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ulfr:


    thank you very much guys for all your time 

    you have set me on the path 

    i now have a good general idea of where to look and how things are done

    i'll poke around and see if i can learn a little more 

    and thanks for making such a great distro 

    its my favorite


    ulfr   

linic:

--- Quote from: Juanito on August 23, 2020, 02:24:01 AM ---It's not a script, it is just build notes - you start at the beginning and work your way to the end  ;)

--- End quote ---

Hi Juanito, in summary, there is no build script for rootfs.gz even for the current latest TC 16 x86. Is that right?
For example, if one wants to rebuild rootfs.gz, let's say to change
--- Code: -----enable-kernel=6.1.2
--- End code ---
to
--- Code: -----enable-kernel=4.4.302
--- End code ---
, one would have to

* read the http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/release/src/toolchain/compile_tc16_x86
* infer the commands to run
* manually run them until reaching the end of the build notes (fixing the errors if some show up or filling the gaps if there are any)
* probably running an additional repacking to generate the rootfs.gz command because the build notes end with "[remove files to match base/extension setup]"Would that be it?

Also, thank you Juanito everyone for tinycore! It's fascinating!

Juanito:

--- Quote from: linic on April 24, 2025, 10:58:23 AM ---probably running an additional repacking to generate the rootfs.gz command because the build notes end with "remove files to match base/extension setup"
--- End quote ---

Not exactly, the "remove files to match base/extension setup" refers to the chroot environment.

To update rootfs.gz, you need to overwrite the existing files with the newly built files (after first stripping them) like this:
--- Code: ---mkdir /tmp/extract
cd /tmp/extract
zcat /tmp/rootfs.gz | sudo cpio -i -H newc -d
rm /tmp/rootfs.gz

[overwrite/update existing files]

cd /tmp/extract
find | sudo cpio -o -H newc | gzip -2 > ../rootfs.gz
cd /tmp
advdef -z4 rootfs.gz
--- End code ---


--- Quote ---Would that be it?

--- End quote ---

Yes  :)

linic:
Hi Juanito,

I'm interested to obtain copies of

--- Code: ---binutils_usr.tce.list
gcc_usr_remove.tce.list
gcc_local_remove.tce.list

--- End code ---

They are referenced in http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/release/src/toolchain/compile_tc16_x86. Are they hosted anywhere? Are there any other .tce.list files which were used in making TC16 x86? I am interested in those too.

Also, thank you for your last reply!

Oh, and the compile_tc16_x86 notes are great! I was able to compile roughly 1/3 of the required sources so far. I'm automating the steps in a couple of .sh scripts. I plan to release those scripts once I have a working result.

Juanito:
binutils_usr.tce.list is created by:
--- Code: ---touch mymarker
sudo make install
sudo find / -not -type 'd' -cnewer mymarker | grep -v "\/proc\/" | grep -v "^\/sys\/" | tee files
vi files (remove any obviously unneeded files)
mv files binutils_usr.tce.list
--- End code ---

The other two were made by a similar process and then editing to leave only the files I wanted to remove.

Sorry, but I didn't keep the lists  :(

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