help...step by step to make tcl persistent on USB/Quemu

[roberts]

1.4.2 and just tested 1.4.3 both work fine with the tinycore.bat that I posted for Qemu/Windows earilier in this thread.

[linus72]

Yes, but how to get 1.4.3 working off a .sh in Linux without having qemu installed-how to do that?

[curaga]

You'd need a portable binary of Qemu, one that runs on all distros. Best to compile one completely staticly with uclibc, otherwise there will always be some distros that won't work due to different version of glibc or some other lib.

[linus72]

Hey Curaga; just how would I go about doing that-compiling qemu ?statically?

[curaga]

It's a rather complicated topic

Basically you would just do the configure phase like this:

CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -static" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -static" ./configure --other-options-here

But to do so _and_ get an all-distro portable binary requires a special environment. uClibc with maximum compatibility and everything to go with it is really an only option, as glibc cannot completely be linked staticly (plus there would be still the restrictions of the glibc used: for example minimum kernel version)

[linus72]

 
Thanks, that helps alot; but in a related question- TC-2.0rc2.1 and Okajima's 2.0rc1 both run fine in portable qemu
on all my linux pc's(3), however 1.4.2 does not and has a kernel panic/lock-up.
So, what's in tc 2.0+ that isn't in tc-1.4.2??
thanks again