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emgi

Member

Registered: 2012-12-17

Posts: 127

Cooking & cross.txt

To make my RPi a bit more useful with Slitaz, I want to convert a few more packages.

Initially I am considering lighttpd, sqlite and the whole perl-shebang.

For me this is a whole new area and I have some difficulties grasping the concepts behind the process. However, as there are very few others venturing into this I think I have to be able to do some things myself or probably wait until eternity before someone else does it.

Often it is good to read some docs before starting but I did that already and what I've read so far didn't make me any wiser when it comes to how-to-start. The next best thing is to simply start and see where you get stuck. That didn't take long!

When you want to build packages, you need to set up a cooking environment. (Right?)

In order to set up this cooking environment I followed the directions from: http://hg.slitaz.org/cookutils/file/3d20efa09240/doc/cross.txt because the Slitaz armhf toolchain http://arm.balinor.net/slitaz/armhf/slitaz-arm-toolchain-armhf-20120630.tar.bz2 is not available anymore unless you want to download an .exe file from some obscure hosting service. Don't do it unless you want to become part of a botnet! (as a zombie that is)

All went well until I arrived at line 39:

39 Setup the build environment, get source and compile a cross toolchain

40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

41 # cook arm-setup

Here my system says: Unable to find package in the wok: arm-setup

The next command (cook setup) worked but after that everything fails.

It is probably a minor problem but I have no clue about where to start looking.

/emgi

kultex

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: Cooking & cross.txt

where do you cook it - I think, I am not the right person to help you, because I am still struggling to build a new kernel for cooking, but what I learned is, that cook does not work on rolling - only on stable.

Maybe somebody can correct me, if I am wrong

emgi

Member

Registered: 2012-12-17

Posts: 127

Re: Cooking & cross.txt

Hi Kultex,

There is a new venue open to resolve this because the original mirror is back online.

The complete fileset should be available there (didn't check yet) so I can probably skip this step.

Thanks for replying anyway, I'll probably need some more hints & tips once I start converting packages. Porting slitaz to the RPi is a noble purpose and I'm looking forward to contributing.

/emgi

linea

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-31

Posts: 70

Re: Cooking & cross.txt

Hi, I think we might need to update the docs

I can't even compile an arm package with a prebuilt toolchain:

http://mirror.slitaz.org/arm/cross/