[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] xen client installation question
2009/4/16 Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2009/4/16 Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to install XCI. To my horrified, it tries to download and >>> compile a lot of softwares, like binutils and even gcc 4.2.4. Is there >>> any good idea to do that?? >>> >>> The problem is that binutils itself has some code not tested on gcc >>> 4.3 on Ubuntu 8.10, and the compilation fails! >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> For xenclient we are using buildroot which is based on busybox + uclibc. >> Because we use another libc we have to cross compiled environment, that why >> we >> compile binutils and gcc. > > And could you explain why we have to use buildroot, and what is the > benefit of using busybox+uclibc? > We wanted to have a very small and self contain dom0 (less than 30MB). I only way to reach that was to use busybox and uclibc. There is also newlib out there, but the buildroot project provide a build system that we can use directly. -- Jean Guyader _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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