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2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title>
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4 <!--#include file="header.html" -->
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6 <b><h1>News</h1></b>
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9 <h2><a name="31-01-2012" />December 31, 2011</h2>
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10 <p>The <downloads/aboriginal-1.1.1.tar.bz2>1.1.1 release</a> is out, based on
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11 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1496>hg commit 1496</a>.</p>
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13 <p>The new release upgrades packages (Linux 3.2, uClibc 0.9.32.1,
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14 busybox 1.19.3, e2fsprogs 1.41.14), and
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15 <a href=control-images>natively compiles</a> Linux From Scratch 6.8
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16 (which involved adding mkostemp() to uClibc, for util-linux).<p>
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18 <p>The x86 targets now require QEMU 1.0 (because the "qemu" binary got renamed
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19 "qemu-system-i386"), but the mips targets require the previous
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20 release due to a regression in the network card emulation (fixed in the source
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21 repo, but no 1.0.1 is out yet).</p>
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23 <p>On the documentation front, the 2008 "what are we doing and why"
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24 presentation is now available in
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25 <a href=http://speakerdeck.com/u/mirell/p/developing-for-non-x86-targets-using-qemu>HTML format</a>, probably worth reading if you haven't yet.
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26 The FAQ also grew some <a href=FAQ.html#debug_test>new</a>
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27 <a href=FAQ.html#new_syscalls>entries</a> (showing how to use more/test.sh
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28 to rebuild uClibc without redoing a while toolchain, and why powerpc isn't
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29 as backward compatable as you'd expect).</p>
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31 <p>The long-broken sparc target now supports basic dynamic linking (although
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32 dynamically linked threading and C++ are still broken).</p>
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34 <p>Busybox is back to using a specified configuration instead of just switching
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35 on everything. (Busybox's new ubifs commands won't build on Ubuntu 11.10,
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36 and it's hard to see the command count grow past 300 and keep going without
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37 humming the "Katamari Damacy" theme.) If we missed a command let
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38 us know, and you can of course still build busybox defconfig natively.
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39 (Eventually, we'll start using <a href=/toybox>toybox</a> again,
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40 which has been relaunched as a BSD-licensed project.)</p>
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42 <p>The build.sh wrapper can now rebuild from any stage, just specify the
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43 starting point on the command line after the architecture, for example
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44 "./build.sh i686 simple-root-filesystem" won't rebuild the cross or native
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45 compilers, or the kernel, but will rebuild the root-filesystem, root-image,
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46 and system-image stages.</p>
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48 <p>The more/test.sh script now understands "host" as an architecture, for
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49 testing host-tools builds.</p>
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51 <p>Rename the USE_UNSTABLE variable to USE_ALT since it already uses alt-
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52 prefixes on the packages and patches. The repository's
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53 build/patches directory no longer contains "alt-*.patch" symlinks, instead
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54 a new more/alt-patches.sh script can set them up locally for a given package.</p>
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56 <p>Add record-commands wrapper to target image, "record-commands /mnt/init" runs
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57 /mnt/init and logs commands to "/tmp/record-commands-log.txt". This way
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58 you can see what commands target builds are running.</p>
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60 <p>The CPUS calculation, for automatically parallelizing the build on SMP
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61 systems, now detects hyper-threading and won't stress hyper-threaded systems
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62 quite so hard as full SMP. The target's sbin/init.sh also has basic CPUS
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63 detection code now too, since KVM or a chroot can have more than one. (This only
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64 matters if CPUS isn't set by something else, such as the dev-environment.sh
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65 wrapper script's distcc setup.)</p>
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67 <p>Several bugfixes, due to insufficient regression testing of previous releases:
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68 SYSIMAGE_TYPE=ext2 SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS was broken, more/smoketest-all.sh was
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69 looking for static-tools output in the old place, and more/record-command.sh
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70 only worked with NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1. The target root filesystem's
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71 init script wasn't detecting a failure to mount devtmpfs (such as when used
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72 to setup a chroot on a kernel that didn't support it), and falling back to
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73 mdev -s. And ldd was spewing debug messages. All fixed now.</p>
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75 <hr />
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76 <h2><a name="10-02-2011" />October 2, 2011</h2>
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77 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.1.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.1.0</a> is out,
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78 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1452>hg commit 1452</a>.</p>
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80 <p>The big news is that Linux From Scratch 6.7 now builds to completion
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81 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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82 image</a>. The remaining platforms all show target-specific issues
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83 (often just insufficient board support in QEMU) rather than generic
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84 problems with the build environment. The big bugfix allowing this to happen
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85 was the m4 build hang (which was a bash bug).</p>
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87 <p>The only upgraded package was BusyBox 1.19.2, but there were several
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88 performance tweaks and bugfixes, such as:</p>
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90 <ul>
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91 <li><p>The more/chroot-splice.sh script sets up a chroot using the
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92 build/root-filesystem-$TARGET directory and a build control image,
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93 for quickly testing build control images natively (generally using the
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94 i686 or x86-64 root filesystems).</p></li>
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96 <li><p>The more/buildall-native.sh timeout value is now configurable via the
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97 TIMEOUT=seconds environment variable (defaulting to 60).</p></li>
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99 <li><p>Tuned the
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100 more/buildall.sh script in FORK=1 mode to take available memory into account
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101 determinging CPUS (so it doesn't overload the build machine so easily).</p></li>
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103 <li><p>When
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104 dev-environment.sh enables distcc it sets CPUS=3 because several current QEMU
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105 boards support a maximum of 256 megs physical memory.</p></li>
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107 <li><p>The ldd and ldconfig binaries in the cross compilers were target binaries
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108 instead of host binaries: that's fixed now.</p></li>
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110 <li><p>The virtio targets should now work with dev-environment.sh</p></li>
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111 <li><p>The test script more/test.sh should no longer delete the output directory
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112 (build/$STAGE_NAME-$TARGET) at the start of each test, allowing test rebuilds
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113 of things like uClibc which have target prerequisites.</p></li>
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115 <li><p>The common kernel config now uses the ext4 driver for both ext3 and ext2
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116 filesystems.</p></li>
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117 </ul>
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119 <hr />
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120 <h2><a name="08-22-2011" />August 22, 2011</h2>
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122 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.3.tar.bz2>1.0.3 release</a> is out,
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125 This release includes the long-awaited Linux 3.0 and uClibc 0.9.32
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136 <p>The Aboriginal Linux project is feature complete ever since the 1.0
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142 Since control images are not feature complete (and there's really no obvious
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143 limit to what you can do with them), they deserve to be their own project.</p>
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154 </li>
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156 <li>
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157 <p>Several random bugfixes and cleanups (BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS should
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159 </li>
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161 <li>
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162 <p>Major cleanup on sources/targets, now most entries are a single file.
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163 The hold hw- prefix stuff went away, now the ones that are files are built
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164 by more/buildall.sh and the ones that are directories are the derived stuff
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165 that only gets built if you specify it explicitly. (read_arch_dir is
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170 <li>
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171 <p>The new more/smoketest-report.sh produces CSV output with more info.
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172 (I need to follow this up with a nightly cron job and a pretty
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178 <h2><a name="06-14-2011" />June 14, 2011</h2>
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180 <p>The long overdue <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.2.tar.bz2>1.0.2
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181 release</a> is out, based on hg commit
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182 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/1375>1375</a>.</p>
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184 <p>This release includes several bugfixes, package version upgrades for Linux
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185 (2.6.39), BusyBox (1.18.4), and Squashfs (4.2), and some minor user interface
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186 tweaks. (Still using uClibc 0.9.31, NTPL is bumped to next release.)</p>
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188 <h2>Targets</h2>
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190 <p>This moves forward three(!) kernel releases (sorry), and although several
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191 targets bit-rotted along the way (notably armv6l, sh4, and mips) they're all
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194 <p>QEMU still doesn't emulate the big endian arm or
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195 m68k targets, powerpc-440fp needs to be switched to QEMU's -M bamboo board
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196 emulation now that it can actually emulate a 440, and mips64 and sparc boot
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197 to a shell prompt but contain bugs in either uClibc or the kernel that make
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198 them unreliable.</p>
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199
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200 <p>All the other targets can at least natively compile and run
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201 "hello world", and the arm, x86, mips, and powerpc targets built
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202 static versions of dropbear and strace (available in the
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203 <a href=downloads/binaries/extras>extras directory</a>, or by using
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204 native-build.sh with the static-tools.hdc <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control image</a>).</p>
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206 <h2>Bugfixes</h2>
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208 <ul>
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209 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1323>1323</a> fixes a
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211 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1327>1327</a> fixes
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212 ccwrap to understand -xc</li>
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213 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1328>1328</a> puts
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215 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1332>1332</a> makes
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216 #!/bin/sh point to bash instead of hush</li>
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217 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1335>1335</a> makes
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218 download.sh check if sha1sum is installed on the host (so it can fail with a
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220 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1344>1344</a>
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221 serializes scratch disk image creation during parallel builds of all targets (so the
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222 disk I/O storm doesn't trigger timeouts during native builds of dropbear
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223 and strace).</li>
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224 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1364>1364</a> upgrades
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225 busybox to fix a wget hang.</li>
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226 </ul>
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228 <h2>New Control Knobs</h2>
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230 <p>Two new build stages <b>root-image.sh</b> and <b>linux-kernel.sh</b>
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231 got split out from system-image.sh. The first
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232 makes a filesystem image from a root filesystem directory,
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233 the second builds a kernel. This leaves system-image.sh to
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234 create the qemu launch scripts and bundle it all up into a tarball.</p>
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236 <p>The advantage of the split is you can repackage the root filesystem without rebuilding
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239 you have to remember to call the other scripts before calling system-image.sh
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240 in order for your changes to wind up in the system image. (If you delete
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241 the tarball you modified out of the build directory, ./build.sh should still work out
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248 the top of the source tree, and leaving them blank should provide sane
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254 <li><p><b>setup-chroot /home/mydir [COMMAND...]</b></p>
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256 <p>This script copies the system-image's (generally read-only) root filesystem
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265 <p>This lets you use a read-only system image to build and install software
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268 <p>If the target directory already exists, the script will just redo the
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272 <li><p><b>zap-chroot</b> - The cleanup script to remove all mounts under a
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276 <p>In the system images, root's home directory is now /home/root so it's
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277 in known writeable space you can stick a .ssh directory in for dropbear.</p>
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280 <h2><a name="02-13-2011" />February 13, 2011</h2>
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281 <p>The repository is back up, and tweaked so it generates correct URLs without
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284 <p>I see from the release RSS feed (go to repository viewer, then click "tags"
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285 and then "rss") that we're due for the next release in the first half of March.</p>
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287 <p>I'd better get on that. (I'm aiming for a version of uClibc with NPTL
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288 working on at least x86/64, arm, mips, and powerpc. There's some work to do
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292 <h2><a name="02-08-2011" />February 8, 2011</h2>
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293 <p>The website was down again while we switched web hosts, but we're back up
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294 on dreamhost now, which has buckets more bandwidth and lets us have a
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295 <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net>mailing
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298 <p>I still need to figure out how to enable mercurial on the new host, so
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299 the repository is down at the moment, but I should get that fixed up
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300 soon.</p>
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303 <h2><a name="01-02-2011" />January 2, 2011</h2>
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304 <p>It's a month late, but
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305 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.1.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0.1</a> is
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310 <b><h3>Automated native build control images</h3></b>
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312 <p>The big news this time is the native build
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313 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control images</a>, especially
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314 the one to build Linux From Scratch 6.7.</p>
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316 <p>These control images drive the automated build infrastructure (first
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317 introduced back around release 0.9.8 and substantially improved since then).
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318 They allow you to fire up a system image under QEMU and run a completely
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319 automated native build.</p>
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321 <p>To use a control image, cd into a system-image
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322 directory and run "./native-build.sh path/to/control-image.hdc". The
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323 result should wind up in the "uploads" subdirectory. To build control images
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324 from source, run "more/build-control-images.sh" and look in
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325 "build/control-images" afterwards. The build scripts live in
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326 "sources/control-images".</p>
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328 <p>The <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap.hdc</a>
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329 image builds most of <a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.7/>Linux From Scratch 6.7</a>.
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330 It doesn't replace the toolchain or C library, and stubs out
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331 internationalization support, but builds everything else (about 50 packages
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332 total). This build runs to completion reliably on i686, x86_64, and
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333 armv5l. Making it do that smoked out a lot of subtle bugs and configuration
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334 issues in the build environment, resulting in much improved system images.
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335 This LFS build sometimes finishes on mips and powerpc, and
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336 sometimes randomly dies for various asynchronous reasons that seem like
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337 something wrong in uClibc's pthreads locking code, although that's just
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338 a guess. (Since the uClibc developers (finally!) shipped a 0.9.32-rc1 with NPTL
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339 support on all targets, I expect the fix will involve upgrading. Part of the
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340 delay in this release was me playing around with that, but I'm releasing a
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341 checkpoint of the existing code before switching over to the new threading
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342 implementation.)</p>
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344 <b><h3>What else is new?</h3></b>
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346 <p>I fixed the static "dropbear" binary to call "ssh" out of $PATH instead of
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347 expecting dbclient at a fixed location, fixed the guest account's
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348 /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries so dropbear can use it, and added a /root
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349 directory to the system images so you can add a .ssh directory to it to make
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350 dropbear happy (possibly by mounting a tmpfs on it first).</p>
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352 <p>Build infrastructure tweaks: sources/download_functions.sh is now its own
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353 file, and various fixes (only apply patches that end in ".patch") . The root
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354 filesystem's sbin/init.sh now mounts /dev/pts. Bugfix for
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355 SIMPLE_ROOT_OVERLAY, and multiple bugfixes in ccwrap.</p>
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357 <p>Lots of tweaks to the native-build stuff. Redo control image generation,
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358 add bootstrap-skeleton with common code for bootstrapping distros (it has
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359 its own README), and rebase
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360 the half-finished gentoo-bootstrap on top of that. Upgrade
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361 "bisectinate" debugging script to take its test from the command line.</p>
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363 <p>Several tweaks to uClibc to build LFS packages, and tweaks to the
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364 base kernel config to support NFSv3 and devtmpfs.</p>
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366 <p>The new more/chroot-splice.sh script combines a root filesystem directory
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367 and a control image directory into a combined version you can chroot into
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368 and run a build from. (It looks for each in the location the build puts
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369 them, build/root-filesystem-$ARCH and build/control-images/$IMAGENAME
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370 respectively.) The new more/zapchroot.sh script unmounts everything under a
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373 <b><h3>Target support</h3></b>
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375 <p>I've fallen a bit behind on regression testing the targets, and hope to
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376 catch up next release. (Upgrading the kernel and QEMU breaks things that used
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377 to work.)</p>
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379 <p>The i486, i586, i686, x86_64, powerpc, armv4l, armv4tl, and armv5l targets
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380 all work (for me) without qualification.</p>
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382 <p>Last I checked, qemu still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
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383 test those, but they build. (The kernel .config is almost certainly wrong
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384 for any target you'll actually be able to run them on, but the toolchain
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387 <p>Updating the kernel broke armv6l: attempting to boot it under qemu exits
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388 with an "unimplemented cp15 register write" error. I'm not sure whether this is
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389 a kernel bug, a qemu bug the upgrade triggered, or some kind of
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390 misconfiguration. The proper fix is probably to look at the other arm boards
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391 QEMU can emulate for newer processors, and switch to one of those.</p>
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392
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393 <p>QEMU had a MIPS bug that prevented the system images from working for a
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394 version or two (such as the one in Ubuntu 10.04). It's fixed in current
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395 qemu-git, and isn't actually a problem with the mips, mipsel, or mips64 system
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396 images, they work fine under older or newer versions of qemu.</p>
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397
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398 <p>Sparc broke again (failure to launch init), and Oracle's patent trolling
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399 makes it harder than ever to care. It's on the todo list...</p>
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401 <p>The only system image that doesn't current compile is sh4. (As noted in the
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402 0.9.11 release notes, the sh4 maintainer broke it on purpose, which also makes
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403 it hard for me to care much about that target.)</p>
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404
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405 <p>The problem with sh4 is once again the kernel, this time a build break:</p>
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406 <blockquote>
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407 arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c:303: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve'<br />
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408 /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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411 <p>And even if I bothered to fix that, another change in the sh4 code changed
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412 the serial devices so QEMU's serial console no longer produces output. (Note
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413 that the sh4 test image on qemu.org uses a 2.6.29 kernel, which may be the last
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414 time the thing actually worked for anybody who isn't in a financial relationship
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415 with Renesas.)</p>
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417 <p>Last I checked, QEMU still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
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418 test those. I have patches to make m68k work on aranym and armv6eb work on
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419 actual big endian arm hardware, but haven't merged them yet.</p>
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420 </span>
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422 <hr>
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423 <h2><a name="11-03-2010" />November 3, 2010</h2>
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424 <p>My apologies for the lack of notice, the impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly
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425 went away saturday. The landley.net mirror is still up, and is
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426 becoming the main site again for the moment despite its' limited bandwidth.
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427 I'll see if I can recover the mailing list subscriptions, but I wouldn't
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428 count on it.</p>
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429
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430 <p>Still working on the next release, currently scheduled for around the start
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431 of December. Until we get a new mailing list, the
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432 <a href=/hg/aboriginal>source control log</a> shows what's changing, and
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433 you can always email me directly, rob at landley dot net.</p>
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434
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435 <hr>
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436 <h2><a name="09-05-2010" />September 5, 2010</h2>
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437 <p>There's an old saying, "eventually you need to shoot the
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438 engineers and go into production". Aboriginal Linux can now bootstrap a
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439 native development environment on an arbitrary target, and build packages
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440 under the result. There's always more to do, but it does what it set
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441 out to do. And thus:</p>
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442
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443 <p><a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0</a> is out,
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444 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1238>hg commit
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445 1238</a>, using Linux 2.6.35, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.17.2.</p>
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446
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447 <p>Yes, it's been over five months since the last release. I didn't want to
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448 ship yet another intermediate release before doing 1.0, but I was trying
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449 to run out of todo items before shipping. (Yeah, I should know better.
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450 Sorry for the delay.)</p>
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451
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452 <p>The following are release notes, not proper documentation. Proper
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453 documentation (including an introduction to the whole thing) is the next
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454 big TODO item.</p>
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455
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456 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
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457
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458 <p>The arm, mips, powerpc, and x86 targets all work. Sparc works statically
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459 linked, but dynamic linking is still broken. Khem Raj fixed mips64 dynamic
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460 linking, but the native compiler still doesn't work. The m68k target builds
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461 again, although QEMU still doesn't emulate it. The sh4 target and big endian
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462 arm are are still broken.</p>
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463
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464 <p>The snapshots page needs updating. The documentation needs updating.</p>
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465
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466 <b><h3>System image updates</h3></b>
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467
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468 <p>The native-build.sh script moved into each system image. This means you
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469 can now download a system image tarball and a control image, then run a
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470 native build without any dependencies on the Aboriginal Linux build scripts.
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471 This script is a wrapper around dev-environment.sh which takes one argument,
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472 the name of the control image file.</p>
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473
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474 <p>The build only puts dev-environment.sh and run-from-build.sh into a
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475 system image when the system image includes native development tools.</p>
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476
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477 <b><h3>Control Images</h3></b>
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478
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479 <p>This release adds prebuilt binary build control images, generated
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480 by more/build-control-images.sh and shipped in the
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481 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control-images</a> directory.
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482 These are squashfs filesystems containing source code and an init script to
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483 build it and upload it to the host (using the $FTP_SERVER and $FTP_PORT
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484 variables, set by native-build.sh).</p>
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485
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486 <p>If these
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487 images are loaded into /dev/hdc of the emulated system, the system image's
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488 init script will mount that on /mnt and run /mnt/init instead of a shell
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489 prompt, so the build is completely automated.</p>
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490
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491 <p>Control images are provided to build hello world, build static dropbear
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492 and strace binaries, run the busybox test suite, and an in-progress script
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493 to bootstrapping Gentoo Stage 1 does about the first 2/3 of the job.</p>
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494
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495 <b><h3>Root filesystem improvements</h3></b>
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496
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497 <p>The root filesystem broke into two stages: simple-root-filesystem just
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498 contains a simple "defconfig busybox plus uClibc" system, enough to boot
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499 to a shell prompt. The native-compiler stage is like cross-compiler only
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500 unprefixed, built to run on the target, and including make, bash, and
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501 distcc. The root-filesystem stage combines the two into a single root
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502 filesystem with native development tools.</p>
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503
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504 <p>If the root filesystem is mounted read only, the init script will now
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505 mount a tmpfs on /home if there's no /dev/hdb to provide writeable scratch
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506 space. Chroot environments should now use Google's 8.8.8.8 nameserver
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507 by default. The distcc binaries moved out of /bin to the /distcc directory.</p>
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508
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509 <p>The "oneit" binary became a standalone program, and uses the / directory
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511 Toybox's "patch" command went upstream into busybox, and busybox's defconfig
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512 once again supports netcat server mode, so toybox was removed. We're now
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513 using a defconfig busybox, so configuring it properly is their problem.</p>
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514
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515 <b><h3>Build scripts </h3></b>
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516
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517 <p>The kernel configuration got collated to sources/baseconfig-linux (just
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518 like baseconfig-uClibc), and the various packages were migrated to use
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519 that. The kernel config is now the baseconfig plus the settings
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520 entry $LINUX_CONFIG. You can still supply a miniconfig-linux file to
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521 override this, and some architectures still do that. The ones that have
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522 been migrated to use a shared baseconfig are a lot more regular now,
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523 and the differences between architectures broken out and isolated.</p>
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524
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525 <p>The build stages were broken up to be more granular. The root-filesystem.sh
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526 stage now merely collates the output of two previous stages:
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527 simple-root-filesystem.sh (which produces just enough of a root filesystem
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528 to boot to a shell prompt, based on uClibc and busybox plus a few init scripts
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529 and config files), and native-compiler.sh (a portable native toolchain).</p>
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530
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531 <p>The system-image.sh stage now generates the dev-environment.sh script.
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532 It only puts dev-environment.sh and native-build.sh scripts in the tarball
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533 when NO_NATIVE_COMPILER is blank (and thus the build includes native
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534 development tools), or if root-filesystem isn't available in which case
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535 it'll automatically use simple-root-filesystem.</p>
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536
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537 <p>Several more package builds were moved to sources/sections.</p>
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538
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539 <p>The new "more" subdirectory collects together all the user-runnable
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540 scripts that aren't build stages. (Many of these were previously in
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541 sources/more.) New scripts in this directory include:</p>
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542
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543 <ul>
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544 <li>Scripts to run newly built system images out of the build directory
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545 ("run-emulator-from-build.sh $ARCH", "dev-environment-from-build.sh $ARCH",
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546 and "native-build-from-build.sh")</li>
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547
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548 <li>test.sh - Wrapper script to run commands in the build environment, with
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549 read_arch_dir loaded. Useful for things like
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550 "STAGE_NAME=simple-cross-compiler more/test.sh sparc build_stage uClibc",
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551 or to dump the build context's environment variables ala "more/test.sh env"</li>
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552
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553 <li>timeout.sh $SECONDS command... - Wrapper to run a child process and
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554 kill it if it doesn't produce a line of output for $SECONDS seconds.</li>
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555
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556 <li>build-control-images.sh - build all control images from sources/native-builds.</li>
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557
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558 <li>for-each-target.sh - iterate through every defined target architecture
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559 and run a command.</li>
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560 </ul>
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561
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562 <b><h3>Website</h3></b>
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563
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564 <p>A new cron job is populating the
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565 <a href=downloads/binaries/snapshots>snapshots</a> directory. Currently only
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566 the stable versions, but the unstable versions should wander back in
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567 eventually. (When the bisectinate and migrate-kernel scripts catch up to
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568 what they need to do to properly test unstable packages.)</p>
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569
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570 <p>More documentation: The "about" page got redone, and the FAQ was fluffed
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571 out with a new debugging section. Michael S. Zick wrote up mips docs for the
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572 architecture page, and the build scripts grew even more comments.</p>
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573
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574 <b><h3>General Infrastructure</h3></b>
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575
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576 <p>The control image generation was upgraded so each control image
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577 source can have its own patch directory and file directory. (This needs
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578 more work.)</p>
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579
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580 <p>Environment variable sanitization: the sanitize_environment function
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581 unsets any environment variable it doesn't recognize, either from a whitelist
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582 or from config. Clearing all unrecognized environment variables insulates
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583 the build from some of the strange environments out there. To disable this
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584 behavior, export NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1.</p>
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585
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586 <p>New config variables:</p>
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587
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588 <ul>
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589 <li>STATIC_CC_HOST became CROSS_HOST_ARCH, set that and second stage cross
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590 compiler gets built.</li>
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591
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592 <li>The new ALLOW_PATCH_FAILURE=1 variable continues despite a patch failing to
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593 apply.</li>
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594
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595 <li>NO_HOST_TOOLS=1 tells build.sh to skip the host tools step, which is seldom
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596 a good idea but there you have it. The new HOST_EXTRA is an equally horrible
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597 idea, but if you feel the need it's a list of extra commands to pass through
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598 from the host $PATH.</p>
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599
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600 <li>NO_CPLUSPLUS=1 tells it not to add C++ support in the toolchains it
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601 builds.</p>
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602
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603 <li>NO_CLEANUP isn't a new variable, but you can now set this for entire
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604 builds and it should work.</li>
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605 </ul>
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606
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607 <p>ccwrap improvements: Handle unexported $PATH better. It doesn't need to
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608 search $PATH when argc[0] is a path (either absolute or relative to the current
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609 directory). Also use Scrt1.o when building a shared library. (Oddly this
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610 never caused a problem before, but do the right thing anyway.)</p>
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611
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612 <p>Upgrades to BUILD_STATIC: it now takes a comma separated list of packages,
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613 with the special value "all" to build everything static, and "none" to build
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614 nothing static. The default is to build static versions of busybox and the
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615 toolchain packages (gcc, binutils, make, and ccwrap) both due to the increased
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616 performance this provides under qemu (which has to repeatedly re-translate
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617 executable code pages that modify themselves, such as when dynamic linking
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618 patches per-process jump addresses), and also due to the increased portability
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619 this provides the native compiler tarball.</p>
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620
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621 <p>(The host-tools stage always builds dynamic packages, because the glibc
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622 maintainer has a personal dislike of static linking, meaning glibc's static
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623 linking support (in addition to creating 400k "hello world" binaries) is both
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624 broken[LINK] and deprecated[LINK]. Some distros have even taken to breaking
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625 out the *.a format libraries used for static linking into a separate package,
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626 and not installing them by default. The host-tools stage now tests for this,
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627 and refuses to continue in a dynamic-only build environment unless you set
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628 BUILD_STATIC=none. You can rebuild under the resulting target system to
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629 natively compile static binaries, which uClibc supports quite well, but you
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630 can't generate them from the host.)</p>
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631
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632 <p>The old FROM_ARCH is now HOST_ARCH, and the infrastructure using it
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633 (cross-compiler.sh and native-compiler.sh) has been cleaned up. The
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634 HOST_UTILS variable was also removed, that's now built for the full
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635 cross and native compilers, but not the simple cross compiler.</p>
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636
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637 <p>The more/smoketest.sh file no longer creates hdb.img.</p>
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638
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639 <p>The host-tools stage has been upgraded to work around the utter stupidity of
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640 Ubuntu 10.04, which turned "gcc" into a perl script. (Yes really. No, I don't
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641 know what they were smoking.)</p>
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642
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643 <p>Build zlib in host-tools (for squashfs) and in static-tools for dropbear's
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644 -C. This is necessary for reproducing the build under a system-image, because
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645 the default system image type (squashfs) requires zlib to build.</p>
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646
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647 <p>Update the command prompt in system images to show the amount of
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648 parallelism available via distcc. (When it says 1 you haven't got
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649 distcc, and when it says a number greater than that you have.)
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650 The prompt now looks like:</p>
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651 <blockquote><pre>(powerpc:4) /home #</pre></blockquote>
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652
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653 <p>The make, bash, and distcc builds are now part of the native-compiler stage
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654 (and their build scripts moved to sources/sections). This means that a native
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655 toolchain now includes make, because it's hard to build make without make.
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656 This stage also records the uClibc and linux config files for posterity.</p>
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657
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658 <p>The build was weaned off of toybox. (Broke out oneit, sent patch upstream
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659 to busybox, and got netcat fixed in defconfig so native-build.sh could use
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660 it.)</p>
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661
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662 <p>Several small bugfixes and cosmetic cleanups. For example, we now delete
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663 empty build/temp-* directories when we're done with them, and several
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664 config options such as NO_NATIVE_COMPILER and NO_CLEANUP should be more
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665 reliable now. Don't build hello-dynamic on a BUILD_STATIC=all system.
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666 Clean up debris files the kernel's headers_install leaves lying around.
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667 Minor upgrades to FORK=1 support, and QUIET is now part of FORK instead
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668 of a separate control. Generating a package manifest should no
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669 longer produce error messages. Empty temp directories get deleted on the
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670 way out. Better support for building older tools as alt-packages (tested
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671 binutils 2.14 and gcc 3.4). Comment out default UNSTABLE= URLs in download.sh,
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672 supply your own if you want that. Binutils build now honors existing $CFLAGS
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673 (if any). The dienow error message goes to stderr. More reliably track
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674 package cache state when patches fail to apply. Simplify system-image
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675 build (don't try to package root filesystem and build kernel in parallel
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676 anymore, squashfs and make both have internal SMP support). BUILD_VERBOSE
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677 is now more verbose. Reliability improvement for record-commands.sh.
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678 New shell functions blank_workdir and extract_package. Consistently
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679 use name-name in scripts and name_name in functions.</p>
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680
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681 <p>It's been a long 5 months...</p>
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682
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683 <hr>
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684 <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.
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parents: 1022
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685 <p>The name of the project is changing from Firmware Linux to Aboriginal
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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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686 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.
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parents: 1022
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687
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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688 <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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689 <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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690 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
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691 <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.
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692
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
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parents: 1022
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693 <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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694 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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695
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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696 <hr>
1022
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697 <h2><a name="03-29-2010" />March 29, 2010</h2>
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698 <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
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699 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/1020>hg commit
1022
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parents: 1006
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700 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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701
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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702 <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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703 1.16.1.</p>
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parents: 1006
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704
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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705 <b><h3>Improved native builds</h3></b>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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706
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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707 <p>Most targets now have <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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708 for <a href=http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html>dropbear</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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709 <a href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/>strace</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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710 <a href=http://busybox.net>busybox</a>. These are statically
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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711 linked against uClibc, so just download, set the executable bit, and run.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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712
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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713 <p>These dropbear and strace binaries are built using the automated three-disk
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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714 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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715 which has been improved and genericized this release. Now one script creates
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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716 a build image (see examples in sources/native-builds) and another script
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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717 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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718 hard drive (/dev/hdc), telling the system image to automatically build
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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719 those source packages and upload the result to the host via ftp.</p>
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parents: 1006
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720
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parents: 1006
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721 <p>So to reproduce the dropbear and strace binaries for a supported ARCH,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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722 you could do:</p>
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723
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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724 <blockquote><pre>
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725 ./build.sh ARCH
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parents: 1006
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726 sources/native-builds/static-tools.sh tools.hdc
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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727 sources/more/native-build.sh ARCH tools.hdc output
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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728 </pre></blockquote>
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parents: 1006
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729
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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730 <p>When the build exits, the results should be in the host's "output"
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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731 directory.</p>
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parents: 1006
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732
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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733 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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734 <p>The arm, mips, x86, x86-64 targets that worked last time still work.
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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735 The armv4eb and m68k targets still don't work.</p>
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parents: 1006
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736
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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737 <p>The powerpc and sparc targets have been upgraded. Powerpc now works with
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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738 the 3-disk automated native build (although you'll need qemu 0.12.4 to take
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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739 advantage of this). The sparc dynamic linker still doesn't work in uClibc,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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740 but the statically linked system is now working well enough to build packages
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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741 natively.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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742
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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743 <p>New targets this release are i486 (thanks David Seikel) and mips64 (which
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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744 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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745 build stuff with yet).</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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746
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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747 <p>Finally, the sh4 target was broken by a cosmetic cleanup of the startup
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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748 assembly code in Linux 2.6.33 that rendered any binutils version older
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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749 than 4 months unusable to build sh4. While it's possible to patch around
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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750 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
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751 of the issue, but explicitly
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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752 <a href=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel/7237>doesn't
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753 care</a> about users other than his employer, and so far nobody
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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754 else seems to care enough about supporting the discontinued Sega Dreamcast
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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755 game console to argue with him. (Might revisit this next release, but m68k
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parents: 1006
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756 support is a higher priority.)</p>
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parents: 1006
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757
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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758 <b><h3>Infrastructure</h3></b>
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parents: 1006
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759 <p>The system-image's "run-emulator.sh" is now a much smaller and simpler
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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760 script, consisting primarily of the qemu command line. (And if you export
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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761 DEBUG=1 it prints the emulator command line.) The distcc and hdb
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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762 setup code moved to dev-environment.sh.</p>
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parents: 1006
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763
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parents: 1006
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764 <p>The <a href=screenshots>screenshots</a> page is working again, if a bit
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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765 stale.</p>
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parents: 1006
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766
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parents: 1006
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767 <p>The bisectinate.sh script (to automatically git bisect a build issue)
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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768 has been updated, more to come next release.</p>
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parents: 1006
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769
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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770 <p>The download.sh script has been updated to understand FORK=1 and download
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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771 packages in parallel. (And to extract them in parallel when
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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772 EXTRACT_ALL=1.)</p>
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parents: 1006
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773
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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774 <p>The new export_if_blank shell function allows several more environment
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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775 variables to be overridden, including TOP, SOURCES, SRCDIR, PATCHDIR,
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776 BUILD, SRCTREE, HOSTTOOLS, WRAPDIR, CC, and STAGE_NAME.</p>
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777
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778 <p>I'd also like to thank the debugging efforts of Wolfgang Denk, who hit
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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779 as many bugs trying to use this project as I normally do with other people's.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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780 He eventually got discouraged and left, but thanks to his efforts:</p>
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781
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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782 <ul>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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783 <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
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784 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
785 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
786 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
787 here to let you configure the project with environment variables, but
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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788 not be confused by existing environment debris.)</p></li>
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parents: 1006
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789
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parents: 1006
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790 <li><p>BUILD_STATIC=none can how handle the case where the host toolchain
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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791 can't build any static binaries at all.</p></li>
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parents: 1006
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792
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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793 <li><p>The CROSS_SMOKE_TEST implementation (which had bit rotted) was fixed and
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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794 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
795 build.sh as necessary.</p>
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parents: 1006
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796
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
797 <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
798 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
799 arm you need to tweak /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr as root. For ppc you
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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800 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
801 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.
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parents: 1006
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802
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
803 <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
804 It broke for qemu reasons more often than it found bugs in the toolchain.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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805 </li>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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806 </ul>
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parents: 1006
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807
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parents: 1006
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808 <hr>
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
diff changeset
809 <h2><a name="02-02-2010" />February 2, 2010</h2>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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810
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
811 <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
812 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
813 commit 966</a>.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
diff changeset
814
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parents: 927
diff changeset
815 <p>Yeah, I know 1.0 is overdue for a release, here's a resync point
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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816 with the 2.6.32 kernel and uClibc 0.9.30.2.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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817
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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818 <p>There are some regressions this time around, which I plan to fix up
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
diff changeset
819 in the next release. The 2.6.32 kernel broke strace,
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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820 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.
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parents: 969
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821 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
822 (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
823 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
824 to Vladimir's new fancy version with style sheets, but "halfway" doesn't
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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825 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
826 when the server's hard drive filled up, and now it's in the process of being
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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827 upgraded with a couple new scripts:</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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828
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
829 <p>The new sources/more/migrate_kernel.sh script does a "make oldconfig"
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
diff changeset
830 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
831 alt-miniconfig-linux for the specified target with any new symbols that
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
diff changeset
832 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
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833 symbols to the native configs will still require manual filtering.)</p>
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parents: 927
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834
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
835 <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
836 a git bisect between a known good and known bad (generally HEAD) version
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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837 of one of the unstable packages (linux, uClibc, or busybox). It can test
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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838 that the build completes, or that the system image boots and successfully
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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839 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
840 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
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841 broke them.)</p>
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parents: 927
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842
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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843 <p>In other general infrastructure news: some extensive upgrades to the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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844 compiler wrapper (ccwrap), such as no longer needing GIMME_AN_S at compile
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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845 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
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846 and behaving appropriately. A largish cleanup/refactoring of the compiler
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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847 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
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848 <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/944>commit 944</a>)
969
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parents: 927
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849 added a new "native-compiler.sh" script, which handles building the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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850 improved "cross-compiler" tarball that includes thread support and
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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851 uClibc++ and is statically linked against uClibc on the host.
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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852 The simple cross compiler is now "simple-cross-compiler.sh" (which is
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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853 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
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854 contexts).</p>
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parents: 927
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855
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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856 <p>The host-tools.sh stage now only builds
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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857 e2fsprogs or squashfs if the build is actually going to use them (based
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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858 on the SYSIMAGE_TYPE config symbol). The sources/sections scripts now
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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859 come in two flavors: an *.build version with setup/cleanup called
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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860 automatically and *.sh files which do their own setup/cleanup within
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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861 the script. Each system image's run-emulator.sh will once again add
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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862 /sbin:/usr/sbin to the $PATH if it can't find mke2fs.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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863
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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864 <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
865 everything else works via environment variables. Use EXTRACT_ALL=1 instead.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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866
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
867 <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
868 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
869 usr/src directory, buildall.sh should now try to build the static native
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
diff changeset
870 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
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871 should properly be running smoketest.sh again.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
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parents: 927
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872
1022
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parents: 1006
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873 <hr>
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
874 <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
875 <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
876 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/921>hg commit 921</a>.</p>
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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877
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parents: 881
diff changeset
878 <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
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879 around new years, but there's been some schedule slippage already.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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880
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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881 <ul>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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882 <li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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883 <p><b>New documentation</b></p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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884 <p>The presentation slides have been converted to
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
885 <a href=presentation.html>HTML</a>, although the much prettier (and much
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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886 bigger) <a href=downloads/presentation.pdf>PDF</a> is still available.</p>
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parents: 881
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887
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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888 <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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parents: 881
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889 (Ask away.)</p>
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parents: 881
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890 </li>
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parents: 881
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891
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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892 <li><p><b>Prebuilt binaries</b></p></li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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893
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
894 <p>Added shm support to uClibc. Bugfix to the c++
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
895 compiler (it should work again). The system images now have a "guest"
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
896 user/group so packages can more easily be built as a non-root user.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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897 The shell prompt now includes the $HOST name.</p>
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parents: 881
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898 </li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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899
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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900 <li><p><b>Build scripts</b></p>
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parents: 881
diff changeset
901 <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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902 target builds out of "build". (If you delete that whole directory it has to
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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903 re-extract all the package tarballs and rebuilt the host tools, which is
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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904 often unnecessary work.)</p>
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parents: 881
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905
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parents: 881
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906 <p>Command recording has been completely redone. No more RECORD_COMMANDS
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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907 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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908 $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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909 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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910 sources/more/report-recorded-commands.sh to get a summary or
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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911 look at the raw command line lists in build/logs.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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912
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parents: 881
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913 <p>The Great Refactoring continues in sources/sections: broke up
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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914 binutils-gcc.sh into individual binutils, gcc, and ccwrap
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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915 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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916 and spun off toybox.sh from busybox.sh.</p>
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917
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parents: 881
diff changeset
918 <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
diff changeset
919 non-qemu sources/targets configurations without reinventing the wheel,
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
920 and fixed up dependencies for hw-target builds (which should work a lot
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
921 more reliably now).</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
922
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
923 <p>Bumped up the number of $CPUS used by the build to 1.5x the actual number
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
924 (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
diff changeset
925 should help keep larger servers busy.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
926
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
927 <p>Some self-hosting fixes from Natanael Copa (making sure host-tools.sh
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
928 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
929 (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
930 squashfs patch (substituting a function uClibc hasn't got).</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
931
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
932 <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
933 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
934 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
935 Updated smoketest-all.sh to show "NONE" for system images that didn't build.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
936 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
diff changeset
937 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
diff changeset
938 set_titlebar.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
939 </li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
940 </ul>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
941
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
942 <hr>
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parents: 881
diff changeset
943 <h2><a name=11-07-2009 />November 7, 2009</h2>
879
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
944 <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
diff changeset
945 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
946 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
diff changeset
947
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
948 <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
949 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
950 1.0-pre1, if you like.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
951
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
952 <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
953 (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
954 yet.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
955
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
956 <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
957 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
958 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
959 development questions.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
960
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
961 <h3><b>Bug tracker and roadmap</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
962
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
963 <blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
964 <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
diff changeset
965 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
966 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
967
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
968 <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
969 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
970 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
971
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
972 <h3><b>New screenshots page</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
973
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
974 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
975 <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
976 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
977 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
978 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
979
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
980 <h3><b>Fun with static linking</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
981
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
982 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
983 <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
984 statically linked against uClibc for maximum portability.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
985
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
986 <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
987 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
988 (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
989 to dynamic with "BUILD_STATIC=none".</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
990
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
991 <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
992 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
993 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
994
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
995 <h3><b>System Image interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
996
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
997 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
998 <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
999 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
1000 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
diff changeset
1001 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
1002 fixed.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1003
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1004 <p>The run-emulator.sh script in each system interface tarball is now much
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1005 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
diff changeset
1006 distcc acceleration automatically if it finds them. (It announces whether
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1007 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
diff changeset
1008 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
diff changeset
1009 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
diff changeset
1010
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1011 <p>Also, run-emulator.sh no longer takes any command line arguments. Instead
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1012 the environment variable $HDB indicates a /dev/hdb disk image to mount on
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1013 /home, $HDBMEGS specifies the size of a (sparse ext2) HDB image to create if
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1014 it doesn't already exist, and QEMU_MEMORY indicates how many megabytes of
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1015 physical memory the emulator should allocate for the virtual system.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1016
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1017 <p>Each system-image also provides a simple wrapper dev-environment.sh
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1018 which calls run-emulator.sh with HDBMEGS=2048, HDB=hdb.img, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1019 QEMU_MEMORY=256. (These are the values run-from-build.sh used to provide,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1020 and give a reasonable build environment with 256 megs of physical memory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1021 and 2 gigabytes of writeable /home space.) The run-from-build.sh script
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1022 itself now merely adds the specified build/cross-compiler-$ARCH directory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1023 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
diff changeset
1024 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
1025
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1026 <p>The system images can now also automatically mount a third disk image
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1027 ($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
diff changeset
1028 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
diff changeset
1029 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
diff changeset
1030
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1031 <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
1032 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
1033 /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
1034 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
1035 the hdc.sqf image for this.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1036
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1037 <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
1038 due to QEMU board emulation limitations.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1039 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1040
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1041 <h3><b>Build interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1042
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1043 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1044 <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
1045 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
1046 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
diff changeset
1047 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
diff changeset
1048
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1049 <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
diff changeset
1050 strace under the emulator, and copies them out to the host through the virtual
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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1051 network (into the build/cron-temp directory) using busybox ftpd on the host.
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1052 This provides an example of how to use the new HDC /mnt/init functionality
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1053 to perform automatic builds under the emulator, and copy the results out
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parents: 830
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1054 through the network. It uses the new sources/timeout.sh wrapper to detect
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parents: 830
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1055 hung builds (defined as builds that haven't produced a line of output within
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1056 a given number of seconds).</p>
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1057
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1058 <p>The new BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS variable (in the file "config") tells
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1059 the build to create a separate tarball of the binaries produced building
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1060 each package. (These more granular tarballs aren't shipped yet, but may
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1061 be in a future release.)</p>
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1062
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1063 <p>The new SKIP_STRIP variable tells the build not to strip binaries.
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1064 (Add in CFLAGS=-g for enormous binaries full of debug info.)</p>
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1065 </blockquote>
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1066
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parents: 830
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1067 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
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1068
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1069 <blockquote>
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1070 <p>Powerpc and sh4 should now work fine with stock qemu 0.11.0.</p>
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1072 <p>The arm platform now has an armv4tl target. This is a little-endian armv4
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1073 eabi, for armv4 chips offering the "thumb" extension which eabi requires.
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1074 (The plain armv4l target is still oabi. The oabi/eabi thing is different
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1075 binary ABIs, a bit like Linux vs BSD binaries or aout vs elf. The eabi
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1076 standard is the new one, but some of the older arm hardware can't support
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parents: 830
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1077 it. This takes it down as far as it can go.)</p>
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1078 </blockquote>
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1079
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1080 <h3><b>Infrastructure</b></h3>
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1081
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1082 <blockquote>
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1083 <p>Behind the scenes, some extensive work is going on to simplify the
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1084 build scripts. (The documentation's fallen a bit behind reality here,
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1085 but should be back up to date next release.)</p>
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1086
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1087 <p>The uClibc miniconfigs are now automatically generated, with the
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1088 bulk of the config living in sources/baseconfig-uClibc and the few
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1089 target specific lines being appended from the UCLIBC_CONFIG variable
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1090 defined in the target's settings file.</p>
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1091
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1092 <p>The other big change is factoring out lots of common code, moving it into
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1093 the sources/sections directory, so things like the uClibc, busybox, and
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1094 toolchain builds now live in one place and are called from the various
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1095 other scripts that need them. (This may eventually allow alternate build
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1096 scripts for these packages, potentially swapping out glibc for uClibc, or
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1097 llvm/clang for gcc. In the meantime, it eliminates a lot of redundant code.)</p>
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1098
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1099 <p>This required lots of small cleanups, such as making the scripts now
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1100 consistently use the $STAGE_DIR variable for their output directory.
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1101 Some other cleanups were primarily cosmetic, such as moving the extracted
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1102 tarball cache directory from build/sources to build/packages. (Tarballs
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1104
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1105 <p>The root filesystem now contains simple /etc/passwd and /etc/group files,
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1106 because dropbear won't work without them (not even to ssh out).</p>
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1108 <p>Several small bugfixes (ccwrap no longer segfaults if $PATH isn't
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1109 exported, /etc/resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten unnecessarily by init.sh,
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1110 etc).</p>
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1111 </blockquote>
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1112
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1114 <h2><a name=08-20-2009 />August 20, 2009</h2>
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1115 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.7.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.7</a> is out, a little
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1118
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1119 <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.
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1120 <a href=/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a>
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1122 and includes <b>Linux 2.6.30.4</b> and <b>BusyBox 1.14.3</b>.
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1123 No new uClibc release is out since last time.</p>
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1124
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1125 <p>Lots of little bugs got fixed. For example, this release should build on
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1126 Fedora 11 (and any other platform that hasn't got "which" installed by
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1127 default), and now supports distcc and ccache on the host (and will use them
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1128 automatically if they are installed).</p>
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1129
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1130 <h3><b>Changes to build stages: new root-filesystem, cross-static, and
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1131 native-compiler tarballs, upgraded buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh.</b></h3>
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1132
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1133 <blockquote>
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1134 <p>The old "mini-native" stage has been renamed "root-filesystem"
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1135 (the same way package-mini-native became system-image last release). The
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1136 script names (and resulting tarballs) now indicate what each stage makes.
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1137 So build.sh calls host-tools.sh, cross-compiler.sh, root-filesystem.sh,
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1138 and system-image.sh, in that order.</p>
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1139
879
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1140 <p>The old build-static-toolchains.sh script is gone, with its functionality
809
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1141 integrated into buildall.sh (which now builds i686 hosted static toolchains
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1142 for each target by default). This is implemented by two new environment
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1143 variables triggering optional behavior: STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST
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1144 and BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER.</p>
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1145
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1146 <p>Setting STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST to an architecture name creates a
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1147 cross compiler statically linked to run on that host (via a technique
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1148 known as canadian cross compile). For example, the invocation:</p>
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1149
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1150 <blockquote>
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1151 <p>BUILD_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST=i686 ./build.sh armv4l</P>
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1153
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1154 <p>Would create a tarball called "cross-static-armv4l.tar.bz2" which was
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1156 on that host to be distribution independent.</p>
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1157
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1158 <p>Setting BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER to any non-empty value creates a
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1159 native compiler for the target (packaged as native-compiler-$ARCH.tar.bz2),
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1160 which is statically linked against uClibc so it can be extracted and run on
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1161 just about any system of the appropriate type. (So if you can get a Linux
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1162 shell prompt and have enough storage and memory, you should be able to
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1163 compile stuff.)</p>
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1164
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1165 <p>The upgraded smoketest-all.sh script runs smoketest.sh on each
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1166 target built. (The smoketest.sh script attempts to compile and run "hello
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1167 world" natively within a system image under qemu, and indicates whether or
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1168 not it worked via "pass" or "fail".) Note that smoketest-all.sh now
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1169 autodetects which targets have been built (have system images in the build
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1170 directory), and smoketest.sh times out after 60 seconds so targets that hang
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1171 will return failure eventually.</p>
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1172
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1173 </blockquote>
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1174
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1175 <h3><b>Squashfs 4.0 now the default system image type</b></h3>
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1177 <blockquote>
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1178 <p>The root filesystem image type is now squashfs by default. (To change it set
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1179 SYSIMAGE_TYPE to ext2 or initramfs, either in your environment or the file
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1180 "configure".)</p>
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1181
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1182 <p>This involved upgrading the userspace squashfs support package
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1183 to the version 4.0 supported by the upstream kernel, and numerous small fixes
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1184 to work with a read-only root filesystem (with writeable spaced mounted on
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1185 /home and /tmp).</p>
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1186 </blockquote>
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1187
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1188 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
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1189 <blockquote>
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1190 <h3><b>ARM upgrades</b></h3>
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1191
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1192 <blockquote>
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1193 <p>Lots of work on the arm targets, with the addition of a new armv6l target
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1194 and conversion of the armv5l target to
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1195 <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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parents: 694
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1196 but ARM screwed up its website and now you have to go
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1197 <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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1198 little endian soft float OABI target (which is "the i386 of ARM", meaning it
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parents: 694
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1199 should run on just about any arm hardware, if a bit slowly). A new
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1200 armv4be target is the same as armv4l except big endian.</p>
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1201
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parents: 694
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1202 <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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1203 </blockquote>
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1204
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1205 <h3><b>Updated sparc support, almost works now. (uClibc for sparc still sucks.)</b></h3>
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1206
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parents: 694
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1207 <blockquote>
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1208 <p>The sparc target has also been upgraded to the point where it now gives
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parents: 694
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1209 a shell prompt. (And immediately dies with a bus error or a hang if you try
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parents: 694
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1210 to do anything, because uClibc for sparc still doesn't work. The "upgrade"
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parents: 694
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1211 consisted of statically linking everything because uClibc's dynamic loader
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1212 doesn't work for sparc.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1213 </blockquote>
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1214
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1215 <h3><b>PowerPC remains fiddly due to QEMU issues, new powerpc-440fp target</b></h3>
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1216
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1217 <blockquote>
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1218 <p>PowerPC support in QEMU is
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1219 <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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1220 changed from last release, the version of QEMU in source control no longer
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parents: 694
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1221 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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1222 QEMU's developers do not consider this a regression. While we search for a new
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parents: 694
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1223 Linux kernel .config that matches QEMU's current expectations (and await a
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parents: 694
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1224 release considered "stable"), note that setting HOST_BUILD_EXTRA=1 before
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parents: 694
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1225 running host-tools.sh will build a version of qemu that does run powerpc and
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parents: 694
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1226 put it in build/host where run-from-build.sh can find it. (Note also that
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parents: 694
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1227 building qemu from source still takes significantly longer than the rest of the
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parents: 694
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1228 host-tools.sh stage combined.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1229
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parents: 694
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1230 <p>A new powerpc-440fp target produces code for the powerpc 440 with hardware
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parents: 694
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1231 floating point. (Theoretically QEMU's "bamboo" board emulation should
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parents: 694
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1232 run this, but QEMU doesn't emulate a 440 processor yet. We compromise by
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parents: 694
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1233 running a ppc440 filesystem under qemu's power mac emulation, to take
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parents: 694
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1234 advantage of the ppc440 instruction set being almost a subset of full powerpc.
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parents: 694
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1235 This gets us a shell prompt, but throws illegal instruction errors if you
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parents: 694
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1236 try to do anything fancy.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1237
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parents: 694
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1238 <p>(Note that powerpc-440fp is not a hw-target for powerpc, it's a different
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parents: 694
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1239 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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1240 properly emulate yet.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1241
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parents: 694
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1242 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1243
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parents: 694
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1244 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1245
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parents: 694
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1246 <h3><b>Now using last GPLv2 release of GCC, and future plans</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1247
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parents: 694
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1248 <blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1249 <p>The upgrade to <b>gcc 4.2.1</b> gives us
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parents: 694
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1250 <a href=http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2007/msg00003.html>the last
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parents: 694
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1251 GPLv2 licensed version of gcc</a> (thus avoiding
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parents: 694
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1252 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/343608/>various problems</a>).
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parents: 694
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1253 <a href=http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4932>Make 3.81</a>
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parents: 694
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1254 was already the last GPLv2 release of that project.</p>
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parents: 694
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1255
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parents: 694
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1256 <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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1257 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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1258 in a future release. Similarly, although <b>binutils 2.17</b> was the last
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parents: 694
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1259 GPLv2 version from the FSF, an upgrade to
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parents: 694
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1260 <a href=http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.1>the
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parents: 694
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1261 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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1262 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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1263 has been upgraded as far as possible for the foreseeable future, either because
809
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parents: 694
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1264 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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1265 under a license compatible with the Linux kernel's.</p>
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parents: 694
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1266
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parents: 694
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1267 <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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1268 (maintaining GPLv2 license) or by investigating alternative non-FSF
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1269 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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1270 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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1271 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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1272 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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1273 drop-in replacement compiler is available.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1274
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parents: 694
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1275 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1276
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parents: 694
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1277 <h3><b>Implementation details</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1278
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1279 <blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1280 <p>Each target configuration renamed "details" to "settings", and added
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parents: 694
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1281 a "description". (This makes Gentoo From Scratch's kconfig easier.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1282
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parents: 694
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1283 <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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1284 "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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1285 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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1286 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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1287 "rm -rf packages build".</p>
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parents: 694
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1288
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parents: 694
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1289 <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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1290 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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1291 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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1292 tarball information to detect git version numbers.</p>
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parents: 694
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1293
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parents: 694
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1294 <p>The === bars now show the current stage name and architecture each
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1295 package is being built for. (Pipe the build output to grep "^===" to see
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1296 just the start of each new package build.) The same information is sent
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parents: 694
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1297 to the title bar of your xterm, export NO_TITLE_BAR=1 if you don't want the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1298 build to update the title bar.</p>
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parents: 694
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1299
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parents: 694
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1300 <p>The BUILD_STATIC option now applies to all packages built in
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parents: 694
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1301 root-filesystem.sh, and can be set from a target configuration's settings file
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parents: 694
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1302 (as sparc is now doing).</p>
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parents: 694
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1303
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1304 <p>The BUILD_VERBOSE option passes V=1 to the linux, busybox, and uClibc
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parents: 694
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1305 builds that otherwise sanitize their output.</p>
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parents: 694
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1306
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1307 <p>You can now set NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=only to build just the compiler
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parents: 694
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1308 and not the other parts (busybox, make, toybox, bash...) This is used
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parents: 694
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1309 by the canadian cross steps in build.sh to create static cross and native
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parents: 694
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1310 compilers.</p>
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parents: 694
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1311
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parents: 694
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1312 <p>This release broke up scripts/include.sh so that script just
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parents: 694
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1313 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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1314 to define shell functions. The architecture setup (reading architecture
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parents: 694
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1315 files and creating temporary directories and such) is now done via the
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parents: 694
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1316 "read_arch_dir $ARCH" shell function, so merely including sources/include.sh
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parents: 694
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1317 should no longer have significant side effects. Similarly, setupfor now
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parents: 694
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1318 has an EXTRACT_ONLY environment variable instead of depending on a blank
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parents: 694
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1319 $ARCH (which host-tools.sh has, despite wanting to snapshot source so it can
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parents: 694
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1320 build stuff).</p>
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parents: 694
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1321
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1322 <p>Various fixes to make parallel builds work better. (So it neither leaves
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parents: 694
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1323 background processes running nor kills the parent shell and closes your
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parents: 694
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1324 xterm when you hit ctrl-c.) The new "killtree" shell function,
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parents: 694
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1325 which kills a process and all its children and grandchildren recursively with
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1326 pgrep. We also build our own sources/toys/mysetsid.c program with the host
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1327 compiler (because the normal command line "setsid" doesn't also do a tcsetpgrp
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parents: 694
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1328 on stdin so signal handling isn't forwarded to the new session). This should
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parents: 694
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1329 more reliably allow ctrl-c to exit smoketest.sh and system-image.sh and such,
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1330 and let FORK=1 ./buildall.sh stop all its background processes when
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parents: 694
diff changeset
1331 interrupted. (Note that smoketest-all.sh also honors FORK=1.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
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parents: 694
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1332
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1333 <p>The logs from buildall.sh now live in build/logs.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1334
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1335 <p>The new config option ROOT_NODIRS avoids creating the normal set of empty
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1336 directories in the new root filesystem. (The old /tools support went
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1337 away, but a BUILD_STATIC ROOT_NODIRS build can be extracted into /tools
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1338 and used from there. Then either symlink "/lib" to "/tools/lib" or "export
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1339 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
diff changeset
1340 /tools natively.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1341
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1342 <p>The compiler wrapper (sources/toys/ccwrap.c) can now use
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1343 architecture-specific WRAPPER_TOPDIR values. (I.E. armv4l-cc could
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1344 "export armv4l_WRAPPER_TOPDIR=/path/to/directory".) This makes
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1345 canadian cross compiles a lot easier.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1346 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1347
927
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parents: 881
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1348 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
1349 <h2><a name=04-02-2009 />April 2, 2009</h2>
694
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parents: 543
diff changeset
1350 <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
diff changeset
1351 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
diff changeset
1352 support.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1353
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1354 <p>The big news is the <a href=http://impactlinux.com/code/gfs/>Gentoo
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1355 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
diff changeset
1356 Stage 1 environment, building natively inside qemu.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1357
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1358 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1359 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
diff changeset
1360 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
diff changeset
1361
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1362 <p>The cross and native toolchains now include ldd, readelf, and
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1363 ldconfig. Added support for hardware targets (an unfinished example
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1364 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
1365 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
1366 on actual hardware.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1367
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1368 <p>Several new build options:</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1369 <ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1370 <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
diff changeset
1371 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
diff changeset
1372 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
diff changeset
1373 <li><p>Setting <b>$HOST_BUILD_EXTRA</b> compiles qemu 0.10.1 in host-tools.sh.
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1374 You currently need to do this to run sh4 or powerpc, 0.10.1 has some bugs
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1375 needing patches. Not on by default because it takes a _long_ time.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1376 <li><p><b>$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
diff changeset
1377 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS</b> lets you control the size of the ext2 system images.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1378 <li><p><b>$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
1379 filesystem than the build happens on. (Once the updated squashfs userspace
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1380 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
diff changeset
1381 <li><p><b>$CROSS_SMOKE_TEST</b> use qemu application emulation to test run hello
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1382 world program at the end of the cross compiler build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1383 <li><p><b>$SKIP_STAGE_TARBALLS</b> don't create tarballs of each stage,
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1384 just populate the directories.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1385 <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
1386 compiler tarball during the native build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1387 </ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1388
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1389 <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
1390 do "./run-emulator.sh --help" for a list. Takes several environment
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1391 variables such as $QEMU_EXTRA and $KERNEL_EXTRA. Root filesystems can
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1392 now run in read only mode with "KERNEL_EXTRA=ro".</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1393
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1394 <p>Lots of build infrastructure upgrades. The build stages have been
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1395 reorganized somewhat (most noticeably package-mini-native.sh is now called
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1396 system-image.sh). The "sources/packages" directory has moved up a
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1397 directory (to separate repository files from stuff downloaded at runtime).
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1398 Upgrades to the cc wrapper and the USE_UNSTABLE infrastructure. Better
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1399 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
diff changeset
1400 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
diff changeset
1401 wrapper around build.sh. New build-static-toolchains.sh builds them under
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
1402 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
diff changeset
1403 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
diff changeset
1404 then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1405 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
diff changeset
1406 Distcc has been upgraded, and should work more reliably now.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1407
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1408 <p>Too many little bug fixes to list.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1409
927
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1410 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1411 <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
diff changeset
1412 <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
diff changeset
1413 the nav bar on the left has changed, but the
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
diff changeset
1414 <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
diff changeset
1415 archives</a> are still there for the moment.</p>
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
diff changeset
1416
927
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1417 </hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1418 <h2><a name=12-03-2008 />December 3, 2008</h2>
523
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1419 <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
diff changeset
1420 before shipping it),
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1421 <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
diff changeset
1422 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
diff changeset
1423
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1424 <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
diff changeset
1425 now supports C++, hooked up to distcc and everything.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1426
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1427 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1428 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
diff changeset
1429 of date anymore.)</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1430
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1431 <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
1432 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
1433 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
1434
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1435 <p>My personal website's getting a touch overwhelmed, so a higher bandwidth
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1436 site is now available at
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1437 <a href=http://impactlinux.com/fwl>impactlinux.com</a>. This should become
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1438 the new primary website going forward.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1439
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1440 <p>BusyBox has also been upgraded (to 1.13.0), and the new USE_UNSTABLE
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1441 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
1442 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
diff changeset
1443 with as side projects without blocking other important work.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1444
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1445 <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
1446 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
1447 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
1448
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1449 <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
1450 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
1451 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
1452 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
1453 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
1454 specifies an $ARCH to create statically linked cross compilers
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1455 for. (The build will then try to use them for the later stages,
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1456 and won't get far if you specify an arch that can't run on the host.)</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1457
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1458 <p>The include.sh script has been broken up, with a new sources/functions.sh
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1459 containing shell functions (like download, setupfor, and cleanup) and
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1460 a new "config" setting the user-editable environment variables that control
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1461 the build. Several of these variables have been renamed and their number has
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1462 grown. You can now specify the colors for each build stage using the variables
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1463 at the end of config.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1464
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
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1465 <p>Building mini-native in a Linux From Scratch style /tools directory is
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1466 no longer the default. Instead set NATIVE_TOOLSDIR=1 if you want that
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1467 kind of layout instead of a more conventional layout. (Similarly,
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1468 NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=1 now enables the native toolchain, but that variable
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1469 defaults to enabled in config.)</p>
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1470
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parents: 388
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1471 <p>See the <a href=documentation.html>docs</a> for details.</p>
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1472
927
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parents: 881
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1473 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1474 <h2><a name=08-06-2008 />August 6, 2008</h2>
388
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1475 <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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1476 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/378>changeset 378</a>)
388
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1477 and can rebuild itself under itself. (The packaging step still requires User
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1478 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts.
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1479 The next release should replace that with something more portable.)
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1480 The root filesystem is now based on BusyBox 1.11.1 (plus a few bug fixes).</p>
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1481
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1482 <p>The prebuilt binary images have been moved into their own
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1483 <a href=downloads/binaries>binaries</a> directory.
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1484 The prebuilt binary <a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler>cross
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1485 compilers</a> are statically linked against uClibc for better portability.
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1486 Updated the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> to better describe the
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1487 contents of the <a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>system-image
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1488 tarballs</a>.</p>
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1489
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1490 <p>The forkbomb.sh script can now take a number of parallel targets to
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1491 launch, for example "./forkbomb.sh --fork 3". (The resulting display is kind
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1492 of horrible but the out-$ARCH.txt files are still legible.) Leaving off the
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1493 number still builds all targets in parallel, with the original display.</p>
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1494
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1495 <p>The include.sh script was reorganized so that interesting environment
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1496 variables the user might want to export for themselves are set near the top
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1497 of the script. Currently this includes:</p>
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1498
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1499 <ul>
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1500 <li><p><b>BUILD_SHORT</b> - Makes the mini-native.sh stage skip building
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parents:
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1501 development tools. The resulting mini-native root filesystem contains uClibc
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1502 and busybox, but nothing else. (Export "BUILD_SHORT=headers" to put back the
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parents:
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1503 toolchain headers for use by another compiler, such as tinycc.)</p>
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1504
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1505 <li><p><b>BUILD_STATIC</b> - Tell cross-compiler.sh to create static
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1506 binaries, for a more portable cross compiler toolchain. (If you want them
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1507 linked against uClibc, build a mini-native for your host, chroot into it, and
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parents:
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1508 then rebuild under that.)</li>
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1509
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1510 <li><p><b>PREFERRED_MIRROR</b> - Tell download.sh to fetch packages from a
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1511 non-default location (falling back to the standard mirror list if it can't get
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1512 one from there).</p></li>
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1513
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1514 <li><p><b>RECORD_COMMANDS</b> - Record a list of all command lines used during
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parents:
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1515 each build stage log files named "cmdlines.$STAGE.$PACKAGE" under the build
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1516 directory. Each file can be turned into a list of the command names used via
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parents:
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1517 "awk '{print $1}' build/cmdlines* | sort -u". The script
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parents:
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1518 sources/toys/report_recorded_commands.sh gives a report of all commands
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1519 used by each package after a call to "RECORD_COMMANDS=1 ./forkbomb.sh".
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1520 (This is an easy way to find out exactly what environmental dependencies a
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1521 package needs to build, or at least what it uses out of $PATH).</p></li>
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1522 </ul>
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1523
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1524 <p>Updated documentation is in progress...</p>
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1525
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1526 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1527 <h2><a name=06-06-2008 />June 6, 2008</h2>
388
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1528 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.4.0</a> is out
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
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1529 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/345>changeset 345</a>),
388
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1530 with kernel 2.6.25.4 and the "distcc trick" working out of the box.</p>
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parents:
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1531
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1532 <p>The distcc trick accelerates a native build by calling out to the
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1533 cross compiler. To use it, download the appropriate cross-compiler-$ARCH and
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parents:
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1534 system-image-$ARCH tarballs, run the "run-with-distcc.sh" from the system image
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1535 directory with the path to the cross compiler directory as its first argument.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1536 (You need to have distcc installed on the host system.)</p>
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1537
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1538 <p>After building from source, the cross-compiler and system-image directories
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1539 remain in the build directory. The "emulator-build.sh" runs these with
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parents:
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1540 distcc acceration set up. The script "smoketest.sh" is a wrapper
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1541 around emulator-build.sh which feeds a script into qemu's stdin to compile
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parents:
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1542 and run a multi-threaded "hello world" under the emulator, using distcc and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1543 the cross compiler.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1544
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1545 <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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1546 that far. The cross compiler worked to build the system, and the emulated
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1547 system booted so QEMU, the uClibc config, and the kernel config agreed.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1548 The emulated system has a working virtual hard drive and serial port, and for
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1549 distcc to work it has a working virtual network connection. Running "make"
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1550 would also require a working realtime clock.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1551
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1552 <p>The seven commands missing in order to run the FWL build under itself
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1553 are bzip2, sort, diff, wget, install, od, and find. (The busybox versions,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1554 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:
diff changeset
1555 get those in for the next release in September.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1556
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1557 <p>Sorry I missed a release back in April. Shouldn't happen again.</p>
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parents:
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1558
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1559 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1560 <h2><a name=01-29-2008 />January 29, 2008</h2>
388
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1561 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.1</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>
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1562 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with
388
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1563 kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1564 are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1565 The run scripts now run qemu-setup.sh by default so /proc, /sys, /dev
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1566 and the virtual network are initialized, and the default shell is busybox
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1567 ash (so cursor keys and history work).</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1568
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1569 <p>Sparc is still broken (tracked it down to a dynamic linking bug, I think,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1570 haven't fixed it yet) and m68k is failing to build with an internal compiler
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1571 error (next release I should upgrade the compiler). All the other targets
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1572 have a working virtual network, and all but powerpc exit qemu when you
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1573 exit the PID 1 command shell.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1574
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1575 <p>Building on an x86-64 host< should no longer be insanely slow (the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1576 gcc-min-heapsize arguments that allow 32-bit hosts to build in
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1577 128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1578 x86-64 cross compiler should now be properly relocatable.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1579
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1580 <p>Better build dependency tracking: the host-tools script is now
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1581 populating a single directory with all the commands needed by the build, and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1582 restricting $PATH to that directory (so it can't accidentally call any
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1583 commands that aren't explicitly listed). It's building toybox and busybox to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1584 provide most of these commands (the remaining ones are listed towards the end
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1585 of include.sh), and creating symlinks to the remaining ones out
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1586 of the original $PATH. This allows it to build on a wider range of host
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1587 distributions.</p>
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1588
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parents: 881
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1589 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1590 <h2><a name=11-02-2007 />November 2, 2007</h2>
388
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1591 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1592 (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1593 qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1594 (although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are
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1595 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still
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1596 broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p>
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1597
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1598 <p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in
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1599 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that
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1600 (and --watch to watch and existing build if you ctrl-c out of
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1601 the display before it's done).</p>
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1602
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1603 <p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the
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1604 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds,
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1605 building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks
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1606 so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p>
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1607
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1608 <hr>
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1609 <h2><a name=09-02-2007 />September 2, 2007</h2>
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1610 <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on
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1611 m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release,
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1612 and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast
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1613 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p>
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1614
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1615 <hr>
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1616 <h2><a name-06-27-2007 />June 27, 2007</h2>
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1617 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.2</a> is out
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1618 (changeset 185). Using uClibc 0.9.29 release, several small bugfixes,
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1619 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly
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1620 by explicitly saying /bin/bash everywhere), automatically detect
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1621 the number of CPUs in the machine to feed -j to make, and better
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1622 diagnostic output.</p>
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1623
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1624 <hr>
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1625 <h2><a name=04-09-2007 />April 9, 2007</h2>
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1626 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out
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1627 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works
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1628 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how
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parents:
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1629 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although
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1630 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote
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1631 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel
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1632 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig.
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parents:
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1633 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into
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1634 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't
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1635 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they
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1636 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there
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1637 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is
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1638 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p>
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1639
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1640 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political
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1641 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why
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1642 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things,
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1643 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of
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1644 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest
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1645 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of
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1646 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p>
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1647
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1648 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while
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1649 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems
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1650 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a
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1651 more honest approach.)</p>
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1652
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1653 <p>Update: I've been pointed at
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1654 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't
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1655 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement.
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1656 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And
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parents:
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1657 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION
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1658 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term
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1659 program to understand the minix filesystem so he could upload and download
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1660 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could
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1661 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1
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1662 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very
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1663 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is
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parents:
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1664 garbage. Background a process with &amp; and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it.
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parents:
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1665 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do
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parents:
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1666 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a
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parents:
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1667 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p>
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1668
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1669 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in
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1670 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p>
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1671
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1672 <hr>
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1673 <h2><a name=03-06-2007 />March 6, 2007</h2>
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1674 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a
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1675 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel.
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1676 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p>
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1677
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1678 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory.
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parents:
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1679 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that
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1680 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1681 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p>
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parents:
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1682
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1683 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p>
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1684
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1685 <hr>
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1686 <h2><a name=01-14-2007 />January 14, 2007</h2>
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1687 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p>
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1688
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1689 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds
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1690 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of
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1691 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works
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1692 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the
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1693 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and
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1694 prebuilt mini-native tarballs for each platform (although packing them up into
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1695 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p>
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1696
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1697 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging
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1698 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts,
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1699 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage
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1700 automatically.</p>
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1701
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1703 <h2><a name=12-28-2006 />December 28, 2006</h2>
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1704 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds
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1705 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've
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1706 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p>
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1707
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1708 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p>
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1711 <h2><a name=12-05-2006 />December 5, 2006</h2>
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1712 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds
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1713 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball,
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1714 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler"
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1715 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which
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1716 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p>
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1717
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1719 <h2><a name=08-06-2006 />August 6, 2006</h2>
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1720 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p>
881
0da87d1ef528 Update the web page. Put the left-side nav bar back, move about page to "about.html" and make news.html the default index. Add architectures page. Note that IRC discussion is now on #edev.
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0da87d1ef528 Update the web page. Put the left-side nav bar back, move about page to "about.html" and make news.html the default index. Add architectures page. Note that IRC discussion is now on #edev.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1722 <!--#include file="footer.html" -->