So to actually follow through on something I've suggested on this list and because after going back through the thread I noticed the Linux emulation layer was already mentioned, I went ahead and tried to compile Toybox under Ubuntu 14.04 under Docker under FreeBSD, and was successful with:
make defconfig make make install However 'make test' had perhaps a 30% failure rate and I'm not sure if this was due to Ubuntu, Docker, or FreeBSD. Here's some sample error messages: .... FAIL: Hostname - Set, Get and then Reset ifconfig: ioctl 8913: Invalid argument ifconfig: ioctl 8913: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 down and if config /-only ifconfig: ioctl 8913: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 up ifconfig: ioctl 8916: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 10.240.240.240 ifconfig: ioctl 891c: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 netmask 255.255.240.0 ifconfig: ioctl 891a: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 broadcast 10.240.240.255 ifconfig: ioctl 8916: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 default ifconfig: ioctl 8922: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 mtu 1269 FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 add ::2 -- too small mtu ifconfig: ioctl 8922: Invalid argument FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 mtu 2000 ifconfig: socket 2 0: Protocol not supported FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 add ::2 ifconfig: socket 2 0: Protocol not supported FAIL: ifconfig dummy0 del ::2 ifconfig: ioctl 8913: Invalid argument FAIL: Hostname - Set, Get and then Reset ifconfig: ioctl 8913: Invalid argument ... If there's any interest in continuing to test on this, I'd be glad to investigate further. Perhaps by trying with a different Linux implementation under emulation to start. - Zack > On Mar 29, 2016 7:01 PM, "Zack Breckenridge" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One interesting development to note, which I've been meaning to attempt to test Toybox against for some time, is the recent updates in FreeBSD 11-CURRENT to support more Linux syscalls in the Linux amd64 binary emulation layer ( https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=283424), seemingly for supporting a Docker port to FreeBSD. >> >> Of course this is not nearly the same thing as porting Toybox to BSD, but may be at the least a "new" platform on which Toybox will Just Work? >> >> - Zack
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