> been trying for a long time to get Tom to build tomsrtbt as > libc6-based (with no luck:-) and having multiple versions (and ... > While I fully understand why you are sticking hard with libc5, it > is outdated, unsupported, and buggy. Ok, it works, and it is > smaller than libc6. Has anyone looked at the 'newlib' that Cygnus built? If it is LSB compatable enough it should be ideal for tomsrtbt, since they built it for embedded systems. Of course, that would be one more hurdle for customizing. > I've noticed several updates for busybox on freshmeat.net over the Yes, that's what I meant, working with the current versions, and working with the author to smooth out some of the kinks that kept me from using more of it in the first place. > BTW, dump and restore is now under active maintenance again, and I'll put it on the to-do list to rebuild them, I should probably build a test suite that does basic dump/restore/tar/cpio/lilo/e2fsck stuff and run it against new versions of tomsrtbt and ideally new versions of major distributions. -Tom
