[Toybox] Fwd: build help please with toybox

[scsijon]

On 24/11/19 03:45, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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?
> 

I thought this was still in alpha, I shall LOOK, if it does what I need 
to start my idea (somewhat vague at this pointy end) with. I may just 
change over and the other stuff can arcchive. However i'd really like to 
let them have a toybox version anyway, even if they don't use it.


> Rob
>