Boring GNU/Linux

Goal: provide a cross-compilable system which is enough to

• Use the machine (without GUI) both locally and remotely, i.e.

  • Boot the machine
  • Configure networking
  • provide network login via ssh

• Build C and C++ software

  • Native toolchain (GCC + binutils), C and C++ compilers
  • make
  • meson
  • ninja
  • autotools

• Build ALT RPMs via rpmbuild (with –nodeps)

  • debugedit
  • elfutils
  • gnu-config
  • gnulib
  • patched texinfo
  • subst

Cross-bootstraping

Required host tools

• bash
• coreutils
• cpio
• findutils
• gcc
• gcc-c++
• git (to clone/update the repository)
• make
• perl-base
• rsync
• matching cross-toolchain (gcc-loongarch64-linux-gnu)

Recommended host tools

• python3 (>= 3.9)

Optional host tools

• ccache
• distcc

Running the cross-build

git clone git://git.altlinux.org/people/asheplyakov/public/coresystem.git
cd coresystem
python3 split_recipes.py < bootstrap.sh
python3 buildall.py

This produces

• bootable disk image blinux-TARGET.img
• rootfs archive blinux-rootfs-TARGET.tgz