[Toybox] Building aborigonal today?

[Rob Landley]

I have some windows with mostly composed replies that have been open and 
buried behind other windows for a WHILE. :)

On 6/30/25 01:08, scsijon wrote:
> Rob's and others, notes in various messages, make me wonder if it's even 
> possible to build something like aborigonal, "as it was", today? Or have 
> things got too complicated to build something so "simple"?

You could always build it under a VM of an old OS version. In theory it 
should still build with current tools since it starts by building an old 
version of busybox and old toolchain version to build the rest with. The 
question is do THOSE build with current stuff.

If you mean "will the automated Linux From Scratch 6.8 build under a 
newer system", the main blocking point last time I tried it was that the 
gnu packages have stupid #ifdef staircases to micromanage things like 
libc versions, and they have no idea what musl is so fall off the end 
into an #else error condition..

Or by "like aboriginal" do you mean mkroot...?

Rob