- how to clean up sysroot nicely without having to rebuild the cross-compiler? for now only removing and stowing a copy somewhere before building stage1 helps. - pacman with a '--no-execute-hooks' option - makepkg with an 'alternate root' option (which doens't collide with pacman's options), avoids patching -r and --config into makepkg for stage1 - shims and provides and depends don't work yet: - binutils and glibc-shim - same for gcc-libs: glibc and gcc-libs for gcc - bsdtar: /home/cross/i486-root/packages/i486/linux-docs-4.15.1-2-i486.pkg.tar.xz: Not found in archive bsdtar: /home/cross/i486-root/packages/i486/linux-headers-4.15.1-2-i486.pkg.tar.xz: Not found in archive bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. Built package linux. - currently gcc has a PKGBUILD modified by hand instead of diff seds in DESCR (the diff is very big and complex) - removing all pacman databases and recreating them with repo-add, also removing all installed pacman packages seem a little bit paranoic. Find out how to speed this up and do it properly. - as soon as asp32 creates a combined PKGBUILD when exporting a package, we can remove the git repo packages32 and the cat of the diff-PKGBUILD in build_stage1_package.sh - when uninstalling pacman in the chroot, you must rename pacman.pacsave back to pacman.conf as it is used for building packages - pacman has some issues with the sync databases (pacman -Syyu results in): debug: returning error 6 from _alpm_db_register_sync : wrong or NULL argument passed error: could not register 'temp' database (wrong or NULL argument passed) error: no usable package repositories configured. installing and listing packages by hand works without problems. debug: unregistering database 'local' - pacman problem: ca-certificates-utils-shim-20170307-1-any definityely contains the /etc/ssl/certs/ and the ca-certificates.crt, but it doens't get installed?! - make: recursive tarkets like all-recursive don't work, neither with cross-compiled make nor with the recompiled make on the stage1 system. => rebuilding bash on the target works, but it's a workaround: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/389022/make-unable-to-recurse-for-autoconf-like-projects/423448#423448 - some packages get build more than once in stage1 (linux-api-headers, pacman-mirrorlist) - make a wrapper for sed in DESCR, which is actually able to detect whether the patch was successful or not. Avoid hard to detect errors, when the upstream PKGBUILD(s) change. - gdb uses cross-compiler source files for debugging: Temporary breakpoint 1, 0x004005b0 in main () (gdb) list 1 /home/cross/.build/i486-unknown-linux-gnu/src/gcc/libgcc/libgcc2.c: No such file or directory. - stage1 - stage1: cdrom installs keyrings without having a gpg binary - 32 MB is not enough when installing packages => add a swap as first action! - stage1 has no bootloader package (syslinux) to install - do we really want to install stage1 via a CDROM? - using the cross compiler for syslinux is most likely overkill