I am switching to using Aboriginal Linux's toolchain for testing

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 9 07:03:45 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 08 June 2010 08:19, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I was using a home-built uclibc toolchain for busybox test builds,
> > but recent support for date's %N format turned out a small problem
> > with my uclibc headers.
> >
> > Thus, it's time to upgrade my toolchain.
> 
> > Since building of a toolchain continues to be a non-trivial task,
> > I decided to stop doing it myself (poorly), and start using
> > Rob's Aboriginal Linux:
> >
> > http://impactlinux.com/aboriginal/
> >
> > since he invested a lot of his time to make it work correctly.
> > Also, I will be able to build non-x86 busybox at least
> > for build testing (which up to now I wasn't usually doing).
> 
> Alpine Linux is a good option if x86 is enough. It will let your run
> an almost complete desktop with uclibc/busybox, it has a fairly recent
> (hardened) toolchain (gcc-4.4.4/uclibc-nptl) and it uses busybox ash
> as default shell instead of old version of gnu bash. It will even let
> you run things like wine, qemu, vserver kernel etc.
> 
> I'd say its a pretty good option if you'd really want eat your own dogfood.

Well, my home machine is LFS, and I intend to keep it this way.
-- 
vda


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