On 10/16/19 6:19 PM, Denys Nykula wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:10:50AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: >> Static linking against glibc tends to break stuff (like DNS lookup) and >> produce >> TONS of warnings. > > Noticed. That's unfortunate. > >> I had a linux from scratch based one of these, which I need to reproduce. But >> https://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html#hairball was a bunch of work to >> make >> anything useful. It sounds like you have a BSD-based one you're trying to >> use on >> Linux? > > Yes, NetBSD package repository appears to be easier to bootstrap on Linux than > those of GNU/distros. Package recipes are an independent layer from toolchain > and > core utils flavor, no init system enforced etc. But lots of software still > assume > glibc on Linux, and pkgsrc hasn't yet updated for example ninja where upstream > merged the patch I sent for musl support so gentoo already uses it. Despite > this > one being quick to solve as samurai is a drop-in replacement enough for cmake > and > such, and despite many server and scriptable packages working out of the > box... > I'm typing on the something useful that my script returns, but the lack of a > modern browser or a full desktop environment another user couldn't tolerate.
Is there a walkthrough on doing this or a URL I could follow it at? More build environments to test against is good... Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
