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Subject: [ts-7000] TS stance on TS-Linux (was Re: busyborx II)
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:38:05 -0000
--- In  "dawydiuk" <> wrote:
>
> TS-Linux is supported and it is finished, please keep in mind 
> Technologic Systems is not the author of busybox. You should be 
able 
> to copy awk and find binaries from the Debian tarball above.
> 
> The mailing list has been growing recently and I haven't had the 
> oppurtunity to follow the list as much as I'd like to. If you have 
> any filesystem problems with any of our products please CC me and 
I 
> will be able to help you to resolve any problems you have...
> 
> //Eddie
>

Hi Eddie, good to see you back in action on the list, your posts are 
helpful.

Narrowing this discussion down to the specific issue that you have 
addressed.

I did grab awk (mawk) for the debian tarball but the problem largely 
remains since busybox is already loaded and responds to awk so the 
true awk never gets called. (I remove the symlink and mv mawk awk)

This means this solution can only work if anything that uses awk 
calls mawk. It's a work around of sorts but not really fix.

It seems a better approach to either rebuild bb as used in TSlinux , 
but with awk taken out, or build a more recent bb. Since may other 
bugs have been fixed since the pre-release version used in TSlinux 
this seems the obvious way to go.

This presents two other problems. 

1/ reverse engineer busybox config so as to not prevoke other issues 
by it's being differently built from the distibuted busybox. Here 
including on the server a copy of the bubybox .config  used to build 
TSlinux would be a quick reliable solution. 

2/ The debian tarball provided is recommended if a compiler is 
required. While I was able to build my own code by booting to debian 
over nfs it fails with busybox due to the "value too large" errors 
that are also seen in the boot log.

### 50 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


This would seem to imply some incompatiblity between -ts11 and the 
debian tarball since 'find' does not show this issue in TSlinux.

Can you shed any light on that?

Thanks for picking this up.

best regards, jacques.





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