From ccb22cddd50f90c0204b2865778697ef93cc58a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Andersen Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:39:48 +0000 Subject: Fixup bui --- docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html b/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html index 11a3cef33..8467ac20f 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html @@ -233,11 +233,30 @@ to the uClibc home page. (or whatever is appropriate for your target architecture) and your applications will auto-magically link against uClibc. You can also build your own native uClibc toolchain. Just download the uClibc toolchain - builder from - http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/toolchain/, or the uClibc buildroot - system from - http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/buildroot/, adjust the Makefile - settings to match your target system, and then run 'make'. + builder from + uClibc toolchain builder, + or the uClibc buildroot system from + uClibc buildroot system, + adjust the Makefile settings to match your target system, and then run 'make'. +

+ If you want to be really lazy and start using uClibc right + away without needing to compile your own toolchain or anything, you can + grab a copy of the uClibc development systems, currently available for + i386, + powerpc, + and + arm. + These are pre-built uClibc only development systems (created using + buildroot), and provide a + really really easy way to get started. These are about 20 MB bzip2 + compressed ext2 filesystems containing all the development software you + need to build your own uClibc applications. With bash, awk, make, gcc, g++, + autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb, strace, busybox, + GNU coreutils, GNU tar, GNU grep, etc, these should have pretty much everything + you need to get started building your own applications linked against + uClibc. You can boot into them, loop mount them, dd them to a spare drive + and use resize2fs to make them fill a partition... Whatever works best + for you.

diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html index f346db035..04fc42545 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html @@ -115,8 +115,8 @@

This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based - applications. - Source code can be downloaded here. + applications. + Source code can be downloaded here. Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on when you compile the toolchains. To build a toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like @@ -192,8 +192,8 @@

This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based - applications. - Source code can be downloaded here. + applications. + Source code can be downloaded here. Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on demand when you compile things. To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like @@ -260,7 +260,8 @@

These toolchains should make it easy to anyone to build uClibc based - applications. Source code can be downloaded here. + applications. + Source code can be downloaded here. Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on demand when you compile things. To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like @@ -295,8 +296,9 @@ CodePoet Consulting has released source code and a Makefile to build a gcc-3.1 toolchain that natively targets uClibc. Additionally, the gcc-3.0.4 and gcc-2.95 toolchains have also been updated. These toolchains - make it easy to build uClibc based applications. Source code can be - downloaded here and is now much smaller, + make it easy to build uClibc based applications. + Source code can be downloaded here. + and is now much smaller, since much of the needed binutils and gcc source code is now downloaded on demand. To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like the toolchain installed, and then run 'make' @@ -331,9 +333,8 @@ libstdc++ library. A gcc-2.95.x toolchain will also be released shortly, but is not yet ready. At this time, only source code and a Makefile for the native uClibc toolchain is being released (i.e. - no binaries, sorry). Source code can be downloaded - here, - but be aware that the source code is 27 MB. + no binaries, sorry). + Source code can be downloaded here.

To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like the toolchain installed. Then @@ -460,8 +461,8 @@ Those wanting an easy way to test out uClibc and give it a test drive can download and compile - buildroot.tar.gz. This - is a nifty buildsystem that will automagically download and build + buildroot. + This is a nifty buildsystem that will automagically download and build a User-Mode Linux kernel, and will then download source for and compile up a fully working uClibc based root filesystem. This should make it easy for -- cgit v1.2.3