[uClibc] [PATCH] Give buildroot a config file.

[Robert Schwebel]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:05:54PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> And I'd be happy to help.  (I'm here writing howtos and fighting with
> the config system anyway, might as well do it where people can
> appreciate it...  :)

Great!

> Eric: are you proposing that PTXdist potentially replace buildroot at
> some point in the future?  (I.E. merge buildroot and ptxdist, and have
> somebody else maintain the result?)

As we use PTXdist for our customer project and we spend quite a lot of
payed time customizing it for board support packages I would volunteer
to continue maintaining it ;)

> Right now ptxdist says it's a configuration tool, not a
> mini-distribution. The difference is small, but it's there.

And it's well thought. We don't make operating systems, we just show the
users how they can do it themselves. That's a legal difference. But
however, for the user the difference has no practical impact. 

The idea is to have something which actually _documents_ how a system
was compiled. A typical project would look like this: 

a) configure the system as you like (system is still under 200 KiB)
b) backup your configuration
c) run 'make world' and backup the src/ directory
d) you now have everything documented. 

This serves very well the needs for users with ISO9000 certified
software build processes. 

> At the very least, ptxdist is going to need:
> 
> A) More documentatioon.

We are working on that; wait for the next release in a few days. 

> B) Its own mailing list.

Nothing easier than that. I've just added a list at 

	http://www.pengutronix.de/maillists/index_de.html

> (It would also be really nice if there was some kind of mirror place the 
> sources could get dumped. I've had trouble with buildroot for the past few 
> days because half of ftp.gnu.org is down right now.  Unfortunately, I know 
> the bandwidth bills are kind of nasty.  I'll try to think of something...)

I've no problem with people mirroring the stuff. Contact me if somebody
is interested. 

> What -I- want is a base system built from source based on uclibc, busybox, and 
> tinylogin, with enough of a build environment in it that I can chroot into it 
> and build whatever else I think I need.

That should already work. However, as PTXdist started for ARM, x86
support still needs some work ;)

Robert 
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