Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 1455:1dbc3634ad0e
Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:27:33 -0500 |
parents | b37d9183753b |
children | 9fdbf60e5543 |
files | www/header.html www/news.html |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/header.html Sun Oct 09 15:39:57 2011 -0500 +++ b/www/header.html Sun Oct 09 18:27:33 2011 -0500 @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ <td> <table border=1><tr><td> <ul> -<li><p>Current release: (version 1.0.3, August 22, 2011): -<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.3.tar.bz2>build scripts</a>, +<li><p>Current release: (version 1.1.0, October 2, 2011): +<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.1.0.tar.bz2>build scripts</a>, <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a>, <a href=screenshots>screen shots</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Development version:
--- a/www/news.html Sun Oct 09 15:39:57 2011 -0500 +++ b/www/news.html Sun Oct 09 18:27:33 2011 -0500 @@ -6,7 +6,51 @@ <b><h1>News</h1></b> <hr /> -<h2><a name="08-22-2011" />June 22, 2011</h2> +<h2><a name="10-02-2011" />October 2, 2011</h2> +<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.1.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.1.0</a> is out, +based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1452>hg commit 1452</a>.</p> + +<p>The big news is that Linux From Scratch 6.7 now builds to completion +under 11 targets, via the <a href=control-images/downloads/binaries/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap</a> <a href=control-images>build control +image</a>. The remaining platforms all show target-specific issues +(often just insufficient board support in QEMU) rather than generic +problems with the build environment. The big bugfix allowing this to happen +was the m4 build hang (which was a bash bug).</p> + +<p>The only upgraded package was BusyBox 1.19.2, but there were several +performance tweaks and bugfixes, such as:</p> + +<ul> +<li><p>The more/chroot-splice.sh script sets up a chroot using the +build/root-filesystem-$TARGET directory and a build control image, +for quickly testing build control images natively (generally using the +i686 or x86-64 root filesystems).</p></li> + +<li><p>The more/buildall-native.sh timeout value is now configurable via the +TIMEOUT=seconds environment variable (defaulting to 60).</p></li> + +<li><p>Tuned the +more/buildall.sh script in FORK=1 mode to take available memory into account +determinging CPUS (so it doesn't overload the build machine so easily).</p></li> + +<li><p>When +dev-environment.sh enables distcc it sets CPUS=3 because several current QEMU +boards support a maximum of 256 megs physical memory.</p></li> + +<li><p>The ldd and ldconfig binaries in the cross compilers were target binaries +instead of host binaries: that's fixed now.</p></li> + +<li><p>The virtio targets should now work with dev-environment.sh</p></li> +<li><p>The test script more/test.sh should no longer delete the output directory +(build/$STAGE_NAME-$TARGET) at the start of each test, allowing test rebuilds +of things like uClibc which have target prerequisites.</p></li> + +<li><p>The common kernel config now uses the ext4 driver for both ext3 and ext2 +filesystems.</p></li> +</ul> + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="08-22-2011" />August 22, 2011</h2> <p>The <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.3.tar.bz2>1.0.3 release</a> is out, based on hg commit