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On the eave of the big gentoo embedded meet (2000 UTC Sunday (Nov. 23) in |
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#gentoo-embedded on irc.freenode.net.) that I'm unfortunately unable to |
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attend I though I'd give a bit of a mental dump as to where I'm at in |
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developing a uclibc toolchain (bug 29312). |
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WHAT I'M DOING: |
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I'm makeing an ebuild for the buildroot project listed in www.uclibc.org. This |
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makes a customised version of binutils (binutils-2.14.90.0.6), gcc |
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(gcc-3.3.2) and the uclibc (0.9.23) specifically for embedded cross |
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compiling. Once I get this working I'll get a gcc-config profile created for |
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it so we can start making some applications. |
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This project also has the ability to create (as the name suggests) - a full |
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embedded root file system and a number of applications (listed below): |
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cramfsroot gcc-3.3 less mke2fs pppd ttcp |
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autoconf customize gdb libfloat ncurses |
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raidtools uclibc automake dhcp_relay gdbserver libglib12 |
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netkitbase rxvt udhcp bash diffutils gettext |
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libtool netkittelnet sed user-mode-linux berkeleydb |
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dropbear_sshd grep links netsnmp sfdisk |
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util-linux binutils ed gzip linux newt |
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slang valgrind bison ext2root hostap lrzsz |
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ntp socat vtun boa fakeroot hotplug |
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ltp-testsuite openssh strace wtools bridge file |
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iproute2 m4 openssl system-linux zlib busybox |
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findutils iptables make patch tar bzip2 |
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flex jffs2root microcom pciutils tinylogin ccache |
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gawk jpeg microwin pcmcia tinyx coreutils |
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gcc-2.95 kernel-headers mkdosfs perl tn5250 |
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Which is going to be a great source when the "application domain" phase of the |
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projec is entered. |
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WHERE I'M AT |
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Just debugging away, making sure the ebuild conforms to the gentoo way |
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(layout, ebuild functionionality, use flags ...). Coming across a few |
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environment related problems. It seems to work ok compiling from the cvs |
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snapshot so I'm hacking away getting it to work from an ebuild. No major |
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problems just one by one showing there face. If your intested in testing this |
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when it gets reasonably stable add your name to the 29312 bug http:// |
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bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29312 and maybe a comment as to the |
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architecture you want to test it on. |
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS |
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On speaking to devs on #gentoo-embedded I've noticed a lot of people who are |
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making this work don't have hardware to fully test this on (myself included). |
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So can anyone who has embedded hardware please write email to here giving the |
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following details: |
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1. What specific hardware you have? |
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2. What your interest in the gentoo-embedded project (pda / embedded firewall |
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routers / kiosk applications.....etc....)? |
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3. Say your very keen to debug any ebuilds ;-) |
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4. Give your opinions and general ideas |
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I've spoken to one or two people on IRC wanting to help but realy not much |
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idea how to contribute. |
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suggestions: |
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1. Look at the agenda that Chris emailed on the 17 November 03 12:18 pm. Think |
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about the issues and ... |
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2. Turn up to the IRC meet listed above |
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3. Give a dump of your ideas, listen to others |
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4. Volunteer to do stuff and get this project running. |
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5. practice writing ebuilds - there are a lot of application that will need |
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adaptation to run on embedded processors. |
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Have a good day/night and I'll catch you round. |
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Daniel |
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