[uClibc] [PATCH] Give buildroot a config file.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Aug 8 03:10:24 UTC 2003


On Thursday 07 August 2003 18:49, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:55:39PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > I would like nothing better than for things such as PTXdist to become
> > standard, so I could stop maintaining packages and focus more
> > exclusively on uClibc and busybox,
>
> I hope to have a release ready in a few days which builds for a generic
> x86 target, so that people can actually start trying it out in reality.
> At the moment it works but you have to know how ;)
>
> Other things high on my schedule are especially the integration of Dan
> Kegel's cross scripts (or at least the structurized patch system - I
> suspect the scripts don't fit good into the Makefile system) and an
> update to busybox-1.x-pre.
>
> Robert

Having now played with it a bit, I'm not quite as enthusiastic as I was an 
hour or two ago.

Make menuconfig goes on way the heck too long.  I want to be able to tell it 
things like "I want uclibc", an "I want busybox", and have some kind of 
"allyesconfig" variant that says switch everything on.  I'll switch stuff off 
later when and if space becomes a problem, first I want to get it working.  
(In general, the configuration forces me to deal with far too much 
granualrity, certainly on my first attempt to just get a system up and 
running so I can build stuff and play with it.)

Are you somehow #including the Kconfig from uclibc and busybox, or are you 
duplicating it?  Because I noticed the help needs a LOT of fixing up, and if 
it's already done in busybox or not going to propogate back to busybox, I'd 
rather not bother.

There's no equivalent to buildroot's "make sources".  In buildroot, I can tell 
it to download all the source it's going to need right up front, which is a 
big help since this is my laptop and it's only connected to the internet 
about half the time.  I'm happy to leave it compiling stuff in the 
background, but I'd rather not have to leave it behind plugged into the net 
if I'm going somewhere without net access.

I also I do not personally care about flash memory.  I noticed stuff relating 
to flash memory in about five different menus, which probably needs to be 
consolidated...

For the moment, I think I'm just going to bang on buildroot.  It's closer to 
what I want...

Rob



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