How to test strace build using Aboriginal Linux's system images. * Put a autoconf'ed strace source tree into hdc.dir/strace dir. For example, this should work: git clone git://strace.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/strace/strace && cd strace && ./bootstrap * Run ./make-hdc-img.sh: it will generate ext2 image file, hdc.img, from hdc.dir/* data. This requires root for loop mount. * Download and unpack, or build from source and unpack one or more system-image-ARCH directories into this directory (the one which contains this README). * Run: ./parallel-build-hdc-img.sh system-image-DIR1 system-image-DIR2... (background it if you don't want to see "Waiting to finish" thing). This runs a strace build in several qemu virtual machines in parallel. * Observe system-image-*.log file(s) with growing log of strace build. There is no automated detection of errors for now: you need to examine logs yourself. For me, the following system images worked: system-image-armv4l system-image-armv4tl system-image-armv5l system-image-armv6l system-image-i686 (had to s/qemu-system-i386/qemu/ in run-emulator.sh) system-image-mipsel system-image-mips system-image-x86_64 system-image-sparc - needed small edit in native-build.sh: # Getting this early: # Unhandled Exception 0x00000007 # PC = 0xffd07cec NPC = 0xffd07cf0 # Stopping execution # and it looks like it's triggered just by too long kernel cmdline, # not by specific options. #export KERNEL_EXTRA="FTP_SERVER=$FTP_SERVER FTP_PORT=$FTP_PORT NATIVE_BUILD=$NATIVE_BUILD $KERNEL_EXTRA" # This works: export KERNEL_EXTRA="NATIVE_BUILD=$NATIVE_BUILD $KERNEL_EXTRA" And these did not: system-image-armv4eb - VFS: Cannot open root device "sda" or unknown-block(0,0) system-image-m68k - run-emulator.sh has no call of qemu-system-* (not supported yet??) system-image-mips64 - need to run ./native-build.sh ../hdc.img by hand; copying in /mnt/init fails (segv?) system-image-powerpc - QEMU stuck very early system-image-sh4 - hdc does not mount (no support for 2 disks)