talking about is quite a large undertaking.

--Yan

You may want to try openembedded. I recently built a distro for a geode embedded system with it:

Cliff