Portage Linux From Scratch

Table of Contents

• I. Introduction

  • 1. Preparing the Host System

    • Host System Requirements
    • Creating a New Partition
    • Creating a File System on the Partition

• II. Building the Cross Toolchain

  • 2. Compiling a Cross-Toolchain

    • Binutils-2.46.0 Pass 1
    • GCC-15.2.0 Pass 1
    • Linux-7.0.3 API Headers
    • Glibc 2.43
    • Libstdc++ from GCC-15.2.0

• III. Finalizing the Cross Tools

  • 3. Cross Compiling Temporary Tools

    • M4-1.4.21
    • Ncurses-6.6
    • Bash-5.3
    • Coreutils-9.10
    • Diffutils-3.12
    • File-5.47
    • Findutils-4.10.0
    • Gawk-5.4.0
    • Grep-3.12
    • Gzip-1.14
    • Make-4.4.1
    • Patch-2.8
    • Sed-4.9
    • Tar-1.35
    • Xz-5.8.3
    • Binutils-2.46.0 Pass 2
    • Gcc-15.2.0 Pass 2

• IV. Chroot and Finalize Toolchain

  • 4. Entering Chroot and Building Additional Temporary Tools

    • Enter Chroot
    • Creating Directories
    • Creating Essential Files and Symlinks
    • Gettext-1.0
    • Nano-9.0
    • Bison-3.8.2
    • Perl-5.42.0
    • Zlib-1.3.2
    • Bzip2-1.0.8
    • Openssl-3.6.2
    • Texinfo-7.3
    • Python-3.14.4
    • Util-Linux-2.42
    • Libarchive-3.8.7
    • Expat-2.8.0
    • Cmake-4.3.2
    • Ninja-1.13.2
    • Flit-core-3.12.0
    • Packaging-26.2
    • Wheel-0.46.3
    • Setuptools-82.0.1
    • Meson-1.11.1
    • Libcap-2.78
    • Gperf-3.3
    • Libseccomp-2.6.0
    • Pyelftools-0.32
    • Pax-utils-1.3.9
    • Portage-3.0.77
    • Less-692
    • Wget-1.25.0
    • Pkgconf-2.5.1
    • Cleaning up and Saving the Temporary System

• V. Configuring Portage System

  • 5. Configuring Portage

    • Base-Layout-1.0
    • Zlfs-scripts-1.0

• Index