To install PTXdist, just run
./configure --prefix=<installpath>to configure the packet, then
maketo build everything and
make installto install it. When you start using PTXdist, make sure your $PATH
environment variable points to
For developers who want to work with git versions of PTXdist it is only necessary to run "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make" and set the PATH variable to the bin/ directory inside the PTXdist tree.
PTXdist is a build system which can be used to generate a root tree and disk images for all kinds of Linux systems. It was written with embedded systems in mind, but there is no reason why you can't use it to configure your firewall, router or whatever dedicated "device" comes to your mind.
The job works like this: you run 'ptxdist menuconfig' and
'ptxdist platformconfig', configure what you need. Run 'ptxdist images'
and you'll find a root tree in ./platform-
All magic necessary to do these things in a cross enviroment are written into "recipes", living in rules/.make, and config menues in rules/.in.
See doc/contributing.rst for the contribution guidelines.
See https://www.ptxdist.org/doc/ for the full documentation, which includes a quickstart guide as well as a reference for users and developers. You can also find the documentation in reStructuredText form in the doc/ directory inside this PTXdist tree, which you can build into HTML with
./bin/ptxdist docs-htmlThe generated HTML documents will be created in Documentation/html/.