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6 <b><h1><a href=documentation.html>What is Aboriginal Linux?</a></h1></b> |
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10 <p>Aboriginal Linux is a set of tools to build custom virtual machines. |
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11 It lets you boot virtual PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and |
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12 <a href=screenshots>other exotic systems</a> on |
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13 your x86 laptop (using an emulator such as QEMU). These virtual system |
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| 1305 | 18 <p>Aboriginal Linux has an obvious niche within the embedded community, but |
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26 reproduction sequence (wget source, build, run this test). This provides |
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27 the maintainer both a way to demonstrate the issue, and a native |
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31 (generally QEMU) and a system image to run under it. Configure and make |
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32 your package as normal, using standard tool names (strip, ld, as, etc). |
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33 You can even build and test on a laptop in an airplane, without internet |
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37 <li><p><b>Build arbitrarily complex Linux distributions without messing with |
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40 <p>The point is to separate _what_ you build from _how_ you build. Build |
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44 is much easier if they can work together to produce a single result.</p> |
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56 even set up a cron job to build and test regular repository snapshots of a |
| 1132 | 57 package's development version automatically, and report regressions when |
| 58 they're fresh, when the developers remember what they did, and when | |
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66 ones work is too much trouble, and the new ones don't work because nobody's |
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| 1132 | 69 even the existing fixes don't go upstream. Worst of all, working in private |
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| 85 <li><p><b>Provide a minimal self-hosting development environment.</b></p></li> | |
| 86 | |
| 87 <blockquote><p>Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, | |
| 88 but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery</p> | |
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| 91 <p>Most build environments provide dozens of packages, ignoring the questions | |
| 92 "do you actually need that?" and "what's it for?" in favor of offering | |
| 93 rich functionality.</p> | |
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| 95 <p>Aboriginal Linux provides the simplest development environment capable | |
| 96 of rebuilding itself under itself. This currently consists of seven packages: | |
| 97 busybox, uClibc, linux, binutils, gcc, make, and bash. (We include one more, | |
| 98 distcc, to optionally accelerate the build, but install it in its own | |
| 99 subdirectory which is only optionally added to the $PATH.)</p> | |
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| 101 <p>This minimalist approach makes it possible to regression test for | |
| 102 environmental dependencies. Sometimes new releases of packages simply won't | |
| 103 work without perl, or zlib, or some other dependency that previous versions | |
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| 109 Linux lets you document exactly what dependencies packages actually require, | |
| 110 figure out what functionality the additional packages provide, and measure | |
| 111 the costs and benefits of the extra code.</p> | |
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| 114 <li><p><b>Document how to put together a development environment.</b></p> | |
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| 116 <p>The build system is designed to be readable. That's why it's written in | |
| 117 Bash (rather than something more powerful like Python): so it can act as | |
| 118 documentation. Each shell script collects the series of commands you need | |
| 119 to run in order to configure, build, and install the appropriate packages, | |
| 120 in the order you need to install them in to satisfy their dependencies.</p> | |
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| 122 <p>The build is organized as a series of orthogonal stages. These are called | |
| 123 in order from build.sh, but may be run (and understood) independently. | |
| 124 Dependencies between them are kept to a minimum, and stages which depend on | |
| 125 the output of previous stages document this at the start of the file.</p> | |
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| 127 <p>The scripts are also extensively commented to explain why they | |
| 128 do what they do, and there's design documentation on the website.</p> | |
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