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1  Overview

The sources for the mycable Linux Build System are hosted at Sourceforge.net:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xxsvideo/

The latest release is available as tar-archive for download. The latest development snapshot is available from the subversion repository:

svn co https://xxsvideo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xxsvideo xxsvideo

The Linux Build System contains the following directories and files:

|-- COPYING             # GPL Licence
|-- Makefile.in         # source Makefile for autoconf
|-- config/             # Kconfig files for the build configuration
|-- configure.ac        # source configure-file for autoconf
|-- doc/                # this documentation
|-- patches/            # patches for supported packages
|-- rootfs-user/        # basic rootfile system skeleton
|-- scripts/            # scripts for building
|-- sources/            # directory for all used source packages
`-- tools/              # tools for testing and demonstration

After the first build, the following directories and files will be added:

|-- build/              # tools like mkimage, mkfs.jffs2
|-- buildinfo.txt       # logfile of build process
|-- images/             # images for u-boot, kernel and rootfs
|-- rootfs-final/       # directory of the final rootfs; usable as nfs-directory

1.1  Requirements

The build system has been developed and tested on a native linux system running

Other linux distributions may work.

To build the toolchain ([2.1]) you need at least gcc-4.1.x and bash-3.1.x. The following further packages are required on new installed linux systems:

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©mycable GmbH, 8thMay, 2009
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