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Skriven 2006-12-06 18:00:02 av Paul Rogers (1:105/360.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: In service
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 PR> glibc is 2.1.3 IIRC.
 MK> I thought it was uClibc?  Or are you saying the dvelopment
 MK> system itself uses glibc but targets for uClibc?  I've seen
 MK> that happen.

No, TRINUX uses glibc-2.1.3, LEAF-Bering uses uClibc, and my
host uses glibc-2.3.1.  Got it?  ;-)  I fired up a Bering floppy
last night.  They built Busybox's ls without color!  8-P  But,
yes, I guess if I need to add anything to LEAF-Bering I'd need
to cross-compile for uClibc, safely.

 MK> extra elbow room, without losing sight of the target.  BTW
 MK> why all the hoop jumping for floppies?  Does your target
 MK> have other boot capabilities?

I want to move to floppy or CD-ISO boot, but AIUI the El Torito
boot spec begins with a floppy image.  So I think I still need
an initrd.

 MK> The difference is both the versions of glibc and gcc.  BTW
 MK> gcc-4.1.1 builds tighter code then gcc-3 versions.  ;-)

Yeah, AIUI I could cross-compile with a given kernel/glibc/gcc
for a different base.  But the only way I've done that is with
LFS' instructions for building alternate tool-chains.  It's not
yet something I feel comfortable doing by myself.

 MK> Not always.  Your host machine's system might be if it has
 MK> to look after different goals but that is probably less of
 MK> a concern if it can build suitable compact systems for
 MK> targets and keep them up to date as well.  No?

Ummmm, I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting.  What
I'm trying to do is develop a base system I can use to load my
version of a LFS system.  I can't be sure what the target system
will be.  I want to be able to take an arbitrary system and load
my version of Linux as easily as I could a commercial distro.  I
think I see it could be a problem with what Bering's uClibc
provides at this point---no SCSI support obviously apparent.

 MK> Okay but I haven't had an issue with ext2 and whatever boot
 MK> media.  Also this keeps all the systems more or less in
 MK> sync and I don't have to sweat differing format schemes,

Sure, and the extra stuff in the ext2 fs is getting compressed
in the initrd.  But for a boot floppy I don't need a full
function fs.  I don't want to start by wasting space.  After all
that's the attraction of uClibc.  Minix is consistent with a
decision like that.  I won't say ext2 would be like ordering a
double cheeseburger with a diet coke.

Paul Rogers, paulgrogers@yahoo.com                       -o)
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