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2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title>
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6 <b><h1>News</h1></b>
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8 <hr /><h2><a name="26-09-2014" />September 26, 2014</h2>
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9 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.9.tar.bz2>1.2.9</a>
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11 Linux 3.16 and toybox 0.4.9.</p>
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13 <p>Just the two package upgrades this time, I was still a kernel release
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14 behind and I didn't upgrade toybox to the release back in June. New version
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15 of each coming up in a week or so, so another catch-up release.</p>
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17 <p>This also goes back to using busybox's cpio for now, because the linux
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18 from scratch build uses the as yet unimplemented cpio -s (in toybox source
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19 control, but not in the 0.4.9 release).</p>
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21 <hr /><h2><a name="09-09-2014" />September 9, 2014</h2>
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22 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.8.tar.bz2>1.2.8</a>
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24 3.15 and a new ccwrap supporting musl-libc.</p>
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26 <p>This is an interim release. An upgrade to linux 3.16 and a new toybox
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27 release are pending.</p>
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29 <p>The big news is the new option to build musl-libc images with the new config
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31 everything needs to be retested thoroughly, and not all targets are supported
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32 by musl yet.</p>
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34 <p>Making even this much work required a from-scratch rewrite of ccwrap.c
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35 (which started life as the old uClibc compiler wrapper, before they gave up
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36 and started buildroot, and is thus full of uClibc-specific assumptions).
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37 This rewrite caused regressions galore, and just making uClibc work again
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38 with the new wrapper (for regression testing purposes) took a lot longer
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39 than expected. It's back to building Linux From Scratch 6.8 with uClibc
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40 again: next up is to build those same packages with musl. (And upgrade toybox,
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41 and to the 3.16 kernel...)</p>
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43 <p>The new musl targets are still a bit... wobbly. Static linking against
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44 musl works, dynamic needs fixing. (It looks like -Bsymbolic-functions
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45 in the linker isn't always working yet.)</p>
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47 <p>Other bugfixes: patch toybox not to build break when uClibc does something
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48 stupid with iconv.h. (New toybox release has a proper fix, but that's for next
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49 time.) SYSIMAGE_TYPE=initramfs is using the right image name
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50 again. The usr/src directory now has a hello.c (the README said it did,
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51 but only the C++ and threaded versions were actually there).</p>
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53 <p>The sh4 kernel config is no longer forcing CONFIG_EXPERT (that
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54 patch should probably go upstream at some point, but after the number
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55 of years perl removal took it's hard to muster any enthusiasm for engaging
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56 with linux-kernel. Oh, and the qemu commit that broke signal handling
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57 in qemu 2.x was qemu git 02c4bdf1d2ca, I pinged qemu-devel about that but in
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58 case you want to revert locally and rebuild your qemu-system-sh4... It
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59 works fine for automated native builds either way, but interactive use
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60 is inconvenient when ctrl-c kills the _emulator_ instead of passing through
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61 to the shell instance.)</p>
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63 <p>Speaking of qemu upgrades, two kernel patches went away: the sh4 one to
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64 not touch register 18 (qemu no longer exits over that), and qemu's powerpc
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65 board can now emulate 4 drives hooked up to the primary disk controller, so we
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66 don't need to use the cdrom controller to get an hdc, which means native
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67 builds don't need us to patch Linux's insane scsi device probing ("throw all
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68 the devices in a big pot and give it a stir, then grab one at random to be
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69 sda") to align qemu's idea of -hda, -hdb, and -hdc with what Linux hallucinates
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70 them to be. (Now there's only one controller and the Linux scsi guys are still
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71 working on screwing up device ordering _within_ a single controller.)</p>
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73 <p>Bobby Bingham sent in a patch to stop yet another hardwired path
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74 stupidity where gcc was still reaching around ccwrap.c to screw up.
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75 (Rewriting the path to start with --nostdinc --nostdlib isn't quite _enough_
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76 to get gcc to stop imagining paths to check; you have to patch out bits
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77 o the C code that try to grab random stuff, because gnu.)</p>
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79 <p>Also, more/record-commands.sh infrastructure got upgraded to record the
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80 second half of the host-tools build (rebuilding the wrapper directory each
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81 time we add something to build/host, but in a way that _doesn't_ rebuild
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82 the directory if it already exists to avoid interfering with multiple
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83 parallel builds ala FORK=1 more/build.sh).</p>
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85 <hr /><h2><a name="03-05-2014" />May 3, 2014</h2>
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86 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.7.tar.bz2>1.2.7</a>
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87 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/1649>hg 1649</a>, using
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88 Linux 3.14, and toybox 0.4.8.</p>
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90 <p>Overdue maintenance release to catch up to the kernel. Yes, we skipped a
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91 kernel release. And I meant to upgrade to busybox 1.22.1
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92 but thought I already had because the last digit matched. And the musl
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93 switchover isn't finished yet. Yeah, my todo list still runneth over, and
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94 most of it's going to toybox.</p>
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96 <p>At least the native stuff is building a new dropbear version. (Remember:
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97 the NSA didn't put the goto fail exploit in iOS, or the other goto fail
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98 exploit in gnutls, or the heartbleed bug into openssl, and I can't WAIT to
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99 see what they didn't do to dropbear.)</p>
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101 <p>Tested under qemu 2.0, and in fact powerpc requires it because /dev/hdc
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102 moved. (Don't ask me why qemu-system-sh4 kills the emulator
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103 when you hit ctrl-c, it's been doing that for a while. They left the terminal
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104 in cooked mode and didn't intercept signals and I should probably poke them
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105 about that. It's on the todo list...)</p>
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107 <hr /><h2><a name="19-09-2013" />November 19, 2013</h2>
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108 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.6.tar.bz2>1.2.6</a>
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110 Linux 3.12 and toybox 0.4.7.</p>
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112 <p>There's a bugfix for hosts using patch 2.7.x, and creating sparse disk
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113 images for the native builds uses the "truncate" command now rather than dd.
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114 Gunter Roeck fixed a build regression if you want to build ext2 system images,
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115 and Patrick Lauer made the smoketest timeout configurable (and extended the
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116 default to 3 minutes).</p>
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118 <p>(I'm way behind on email and distracted by other things. Hoping to get
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119 more done next release, but meantime here's an update to the new kernel.
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120 Tested against qemu 1.6.1, the usual suspects seem to work fine so far.)</p>
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122 <hr /><h2><a name="17-09-2013" />September 17, 2013</h2>
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123 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.5.tar.bz2>1.2.5</a>
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125 (3.11) and toybox 0.4.6.</p>
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127 <p>Same versions of the other packages as last time, even busybox and uClibc.
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128 The musl migration is coming but didn't quite make it this release.
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129 The busybox to toybox migration continues, with toybox now supplying grep and
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130 umount. This leaves busybox providing:</p>
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138 <p>(Several of which are already in the toybox "pending" directory defaulting
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139 to "n" while they await review and cleanup.)</p>
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141 <p>If you use qemu 1.6.0, note that mips and sparc networking are broken.
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142 1.5.0 works. No, I don't know what the qemu guys are using for regression
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147 broken tarball's been moved to <a href=downloads/old>old</a>.]</p>
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149 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.4.1.tar.bz2>1.2.4.1</a>
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150 is based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/ref/1612>hg commit 1612</a>, using
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153 <p>Took a while to work around QEMU's <a href=http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-06/msg05325.html>issues with arm</a>, and sparc, and
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155 mips, mipsel, sparc, sh4, powerpc, and arm all work. (And sparc can actually
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156 do native builds now, under qemu 1.5.)</p>
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158 <p>The mips64 target is bit-rotted (I think qemu changed out from under it
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163 and split). Upcoming work: I've done part of the architecture to put
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164 simple-root-filesystem in initramfs (or <a href=http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1306.3/04204.html>initmpfs</a>)
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165 always and splice the native-compiler in at runtime from
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166 /dev/hda with symlinks, that might be ready next release. And I'm chipping
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168 sources/toys/ccwrap.c to _not_ assume uClibc).</p>
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170 <p>Binaries in the <a href=bin>usual</a> <a href=downloads/binaries>places</a>.</p>
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174 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.3.tar.bz2>1.2.3</a> is based on
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176 toybox 0.4.4, and linux 3.8.</p>
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178 <p>The delay is because qemu 1.3.0 and 1.4.0 both have a
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179 <a href=https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1127369>subtle bug</a>
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181 which I blamed on everything from toybox to the kernel until working
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183 reliably on the various targets. (A bug that
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184 goes away when you try again is always a pain to track down, you're
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185 never quite sure whether you've fixed it or just didn't see it this
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188 <p>The <a href=about.html>about page</a> got a major facelift, if you haven't
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192 <p>Another kernel, another release:
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193 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.2.tar.bz2>1.2.2</a> is out based on
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194 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1576>hg commit 1576</a>. It's got Linux 3.7
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195 and toybox 0.4.2.</p>
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197 <p>The native-built binaries for dropbear and strace and such are back.
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198 (Last time around native building couldn't upload binaries to the host
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199 because the launcher script was calling busybox netcat to host ftpd,
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200 but toybox is providing netcat now. I punted because we were close to
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201 the next kernel release and I wanted to catch up.)</p>
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203 <p>Other than the package upgrades, the rest is pretty minor.
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204 The <a href=screenshots>screenshots</a> directory is back. Undid some
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205 minor bit-rot in the i686-virtio target, and a tweak to powerpc so musl can
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206 build natively on it. (Haven't switched over any targets to build musl on
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207 the host yet, still chipping away at a ccwrap rewrite.) The
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208 chroot-splice.sh script is now doing its bind mounts read only.</p>
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211 <p>The <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.1.tar.bz2>1.2.1 release</a> is out,
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212 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1560>hg commit 1560</a>, with linux 3.6
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213 (plus some ext4 bugfixes), busybox 1.20.2, and a uClibc config tweak so mdadm
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217 <p>Toybox was upgraded to 0.4.1 and the build is now using it by default.
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218 The goal is to eventually replace busybox with <a href=http://landley.net/toybox>toybox</a>, and each release
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219 from here on is likely to switch over a few more commands. The current
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222 <h3>Busybox:</h3>
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223 <blockquote>
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224 <p>ash awk bunzip2 bzip2 cp cpio cut dd diff dnsdomainname egrep expr
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225 fgrep find ftpd ftpget ftpput grep gunzip gzip ifconfig init install less
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226 losetup lspci man mount mv pgrep ping pkill ps readlink rm route sed sh split
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227 stat tar test time touch tr umount unxz vi wget xzcat zcat</p>
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230 <h3>Toybox:</h3>
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231 <blockquote><p>
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232 basename bzcat cal cat catv chgrp chmod chown chroot chvt cksum clear cmp comm
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233 count date df dirname dmesg dos2unix du echo env false free head help hostname
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234 id insmod kill killall link ln login logname ls lsmod md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod
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236 pidof printenv pwd realpath rmdir rmmod seq setsid sha1sum sleep sort swapoff
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239 xargs yes
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240 <p></blockquote>
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242 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1545>Binutils has been
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243 upgraded</a> to the last GPLv2 version in the git repo
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244 (commit 397a64b3, between 2.17 and 2.18), which has the -Bsymbolic-functions
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245 command required to build
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246 <a href=http://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html>the musl C library</a>.
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247 (This version of binutils also claims to have ARMv7 support, but we're not
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248 using that yet.)</p>
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250 <p>The goal for next release is to replace uClibc with musl for the
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251 architectures musl currently supports, and to help the musl developers add
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252 support for the remaining architectures to eventually replace uClibc as
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253 a cross-compiled package. (New build control images to natively build
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254 uClibc and glibc chroot environments on an arbitrary target are on the
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255 todo list. Supporting a libc does not require cross compiling it.)</p>
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257 <p>On the infrastructure side of things, USE_ALT went away. The new way to
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258 build alternate versions of packages is to just provide a directory of
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259 extracted source in the "packages" directory, in which case the build will
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260 use it verbatim (applying patches is your problem).</p>
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262 <p>This means the following works:</p>
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264 <blockquote><pre>
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265 more/clean.sh
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270 <p>If you want to go back to building the tarball versions, either set
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271 IGNORE_REPOS=busybox (or all), or "rm -rf packages/busybox".</p>
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274 <h2><a name="22-08-2012" />August 22, 2012</h2>
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276 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.0.tar.bz2>1.2.0 release</a> is out, based
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277 on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1535>hg commit 1535</a>.
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278 Package upgrades are Linux 3.5, uClibc-0.9.33.2, busybox 1.20.0,
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279 toybox is back in at version 0.4.0, and most targets are finally
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282 <p>Several "how did that ever work" bugs in the build scripts got fixed
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283 (commits 1513 through 1518, for example). Several other "only occurs on
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284 a specific distro" bugs also got fixed (a Gentoo one in 1518, a Fedora
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285 one in 1532). The longstanding uClibc++ build break where it complained
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286 ".config is a directory" was squashed by 1533.</p>
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288 <p>The new development was mostly prep work for toybox integration and fixing
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289 bit-rot in record-commands.sh (used to test toybox). There was also a lot of
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290 dealing with regressions introduced by package upgrades. (Upgrading uClibc
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291 broke stuff. Upgrading busybox broke stuff. Upgrading the kernel
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292 broke stuff all three times.)</p>
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294 <p>Busybox is still doing most of the heavy lifting both during the host
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295 build and on the target, but the baseconfig-busybox file is now sorted with
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296 toybox-supplied functionality at the end, allowing toybox to replace
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297 busybox code incrementally as commands become ready.</p>
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299 <p>In future versions I'm looking at migrating this project from busybox/uClibc
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300 to <a href="http://landley.net/toybox">toybox</a>/<a href=http://www.etalabs.net/musl>musl</a>, producing something compatible with Android's "no GPL in
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301 userspace". I'm also looking at replacement toolchains, since it may take
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302 me a while to clear time to work on <a href=http://landley.net/qcc>qcc</a>.
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303 If you're curious about all that, ask on the mailing list.</p>
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306 <h2><a name="31-01-2012" />January 31, 2012</h2>
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307 <p>The <downloads/aboriginal-1.1.1.tar.bz2>1.1.1 release</a> is out, based on
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308 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1496>hg commit 1496</a>.</p>
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310 <p>The new release upgrades packages (Linux 3.2, uClibc 0.9.32.1,
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311 busybox 1.19.3, e2fsprogs 1.41.14), and
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312 <a href=control-images>natively compiles</a> Linux From Scratch 6.8
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315 <p>The x86 targets now require QEMU 1.0 (because the "qemu" binary got renamed
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316 "qemu-system-i386"), but the mips targets require the previous
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317 release due to a regression in the network card emulation (fixed in the source
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320 <p>On the documentation front, the 2008 "what are we doing and why"
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321 presentation is now available in
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322 <a href=https://speakerdeck.com/landley/developing-for-non-x86-targets-using-qemu>HTML format</a>, probably worth reading if you haven't yet.
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323 The FAQ also grew some <a href=FAQ.html#debug_test>new</a>
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324 <a href=FAQ.html#new_syscalls>entries</a> (showing how to use more/test.sh
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325 to rebuild uClibc without redoing a while toolchain, and why powerpc isn't
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326 as backward compatable as you'd expect).</p>
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327
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328 <p>The long-broken sparc target now supports basic dynamic linking (although
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329 dynamically linked threading and C++ are still broken).</p>
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330
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331 <p>Busybox is back to using a specified configuration instead of just switching
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332 on everything. (Busybox's new ubifs commands won't build on Ubuntu 11.10,
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333 and it's hard to see the command count grow past 300 and keep going without
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334 humming the "Katamari Damacy" theme.) If we missed a command let
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335 us know, and you can of course still build busybox defconfig natively.
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336 (Eventually, we'll start using <a href=/toybox>toybox</a> again,
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337 which has been relaunched as a BSD-licensed project.)</p>
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339 <p>The build.sh wrapper can now rebuild from any stage, just specify the
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340 starting point on the command line after the architecture, for example
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341 "./build.sh i686 simple-root-filesystem" won't rebuild the cross or native
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342 compilers, or the kernel, but will rebuild the root-filesystem, root-image,
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343 and system-image stages.</p>
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345 <p>The more/test.sh script now understands "host" as an architecture, for
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346 testing host-tools builds.</p>
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348 <p>Rename the USE_UNSTABLE variable to USE_ALT since it already uses alt-
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349 prefixes on the packages and patches. The repository's
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350 build/patches directory no longer contains "alt-*.patch" symlinks, instead
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351 a new more/alt-patches.sh script can set them up locally for a given package.</p>
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353 <p>Add record-commands wrapper to target image, "record-commands /mnt/init" runs
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354 /mnt/init and logs commands to "/tmp/record-commands-log.txt". This way
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355 you can see what commands target builds are running.</p>
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357 <p>The CPUS calculation, for automatically parallelizing the build on SMP
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358 systems, now detects hyper-threading and won't stress hyper-threaded systems
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359 quite so hard as full SMP. The target's sbin/init.sh also has basic CPUS
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360 detection code now too, since KVM or a chroot can have more than one. (This only
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361 matters if CPUS isn't set by something else, such as the dev-environment.sh
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362 wrapper script's distcc setup.)</p>
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364 <p>Several bugfixes, due to insufficient regression testing of previous releases:
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365 SYSIMAGE_TYPE=ext2 SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS was broken, more/smoketest-all.sh was
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366 looking for static-tools output in the old place, and more/record-command.sh
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367 only worked with NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1. The target root filesystem's
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368 init script wasn't detecting a failure to mount devtmpfs (such as when used
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369 to setup a chroot on a kernel that didn't support it), and falling back to
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370 mdev -s. And ldd was spewing debug messages. All fixed now.</p>
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374 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.1.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.1.0</a> is out,
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375 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1452>hg commit 1452</a>.</p>
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377 <p>The big news is that Linux From Scratch 6.7 now builds to completion
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378 under 11 targets, via the <a href=control-images/downloads/binaries/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap</a> <a href=control-images>build control
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379 image</a>. The remaining platforms all show target-specific issues
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384 <p>The only upgraded package was BusyBox 1.19.2, but there were several
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387 <ul>
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388 <li><p>The more/chroot-splice.sh script sets up a chroot using the
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389 build/root-filesystem-$TARGET directory and a build control image,
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390 for quickly testing build control images natively (generally using the
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391 i686 or x86-64 root filesystems).</p></li>
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397 more/buildall.sh script in FORK=1 mode to take available memory into account
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407 <li><p>The virtio targets should now work with dev-environment.sh</p></li>
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408 <li><p>The test script more/test.sh should no longer delete the output directory
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409 (build/$STAGE_NAME-$TARGET) at the start of each test, allowing test rebuilds
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412 <li><p>The common kernel config now uses the ext4 driver for both ext3 and ext2
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417 <h2><a name="08-22-2011" />August 22, 2011</h2>
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421 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/143>1430</a>.
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424 tools).</p>
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426 <p>This release is still using pthreads, but NTPL support is a goal for next
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429 <p>The other big news is that the control-images got split out to
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433 <p>The Aboriginal Linux project is feature complete ever since the 1.0
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434 release, and other than adding support for more targets the only major
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435 todo items left are a big documentation update, more automation via cron job,
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438 this point, 0.9.32 has support but needs more tweaking and testing.)</p>
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439 Since control images are not feature complete (and there's really no obvious
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440 limit to what you can do with them), they deserve to be their own project.</p>
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442 <p>Other changes:</p>
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445 <li>
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446 <p>The default kernel configuration replaces includes v9fs (as used in virtfs or
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447 the diod server) instead of the older NFS. In addition Alessio Igor Bogani
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448 contributed i686-virtio and powerpc-virtio targets, using the new virtio
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449 infrastructure in KVM to provide efficient emulation-friendly virtual
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450 devices.</p>
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451 </li>
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453 <li>
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454 <p>Several random bugfixes and cleanups (BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS should
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455 work again, the root filesystems now use devtmpfs instead of mdev).</p>
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456 </li>
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458 <li>
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459 <p>Major cleanup on sources/targets, now most entries are a single file.
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460 The hold hw- prefix stuff went away, now the ones that are files are built
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461 by more/buildall.sh and the ones that are directories are the derived stuff
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462 that only gets built if you specify it explicitly. (read_arch_dir is
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463 now called load_target, and the new base_architecture function reads in
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464 a base architecture that this one derives from.)</p>
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465 </li>
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467 <li>
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468 <p>The new more/smoketest-report.sh produces CSV output with more info.
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469 (I need to follow this up with a nightly cron job and a pretty
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470 web page generator.)<p>
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471 </li>
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472 </ul>
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475 <h2><a name="06-14-2011" />June 14, 2011</h2>
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477 <p>The long overdue <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.2.tar.bz2>1.0.2
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478 release</a> is out, based on hg commit
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479 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/1375>1375</a>.</p>
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481 <p>This release includes several bugfixes, package version upgrades for Linux
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482 (2.6.39), BusyBox (1.18.4), and Squashfs (4.2), and some minor user interface
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483 tweaks. (Still using uClibc 0.9.31, NTPL is bumped to next release.)</p>
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485 <h2>Targets</h2>
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487 <p>This moves forward three(!) kernel releases (sorry), and although several
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488 targets bit-rotted along the way (notably armv6l, sh4, and mips) they're all
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491 <p>QEMU still doesn't emulate the big endian arm or
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492 m68k targets, powerpc-440fp needs to be switched to QEMU's -M bamboo board
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494 to a shell prompt but contain bugs in either uClibc or the kernel that make
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497 <p>All the other targets can at least natively compile and run
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498 "hello world", and the arm, x86, mips, and powerpc targets built
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499 static versions of dropbear and strace (available in the
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500 <a href=downloads/binaries/extras>extras directory</a>, or by using
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508 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1327>1327</a> fixes
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510 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1328>1328</a> puts
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511 libnsl back</li>
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512 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1332>1332</a> makes
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513 #!/bin/sh point to bash instead of hush</li>
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514 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1335>1335</a> makes
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515 download.sh check if sha1sum is installed on the host (so it can fail with a
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516 better error message)</li>
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517 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1344>1344</a>
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518 serializes scratch disk image creation during parallel builds of all targets (so the
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519 disk I/O storm doesn't trigger timeouts during native builds of dropbear
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520 and strace).</li>
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521 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1364>1364</a> upgrades
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522 busybox to fix a wget hang.</li>
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523 </ul>
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524
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525 <h2>New Control Knobs</h2>
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526
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527 <p>Two new build stages <b>root-image.sh</b> and <b>linux-kernel.sh</b>
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528 got split out from system-image.sh. The first
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529 makes a filesystem image from a root filesystem directory,
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530 the second builds a kernel. This leaves system-image.sh to
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531 create the qemu launch scripts and bundle it all up into a tarball.</p>
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533 <p>The advantage of the split is you can repackage the root filesystem without rebuilding
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534 your kernel. (Unless you chose SYSIMAGE_TYPE=initramfs, where the output
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535 of root-image.sh is a prerequisite to linux-kernel.sh.) The downside is
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536 you have to remember to call the other scripts before calling system-image.sh
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537 in order for your changes to wind up in the system image. (If you delete
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538 the tarball you modified out of the build directory, ./build.sh should still work out
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539 what it needs to rebuild.)</p>
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540
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541 <p><b>Environment variables:</b> SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS now defaults to 2 gigabytes
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542 (only currently matters for SYSIMAGE_TYPE=ext2). The more/buildall.sh script
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543 now pays attention to NO_CLEAN and BUILD_NATIVE_ONLY. As always, the
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544 environment variables are documented in the config file at
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545 the top of the source tree, and leaving them blank should provide sane
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546 default behavior.</p>
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547
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548 <p>Two new scripts in the system image's /sbin directory are:</p>
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549
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550 <ul>
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551 <li><p><b>setup-chroot /home/mydir [COMMAND...]</b></p>
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553 <p>This script copies the system-image's (generally read-only) root filesystem
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554 into a writeable subdirectory, copies the other mounts ("mount --bind /proc
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555 /home/mydir/proc" and so on), and chroots into the resulting directory to
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556 run the rest of the command line. (If no commands are specified, chroot
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557 runs /bin/sh for an interactive shell prompt.)</p>
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558
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559 <p>When the chroot exits, the script cleans up all the mount points but
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560 leaves the directory contents.</p>
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561
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562 <p>This lets you use a read-only system image to build and install software
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563 into a chroot.</p>
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564
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565 <p>If the target directory already exists, the script will just redo the
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566 --bind mounts, and won't copy files.</p>
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567 </li>
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568
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569 <li><p><b>zap-chroot</b> - The cleanup script to remove all mounts under a
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570 specified subdirectory.</p></li>
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571 </ul>
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572
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573 <p>In the system images, root's home directory is now /home/root so it's
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574 in known writeable space you can stick a .ssh directory in for dropbear.</p>
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575
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576 <hr />
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577 <h2><a name="02-13-2011" />February 13, 2011</h2>
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578 <p>The repository is back up, and tweaked so it generates correct URLs without
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579 superfluous cgi names in them.</p>
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580
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581 <p>I see from the release RSS feed (go to repository viewer, then click "tags"
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582 and then "rss") that we're due for the next release in the first half of March.</p>
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583
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584 <p>I'd better get on that. (I'm aiming for a version of uClibc with NPTL
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585 working on at least x86/64, arm, mips, and powerpc. There's some work to do
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586 between now and then...)</p>
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587
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588 <hr />
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589 <h2><a name="02-08-2011" />February 8, 2011</h2>
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590 <p>The website was down again while we switched web hosts, but we're back up
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591 on dreamhost now, which has buckets more bandwidth and lets us have a
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592 <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net>mailing
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593 list</a> again.</p>
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594
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595 <p>I still need to figure out how to enable mercurial on the new host, so
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596 the repository is down at the moment, but I should get that fixed up
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597 soon.</p>
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598
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599 <hr>
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600 <h2><a name="01-02-2011" />January 2, 2011</h2>
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601 <p>It's a month late, but
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602 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.1.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0.1</a> is
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603 finally out,
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604 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1318>hg commit
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605 1318</a>, using Linux 2.6.36, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.18.0.</p>
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606
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607 <b><h3>Automated native build control images</h3></b>
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608
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609 <p>The big news this time is the native build
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610 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control images</a>, especially
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611 the one to build Linux From Scratch 6.7.</p>
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612
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613 <p>These control images drive the automated build infrastructure (first
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614 introduced back around release 0.9.8 and substantially improved since then).
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615 They allow you to fire up a system image under QEMU and run a completely
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616 automated native build.</p>
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617
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618 <p>To use a control image, cd into a system-image
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619 directory and run "./native-build.sh path/to/control-image.hdc". The
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620 result should wind up in the "uploads" subdirectory. To build control images
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621 from source, run "more/build-control-images.sh" and look in
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622 "build/control-images" afterwards. The build scripts live in
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623 "sources/control-images".</p>
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624
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625 <p>The <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap.hdc</a>
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626 image builds most of <a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.7/>Linux From Scratch 6.7</a>.
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627 It doesn't replace the toolchain or C library, and stubs out
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628 internationalization support, but builds everything else (about 50 packages
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629 total). This build runs to completion reliably on i686, x86_64, and
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630 armv5l. Making it do that smoked out a lot of subtle bugs and configuration
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631 issues in the build environment, resulting in much improved system images.
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632 This LFS build sometimes finishes on mips and powerpc, and
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633 sometimes randomly dies for various asynchronous reasons that seem like
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634 something wrong in uClibc's pthreads locking code, although that's just
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635 a guess. (Since the uClibc developers (finally!) shipped a 0.9.32-rc1 with NPTL
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636 support on all targets, I expect the fix will involve upgrading. Part of the
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637 delay in this release was me playing around with that, but I'm releasing a
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638 checkpoint of the existing code before switching over to the new threading
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639 implementation.)</p>
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640
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641 <b><h3>What else is new?</h3></b>
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642
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643 <p>I fixed the static "dropbear" binary to call "ssh" out of $PATH instead of
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644 expecting dbclient at a fixed location, fixed the guest account's
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645 /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries so dropbear can use it, and added a /root
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646 directory to the system images so you can add a .ssh directory to it to make
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647 dropbear happy (possibly by mounting a tmpfs on it first).</p>
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648
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649 <p>Build infrastructure tweaks: sources/download_functions.sh is now its own
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650 file, and various fixes (only apply patches that end in ".patch") . The root
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651 filesystem's sbin/init.sh now mounts /dev/pts. Bugfix for
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652 SIMPLE_ROOT_OVERLAY, and multiple bugfixes in ccwrap.</p>
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653
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654 <p>Lots of tweaks to the native-build stuff. Redo control image generation,
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655 add bootstrap-skeleton with common code for bootstrapping distros (it has
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656 its own README), and rebase
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657 the half-finished gentoo-bootstrap on top of that. Upgrade
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658 "bisectinate" debugging script to take its test from the command line.</p>
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659
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660 <p>Several tweaks to uClibc to build LFS packages, and tweaks to the
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661 base kernel config to support NFSv3 and devtmpfs.</p>
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662
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663 <p>The new more/chroot-splice.sh script combines a root filesystem directory
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664 and a control image directory into a combined version you can chroot into
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665 and run a build from. (It looks for each in the location the build puts
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666 them, build/root-filesystem-$ARCH and build/control-images/$IMAGENAME
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667 respectively.) The new more/zapchroot.sh script unmounts everything under a
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668 directory, which is useful when playing with a root-filesystem via chroot.</p>
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669
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670 <b><h3>Target support</h3></b>
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671
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672 <p>I've fallen a bit behind on regression testing the targets, and hope to
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673 catch up next release. (Upgrading the kernel and QEMU breaks things that used
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674 to work.)</p>
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675
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676 <p>The i486, i586, i686, x86_64, powerpc, armv4l, armv4tl, and armv5l targets
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677 all work (for me) without qualification.</p>
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678
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679 <p>Last I checked, qemu still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
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680 test those, but they build. (The kernel .config is almost certainly wrong
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681 for any target you'll actually be able to run them on, but the toolchain
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682 and root filesystem are probably ok.)</p>
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683
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684 <p>Updating the kernel broke armv6l: attempting to boot it under qemu exits
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685 with an "unimplemented cp15 register write" error. I'm not sure whether this is
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686 a kernel bug, a qemu bug the upgrade triggered, or some kind of
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687 misconfiguration. The proper fix is probably to look at the other arm boards
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688 QEMU can emulate for newer processors, and switch to one of those.</p>
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689
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690 <p>QEMU had a MIPS bug that prevented the system images from working for a
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691 version or two (such as the one in Ubuntu 10.04). It's fixed in current
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692 qemu-git, and isn't actually a problem with the mips, mipsel, or mips64 system
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693 images, they work fine under older or newer versions of qemu.</p>
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694
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695 <p>Sparc broke again (failure to launch init), and Oracle's patent trolling
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696 makes it harder than ever to care. It's on the todo list...</p>
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697
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698 <p>The only system image that doesn't current compile is sh4. (As noted in the
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699 0.9.11 release notes, the sh4 maintainer broke it on purpose, which also makes
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700 it hard for me to care much about that target.)</p>
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701
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702 <p>The problem with sh4 is once again the kernel, this time a build break:</p>
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703 <blockquote>
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704 arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c:303: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve'<br />
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705 /home/landley/play/two/build/temp-sh4/linux/arch/sh/include/asm/syscalls_32.h:24: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here
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706 </blockquote>
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707
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708 <p>And even if I bothered to fix that, another change in the sh4 code changed
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709 the serial devices so QEMU's serial console no longer produces output. (Note
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710 that the sh4 test image on qemu.org uses a 2.6.29 kernel, which may be the last
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711 time the thing actually worked for anybody who isn't in a financial relationship
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712 with Renesas.)</p>
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713
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714 <p>Last I checked, QEMU still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
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715 test those. I have patches to make m68k work on aranym and armv6eb work on
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716 actual big endian arm hardware, but haven't merged them yet.</p>
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717 </span>
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718
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719 <hr>
1271
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720 <h2><a name="11-03-2010" />November 3, 2010</h2>
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721 <p>My apologies for the lack of notice, the impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly
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722 went away saturday. The landley.net mirror is still up, and is
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723 becoming the main site again for the moment despite its' limited bandwidth.
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724 I'll see if I can recover the mailing list subscriptions, but I wouldn't
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725 count on it.</p>
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726
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727 <p>Still working on the next release, currently scheduled for around the start
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728 of December. Until we get a new mailing list, the
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729 <a href=/hg/aboriginal>source control log</a> shows what's changing, and
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730 you can always email me directly, rob at landley dot net.</p>
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731
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732 <hr>
1237
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733 <h2><a name="09-05-2010" />September 5, 2010</h2>
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734 <p>There's an old saying, "eventually you need to shoot the
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735 engineers and go into production". Aboriginal Linux can now bootstrap a
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736 native development environment on an arbitrary target, and build packages
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737 under the result. There's always more to do, but it does what it set
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738 out to do. And thus:</p>
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739
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740 <p><a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0</a> is out,
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741 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1238>hg commit
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742 1238</a>, using Linux 2.6.35, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.17.2.</p>
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743
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744 <p>Yes, it's been over five months since the last release. I didn't want to
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745 ship yet another intermediate release before doing 1.0, but I was trying
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746 to run out of todo items before shipping. (Yeah, I should know better.
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747 Sorry for the delay.)</p>
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748
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749 <p>The following are release notes, not proper documentation. Proper
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750 documentation (including an introduction to the whole thing) is the next
1237
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751 big TODO item.</p>
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752
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753 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
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754
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755 <p>The arm, mips, powerpc, and x86 targets all work. Sparc works statically
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756 linked, but dynamic linking is still broken. Khem Raj fixed mips64 dynamic
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757 linking, but the native compiler still doesn't work. The m68k target builds
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758 again, although QEMU still doesn't emulate it. The sh4 target and big endian
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759 arm are are still broken.</p>
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760
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761 <p>The snapshots page needs updating. The documentation needs updating.</p>
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762
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763 <b><h3>System image updates</h3></b>
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764
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765 <p>The native-build.sh script moved into each system image. This means you
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766 can now download a system image tarball and a control image, then run a
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767 native build without any dependencies on the Aboriginal Linux build scripts.
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768 This script is a wrapper around dev-environment.sh which takes one argument,
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769 the name of the control image file.</p>
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770
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771 <p>The build only puts dev-environment.sh and run-from-build.sh into a
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772 system image when the system image includes native development tools.</p>
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773
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774 <b><h3>Control Images</h3></b>
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775
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776 <p>This release adds prebuilt binary build control images, generated
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777 by more/build-control-images.sh and shipped in the
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778 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control-images</a> directory.
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779 These are squashfs filesystems containing source code and an init script to
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780 build it and upload it to the host (using the $FTP_SERVER and $FTP_PORT
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781 variables, set by native-build.sh).</p>
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782
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783 <p>If these
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784 images are loaded into /dev/hdc of the emulated system, the system image's
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785 init script will mount that on /mnt and run /mnt/init instead of a shell
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786 prompt, so the build is completely automated.</p>
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787
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788 <p>Control images are provided to build hello world, build static dropbear
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789 and strace binaries, run the busybox test suite, and an in-progress script
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790 to bootstrapping Gentoo Stage 1 does about the first 2/3 of the job.</p>
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791
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792 <b><h3>Root filesystem improvements</h3></b>
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793
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794 <p>The root filesystem broke into two stages: simple-root-filesystem just
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795 contains a simple "defconfig busybox plus uClibc" system, enough to boot
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796 to a shell prompt. The native-compiler stage is like cross-compiler only
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797 unprefixed, built to run on the target, and including make, bash, and
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798 distcc. The root-filesystem stage combines the two into a single root
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799 filesystem with native development tools.</p>
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800
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801 <p>If the root filesystem is mounted read only, the init script will now
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802 mount a tmpfs on /home if there's no /dev/hdb to provide writeable scratch
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803 space. Chroot environments should now use Google's 8.8.8.8 nameserver
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804 by default. The distcc binaries moved out of /bin to the /distcc directory.</p>
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805
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806 <p>The "oneit" binary became a standalone program, and uses the / directory
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807 as PID 1's working directory, allowing you to umount /home if necessary.
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808 Toybox's "patch" command went upstream into busybox, and busybox's defconfig
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809 once again supports netcat server mode, so toybox was removed. We're now
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810 using a defconfig busybox, so configuring it properly is their problem.</p>
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811
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812 <b><h3>Build scripts </h3></b>
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813
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814 <p>The kernel configuration got collated to sources/baseconfig-linux (just
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815 like baseconfig-uClibc), and the various packages were migrated to use
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816 that. The kernel config is now the baseconfig plus the settings
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817 entry $LINUX_CONFIG. You can still supply a miniconfig-linux file to
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818 override this, and some architectures still do that. The ones that have
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819 been migrated to use a shared baseconfig are a lot more regular now,
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820 and the differences between architectures broken out and isolated.</p>
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821
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822 <p>The build stages were broken up to be more granular. The root-filesystem.sh
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823 stage now merely collates the output of two previous stages:
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824 simple-root-filesystem.sh (which produces just enough of a root filesystem
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825 to boot to a shell prompt, based on uClibc and busybox plus a few init scripts
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826 and config files), and native-compiler.sh (a portable native toolchain).</p>
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827
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828 <p>The system-image.sh stage now generates the dev-environment.sh script.
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829 It only puts dev-environment.sh and native-build.sh scripts in the tarball
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830 when NO_NATIVE_COMPILER is blank (and thus the build includes native
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831 development tools), or if root-filesystem isn't available in which case
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832 it'll automatically use simple-root-filesystem.</p>
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833
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834 <p>Several more package builds were moved to sources/sections.</p>
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835
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836 <p>The new "more" subdirectory collects together all the user-runnable
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837 scripts that aren't build stages. (Many of these were previously in
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838 sources/more.) New scripts in this directory include:</p>
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839
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840 <ul>
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841 <li>Scripts to run newly built system images out of the build directory
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842 ("run-emulator-from-build.sh $ARCH", "dev-environment-from-build.sh $ARCH",
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843 and "native-build-from-build.sh")</li>
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844
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845 <li>test.sh - Wrapper script to run commands in the build environment, with
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846 read_arch_dir loaded. Useful for things like
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847 "STAGE_NAME=simple-cross-compiler more/test.sh sparc build_stage uClibc",
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848 or to dump the build context's environment variables ala "more/test.sh env"</li>
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849
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850 <li>timeout.sh $SECONDS command... - Wrapper to run a child process and
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851 kill it if it doesn't produce a line of output for $SECONDS seconds.</li>
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852
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853 <li>build-control-images.sh - build all control images from sources/native-builds.</li>
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854
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855 <li>for-each-target.sh - iterate through every defined target architecture
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856 and run a command.</li>
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857 </ul>
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858
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859 <b><h3>Website</h3></b>
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860
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861 <p>A new cron job is populating the
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862 <a href=downloads/binaries/snapshots>snapshots</a> directory. Currently only
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863 the stable versions, but the unstable versions should wander back in
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864 eventually. (When the bisectinate and migrate-kernel scripts catch up to
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865 what they need to do to properly test unstable packages.)</p>
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866
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867 <p>More documentation: The "about" page got redone, and the FAQ was fluffed
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868 out with a new debugging section. Michael S. Zick wrote up mips docs for the
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869 architecture page, and the build scripts grew even more comments.</p>
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870
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871 <b><h3>General Infrastructure</h3></b>
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872
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873 <p>The control image generation was upgraded so each control image
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874 source can have its own patch directory and file directory. (This needs
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875 more work.)</p>
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876
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877 <p>Environment variable sanitization: the sanitize_environment function
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878 unsets any environment variable it doesn't recognize, either from a whitelist
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879 or from config. Clearing all unrecognized environment variables insulates
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880 the build from some of the strange environments out there. To disable this
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881 behavior, export NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1.</p>
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882
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883 <p>New config variables:</p>
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884
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885 <ul>
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886 <li>STATIC_CC_HOST became CROSS_HOST_ARCH, set that and second stage cross
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887 compiler gets built.</li>
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888
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889 <li>The new ALLOW_PATCH_FAILURE=1 variable continues despite a patch failing to
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890 apply.</li>
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891
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892 <li>NO_HOST_TOOLS=1 tells build.sh to skip the host tools step, which is seldom
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893 a good idea but there you have it. The new HOST_EXTRA is an equally horrible
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894 idea, but if you feel the need it's a list of extra commands to pass through
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895 from the host $PATH.</p>
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896
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897 <li>NO_CPLUSPLUS=1 tells it not to add C++ support in the toolchains it
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898 builds.</p>
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899
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900 <li>NO_CLEANUP isn't a new variable, but you can now set this for entire
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901 builds and it should work.</li>
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902 </ul>
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903
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904 <p>ccwrap improvements: Handle unexported $PATH better. It doesn't need to
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905 search $PATH when argc[0] is a path (either absolute or relative to the current
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906 directory). Also use Scrt1.o when building a shared library. (Oddly this
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907 never caused a problem before, but do the right thing anyway.)</p>
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908
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909 <p>Upgrades to BUILD_STATIC: it now takes a comma separated list of packages,
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910 with the special value "all" to build everything static, and "none" to build
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911 nothing static. The default is to build static versions of busybox and the
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912 toolchain packages (gcc, binutils, make, and ccwrap) both due to the increased
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913 performance this provides under qemu (which has to repeatedly re-translate
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914 executable code pages that modify themselves, such as when dynamic linking
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915 patches per-process jump addresses), and also due to the increased portability
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916 this provides the native compiler tarball.</p>
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917
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918 <p>(The host-tools stage always builds dynamic packages, because the glibc
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919 maintainer has a personal dislike of static linking, meaning glibc's static
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920 linking support (in addition to creating 400k "hello world" binaries) is both
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921 broken[LINK] and deprecated[LINK]. Some distros have even taken to breaking
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922 out the *.a format libraries used for static linking into a separate package,
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923 and not installing them by default. The host-tools stage now tests for this,
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924 and refuses to continue in a dynamic-only build environment unless you set
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925 BUILD_STATIC=none. You can rebuild under the resulting target system to
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926 natively compile static binaries, which uClibc supports quite well, but you
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927 can't generate them from the host.)</p>
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928
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929 <p>The old FROM_ARCH is now HOST_ARCH, and the infrastructure using it
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930 (cross-compiler.sh and native-compiler.sh) has been cleaned up. The
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931 HOST_UTILS variable was also removed, that's now built for the full
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932 cross and native compilers, but not the simple cross compiler.</p>
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933
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934 <p>The more/smoketest.sh file no longer creates hdb.img.</p>
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parents: 1121
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935
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936 <p>The host-tools stage has been upgraded to work around the utter stupidity of
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937 Ubuntu 10.04, which turned "gcc" into a perl script. (Yes really. No, I don't
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938 know what they were smoking.)</p>
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939
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940 <p>Build zlib in host-tools (for squashfs) and in static-tools for dropbear's
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later.
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parents: 1121
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941 -C. This is necessary for reproducing the build under a system-image, because
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parents: 1121
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942 the default system image type (squashfs) requires zlib to build.</p>
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parents: 1121
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943
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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944 <p>Update the command prompt in system images to show the amount of
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945 parallelism available via distcc. (When it says 1 you haven't got
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parents: 1121
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946 distcc, and when it says a number greater than that you have.)
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parents: 1121
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947 The prompt now looks like:</p>
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parents: 1121
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948 <blockquote><pre>(powerpc:4) /home #</pre></blockquote>
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parents: 1121
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949
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parents: 1121
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950 <p>The make, bash, and distcc builds are now part of the native-compiler stage
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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951 (and their build scripts moved to sources/sections). This means that a native
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parents: 1121
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952 toolchain now includes make, because it's hard to build make without make.
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953 This stage also records the uClibc and linux config files for posterity.</p>
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parents: 1121
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954
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parents: 1121
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955 <p>The build was weaned off of toybox. (Broke out oneit, sent patch upstream
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parents: 1121
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956 to busybox, and got netcat fixed in defconfig so native-build.sh could use
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957 it.)</p>
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958
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parents: 1121
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959 <p>Several small bugfixes and cosmetic cleanups. For example, we now delete
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parents: 1121
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960 empty build/temp-* directories when we're done with them, and several
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961 config options such as NO_NATIVE_COMPILER and NO_CLEANUP should be more
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parents: 1121
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962 reliable now. Don't build hello-dynamic on a BUILD_STATIC=all system.
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parents: 1121
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963 Clean up debris files the kernel's headers_install leaves lying around.
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parents: 1121
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964 Minor upgrades to FORK=1 support, and QUIET is now part of FORK instead
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parents: 1121
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965 of a separate control. Generating a package manifest should no
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parents: 1121
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966 longer produce error messages. Empty temp directories get deleted on the
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parents: 1121
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967 way out. Better support for building older tools as alt-packages (tested
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parents: 1121
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968 binutils 2.14 and gcc 3.4). Comment out default UNSTABLE= URLs in download.sh,
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later.
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parents: 1121
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969 supply your own if you want that. Binutils build now honors existing $CFLAGS
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later.
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970 (if any). The dienow error message goes to stderr. More reliably track
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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971 package cache state when patches fail to apply. Simplify system-image
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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972 build (don't try to package root filesystem and build kernel in parallel
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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973 anymore, squashfs and make both have internal SMP support). BUILD_VERBOSE
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parents: 1121
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974 is now more verbose. Reliability improvement for record-commands.sh.
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parents: 1121
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975 New shell functions blank_workdir and extract_package. Consistently
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parents: 1121
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976 use name-name in scripts and name_name in functions.</p>
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parents: 1121
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977
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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978 <p>It's been a long 5 months...</p>
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parents: 1121
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979
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980 <hr>
1050
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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981 <h2><a name="05-02-2010" />May 2, 2010</h2>
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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982 <p>The name of the project is changing from Firmware Linux to Aboriginal
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
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983 Linux. The new URL is "http://landley.net/aboriginal".</p>
1050
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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984
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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985 <p>Some reasons to move away from the old name are
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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986 <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/pipermail/firmware-impactlinux.com/2009-October/000374.html>listed here</a>,
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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987 and some reasons to pick the new name are covered in
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
diff changeset
988 <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/pipermail/firmware-impactlinux.com/2010-April/000671.html>this thread</a>.</p>
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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989
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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990 <p>Some links may be broken while we switch over. Let us know what we've
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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991 missed on the mailing list...</p>
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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992
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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993 <hr>
1022
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parents: 1006
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994 <h2><a name="03-29-2010" />March 29, 2010</h2>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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995 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.11.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.11</a> is out,
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
996 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/1020>hg commit
1022
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parents: 1006
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997 1020</a>. We're closing in on a 1.0 release, but not quite there yet.</p>
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parents: 1006
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998
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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999 <p>This version upgrades to Linux 2.6.33, uClibc 0.9.30.3, and BusyBox
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1000 1.16.1.</p>
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parents: 1006
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1001
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1002 <b><h3>Improved native builds</h3></b>
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parents: 1006
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1003
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1004 <p>Most targets now have <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1005 for <a href=http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html>dropbear</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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1006 <a href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/>strace</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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1007 <a href=http://busybox.net>busybox</a>. These are statically
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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1008 linked against uClibc, so just download, set the executable bit, and run.</p>
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parents: 1006
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1009
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1010 <p>These dropbear and strace binaries are built using the automated three-disk
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1011 native build capability introduced <a href=#11-07-2009>back in November</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1012 which has been improved and genericized this release. Now one script creates
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1013 a build image (see examples in sources/native-builds) and another script
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1014 launches a system image with that build image attached as the third
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1015 hard drive (/dev/hdc), telling the system image to automatically build
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1016 those source packages and upload the result to the host via ftp.</p>
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parents: 1006
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1017
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parents: 1006
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1018 <p>So to reproduce the dropbear and strace binaries for a supported ARCH,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1019 you could do:</p>
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1020
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1021 <blockquote><pre>
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1022 ./build.sh ARCH
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parents: 1006
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1023 sources/native-builds/static-tools.sh tools.hdc
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1024 sources/more/native-build.sh ARCH tools.hdc output
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1025 </pre></blockquote>
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1026
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parents: 1006
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1027 <p>When the build exits, the results should be in the host's "output"
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parents: 1006
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1028 directory.</p>
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parents: 1006
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1029
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parents: 1006
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1030 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
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1031 <p>The arm, mips, x86, x86-64 targets that worked last time still work.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1032 The armv4eb and m68k targets still don't work.</p>
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parents: 1006
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1033
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1034 <p>The powerpc and sparc targets have been upgraded. Powerpc now works with
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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1035 the 3-disk automated native build (although you'll need qemu 0.12.4 to take
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parents: 1006
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1036 advantage of this). The sparc dynamic linker still doesn't work in uClibc,
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parents: 1006
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1037 but the statically linked system is now working well enough to build packages
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parents: 1006
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1038 natively.</p>
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parents: 1006
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1039
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1040 <p>New targets this release are i486 (thanks David Seikel) and mips64 (which
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1041 mostly works, but the native toolchain isn't quite properly configured to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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1042 build stuff with yet).</p>
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parents: 1006
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1043
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1044 <p>Finally, the sh4 target was broken by a cosmetic cleanup of the startup
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parents: 1006
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1045 assembly code in Linux 2.6.33 that rendered any binutils version older
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1046 than 4 months unusable to build sh4. While it's possible to patch around
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parents: 1006
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1047 this, it hasn't yet been worth effort. The Linux-sh4 maintainer is aware
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1048 of the issue, but explicitly
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1049 <a href=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel/7237>doesn't
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1050 care</a> about users other than his employer, and so far nobody
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1051 else seems to care enough about supporting the discontinued Sega Dreamcast
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1052 game console to argue with him. (Might revisit this next release, but m68k
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1053 support is a higher priority.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1054
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1055 <b><h3>Infrastructure</h3></b>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1056 <p>The system-image's "run-emulator.sh" is now a much smaller and simpler
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1057 script, consisting primarily of the qemu command line. (And if you export
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1058 DEBUG=1 it prints the emulator command line.) The distcc and hdb
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1059 setup code moved to dev-environment.sh.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1060
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1061 <p>The <a href=screenshots>screenshots</a> page is working again, if a bit
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1062 stale.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1063
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1064 <p>The bisectinate.sh script (to automatically git bisect a build issue)
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1065 has been updated, more to come next release.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1066
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1067 <p>The download.sh script has been updated to understand FORK=1 and download
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1068 packages in parallel. (And to extract them in parallel when
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1069 EXTRACT_ALL=1.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1070
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1071 <p>The new export_if_blank shell function allows several more environment
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1072 variables to be overridden, including TOP, SOURCES, SRCDIR, PATCHDIR,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1073 BUILD, SRCTREE, HOSTTOOLS, WRAPDIR, CC, and STAGE_NAME.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1074
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1075 <p>I'd also like to thank the debugging efforts of Wolfgang Denk, who hit
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1076 as many bugs trying to use this project as I normally do with other people's.
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1077 He eventually got discouraged and left, but thanks to his efforts:</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1078
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1079 <ul>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1080 <li><p>We now unset several environment variables (such as ARCH and
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1081 CROSS_COMPILE) that break things if the host exports random data in them
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1082 before the build. (Yes, this fights with export_if_blank above, and
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1083 the way configuration works in general. Some more design works is necessary
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1084 here to let you configure the project with environment variables, but
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1085 not be confused by existing environment debris.)</p></li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1086
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1087 <li><p>BUILD_STATIC=none can how handle the case where the host toolchain
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1088 can't build any static binaries at all.</p></li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1089
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1090 <li><p>The CROSS_SMOKE_TEST implementation (which had bit rotted) was fixed and
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1091 moved to its own script (sources/more/cross-smoke-test.sh), which is called by
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1092 build.sh as necessary.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1093
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1094 <p>Note that actually trying to use it is a question
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1095 of getting qemu application emulation to work for your target. For
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1096 arm you need to tweak /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr as root. For ppc you
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1097 need <a href=http://git.qemu.org/qemu.git/commit/?id=7983f435e5306a4b17e1edcb408ba64b33e9c88f>this patch</a>. For mips64 somebody still needs to
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1098 implement it (<a href=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-03/msg02218.html>no matter what gentoo thinks</a>).</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1099
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1100 <p>(There's a reason the smoke test was disabled long enough to bit-rot.
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1101 It broke for qemu reasons more often than it found bugs in the toolchain.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1102 </li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1103 </ul>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1104
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1105 <hr>
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1106 <h2><a name="02-02-2010" />February 2, 2010</h2>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1107
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1108 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.10.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.10</a> is out,
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
1109 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/966>hg
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1110 commit 966</a>.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1111
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1112 <p>Yeah, I know 1.0 is overdue for a release, here's a resync point
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1113 with the 2.6.32 kernel and uClibc 0.9.30.2.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1114
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1115 <p>There are some regressions this time around, which I plan to fix up
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1116 in the next release. The 2.6.32 kernel broke strace,
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1117 and upgrading to the new version didn't fix it. (I know how, I just haven't
1006
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
1118 yet.) The m68k target isn't currently building due to the uClibc upgrade
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
1119 (yeah, "bugfix only", I know), and the armv6l target seems to be broken two
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
1120 different ways. I screwed up the screenshots page (which is halfway converted
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
1121 to Vladimir's new fancy version with style sheets, but "halfway" doesn't
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1122 actually display right). The cron job building nightly snapshots got taken down
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1123 when the server's hard drive filled up, and now it's in the process of being
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1124 upgraded with a couple new scripts:</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1125
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1126 <p>The new sources/more/migrate_kernel.sh script does a "make oldconfig"
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1127 between the stable and "USE_UNSTABLE=linux" kernels, and creates a new
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1128 alt-miniconfig-linux for the specified target with any new symbols that
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1129 showed up. (This means the snapshots should break less, but adding the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1130 symbols to the native configs will still require manual filtering.)</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1131
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1132 <p>Also, the new sources/more/bisectinate.sh script automatically does
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1133 a git bisect between a known good and known bad (generally HEAD) version
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1134 of one of the unstable packages (linux, uClibc, or busybox). It can test
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1135 that the build completes, or that the system image boots and successfully
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1136 builds the static native dropbear binary. (In theory this will allow the
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
1137 nightly snapshots to automatically isolate and report the first commit that
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1138 broke them.)</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1139
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1140 <p>In other general infrastructure news: some extensive upgrades to the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1141 compiler wrapper (ccwrap), such as no longer needing GIMME_AN_S at compile
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1142 time and instead autodetecting the presence of libgcc_s.so vs libgcc.a
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
1143 and behaving appropriately. A largish cleanup/refactoring of the compiler
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1144 build (described in
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
1145 <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/944>commit 944</a>)
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1146 added a new "native-compiler.sh" script, which handles building the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1147 improved "cross-compiler" tarball that includes thread support and
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1148 uClibc++ and is statically linked against uClibc on the host.
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1149 The simple cross compiler is now "simple-cross-compiler.sh" (which is
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1150 good enough to build a system image, but isn't very useful in other
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1151 contexts).</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1152
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1153 <p>The host-tools.sh stage now only builds
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1154 e2fsprogs or squashfs if the build is actually going to use them (based
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1155 on the SYSIMAGE_TYPE config symbol). The sources/sections scripts now
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1156 come in two flavors: an *.build version with setup/cleanup called
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1157 automatically and *.sh files which do their own setup/cleanup within
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1158 the script. Each system image's run-emulator.sh will once again add
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1159 /sbin:/usr/sbin to the $PATH if it can't find mke2fs.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1160
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1161 <p>The --extract command line option went away from download.sh because
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1162 everything else works via environment variables. Use EXTRACT_ALL=1 instead.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1163
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1164 <p>Fixed a few regressions that snuck into previous versions: the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1165 config-{linux,uClibc,busybox} should once again be in the root filesystem's
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1166 usr/src directory, buildall.sh should now try to build the static native
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1167 dropbear/strace binaries for all targets (not just the last one) and it
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1168 should properly be running smoketest.sh again.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
1169
1022
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
1170 <hr>
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1171 <h2><a name="12-08-2009" />December 8, 2009</h2>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1172 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.9.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.9</a> is out,
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
1173 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/921>hg commit 921</a>.</p>
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1174
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1175 <p>Just a checkpoint on the way to 1.0, which is still planned for
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1176 around new years, but there's been some schedule slippage already.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1177
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1178 <ul>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1179 <li>
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1180 <p><b>New documentation</b></p>
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1181 <p>The presentation slides have been converted to
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1182 <a href=presentation.html>HTML</a>, although the much prettier (and much
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1183 bigger) <a href=downloads/presentation.pdf>PDF</a> is still available.</p>
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1184
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1185 <p>There is also a <a href=FAQ.html>FAQ</a>, which is still somewhat sparse.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1186 (Ask away.)</p>
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1187 </li>
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1188
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1189 <li><p><b>Prebuilt binaries</b></p></li>
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1190
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1191 <p>Added shm support to uClibc. Bugfix to the c++
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1192 compiler (it should work again). The system images now have a "guest"
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parents: 881
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1193 user/group so packages can more easily be built as a non-root user.
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parents: 881
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1194 The shell prompt now includes the $HOST name.</p>
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1195 </li>
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1196
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parents: 881
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1197 <li><p><b>Build scripts</b></p>
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parents: 881
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1198 <p>A new trivial-but-convenient "./clean.sh" script lets you delete just the
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1199 target builds out of "build". (If you delete that whole directory it has to
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parents: 881
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1200 re-extract all the package tarballs and rebuilt the host tools, which is
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1201 often unnecessary work.)</p>
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parents: 881
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1202
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parents: 881
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1203 <p>Command recording has been completely redone. No more RECORD_COMMANDS
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parents: 881
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1204 variable, instead run sources/more/record-commands.sh to wrap the current
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1205 $PATH in build/wrappy (either after or instead of running host-tools.sh),
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1206 then run your build stages, and finally either run
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1207 sources/more/report-recorded-commands.sh to get a summary or
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1208 look at the raw command line lists in build/logs.</p>
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parents: 881
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1209
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parents: 881
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1210 <p>The Great Refactoring continues in sources/sections: broke up
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1211 binutils-gcc.sh into individual binutils, gcc, and ccwrap
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parents: 881
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1212 stages, split off linux-headers and uClibc++ from uClibc.sh,
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1213 and spun off toybox.sh from busybox.sh.</p>
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parents: 881
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1214
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parents: 881
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1215 <p>Also broke kernel_cmdline() out of qemu_defaults() to make it easier to add
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1216 non-qemu sources/targets configurations without reinventing the wheel,
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1217 and fixed up dependencies for hw-target builds (which should work a lot
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1218 more reliably now).</p>
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parents: 881
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1219
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parents: 881
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1220 <p>Bumped up the number of $CPUS used by the build to 1.5x the actual number
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1221 (as long as your host has at least 512 megs of ram per actual CPU). That
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1222 should help keep larger servers busy.</p>
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parents: 881
diff changeset
1223
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parents: 881
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1224 <p>Some self-hosting fixes from Natanael Copa (making sure host-tools.sh
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
1225 builds on a uClibc host): added --disable-nls to the e2fsprogs build
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1226 (what exactly is ./configure running all these tests for again?), and a
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1227 squashfs patch (substituting a function uClibc hasn't got).</p>
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parents: 881
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1228
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parents: 881
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1229 <p>Simplified system-image.sh to use killtree() instead of mysetsid.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1230 Simplified the cross-compiler/cross-static logic to set the $PATH to
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1231 use the right one, rather than moving them around during the build.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1232 Updated smoketest-all.sh to show "NONE" for system images that didn't build.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1233 Added more support for SKIP_STRIP and CFLAGS=-g to the rest of the
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
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1234 packages. Cleaned out the old USE_COLOR stuff which was superseded by
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1235 set_titlebar.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1236 </li>
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parents: 881
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1237 </ul>
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parents: 881
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1238
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1239 <hr>
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parents: 881
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1240 <h2><a name=11-07-2009 />November 7, 2009</h2>
879
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1241 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.8.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.8</a> is out,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1242 based on hg commit 876. (If you want to see all the changes in this release,
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
1243 look at <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/876>commits 810 through 876</a>.)</p>
879
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1244
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1245 <p.The current plan is to cut one more release at the end of the month, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1246 then have the 1.0 release around new year's. This could be considered a
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1247 1.0-pre1, if you like.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1248
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1249 <p>This release upgrades linux to 2.6.31.4 and busybox to 1.15.2.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1250 (The uClibc version is still 0.9.30.1, they haven't had a new release
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1251 yet.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1252
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1253 <p>The old #firmware irc channel on freenode.net has been merged into #edev,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1254 so go there now to ask questions about this project. (A _lot_ of
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1255 knowledgeable, helpful people hang there who can answer your embedded
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1256 development questions.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1257
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1258 <h3><b>Bug tracker and roadmap</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1259
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1260 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1261 <p>The <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact>new bug
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1262 tracker</a> has a <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact/roadmap>roadmap</a>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1263 showing what we plan to implement for the next release or two.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1264
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
1265 <p>It's also a place to file bugs, although sending them to the <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/listinfo.cgi/firmware-impactlinux.com>mailing list</a>
879
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1266 is still the fastest way to get a fix.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1267 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1268
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1269 <h3><b>New screenshots page</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1270
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1271 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1272 <p><a href=screenshots>This page</a> lists every target, with
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1273 a "screenshot" of the target's boot messages under qemu, and associated
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1274 links to all the various prebuilt binaries for that target.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1275 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1276
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1277 <h3><b>Fun with static linking</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1278
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1279 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1280 <p>The cross-compiler-$ARCH tarballs are all compiled for i686 and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1281 statically linked against uClibc for maximum portability.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1282
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1283 <p>The busybox binary in the root filesystem images is now built statically by
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1284 default, providing a 20% speed improvement in ./configure times under qemu
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1285 (due to the reduced page translation overhead). You can switch this back
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1286 to dynamic with "BUILD_STATIC=none".</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1287
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1288 <p>Static dropbear and strace binaries for each target are also available,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1289 built by the new sources/more/native-static-build.sh script.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1290 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1291
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1292 <h3><b>System Image interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1293
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1294 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1295 <p>The run-from-build.sh script used to set up a development environment
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1296 out of the build directory, but didn't provide an easy way to do so based
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1297 on downloaded tarballs. (You had to work out and provide extensive
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1298 command line arguments to the run-emulator.sh script.) This has been
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1299 fixed.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1300
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1301 <p>The run-emulator.sh script in each system interface tarball is now much
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1302 simpler. It now looks for distccd and $ARCH-cc in its $PATH, and sets up
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1303 distcc acceleration automatically if it finds them. (It announces whether
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1304 or not it has managed to do so, and init.sh announces whether or not it
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1305 thinks it has distcc acceleration enabled just before launching a command
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1306 prompt.) So setting up the distcc accelerator should be less of a pain.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1307
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1308 <p>Also, run-emulator.sh no longer takes any command line arguments. Instead
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1309 the environment variable $HDB indicates a /dev/hdb disk image to mount on
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1310 /home, $HDBMEGS specifies the size of a (sparse ext2) HDB image to create if
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1311 it doesn't already exist, and QEMU_MEMORY indicates how many megabytes of
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1312 physical memory the emulator should allocate for the virtual system.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1313
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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1314 <p>Each system-image also provides a simple wrapper dev-environment.sh
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1315 which calls run-emulator.sh with HDBMEGS=2048, HDB=hdb.img, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1316 QEMU_MEMORY=256. (These are the values run-from-build.sh used to provide,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1317 and give a reasonable build environment with 256 megs of physical memory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1318 and 2 gigabytes of writeable /home space.) The run-from-build.sh script
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1319 itself now merely adds the specified build/cross-compiler-$ARCH directory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1320 to the $PATH, changes directory to the appropriate build/system-image-$ARCH,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1321 and calls ./dev-environment.sh. It's 3 lines.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1322
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1323 <p>The system images can now also automatically mount a third disk image
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1324 ($HDC, specifying an /dev/hdc image to mount onto the /mnt directory), and if
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1325 that filesystem contains an executable "init" program in its root directory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1326 the sbin/init.sh script will run that instead of launching a command prompt.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1327
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1328 <p>The new native-static-build.sh uses this HDC capability to automatically
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1329 run some native package builds without having to drive the build through
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1330 /dev/console via a wrapper script (the way smoketest.sh does). See
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1331 sources/more/setup-native-static-build.sh for the script which generates
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1332 the hdc.sqf image for this.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1333
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1334 <p>Note that some targets (such as sh4 and powerpc) don't yet support /dev/hdc
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1335 due to QEMU board emulation limitations.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1336 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1337
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1338 <h3><b>Build interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1339
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1340 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1341 <p>The new "sources/more" directory contains scripts the end user can
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1342 call, but which aren't important enough to clutter up the top level
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1343 directory with. The buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh scripts moved there,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1344 as did the cronjob.sh used to build the nightly snapshots.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1345
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1346 <p>The new sources/more/native-static-build.sh natively compiles dropbear and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1347 strace under the emulator, and copies them out to the host through the virtual
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1348 network (into the build/cron-temp directory) using busybox ftpd on the host.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1349 This provides an example of how to use the new HDC /mnt/init functionality
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1350 to perform automatic builds under the emulator, and copy the results out
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1351 through the network. It uses the new sources/timeout.sh wrapper to detect
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1352 hung builds (defined as builds that haven't produced a line of output within
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1353 a given number of seconds).</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1354
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1355 <p>The new BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS variable (in the file "config") tells
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1356 the build to create a separate tarball of the binaries produced building
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1357 each package. (These more granular tarballs aren't shipped yet, but may
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1358 be in a future release.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1359
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1360 <p>The new SKIP_STRIP variable tells the build not to strip binaries.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1361 (Add in CFLAGS=-g for enormous binaries full of debug info.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1362 </blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1363
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1364 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1365
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1366 <blockquote>
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parents: 830
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1367 <p>Powerpc and sh4 should now work fine with stock qemu 0.11.0.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1368
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parents: 830
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1369 <p>The arm platform now has an armv4tl target. This is a little-endian armv4
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1370 eabi, for armv4 chips offering the "thumb" extension which eabi requires.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1371 (The plain armv4l target is still oabi. The oabi/eabi thing is different
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1372 binary ABIs, a bit like Linux vs BSD binaries or aout vs elf. The eabi
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1373 standard is the new one, but some of the older arm hardware can't support
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1374 it. This takes it down as far as it can go.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1375 </blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1376
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1377 <h3><b>Infrastructure</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1378
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1379 <blockquote>
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parents: 830
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1380 <p>Behind the scenes, some extensive work is going on to simplify the
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1381 build scripts. (The documentation's fallen a bit behind reality here,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1382 but should be back up to date next release.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1383
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1384 <p>The uClibc miniconfigs are now automatically generated, with the
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1385 bulk of the config living in sources/baseconfig-uClibc and the few
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1386 target specific lines being appended from the UCLIBC_CONFIG variable
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1387 defined in the target's settings file.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1388
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1389 <p>The other big change is factoring out lots of common code, moving it into
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1390 the sources/sections directory, so things like the uClibc, busybox, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1391 toolchain builds now live in one place and are called from the various
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1392 other scripts that need them. (This may eventually allow alternate build
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1393 scripts for these packages, potentially swapping out glibc for uClibc, or
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1394 llvm/clang for gcc. In the meantime, it eliminates a lot of redundant code.)</p>
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parents: 830
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1395
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1396 <p>This required lots of small cleanups, such as making the scripts now
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1397 consistently use the $STAGE_DIR variable for their output directory.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1398 Some other cleanups were primarily cosmetic, such as moving the extracted
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1399 tarball cache directory from build/sources to build/packages. (Tarballs
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1400 live in packages, extracted tarballs live in build/packages.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1401
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parents: 830
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1402 <p>The root filesystem now contains simple /etc/passwd and /etc/group files,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1403 because dropbear won't work without them (not even to ssh out).</p>
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parents: 830
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1404
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parents: 830
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1405 <p>Several small bugfixes (ccwrap no longer segfaults if $PATH isn't
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1406 exported, /etc/resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten unnecessarily by init.sh,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1407 etc).</p>
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parents: 830
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1408 </blockquote>
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parents: 830
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1409
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1410 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1411 <h2><a name=08-20-2009 />August 20, 2009</h2>
809
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1412 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.7.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.7</a> is out, a little
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1413 over a month and a half late. It's a larger update than usual, so the
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1414 release notes are a bit long.</p>
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1415
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1416 <p>This release is based on
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
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1417 <a href=/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a>
809
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1418 of the build scripts,
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1419 and includes <b>Linux 2.6.30.4</b> and <b>BusyBox 1.14.3</b>.
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1420 No new uClibc release is out since last time.</p>
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1421
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1422 <p>Lots of little bugs got fixed. For example, this release should build on
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1423 Fedora 11 (and any other platform that hasn't got "which" installed by
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1424 default), and now supports distcc and ccache on the host (and will use them
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1425 automatically if they are installed).</p>
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1426
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1427 <h3><b>Changes to build stages: new root-filesystem, cross-static, and
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1428 native-compiler tarballs, upgraded buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh.</b></h3>
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1429
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1430 <blockquote>
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1431 <p>The old "mini-native" stage has been renamed "root-filesystem"
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1432 (the same way package-mini-native became system-image last release). The
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1433 script names (and resulting tarballs) now indicate what each stage makes.
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1434 So build.sh calls host-tools.sh, cross-compiler.sh, root-filesystem.sh,
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1435 and system-image.sh, in that order.</p>
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1436
879
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parents: 830
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1437 <p>The old build-static-toolchains.sh script is gone, with its functionality
809
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1440 variables triggering optional behavior: STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST
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1441 and BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER.</p>
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1442
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1443 <p>Setting STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST to an architecture name creates a
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1444 cross compiler statically linked to run on that host (via a technique
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1446
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1447 <blockquote>
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1448 <p>BUILD_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST=i686 ./build.sh armv4l</P>
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1449 </blockquote>
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1450
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parents: 694
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1451 <p>Would create a tarball called "cross-static-armv4l.tar.bz2" which was
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parents: 694
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1452 built to run on an i686 host, and was statically linked (against uClibc)
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parents: 694
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1453 on that host to be distribution independent.</p>
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parents: 694
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1454
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parents: 694
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1455 <p>Setting BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER to any non-empty value creates a
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1456 native compiler for the target (packaged as native-compiler-$ARCH.tar.bz2),
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1457 which is statically linked against uClibc so it can be extracted and run on
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1458 just about any system of the appropriate type. (So if you can get a Linux
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1459 shell prompt and have enough storage and memory, you should be able to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1460 compile stuff.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1461
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1462 <p>The upgraded smoketest-all.sh script runs smoketest.sh on each
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1463 target built. (The smoketest.sh script attempts to compile and run "hello
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1464 world" natively within a system image under qemu, and indicates whether or
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1465 not it worked via "pass" or "fail".) Note that smoketest-all.sh now
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1466 autodetects which targets have been built (have system images in the build
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1467 directory), and smoketest.sh times out after 60 seconds so targets that hang
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1468 will return failure eventually.</p>
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parents: 694
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1469
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parents: 694
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1470 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1471
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parents: 694
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1472 <h3><b>Squashfs 4.0 now the default system image type</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1473
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parents: 694
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1474 <blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1475 <p>The root filesystem image type is now squashfs by default. (To change it set
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1476 SYSIMAGE_TYPE to ext2 or initramfs, either in your environment or the file
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1477 "configure".)</p>
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parents: 694
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1478
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parents: 694
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1479 <p>This involved upgrading the userspace squashfs support package
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parents: 694
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1480 to the version 4.0 supported by the upstream kernel, and numerous small fixes
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1481 to work with a read-only root filesystem (with writeable spaced mounted on
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1482 /home and /tmp).</p>
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parents: 694
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1483 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1484
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parents: 694
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1485 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1486 <blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1487 <h3><b>ARM upgrades</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1488
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parents: 694
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1489 <blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1490 <p>Lots of work on the arm targets, with the addition of a new armv6l target
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1491 and conversion of the armv5l target to
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parents: 694
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1492 <a href=http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Why-ARMs-EABI-matters/>ARM EABI</a> (which used to be documented <a href=http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html>here</a>,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1493 but ARM screwed up its website and now you have to go
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parents: 694
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1494 <a href=http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.subset.swdev.abi/index.html>here</a>). The armv4l target still provides an ARM v4
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parents: 694
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1495 little endian soft float OABI target (which is "the i386 of ARM", meaning it
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1496 should run on just about any arm hardware, if a bit slowly). A new
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1497 armv4be target is the same as armv4l except big endian.</p>
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parents: 694
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1498
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parents: 694
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1499 <p>A new hw-tct-hammer target supports the <a href=http://www.tincantools.com/product.php?productid=16143>Tin Can Tools hammer/nail board</a>.</p>
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parents: 694
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1500 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1501
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parents: 694
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1502 <h3><b>Updated sparc support, almost works now. (uClibc for sparc still sucks.)</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1503
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parents: 694
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1504 <blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1505 <p>The sparc target has also been upgraded to the point where it now gives
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1506 a shell prompt. (And immediately dies with a bus error or a hang if you try
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1507 to do anything, because uClibc for sparc still doesn't work. The "upgrade"
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1508 consisted of statically linking everything because uClibc's dynamic loader
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1509 doesn't work for sparc.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1510 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1511
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parents: 694
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1512 <h3><b>PowerPC remains fiddly due to QEMU issues, new powerpc-440fp target</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1513
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parents: 694
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1514 <blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1515 <p>PowerPC support in QEMU is
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parents: 694
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1516 <a href=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg01007.html>officially unstable</a>, so although FWL's powerpc target hasn't significantly
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parents: 694
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1517 changed from last release, the version of QEMU in source control no longer
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parents: 694
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1518 runs it (nor the binary powerpc system images released with FWL 0.9.6) and
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parents: 694
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1519 QEMU's developers do not consider this a regression. While we search for a new
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1520 Linux kernel .config that matches QEMU's current expectations (and await a
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1521 release considered "stable"), note that setting HOST_BUILD_EXTRA=1 before
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1522 running host-tools.sh will build a version of qemu that does run powerpc and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1523 put it in build/host where run-from-build.sh can find it. (Note also that
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1524 building qemu from source still takes significantly longer than the rest of the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1525 host-tools.sh stage combined.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1526
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1527 <p>A new powerpc-440fp target produces code for the powerpc 440 with hardware
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1528 floating point. (Theoretically QEMU's "bamboo" board emulation should
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1529 run this, but QEMU doesn't emulate a 440 processor yet. We compromise by
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1530 running a ppc440 filesystem under qemu's power mac emulation, to take
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1531 advantage of the ppc440 instruction set being almost a subset of full powerpc.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1532 This gets us a shell prompt, but throws illegal instruction errors if you
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1533 try to do anything fancy.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1534
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1535 <p>(Note that powerpc-440fp is not a hw-target for powerpc, it's a different
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1536 processor instruction set like i586 vs i686. Alas, one that qemu doesn't
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1537 properly emulate yet.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1538
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parents: 694
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1539 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1540
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parents: 694
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1541 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1542
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parents: 694
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1543 <h3><b>Now using last GPLv2 release of GCC, and future plans</b></h3>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1544
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1545 <blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1546 <p>The upgrade to <b>gcc 4.2.1</b> gives us
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1547 <a href=http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2007/msg00003.html>the last
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1548 GPLv2 licensed version of gcc</a> (thus avoiding
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1549 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/343608/>various problems</a>).
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parents: 694
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1550 <a href=http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4932>Make 3.81</a>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1551 was already the last GPLv2 release of that project.</p>
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parents: 694
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1552
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parents: 694
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1553 <p>Note that <b>bash 2.05b</b> is still intentionally ancient (to avoid the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1554 bloat of 3.x), and may be replaced with busybox ash as the default FWL shell
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parents: 694
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1555 in a future release. Similarly, although <b>binutils 2.17</b> was the last
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1556 GPLv2 version from the FSF, an upgrade to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1557 <a href=http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.1>the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1558 last GPLv2 release of Red Hat's binutils fork, 2.17.5.0.17</a> is under
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1559 consideration for a future release. But mostly the GNU compiler toolchain
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
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1560 has been upgraded as far as possible for the foreseeable future, either because
809
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1561 new versions provide no significant benefits or because they're not available
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1562 under a license compatible with the Linux kernel's.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1563
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1564 <p>Future upgrades to these packages will either be via individual patches
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1565 (maintaining GPLv2 license) or by investigating alternative non-FSF
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1566 packages such as OpenBSD's <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/255558>PCC</a> or
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1567 Apple's <a href=http://llvm.org>LLVM</a>. In preparation for support of
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1568 alternate compilers, the build scripts have moved from using "gcc" to the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1569 more generic "cc" for the compiler name wherever possible, but currently no
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1570 drop-in replacement compiler is available.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1571
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parents: 694
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1572 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1573
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parents: 694
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1574 <h3><b>Implementation details</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1575
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parents: 694
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1576 <blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1577 <p>Each target configuration renamed "details" to "settings", and added
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1578 a "description". (This makes Gentoo From Scratch's kconfig easier.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1579
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parents: 694
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1580 <p>The download.sh stage now populates a "packages" directory instead of
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1581 "sources/packages", meaning that everything in the sources directory now
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1582 comes from the FWL source tarball. To do the equivalent of "make clean"
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1583 you can "rm -rf build", and to do a "make distclean" you can
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1584 "rm -rf packages build".</p>
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parents: 694
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1585
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parents: 694
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1586 <p>The build no longer deletes the alt-* tarballs when UNSTABLE isn't
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1587 set, you must do that by hand if you want an updated alt- version of a
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1588 package. The packages/MANIFEST file creation can now use the extended
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1589 tarball information to detect git version numbers.</p>
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parents: 694
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1591 <p>The === bars now show the current stage name and architecture each
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parents: 694
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1592 package is being built for. (Pipe the build output to grep "^===" to see
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parents: 694
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1593 just the start of each new package build.) The same information is sent
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parents: 694
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1594 to the title bar of your xterm, export NO_TITLE_BAR=1 if you don't want the
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parents: 694
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1595 build to update the title bar.</p>
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parents: 694
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1596
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parents: 694
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1597 <p>The BUILD_STATIC option now applies to all packages built in
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parents: 694
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1598 root-filesystem.sh, and can be set from a target configuration's settings file
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parents: 694
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1599 (as sparc is now doing).</p>
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parents: 694
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1600
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parents: 694
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1601 <p>The BUILD_VERBOSE option passes V=1 to the linux, busybox, and uClibc
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parents: 694
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1602 builds that otherwise sanitize their output.</p>
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parents: 694
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1603
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parents: 694
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1604 <p>You can now set NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=only to build just the compiler
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parents: 694
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1605 and not the other parts (busybox, make, toybox, bash...) This is used
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parents: 694
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1606 by the canadian cross steps in build.sh to create static cross and native
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parents: 694
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1607 compilers.</p>
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parents: 694
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1608
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parents: 694
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1609 <p>This release broke up scripts/include.sh so that script just
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1610 sets lots of environment variables, and now includes scripts/functions.sh
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1611 to define shell functions. The architecture setup (reading architecture
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1612 files and creating temporary directories and such) is now done via the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1613 "read_arch_dir $ARCH" shell function, so merely including sources/include.sh
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1614 should no longer have significant side effects. Similarly, setupfor now
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1615 has an EXTRACT_ONLY environment variable instead of depending on a blank
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1616 $ARCH (which host-tools.sh has, despite wanting to snapshot source so it can
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1617 build stuff).</p>
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parents: 694
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1618
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parents: 694
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1619 <p>Various fixes to make parallel builds work better. (So it neither leaves
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1620 background processes running nor kills the parent shell and closes your
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1621 xterm when you hit ctrl-c.) The new "killtree" shell function,
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1622 which kills a process and all its children and grandchildren recursively with
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parents: 694
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1623 pgrep. We also build our own sources/toys/mysetsid.c program with the host
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parents: 694
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1624 compiler (because the normal command line "setsid" doesn't also do a tcsetpgrp
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parents: 694
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1625 on stdin so signal handling isn't forwarded to the new session). This should
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parents: 694
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1626 more reliably allow ctrl-c to exit smoketest.sh and system-image.sh and such,
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parents: 694
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1627 and let FORK=1 ./buildall.sh stop all its background processes when
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1628 interrupted. (Note that smoketest-all.sh also honors FORK=1.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1629
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1630 <p>The logs from buildall.sh now live in build/logs.</p>
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parents: 694
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1631
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parents: 694
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1632 <p>The new config option ROOT_NODIRS avoids creating the normal set of empty
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
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parents: 694
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1633 directories in the new root filesystem. (The old /tools support went
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parents: 694
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1634 away, but a BUILD_STATIC ROOT_NODIRS build can be extracted into /tools
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parents: 694
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1635 and used from there. Then either symlink "/lib" to "/tools/lib" or "export
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parents: 694
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1636 UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER=/tools/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0" to add more stuff to
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1637 /tools natively.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1638
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1639 <p>The compiler wrapper (sources/toys/ccwrap.c) can now use
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1640 architecture-specific WRAPPER_TOPDIR values. (I.E. armv4l-cc could
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parents: 694
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1641 "export armv4l_WRAPPER_TOPDIR=/path/to/directory".) This makes
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1642 canadian cross compiles a lot easier.</p>
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parents: 694
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1643 </blockquote>
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1644
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parents: 881
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1645 <hr>
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parents: 881
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1646 <h2><a name=04-02-2009 />April 2, 2009</h2>
694
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1647 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.6.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.6</a> includes
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1648 Linux 2.6.29 and uClibc 0.9.30.1, now with support for sh4 and upgraded powerpc
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1649 support.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1650
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1651 <p>The big news is the <a href=http://impactlinux.com/code/gfs/>Gentoo
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1652 From Scratch</a> project, which extends a FWL system image into a Gentoo
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1653 Stage 1 environment, building natively inside qemu.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1654
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1655 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1656 rewritten (but needs more). The source now contains a README and each image
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1657 has a usr/src/MANIFEST file listing the packages it built from.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1658
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1659 <p>The cross and native toolchains now include ldd, readelf, and
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1660 ldconfig. Added support for hardware targets (an unfinished example
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1661 of which is hw-wrt610n) that use the same cross compiler and system
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1662 image as a qemu platform, but build/package a different kernel to boot
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1663 on actual hardware.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1664
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1665 <p>Several new build options:</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1666 <ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1667 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_TYPE</b> defaults to "ext2" but can now
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1668 produce and boot "initramfs" images as well. (And squashfs, but that doesn't
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1669 work yet due to missing features in squashfs tools version 3.4.)</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1670 <li><p>Setting <b>$HOST_BUILD_EXTRA</b> compiles qemu 0.10.1 in host-tools.sh.
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1671 You currently need to do this to run sh4 or powerpc, 0.10.1 has some bugs
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1672 needing patches. Not on by default because it takes a _long_ time.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1673 <li><p><b>$NO_CLEANUP</b> keeps source around after builds for debugging purposes.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1674 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS</b> lets you control the size of the ext2 system images.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1675 <li><p><b>$SNAPSHOT_SYMLINK</b> lets the extracted source live on a different
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1676 filesystem than the build happens on. (Once the updated squashfs userspace
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1677 tools ship, build-static-toolchains.sh may be updated to use this.)</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1678 <li><p><b>$CROSS_SMOKE_TEST</b> use qemu application emulation to test run hello
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1679 world program at the end of the cross compiler build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1680 <li><p><b>$SKIP_STAGE_TARBALLS</b> don't create tarballs of each stage,
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1681 just populate the directories.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1682 <li><p><b>$NATIVE_RETROFIT_CXX</b> retroactively add uClibc++ to the cross
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1683 compiler tarball during the native build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1684 </ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1685
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1686 <p>The run-emulator.sh scripts of system images have several new options,
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1687 do "./run-emulator.sh --help" for a list. Takes several environment
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1688 variables such as $QEMU_EXTRA and $KERNEL_EXTRA. Root filesystems can
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1689 now run in read only mode with "KERNEL_EXTRA=ro".</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1690
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1691 <p>Lots of build infrastructure upgrades. The build stages have been
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1692 reorganized somewhat (most noticeably package-mini-native.sh is now called
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1693 system-image.sh). The "sources/packages" directory has moved up a
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1694 directory (to separate repository files from stuff downloaded at runtime).
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1695 Upgrades to the cc wrapper and the USE_UNSTABLE infrastructure. Better
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1696 stripping of the cross compilers and system images, so everything's a bit
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1697 smaller. The mirror list now lives in download.sh. New buildall.sh is a
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1698 wrapper around build.sh. New build-static-toolchains.sh builds them under
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
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parents: 1334
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1699 qemu; set FORK=1 to build them in parallel just like buildall.sh. The
694
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1700 ext2 system images are now built at a small size with genext2fs and
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1701 then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1702 as size increases; this means e2fsprogs is built in host-tools.sh now).
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1703 Distcc has been upgraded, and should work more reliably now.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1704
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1705 <p>Too many little bug fixes to list.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
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parents: 543
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1706
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parents: 881
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1707 <hr>
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parents: 881
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1708 <h2><a name=12-16-2008 />December 16, 2008</h2>
543
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
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1709 <p>The mailing list moved to firmware at impactlinux.com. The link in
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
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1710 the nav bar on the left has changed, but the
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
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1711 <a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firmware>old
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
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1712 archives</a> are still there for the moment.</p>
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
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parents: 536
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1713
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parents: 881
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1714 </hr>
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parents: 881
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1715 <h2><a name=12-03-2008 />December 3, 2008</h2>
523
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
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1716 <p>After several false starts (I.E. last minute bugs, yes I test this thing
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1717 before shipping it),
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
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1718 <a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.5.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.5</a> is out, inching
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1719 towards a 1.0 release. Lots of new work this time.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1720
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1721 <p>The biggest news is uClibc 0.9.30 and uClibc++ 0.2.2. The native toolchain
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1722 now supports C++, hooked up to distcc and everything.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1723
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1724 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1725 rewritten. (There's always more to do, but most of it isn't horribly out
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1726 of date anymore.)</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
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1727
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parents: 388
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1728 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1729 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1730 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1731
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1732 <p>My personal website's getting a touch overwhelmed, so a higher bandwidth
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parents: 388
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1733 site is now available at
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parents: 388
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1734 <a href=http://impactlinux.com/fwl>impactlinux.com</a>. This should become
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1735 the new primary website going forward.</p>
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1736
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1737 <p>BusyBox has also been upgraded (to 1.13.0), and the new USE_UNSTABLE
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1738 infrastructure allows test versions of any package to be downloaded and built
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1739 without forking the build scripts, so future package upgrades can be dealt
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1740 with as side projects without blocking other important work.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1741
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1742 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1743 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1744 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1745
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1746 <p>The old forkbomb script has been replaced with sources/build-all-targets.sh.
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1747 with an argument --fork to build all targets in parallel, and "--fork 3"
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1748 to limit the parallelism. This script can run from a cron job, producing
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1749 a "buildall" directory with tarballs, compressed logs, and a README file
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1750 listing the version of each package. The environment variable USE_STATIC_HOST
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1751 specifies an $ARCH to create statically linked cross compilers
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1752 for. (The build will then try to use them for the later stages,
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1753 and won't get far if you specify an arch that can't run on the host.)</p>
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1754
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1755 <p>The include.sh script has been broken up, with a new sources/functions.sh
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1756 containing shell functions (like download, setupfor, and cleanup) and
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1757 a new "config" setting the user-editable environment variables that control
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1758 the build. Several of these variables have been renamed and their number has
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1759 grown. You can now specify the colors for each build stage using the variables
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1760 at the end of config.</p>
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parents: 388
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1761
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1762 <p>Building mini-native in a Linux From Scratch style /tools directory is
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parents: 388
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1763 no longer the default. Instead set NATIVE_TOOLSDIR=1 if you want that
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parents: 388
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1764 kind of layout instead of a more conventional layout. (Similarly,
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parents: 388
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1765 NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=1 now enables the native toolchain, but that variable
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parents: 388
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1766 defaults to enabled in config.)</p>
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parents: 388
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1767
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parents: 388
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1768 <p>See the <a href=documentation.html>docs</a> for details.</p>
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parents: 388
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1769
927
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parents: 881
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1770 <hr>
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parents: 881
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1771 <h2><a name=08-06-2008 />August 6, 2008</h2>
388
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1772 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.0</a> is out
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
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parents: 1320
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1773 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/378>changeset 378</a>)
388
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1774 and can rebuild itself under itself. (The packaging step still requires User
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1775 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts.
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parents:
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1776 The next release should replace that with something more portable.)
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1777 The root filesystem is now based on BusyBox 1.11.1 (plus a few bug fixes).</p>
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1778
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1779 <p>The prebuilt binary images have been moved into their own
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1780 <a href=downloads/binaries>binaries</a> directory.
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1781 The prebuilt binary <a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler>cross
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1782 compilers</a> are statically linked against uClibc for better portability.
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1783 Updated the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> to better describe the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1784 contents of the <a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>system-image
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1785 tarballs</a>.</p>
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1786
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1787 <p>The forkbomb.sh script can now take a number of parallel targets to
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parents:
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1788 launch, for example "./forkbomb.sh --fork 3". (The resulting display is kind
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parents:
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1789 of horrible but the out-$ARCH.txt files are still legible.) Leaving off the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1790 number still builds all targets in parallel, with the original display.</p>
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parents:
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1791
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1792 <p>The include.sh script was reorganized so that interesting environment
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1793 variables the user might want to export for themselves are set near the top
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1794 of the script. Currently this includes:</p>
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parents:
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1795
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parents:
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1796 <ul>
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parents:
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1797 <li><p><b>BUILD_SHORT</b> - Makes the mini-native.sh stage skip building
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1798 development tools. The resulting mini-native root filesystem contains uClibc
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1799 and busybox, but nothing else. (Export "BUILD_SHORT=headers" to put back the
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1800 toolchain headers for use by another compiler, such as tinycc.)</p>
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1801
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1802 <li><p><b>BUILD_STATIC</b> - Tell cross-compiler.sh to create static
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1803 binaries, for a more portable cross compiler toolchain. (If you want them
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1804 linked against uClibc, build a mini-native for your host, chroot into it, and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1805 then rebuild under that.)</li>
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1806
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1807 <li><p><b>PREFERRED_MIRROR</b> - Tell download.sh to fetch packages from a
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1808 non-default location (falling back to the standard mirror list if it can't get
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1809 one from there).</p></li>
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1810
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1811 <li><p><b>RECORD_COMMANDS</b> - Record a list of all command lines used during
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parents:
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1812 each build stage log files named "cmdlines.$STAGE.$PACKAGE" under the build
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parents:
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1813 directory. Each file can be turned into a list of the command names used via
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parents:
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1814 "awk '{print $1}' build/cmdlines* | sort -u". The script
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parents:
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1815 sources/toys/report_recorded_commands.sh gives a report of all commands
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1816 used by each package after a call to "RECORD_COMMANDS=1 ./forkbomb.sh".
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1817 (This is an easy way to find out exactly what environmental dependencies a
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1818 package needs to build, or at least what it uses out of $PATH).</p></li>
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1819 </ul>
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1820
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1821 <p>Updated documentation is in progress...</p>
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1822
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1823 <hr>
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1824 <h2><a name=06-06-2008 />June 6, 2008</h2>
388
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1825 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.4.0</a> is out
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
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1826 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/345>changeset 345</a>),
388
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parents:
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1827 with kernel 2.6.25.4 and the "distcc trick" working out of the box.</p>
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parents:
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1828
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1829 <p>The distcc trick accelerates a native build by calling out to the
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parents:
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1830 cross compiler. To use it, download the appropriate cross-compiler-$ARCH and
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parents:
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1831 system-image-$ARCH tarballs, run the "run-with-distcc.sh" from the system image
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parents:
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1832 directory with the path to the cross compiler directory as its first argument.
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parents:
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1833 (You need to have distcc installed on the host system.)</p>
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1834
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1835 <p>After building from source, the cross-compiler and system-image directories
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1836 remain in the build directory. The "emulator-build.sh" runs these with
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1837 distcc acceration set up. The script "smoketest.sh" is a wrapper
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parents:
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1838 around emulator-build.sh which feeds a script into qemu's stdin to compile
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parents:
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1839 and run a multi-threaded "hello world" under the emulator, using distcc and
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1840 the cross compiler.</p>
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1841
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1842 <p>If smoketest.sh works for a platform, it means a lot of stuff worked to get
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1843 that far. The cross compiler worked to build the system, and the emulated
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1844 system booted so QEMU, the uClibc config, and the kernel config agreed.
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1845 The emulated system has a working virtual hard drive and serial port, and for
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1846 distcc to work it has a working virtual network connection. Running "make"
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1847 would also require a working realtime clock.</p>
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1848
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1849 <p>The seven commands missing in order to run the FWL build under itself
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parents:
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1850 are bzip2, sort, diff, wget, install, od, and find. (The busybox versions,
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parents:
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1851 where available, had a bug, and they're not in toybox yet.) I'm trying to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1852 get those in for the next release in September.</p>
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parents:
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1853
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1854 <p>Sorry I missed a release back in April. Shouldn't happen again.</p>
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1855
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parents: 881
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1856 <hr>
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1857 <h2><a name=01-29-2008 />January 29, 2008</h2>
388
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1858 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.1</a> is out
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1859 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with
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1860 kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a>
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1861 are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files.
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1862 The run scripts now run qemu-setup.sh by default so /proc, /sys, /dev
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1863 and the virtual network are initialized, and the default shell is busybox
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1864 ash (so cursor keys and history work).</p>
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1865
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1866 <p>Sparc is still broken (tracked it down to a dynamic linking bug, I think,
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1867 haven't fixed it yet) and m68k is failing to build with an internal compiler
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1868 error (next release I should upgrade the compiler). All the other targets
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1869 have a working virtual network, and all but powerpc exit qemu when you
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1870 exit the PID 1 command shell.</p>
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1871
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1872 <p>Building on an x86-64 host< should no longer be insanely slow (the
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1873 gcc-min-heapsize arguments that allow 32-bit hosts to build in
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1874 128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting
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1875 x86-64 cross compiler should now be properly relocatable.</p>
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1876
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1877 <p>Better build dependency tracking: the host-tools script is now
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1878 populating a single directory with all the commands needed by the build, and
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1879 restricting $PATH to that directory (so it can't accidentally call any
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1880 commands that aren't explicitly listed). It's building toybox and busybox to
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1881 provide most of these commands (the remaining ones are listed towards the end
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1882 of include.sh), and creating symlinks to the remaining ones out
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1883 of the original $PATH. This allows it to build on a wider range of host
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1884 distributions.</p>
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1885
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1886 <hr>
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1887 <h2><a name=11-02-2007 />November 2, 2007</h2>
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1888 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out
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1889 (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under
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1890 qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target
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1891 (although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are
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1892 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still
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1893 broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p>
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1894
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1895 <p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in
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1896 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that
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1897 (and --watch to watch and existing build if you ctrl-c out of
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1898 the display before it's done).</p>
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1899
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1900 <p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the
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1901 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds,
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1902 building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks
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1903 so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p>
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1904
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1906 <h2><a name=09-02-2007 />September 2, 2007</h2>
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1907 <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on
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1908 m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release,
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1909 and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast
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1910 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p>
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1911
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1913 <h2><a name-06-27-2007 />June 27, 2007</h2>
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1914 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.2</a> is out
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1915 (changeset 185). Using uClibc 0.9.29 release, several small bugfixes,
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1916 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly
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1917 by explicitly saying /bin/bash everywhere), automatically detect
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1918 the number of CPUs in the machine to feed -j to make, and better
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1919 diagnostic output.</p>
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1920
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1922 <h2><a name=04-09-2007 />April 9, 2007</h2>
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1923 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out
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1924 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works
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1925 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how
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1926 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although
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1927 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote
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1928 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel
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1929 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig.
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1930 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into
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1931 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't
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1932 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they
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1933 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there
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1934 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is
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1935 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p>
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1936
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1937 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political
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1938 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why
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1939 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things,
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1940 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of
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1941 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest
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1942 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of
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1943 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p>
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1944
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1945 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while
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1946 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems
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1947 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a
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1948 more honest approach.)</p>
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1949
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1950 <p>Update: I've been pointed at
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1951 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't
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1952 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement.
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1953 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And
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1954 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION
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1955 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term
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1956 program to understand the minix filesystem so he could upload and download
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1957 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could
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1958 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1
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1959 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very
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1960 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is
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1961 garbage. Background a process with &amp; and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it.
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1962 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do
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1963 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a
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1964 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p>
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1965
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1966 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in
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1967 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p>
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1968
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1970 <h2><a name=03-06-2007 />March 6, 2007</h2>
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1971 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a
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1972 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel.
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1973 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p>
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1974
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1975 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory.
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1976 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that
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1977 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is
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1978 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p>
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1979
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1980 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p>
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1981
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1983 <h2><a name=01-14-2007 />January 14, 2007</h2>
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1984 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p>
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1985
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1986 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds
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1987 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of
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1988 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works
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1989 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the
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1990 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and
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1991 prebuilt mini-native tarballs for each platform (although packing them up into
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1992 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p>
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1994 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging
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1995 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts,
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1996 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage
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1997 automatically.</p>
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1998
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1999 <hr>
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2000 <h2><a name=12-28-2006 />December 28, 2006</h2>
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2001 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds
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2002 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've
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2003 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p>
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2004
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2005 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p>
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2006
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2008 <h2><a name=12-05-2006 />December 5, 2006</h2>
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2009 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds
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2010 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball,
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2011 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler"
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2012 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which
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2013 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p>
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2014
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2016 <h2><a name=08-06-2006 />August 6, 2006</h2>
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2017 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p>
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