This port was renamed to amd64-linux-glibc and, along with i686-linux-glibc, bootstrapped and uploaded on 2014-03-19.

The rest of this page is kept only for reference and historical purposes.

Following is the planned procedure to bootstrap the core-linux-eglibc port from a Debian GNU system. Debian's GNU toolchain for its amd64 architecture is used to build a fake generic port named amd64-linux-eglibc.

This procedure assumes that Debian's build-essential package is installed, that opkhelper 1.0.0 is installed, that genopkg.sh from opkhelper 1.0.0 has been run, and that the following architecture table is present at /usr/local/share/opkhelper/archtab:

# Map between distribution and build system architecture names.
#
# <Distribution arch>  <GNU system type>            <kbuild arch>
i686-linux-eglibc      i686-pc-linux-gnu            x86
amd64-linux-eglibc     x86_64-pc-linux-gnu          x86
core-linux-eglibc      x86_64-pc-linux-gnu          x86
k8-linux-eglibc        x86_64-pc-linux-gnu          x86
cortexa8-linux-eglibc  arm-cortex_a8-linux-gnueabi  arm

Subsequent ports like i686-linux-eglibc may simply be cross built from the core-linux-eglibc port.

1. Build the following base system packages for amd64-linux-eglibc using Debian's GNU toolchain:

   • src:eglibc
   • src:busybox
   • src:linux-libre
   • src:opkg

2. Build the following build essential packages for amd64-linux-eglibc using Debian's GNU toolchain:

   • src:binutils
   • src:gmp
   • src:mpfr
   • src:mpc
   • src:gcc-4.7
   • src:gcc-defaults
   • src:opkhelper-1.0
   • src:build-essential
   • src:fakeroot

   Build src:binutils and src:gcc-4.7 with a core-linux-eglibc target.

3. Unpack the following essential binary packages into the target directory:

   • libc.6
   • libc-bin
   • locales
   • nscd
   • zoneinfo
   • busybox
   • linux-libre
   • libopkg.1
   • opkg

4. Unpack the following build essential binary packages into the target directory:

   • libc.6-dev
   • libc-dev-bin
   • linux-libre-headers
   • libgmp.10
   • libgmp-dev
   • libmpfr.4
   • libmpfr-dev
   • libmpc.2
   • libmpc-dev
   • gcc-4.7-base-core-linux-eglibc
   • cpp-4.7-core-linux-eglibc
   • gcc-4.7-core-linux-eglibc
   • g++-4.7-core-linux-eglibc
   • libgcc.1
   • libstdc++.6
   • libstdc++.6-4.7-dev
   • cpp-core-linux-eglibc
   • gcc-core-linux-eglibc
   • g++-core-linux-eglibc
   • opkhelper-1.0
   • fakeroot
   • build-essential-core-linux-eglibc

5. Unpack the following source binary packages into the target directory:

   • eglibc-src
   • busybox-src
   • linux-libre-src
   • opkg-src
   • binutils-src
   • gmp-src
   • mpfr-src
   • mpc-src
   • gcc-4.7-src
   • gcc-defaults-src
   • opkhelper-1.0-src
   • build-essential-src

6. Mount the proc and sysfs filesystems.

7. Run /bin/sh in an isolated environment with chroot.

8. Run the following command to rebuild every source package for core-linux-eglibc:

   # for src in /usr/src/*; do \
   >   cd "${src}"; \
   >   opkbuild -a core-linux-eglibc; \
   > done
   

9. Exit ash and the isolated environment.

10. Collect from usr/src in the target directory the binary packages built for core-linux-eglibc.