[pocket-linux] RE: Compiling Libraries

[David Horton]

>Hi,
>
>I am trying to compile the libaries needed for pocket linux.
>But I have difficulties to find which packages provides which libraries.
>Is there a trick ?
>
>Can somebody fill in the other packages
>library			package
>-----------			------------
>libc.so.6			glibc2.3.2
>libdl.so.2 
>ld-linux.so.2
>librt.so.1 
>libpthread.so.0 
>libcrypt.so.1
>libnss_files.so.2
>
>Thanks
>Bettes
>

These are all from glibc which you can download at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/  You will need to download both
the glibc-2.3.2.tar.gz and glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.2.tar.gz
tarballs.

Unpack glibc-2.3.2.tar.gz first.  Change directory into
glibc-2.3.2 and then unpack glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.2.tar.gz
Like this:

cd /usr/src
tar -zxf glibc-2.3.2.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/glibc-2.3.2
tar -zxf ../glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.2.tar.gz

Once you do this you are ready to start building.  You can
either configure and build it yourself or download the
architect toolkit and let the script do it for you.  See
http://sourceforge.net/projects/architect/ for download.

Good Luck,
Dave