Cross Bootstrapping A LAMP Stack Using xdeb

Text below assumes use of Maverick packages

• Set up chroot with xdeb installed - the example scripts at

  • https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3PR4S1Uev7KYzBkYTYwMTEtNDFkNS00ODI1LTkxMzktY2Q5NWVkNzlkNzkw&hl=en will need modifying to access your keys, user ids, permissions etc.

       sudo <script directory>/make_and_setup_chroot.sh <path to desired chroot location>

• Move into the chroot

       sudo chroot <path to desired chroot location>
       su chroot-user
       cd ~
       mkdir build
       mkdir dest

• Install cross toolchain - perhaps flavoured as at https://launchpad.net/~peter-pearse/+archive/armel-v5te-soft-vfp

• Point xdeb at apache2, mysql-server-5.0, in turn

   xdeb -a armel -d ../dest --apt-source <package name>

• Cross patch any packages which fail - there are some maverick cross patched sources at https://launchpad.net/~peter-pearse/+archive/cross-source

Here are some tips & tricks re cross patching.

• Zip up the resulting /usr/arm-linux-gnueabi contents
• Extract elsewhere and massage e.g. add in the necessary startup files, get /dev right etc.

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