I've been running an amd64 optimized version of crux for a little while
now -- seems relatively stable. Some of Mattias' work, some of my own
plodding through. There's (almost certainly improperly designed)
multilib support -- with a binary glibc32 port; most software builds
fine with occasional minor modifications to Pkgfiles.
If you use it, you should also download ports.tar.gz, which contains my
base, opt, and contrib port directories, with all the modified Pkgfiles,
binary packages, and the source code. Using ports requires curl &
httpup from contrib, as cvsup won't build. When you update ports,
they'll go to base-http, opt-http, etc, so you won't mix up the 64-bit
revisions with the standard ports tree.
Some notes:
lilo, traceroute, and glibc32 are built from binary packages ripped from
i686 crux -- they won't build natively. Firefox -- well I just got lazy
there & didn't bother figuring out how to compile natively with amd64,
so I use a binary version optimized for 64-bit arch.
I could certainly use some help with doing the 32/64-bit biarch lib
thing right. One version of this had all 64-bit libraries
in /lib64, /usr/lib64, etc. -- now I just let the libraries go where
they want to when building the packages. Far fewer missing library
problems compiling other software that way. But I know this is probably
wrong.
Anyhow, it works for me!
find it at http://www.samnjack.com/crux-amd64/
(be kind with my bandwidth, please!)
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Jeremy Jones <jeremy(a)samnjack.com>
