Dude thats awesome! whats better is the licensing pulls me farther away from gpl (while not a requirement its a big bonus!) (i would prefer all bsd licensed for ease of mind)
pcc is a plain jane c compiler. i dont anticipate any issues but im definitely going to give this a test! I bet that only leaves the kernel to be resolved. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:26 PM, William Haddon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
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