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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: busyborx II
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:36:55 -0000
--- In  Christopher Friedt <> 
wrote:
>
> Sure...
> 
> http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/binpkgs/arm-unknown-
linux-gnu/sys-apps/busybox-1.8.2.tbz2
> 
> you can check out any of the packages I've built here:
> 
> http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/binpkgs/arm-unknown-
linux-gnu/
> 
> Everything is compatible with the TS userland.
> 

Many thanks , that will be a very useful resource. 

I'd looked at your guide for building a system using Gentoo, which is 
my main distro but I ran away in fright. It looked like a good weeks 
work to get it all together and it really was not geared to making an 
embedded installation (yet).

However a couple of tarballs could be very useful for getting around 
the sort of breakages I'm finding in the what TS supply.


> My busybox has a functional awk. The 'which' doesn't work though, 
and 
> I'm not sure why, but If you want to write a patch, I wouldn't 
mind 
> including it in the ebuild:
> 
> http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/overlays/ts72xx-
20080328.tar.bz2
> 
> Installation of the packages are very straight-forward,
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/
Gentoo_for_the_TS72xx_(Old_Toolchain)#Blah.2C_Blah.2C_Blah.2C_Give_Me_the_Binaries_Already

Could you maybe post a tinyurl or something a little more 
conventional. That url seems to get screwed up either by yaboo groups 
or my browser. I was not able to fix it manually either.

(also gentoo-wiki is about as fast as a slug on ketamine. It usually 
takes about 3 minutes to return 404!)

Thanks again for you post, most helpful

Cheers.


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> j.chitte wrote:
> > --- In  "j.chitte" <j.chitte@> wrote:
> >> --- In  Jim Jackson <jj@> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Bit of a side issue, do you know a way to get the .config for
> >>>> busybox? The TS distributed one is pretty old and buggy and a 
> >> quick
> >>>> look at the changelog makes me quite keen to update it.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm just cautious about borking the whole system if I dont 
get 
> > it
> >>>> close to the TS config.
> >>> I just downloaded the source, configured it using the busybox 
> >> configure 
> >>> stuff and rebuilt. You can find out which utilities are built 
> > into 
> >> the 
> >>> existing BB, just by executing busybox with no parameters. I 
add 
> >> extra 
> >>> stuff. The process is outlined on my ts7200 page
> >>>
> >>> cheers
> >>> Jim
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
---
> > -
> >> ---------
> >>> HomePage:    http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/jj
> >>> TS7200 Page: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/jj/linux/arm-sbc.html
> >>>
> >> Thanks for the config file. In fact it was not that much use 
for 
> >> recent release since there are many new options and old ones 
have 
> >> disappeared or been renamed (*BILTIN*) but it serves as a guide.
> >>
> >> However I'm now hitting a major problem. I am trying to build 
it 
> >> native on the debian image distributed by TS, booted over nfs.
> >>
> >> It really gets nowhere because each modules fails to build with 
the 
> >> same error. Value too large for defined data type.
> >>
> >> I'm booting the ts11 kernel noted below from flash then running 
> >> debian root fs over nfs .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ### 50 x Value too large errors , then fails.
> >>
> >> find: use: Value too large for defined data type
> >> find: verbose: Value too large for defined data type
> >> find: with: Value too large for defined data type
> >> scripts/basic/split-include: find: No such file or directory
> >> make: *** [include/config/MARKER] Error 1
> >>
> >> #onboard kernel
> >> Linux arm 2.4.26-ts11 #3 Tue Jun 6 14:13:14 MST 2006 armv4l 
unknown
> >>
> >>
> >> TSlinux image boots fine over nfs so is this a problem with the 
> >> debian image ?
> >>
> >> TIA.
> >>
> > 
> > This is getting very messy. Since 'find' is one of the tools 
provided 
> > by busybox it appears that this is another significant breakage 
in 
> > what TS are still providing as supplied software.
> > 
> > Worse , if anyone is daft enough to buy the "development kit" 
they 
> > actually pay money for this broken unmaintained release.
> > 
> > I really should not need to set up a complete cross-compiler 
> > development system to replace what should be provided in a 
working 
> > state.
> > 
> > One of the main reasons I chose a TS product was it was claimed 
to 
> > have a working mini linux out of the box and a full debian image 
> > suitable for installing on a USB device.
> > 
> > Since the supplied busybox is too broken to even rebuild it's 
own 
> > update I'll now have to find an arm binary to get out of this 
chicken 
> > and egg situation.
> > 
> > "Fully embrasing linux" seems to mean letting this list do most 
of 
> > the product support for them.
> > 
> > Anyone thinking of buying a TS product should realise they are 
going 
> > to have to get head long into embedded system development. They 
do 
> > not work out of the box as advertised.
> > 
> > 
> > If anyone has built a more recent busybox with working find and 
awk , 
> > would they like to post it to files section?
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>



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