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Announce 1.4.4 and mention #toybox channel on freenode (where devs hang out).
| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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| date | Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:33:47 -0600 |
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| 2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title> | 2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title> |
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| 4 <!--#include file="header.html" --> | 4 <!--#include file="header.html" --> |
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| 6 <b><h1>News</h1></b> | 6 <b><h1>News</h1></b> |
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| 9 <hr /><h2><a name="01-11-2016" />January 11, 2016</h2> | |
| 10 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.5.tar.gz>1.4.5</a> | |
| 11 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1836>hg 1836</a>, using | |
| 12 Linux 4.3.</p> | |
| 13 | |
| 14 <p>It's just a kernel version upgrade, no other changes. We've been | |
| 15 consistently running a couple kernel versions behind, and I'd like to | |
| 16 catch up.</p> | |
| 17 | |
| 18 <hr /><h2><a name="01-07-2016" />January 7, 2016</h2> | |
| 19 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.4.tar.gz>1.4.4</a> | |
| 20 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1833>hg 1833</a>, using | |
| 21 Linux 4.2. This release patches gcc 4.2.1 to build under gcc 5.2, fixes the | |
| 22 sh2eb build, adds proper powerpc-440fp support (running under QEMU's -M bamboo | |
| 23 board), and converts most architectures (armv4tl, armv5l, armv6l, i486, | |
| 24 i586, i686, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sh4, x86_64) to use musl instead of | |
| 25 uClinux.</p> | |
| 26 | |
| 27 <p>Dreamhost deleted a big chunk of history out of the mailing list web archive | |
| 28 again. Last year it was just a few weeks, this time they retroactively zapped | |
| 29 11 months (almost all of 2015). | |
| 30 I <a href=http://landley.net/toybox/#12-21-2015>provided some details | |
| 31 in another affected project</a>, | |
| 32 but given that <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost.txt>last</a> <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost2.txt>time</a> | |
| 33 they never filled in the previous gap in the archive, I don't hold out much | |
| 34 hope. If history is a guide, they'll keep apologizing as long as I keep poking | |
| 35 them about it, but nothing will ever get fixed. (Some of the vanished posts | |
| 36 are in archive.org.)</p> | |
| 37 | |
| 38 <p>Due to the musl conversion, new <a href=control-images>build control | |
| 39 images</a> are necessary to provide dropbear, strace, and linux from scratch. | |
| 40 (Both strace-4.9 and Linux From Scratch 6.8 fail to build under musl for | |
| 41 basically stupid reasons, in the case of LFS more than one package actually | |
| 42 has an #if/else staircase for every known libc type ending in an #error if | |
| 43 it doesn't recognize it. Since musl doesn't like and pretend to be glibc | |
| 44 like uClibc does, I need to upgrade package versions...) Those aren't | |
| 45 uploaded yet, but should be available soon.</p> | |
| 46 | |
| 47 <p>The system-image.sh build is now called every time by build.sh and | |
| 48 handles its own dependencies: it rebuilds the rootfs, native compiler, | |
| 49 and kernel images as necessary. (This means if you tweak the root | |
| 50 filesystem contents, system-image.sh doesn't have to rebuild the kernel each | |
| 51 time unless you're using SYSIMAGE_TYPE=rootfs instead of the default | |
| 52 SYSIMAGE_TYPE=cpio so faster build and test cycles.)</p> | |
| 53 | |
| 54 <p>Several new config variables:</p> | |
| 55 | |
| 56 <ul> | |
| 57 <li><p><b>MY_PATCH_DIR</b> - lets you specify an additional patch | |
| 58 directory applied after sources/patches (in this case with one subdirectory | |
| 59 per package instead of the package name in the prefix, so | |
| 60 sources/patches/linux-thingy.patch would be patchdir/linux/thingy.patch | |
| 61 instead).</p></li> | |
| 62 | |
| 63 <li><p><b>MY_ROOT_OVERLAY</b> - replaces SIMPLE_ROOT_OVERLAY, still a directory | |
| 64 of files to cp -a into root-filesystem.</p></li> | |
| 65 | |
| 66 <li><p><b>MY_CROSS_PATH</b> and <b>MY_CROSS_PREFIX</b> - specify an external | |
| 67 cross compiler. Providing a native compiler in that case (via MY_ROOT_OVERLAY) | |
| 68 is your problem, native-compiler.sh generally won't work without a corresponding | |
| 69 cross compiler built from the same source.</p></li> | |
| 70 </ul> | |
| 71 | |
| 72 <p>You can now specify EXTRACT_ALL=force to populate the page cache | |
| 73 (extract tarball and apply patches) even when the packages directory | |
| 74 has a repository version of a package. (If you can't think of why | |
| 75 you'd need to do that, you probably don't.)</p> | |
| 76 | |
| 77 <p>The miniconfig.sh creation script got moved from soures/toys into | |
| 78 more/, and the mini.config used to build the kernel tarball is now | |
| 79 saved in the system image tarball.</p> | |
| 7 | 80 |
| 8 <hr /><h2><a name="05-11-2015" />November 5, 2015</h2> | 81 <hr /><h2><a name="05-11-2015" />November 5, 2015</h2> |
| 9 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.3.tar.gz>1.4.3</a> | 82 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.3.tar.gz>1.4.3</a> |
| 10 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1807>hg 1807</a>, using | 83 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1807>hg 1807</a>, using |
| 11 Linux 4.1, toybox-0.6.1, musl-1.1.12, and busybox-1.24.1.</p> | 84 Linux 4.1, toybox-0.6.1, musl-1.1.12, and busybox-1.24.1.</p> |