Subject: Re: Package Dependencies
From: Mac Mason (macmasta@ak.net)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 16:35:41 AKDT
If you want to avoid the collosal headache that is the textual config.
script, you'll need all the ncurses packages, too.
~Mac~
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gibson" <twistedhammer@subdimension.com>
To: <jsaam@mcc-cpa.com>
Cc: "Alaska Linux Users Group" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Package Dependencies
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 jsaam@mcc-cpa.com wrote:
> > Just curious to know if anyone knows of a site I can visit to find out
> > package dependencies for custom kernel building --
>
> You're looking for the minimum set of software to compile a kernel,
> correct?
>
> You can check the Linux Documentation Project.. I think there is a Kernel
> compilation How-To.
> http://www.aklug.org/LDP/
>
> Additionally:
> The following is my minimum development environment (I don't recall
> whether automake and autoconf are critical for _kernel_ development,
> but are useful for compiling other software.. especially if you get CVS
> sources of much) and should work.. install any *-devel packages if they
> exist (these are the headers from a library artificially seperated into
> another package so that freaks who don't compile stuff don't need to waste
> the space).
>
> glibc
> gcc
> bison (or yacc)
> flex (or some other version of lex)
> binutils
> gnumake (probablly listed as just 'make')
> automake
> autoconf
>
> This doesn't count apps which are included in the base install of almost
> all distributions. Also, I may have inadvertantly forgotten something else
> too..
>
> James Gibson
>
> --
> Everything in Unix is either written in C
> or has to try hard to pretend it is
> --Greg O'Keefe
>
>
>
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