On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > > Le 14/05/2015 15:40, shraptor shraptor a écrit : > >> I would be interested in a static Vdev. >> >> Didier could you please give some info >> how this was done especially any gotcha's >> you found? >> > > Hi Shraptor. > > I have been working for almost one year, partial time, on building a > sysrooted gcc-4.7 bundled with musl-1.1.5. This has been pretty difficult > for me, since I am not an expert in Gcc and I could not find it ready-made > because I wanted this gcc to understand all languages, including Ada. With > Ada, there is a bootstrapping problem because it can be compiled only with > the current version or the previous. > > I started from a chroot containing Sabotage-Linux, which has no Ada, > in which I introduced Gnat from Debian Wheezy and I don't remember exactly > how I finally succeeded, last november :-) the fact is that I have now a > working sysrooted toolchain which can recompile itself and can compile a > lot of applications. Sabotage provides the necessary patches for gcc to > work with Musl - Big thanks to them - and I patched Gnat myself. The whole > process looks like a horrible bricolage, and it was just that. > > With this (kind of cross) toolchain, installed on my Debian Wheezy > laptop, I have succeeded to compile the whole package from Jude, including > the filesystem, which is not even an alpha release AFAIU, but has some > dependencies and was a good exercise. The main work was to modify the > Makefiles so that they can produce static archive libraries and replacing > one glibc non-standard macro with the standard one. > > I am now working on producing a bootable USB flash disk with two > partitions, one containing the kernel and the Syslinux bootloader files and > one with the root filesystem containing Busybox-1.23.1, Vdevd and its > helpers, and even Bash, all statically linked against Musl. I tried to > boot it 15mn ago but my kernel is still missing some drivers to be able to > mount the usb key. I chose this configuration, rather than an initramfs, to > be able to make persistent changes to my root filesystem, but it means that > all the drivers needed to mount the root partition must be compiled in the > kernel instead of loadable modules. > > I am very excited at seeing vdev in action and I don't think I will do > anything else before I see if it works. Then I promised to Jude to send him > the necessary patches. I think that, with the patched version of vdev, you > could compile it statically with any ready-made gcc-musl toolchain (eg > Sabotage). Could you wait a few days more? > > Didier
No problem waiting mate. I even could try myself, did openssl static with musl a while ago but am not a 100% with what toolchain means. did you compile for 32bit or 64bit? > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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