[Toybox] Fwd: build help please with toybox

[Rob Landley]

On 11/22/19 7:22 PM, scsijon wrote:
> On 23/11/19 09:56, scsijon wrote:
>> thanks for the help
>>
>> On 23/11/19 09:18, Denys Nykula wrote:
>>>> scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c:890:16: error: ‘EINTR’ undeclared (first use
>>>> in this function)
>>>
>>> What's your host libc and where are its headers? In apt that's libc6-dev.
>>>
>> and i'm in a Quirky named Xenial Xerus (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).
>> libc and libc6 both v2.23 at /lib/x86_64-gnu-linux and
>> /usr/include/x86_64-gnu-linux;
>> linux headers and kernel are v4.4.44 if of interest;
>> ?maybe to old?
> 
> And trying with Open Embeded fails with an error relating to gcc being too old
> at 6.3.0!

I built toybox with gcc 4.2.1 earlier this week.

> I'm trying a deb buster with a 8.3.0 next, my last alternative, damn I
> wanted one of these to work (preferably the first),beginning to think this may
> be a bust of a way to build something simple and very minimal from scratch.

You've seen scripts/mkroot.sh?

Rob