Compiling tinylogin-snapshot

tinylogin is a similar program to busybox: It also bundles some essential tools found in normal Linux distribution in one single file and creates tons of symbolic links. Tinylogin provides for example login or su.

First, we need to download the appropriate source package:

Table 4.3: Source package, size and URL for tinylogin.

Package	Size	License	URL
tinylogin-snapshot	91 KB	GPLv2	http://tinylogin.busybox.net/downloads /snapshots/tinylogin-snapshot.tar.bz2

Now, unpack the downloaded archive:

$ bunzip2 -c ../SRC/tinylogin-snapshot.tar.bz2 | \
  tar -xv -C .
$ cd tinylogin

And finally, compile and install the binaries:

$ make CROSS=$UCLIBC/usr/bin/ all
$ su -c "make PREFIX=/home/christian\
  /Dreamcast/INITRD install"
$ cd ..

That's all. Easy, huh? But, believe me, tinylogin is at least the problematic source at all. I'm very surprised that I don't have to modify its Makefile or patch something. But, why should problems always occur?