[Aboriginal] Hello world.

KARBOWSKI Piotr piotr.karbowski at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 03:43:12 PDT 2016


Hi,

On 07/08/2016 07:46 AM, Rob Landley wrote:
> So I'm looking at http://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make and Rich
> has got it doing native compilers now, and it theoretically supports all
> the architectures except sparc and m68k, and I still haven't fixed up my
> old toolchains (which may now be broken on _4_ architectures), so I
> should probably just switch over and focus on getting lfs-bootstrap.hdc
> updated and working and get back to toybox testing towards the 1.0 release.
>
> The downside is, this means no more precompiled binary toolchains (cross
> or native). I will not distribute GPLv3 binaries, ever. But if Rich
> wants to put them up somewhere, I'm happy to point at his server...
>
> Working otu thelayering is fun. I'm speaking at Texas LinuxFest tomorrow
> and saturday so won't get much done on it this weekend, but I think
> that's the path forward for the project in the short term.
>
> Long term I'd still like to get llvm working, but that's a bigger jump
> and still hasn't got a @*%(&# binutils replacement (which is what's
> BREAKING more often than gcc is).

If you do not wish to distribute GPLv3 binaries anywhere and you want to 
switch to this cross env, it means it will be not possible to do any 
build inside of the booted Aboriginal image. I would not like that. 
Right now I can combine the native-compiler with root-filesystem and it 
is great to be able to.

-- Piotr.


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