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Re: [Xen-devel] xen client installation question

To: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen client installation question
From: Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:56:33 +0900
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/4/16 Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install XCI. To my horrified, it tries to download and
>> compile a lot of softwares, like binutils and even gcc 4.2.4. Is there
>> any good idea to do that??
>>
>> The problem is that binutils itself has some code not tested on gcc
>> 4.3 on Ubuntu 8.10, and the compilation fails!
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> For xenclient we are using buildroot which is based on busybox + uclibc.
> Because we use another libc we have to cross compiled environment, that why we
> compile binutils and gcc.

And could you explain why we have to use buildroot, and what is the
benefit of using busybox+uclibc?

Thanks,
J

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