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@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ system.
1. `git clone https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap`
2. `git submodule update --init --recursive`
3. Provide a kernel (vmlinuz file) as the name kernel in the root of the repository.
4. `./rootfs.sh` - ensure your account has kvm priviliges and qemu installed.
4. `./rootfs.sh` - ensure your account has kvm privileges and qemu installed.
a. Alternatively, run `./rootfs.sh chroot` to run it in a chroot.
b. Alternatively, run `./rootfs.sh` but don't run the actual virtualization
and instead copy sysa/tmp/initramfs.igz to a USB or some other device and
boot from bare metal.
6. Wait.
7. Currently, live-bootstrap dosen't provide anything to you, as it is incomplete.
7. Currently, live-bootstrap doesn't provide anything to you, as it is incomplete.
## Background
@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ packages. Here is a list of file types that we deem unsuitable for
bootstrapping.
1. Binaries (apart from seed hex0, kaem, kernel).
2. Any pregenerated configure scripts, or Makefile.in's from autotools.
3. Pregenerated bison/flex parsers (identifiable through a `.y` file).
2. Any pre-generated configure scripts, or Makefile.in's from autotools.
3. Pre-generated bison/flex parsers (identifiable through a `.y` file).
4. Any source code/binaries downloaded within a software's build system that is
outside of our control to verify before use in the build system.
5. Any non-free software. [1]
@ -247,16 +247,21 @@ A few of the utilities cannot be easily compiled with Mes C library, so we skip
GNU `grep` is a pattern matching utility. Is is not immediately needed but will
be useful later for autotools.
#### Part 17: bash 2.05b
#### Part 17: heirloom devtools
`lex` and `yacc` from the Heirloom project. The Heirloom project is a collection
of standard UNIX utilities derived from code by Caldera and Sun. Differently from
the analogous utilities from the GNU project, they can be compiled with a simple `Makefile`.
#### Part 21: bash 2.05b
GNU `bash` is the most well known shell and the most complex piece of software
so far. However, it comes with a number of great benefits over kaem, including
proper POSIX sh support, globbing, etc.
NOTE: Currently, there is a bison pregenerated file here, which we are working
NOTE: Currently, there is a bison pre-generated file here, which we are working
to remove.
#### Part 18: m4 1.4
#### Part 22: m4 1.4
`m4` is the first piece of software we need in the autotools suite. It allows
macros to be defined and files to be generated from those macros.