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There are quite a few scripts/tools out there that will help
in automatically generating a toolchain, a root filesystem,
a ROM image, and other components of an embedded Linux system.

This is a collection of such tools, scripts, tipps and tricks:

   * buildroot: http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/ <br>
      This is a set of scripts maintained by Erik Andersen (uClibc,
      BusyBox, TinyLogin, etc.) that can be used to build quite a
      few components (including toolchain for host and target
      binaries.) Though I haven't used buildroot, the content of
      the scripts is one of the best I've seen (well organized
      and thorough).
   * PTXdist: http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist_en.html <br>
      This tool is maintained by Robert Schwebel (utelnetd, RTAI
      documentation, etc.) that creates root filesystems. It
      relies on the use of a KConfig-based frontend. There are
      nice screenshots.
   * Bill Gatliff's build script: <br>
      http://billgatliff.com/twiki/bin/view/Crossgcc/BuildToolchainScript
      This is one script which builds a toolchain made by Bill
      Gatliff (gdb stubs, regular contributor to Embedded Systems
      Programing, reviewed my book, etc.)
   * Craig Hollabaugh's build scripts: <br>
      http://www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com/sourcecode.shtml
      These are the scripts Craig used in his "Embedded Linux"
      book. There is a buildtoolchain.tar.gz, which is the set
      of script used to build the toolchain, and there's
      buildrootfilesystem, which is used to ... well, build
      the root filesystem :)
   * Richard Atterer's build script: <br>
      http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/debian/
      Again, a script to build a toolchain.
   * David A. Desrosiers' build script: <br>
      http://libarynth.f0.am/cgi-bin/view/Libarynth/CrossCompiler
      Yet another toolchain build script.
   * "Peewee Linux": <br>
      http://www.peeweelinux.com
      "an environment that makes the configuration and installation of a Linux operating system on an embedded platform as easy and painless as possible"
   * http://www.bluewaternz.com/startoff/armlinux.htm <br>
      [For ARM targets] a script which conveniently builds binutils, cross compiler, glibc, and the kernel.

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