Fwd: Re: [linuxdc-dev] Can't get started on development.

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

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Subject: Re: [linuxdc-dev] Can't get started on development.
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 11:03:07 +0100
From: Adrian McMenamin <ad...@mc...>
To: Starman <sta...@co...>

On Sunday 08 Sep 2002 3:13 am, Starman wrote:
> Hi all,
>   So I installed Linux on my PC at home (unplugged the other HDs just in
> case) and I started grabbing the CVS repository. I can't seem to get
> started.

Okay. I'll try to go through these things one at a time. The other thing to
 do is drop by to #linuxdc on irc.openprojects.net.

> 1) Why are files named .ht instead of .html? I see a ht2html app but I
> don't see it actually used anywhere.

These files are the ones for the (old) web site. They were converted by php
 or docbook or something to html. But you don't need them. You can read the
 contents by scanning through them with vi, emacs or gedit or whatever,
 though - os long as a few tags don't bother you.

> 2) I can't get a LOT of things listed in the article. Busybox on
> oss.lineo.com just doesn't exist anymore, and the FAQ says to download
> items from the linuxdc anon ftp site but it doesn't exist.

What article says use anon ftp at linuxdc? Here's what to do to get kernel
sources:

1. Download stock 2.4.18 kernel from www.kernel.org or local mirror.

2. Download linux-sh sources from linux-sh cvs
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsh and follow the links)

3. Download linux-sh-dc sources from linuxdc cvs -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxdc etc

Run the treelink.sh shell script to be found on linuxsh to drop in the sh
 tree and then the -sh-dc tree on top of stock kernel.


Of course you cannot build anything without the toolchain. You can use the
sources with bgat's article - but they are out of date and I am not sure how
well they work (though they will build the kernel). If you want the latest
you have to get the originals from http://www.gnu.org and apply the patches
to be found at ftp.m17n.org.

AS for busybox - googling reveals it be here: http://www.busybox.net/

> I'm at a loss and everything's so out of date I don't know what to do.
> Any help?
>
> Mike
>
>
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