Re: Building toolchain for 2.4.x target

[Rob Landley <rob at landley dot net>]

On 11/13/2013 09:59:29 AM, Filipe Felisbino wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm using crosstool-ng(1.9.3) to create a toolchain that will target a
> x86 2.4 kernel with a 2.3.2 glibc ( to build a legacy service ).

By far the easiest thing to do is grab an old Red Hat 9 image from 2003  
and build under qemu or kvm. That's where glibc 2.3.2 lived. :)

The one I uploaded to busybox for regression testing is still at:

  http://busybox.net/downloads/qemu

And it runs with "kvm -m 1024 rh9.img" or similar.

Login busybox password busybox (the root password is also busybox).  
Just hit enter if kudzu bothers you about configuration, the emulated  
gigabit ethernet adapter model number changed since that image was  
installed...

In general, for really old systems it's easier keeping an emulated  
build environment around than trying to reproduce old packages under  
current build environments. Whole lotta bit-rotting going on  
otherwise...

Rob
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