README.md

Todd Linux Toolchain

Solution architecure

The toolchain required to build ToddLinux ISO and ToddLinux operating system should be hosted separetely. In order to speed up build process the toolchain should be easily accessible, prefferably in a form of an archive hosted by ToddLinux developers.

References

• mostlyportable gcc
• Linux From Scratch Book
• Linux ABI stable symbols
• Why is ABI Stability Important?

Toolchain components

No package management should be performed at toolchain level.
The single archive should contain:

• GNU C compiler
• GNU C library
• GNU coreutils
• GNU binutils
• GNU M4
• GNU ncurses
• GNU diffutils
• GNU findutils
• GNU gawk
• GNU grep
• GNU make
• GNU patch
• GNU sed
• GNU tar
• GNU gzip
• GNU bash
• GNU gettext
• GNU bison
• GNU texinfo
• GNU xorriso
• GNU wget
• GNU cpio
• flex
• xz
• Perl
• file
• python 3
• util-linux

Basically part 3 of LFS book with few additions

Building

Requirements

Software packages with minimum versions:

• Bash 3.2
• Binutils 2.25
• Bison 2.7
• Bzip2 1.0.4
• Coreutils 6.9
• Diffutils 2.8.1
• Findutils 4.2.31
• Gawk 4.0.1
• GCC 6.2 including g++
• Glibc-2.11
• Grep 2.5.1a
• Gzip 1.3.12
• Linux Kernel 3.2
• M4 1.4.10
• Make 4.0
• Patch 2.5.4
• Perl 5.8.8
• Python 3.7
• Sed 4.1.5
• Tar 1.22
• Texinfo 4.7
• Xz 5.0.0

Other requirements:

• /usr/bin/awk should be a symbolic link to gawk
• /usr/bin/yacc should be a symbolic link to bison
• /bin/sh should be a symbolic to bash