[Clfs-dev] Embedded with EGLIBC - Testers Wanted

[Andrew Bradford]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013, at 03:52 AM, William Harrington wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Andrew Bradford wrote:
> 
> > I've not done any testing yet but I have a branch that uses EGLIBC
> > instead of uClibc for the embedded book.  If anyone wants to give it a
> > whirl and let me know what issues you find, that'd be awesome!
> 
> I"m not using your changes at github, but I'll go at it again while  
> using eglibc (by the way, eglibc will be gone probably by 2.20 as  
> glibc is more sane without Ulrich Drepper) and it is better now for  
> embedded systems. We'll be going to glibc for cross-lfs book in the  
> future. You should be following the eglibc mailing lists for such  
> information.

OK, good to know.  Sorry I don't follow the eglibc mailing list I just
don't have the bandwidth.
I'll redo my changes to use glibc rather than eglibc and do some
testing.  Thanks for the heads up!

> There is no dropbear install target for the bootscripts in the clfs  
> bootscripts package. We should probably fix that. openssh isn't  
> friendly for cross compile and that's the only bootscript we have for  
> an ssh daemon. dropbear cross compiles fine, and we have no target for  
> that.

Can you either send a patch / commit or open a trac ticket for the
issue?

> Some minor text edits which need to be administered, and I'll mail  
> more on those later.

OK, thanks!

-Andrew