Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:40:20 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: The path is now set for "busybox", FreeBSD style Message-ID: <AANLkTinUjWqiMUmN0=fYTP8rjCzoHh=D%2B7XL=ROqWobM@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone, I've committed the below changes to -HEAD. You can now create and build your own busybox style binary system, completely cross-compiled within the existing Make framework. It isn't as impressive as it sounds though - a lot of the framework is already there from just building crunchgen'ed rescue/sysinstall binaries. There's a few things which should be done. Specifically, being able to build an alternative set of libraries before building the crunchgen target. The base crosscompile system may include support for PAM, Kerberos, ATM/IPX, etc but you may not want your crunch'ed image to have them. To do this right now, you have to disable these features in the main build. That may be OK for some. But just to stress it - I've got a couple of access point images at home running a crunchgen'ed environment under MIPS and besides the obvious binary bloat, it works perfectly well. Besides a cut-down startup framework, the image cross-builds entirely from the base FreeBSD source tree. Let me know if you'd like to give it a shot and I'll put my "bsdbox" Makefile scripts online to try. Adrian On 5 October 2010 10:36, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I've broken out the crunchgen logic from src/rescue/rescue into a > share/mk file - that way it can be reused in other areas. > > The diff is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/crunchgen-mk.diff<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eadrian/crunchgen-mk.diff>; > > This bsd.crunchgen.mk file is generic enough to use in my > busybox-style thing as well as for src/rescue/rescue/. > > Comments, feedback, etc welcome! > > > Adrian >
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