On Son, 2009-01-04 at 11:23 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt let...@linux-sh.org wrote:
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I'm ignoring the cross-compile perl issue - haven't tried it for
years.
5. Tool *version* dependency is hard to get right. When cross-building
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On Son, 2009-01-04 at 22:50 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:15:30 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
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ACK. A bash can IMHO be expected. Even going for `dash` is IMHO somewhat
too extreme.
I have yet to encounter a system that uses dash _without_ bash. (All ubuntu
Hmm
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 02:23 +, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
(I have 850 Linux boxes on my network with a bourne shell which
doesn't do $((...)). I won't be building kernels on them though :-)
Believe it or not, but there are folks out there who build the firmware
On Son, 2009-01-04 at 22:13 +, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Rob Landley wrote:
In a private email, Bernd Petrovitsch suggested set -- $i and then
using NAME=$1; PERIOD=$2. (I keep getting private email responses
to these sort of threads, and then getting dismissed as the only one
who cares
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:54 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Linus Torvalds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And embedded people (the ones that might care about 1% code size) are the
ones that would also want smaller stacks even more!
This is something I never
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:16 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
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Well, sure - but the industry as a whole seems to have gone the other
The industry as a whole doesn't exist on that low level. You can't
compare the laptop and/or desktop computer market (where one may buy
today hardware that runs
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 20:58 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
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The savings part -financial ones- are not always realizable with the
way memory is priced/sized/fitted.
Savings in few Mb of Kernel stack are not necessarily going to allow
getting rid of a single memory chip of 64M or so.
No, but
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:48 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
If you develop an embedded system (which is partly system integration
of existing apps) to be installed in the field, you don't have that many
conceivable work loads compared to a desktop/server system. And you
On Mit, 2008-08-27 at 18:51 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
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It is, but the idea that small embedded systems go through a 'all
components are known, drivers are known, test and if it passes it's
shippable' does not always apply.
Not always but often enough. And yes
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:07 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
If GOLD is as old and flexible (and portable?) as binutils,
The author says it will only work with ELF, and he does not
intend to add support for all the other things binutils does.
Well, supporting 80
On Fre, 2008-06-13 at 20:51 +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:30:52AM +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
Battle of Wesnoth is currently converted to both Scons and CMake, and
in the end they will decide about the winner. (since Eric is good at
arguing I guess it will be
On Sam, 2008-06-14 at 01:07 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
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You said about too many user-selectable options. Many large packages
These are IME not a problem if they have somewhat sensible defaults.
_check_ for many installed libraries. Get them wrong, and you have
the same problems of
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 12:17 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
_check_ for many installed libraries. Get them wrong, and you have
the same problems of untested combinations.
As long as I can specify that libfoo support must be compiled in (and
thus libfoo must
On Fre, 2008-06-13 at 14:17 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
Actually the size of ints (or any other type) can be easily deduced
without running a (for the target) compiled binary:
- compile the binary (for the target) with an initialized variable with
that value
On Fre, 2008-06-13 at 17:16 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Basically yes. But if you have a big number of packages (or a huge
package)
which you didn't write yourself, there will be tests which run
executables.
Figuring out what
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