Stephen, This might help with the M4 issue:
http://haddonthethird.net/m4/ I know it works on musl; don't know about PCC. I haven't been working on Linux distro stuff for a while, so basically no one is using or maintaining this, but if you find a bug I'll fix it. Hope that helps, William Haddon On 12/18/2014 03:03:48 PM, stephen Turner wrote: > > > > > > > > If somebody, somewhere, can build a linux kernel with pcc (even a > mostly > > allnoconfig one with extensive patching applied, ala the old > tccboot > > iso), I'll take a second look at it. > > > > Last I checked it was down to one part-time developer who only > cared > > about bsd and not linux, but I'm told it's revived a bit since > then... > > > > > Rob, back to this conversation. PCC is only a c compiler but that > being > said i have compiled everything in the PCC-Musl env except m4 and the > kernel. I know qcc is a If and after toybox-1.0 this conversation is > a > hypothetical more or less. > > From what i have been reading and running into thus far it appears > the > kernel is written with the explicit assumption that it is and always > will > be compiled with gcc. GCC specifically is called within scripts and > possibly code. > > Back when you were working on or thinking about the QCC project did > this > ever come up and if so how would it be handled theoretically? Would > QCC > handle it or would kernel patches be proposed and pushed upstream? > > > thanks, > stephen > ------quoted attachment------ > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net > _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
