<p dir="ltr">Thanks, I have a script that downloads the latest busybox from a folder labeled latest which apparently hasnt been updated in a while and so I was using an unpatched busybox *sigh* which has a awk bug that was repaired apparently a year ago so says one source. So much for being the latest......</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 5, 2014 10:16 PM, "Rob Landley" <<a href="mailto:rob@landley.net">rob@landley.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/05/14 16:49, stephen Turner wrote:<br>
> Rob, have you seen any issues with busybox awk throwing errors during a<br>
> recompile of gcc?<br>
<br>
Not that I noticed? (I just built an m68k<br>
<br>
> Im currently seeing a awk -f error. You don't have awk<br>
> in the precompiled toybox bin at the moment so i would assume on your<br>
> aboriginal platform that your using busybox awk or an alternative?<br>
<br>
It's using busybox awk. The host-tools.sh stage populates build/host and<br>
the restricts the $PATH to point at just build/host so it doesn't leak<br>
host dependencies into the build.<br>
<br>
I covered that in the big presentation, the three slides starting at:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/landley/developing-for-non-x86-targets-using-qemu?slide=98" target="_blank">https://speakerdeck.com/landley/developing-for-non-x86-targets-using-qemu?slide=98</a><br>
<br>
Rob<br>
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