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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Embedded devuan (was Re: Devuan with usr merge?)
Le 16/11/2021 à 12:15, onefang a écrit :
> http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html is what I used for my last
> embedded Linux project.
>
> "Aboriginal Linux is a shell script that builds the smallest/simplest
> linux system capable of rebuilding itself from source code. This
> currently requires seven packages: linux, busybox, uClibc, binutils, gcc,
> make, and bash."


    Aboriginal is nice and Rob Landley is doing a great job. But are you
sure about uClibc. I thought Aboriginal had switched to Musl years ago.
uClibc is pretty far from POSIX compliance, and also from Glibc, which
would make the system difficult to use as a build platform, although
otherwise functional, of course. AFAIR, Rob Landley is developping his
binutils mostly because of a disagreement with Busybox license.

    Here's a comparison of C libraries (by Rich felker, the author of
musl). Unfortunately it is dated from 2014. Since that time, all
librares should have made progress.
http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
<http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html>

--     Didier