Buildroot on Dreamhost

Dreamhost offsers web-hosting services, along with a shell account. It turns out that with some minor modifications, the shell account can be used to build the gumstix buildroot.

Install module-init-tools
The /sbin/depmod on the Dreamhost server is too old for buildroot. You can install an updated version by following these steps: cd ~ mkdir src cd src wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/module-init-tools-3.2.2.tar.gz tar xzf module-init-tools-3.2.2.tar.gz cd module-init-tools-3.2.2 ./configure --prefix=$HOME make make install

You can then use cd gumstix-buildroot make DEPMOD=/home/dhylands/sbin/depmod

to build buildroot.

I've also discovered (after I wrote the above), that Dreamhost may impose some undocumented CPU restrictions after the first 97 days, so you may not wish to use this as your primary build server.