This is a WIP build framework for the awesome Linux from Scratch project. The goal is to provide an automated way to build the initial system and get a working bootable disk. The host target is currently Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as a known good host.

A further goal will be to use the built Python framework to also manage packages for BLFS too.

Building

• Mount drive
• link $LFS/tools to /tools
• fix /bin/sh symlink sudo update-alternatives --install /bin/sh sh /bin/bash 100
• install build-essential, gawk, texinfo, bison, git
• install python packages pyyaml, docopt
• check versions with supplied script
• `./bin/swell build_temp_system

Additions

During the temp system install a few extras are needed to run the build system. The list below are packages added to the temp systme built in chapter 5:

• temp-zlib is needed for temp-python to install setuptools
• temp python to run the build scripts
• temp-python-setuptools-33.1.1
• temp-python-docopt-0.6.2
• temp-python-pyyaml-3.12
• temp-pull-swell (pulls a copy of the framework into our env)

Current issues

• Test suite fails for temp diffutils-3.5 build when bootstrapping
• Build and test suite fails for temp file-5.29 util build when bootstrapping (zlib related) The only way I could fix this was to add a zlib build to the temp system. This seems to work fine and all the libs and bins have the correct signatures etc.
• Test suite fails for temp gawk-4.1.4 util build when bootstrapping (locale related)
• 2 tests in make fail had to disable (no idea)
• Error building Util-linux-2.29 with udev support. Had to disable in the configure opts.
• The optional bin strip currently does not work but is not an issue.
• Test suite for M4 currently fails with /checks/006.command_li:err
• Test suite for base-glibc has the following failures:
  • FAIL: posix/tst-getaddrinfo4
  • FAIL: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5