Posts tagged "NonGNU"

Packaging for 2021q2
2021-02-26
I spent a good deal of the past couple weeks working on actually getting init up and running, preparing kernel configurations for multiple architectures, and learning about Das U-Boot in order to put up bootable images. Taking a little break from that the last few days, I am now once again working at building a set of packages using pkgsrc....
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Experimental clang/llvm based build with nightly rust
2020-11-24
Ok, so this little side track has been on a slow burn for a while now, but I've currently got a rootfs that I can chroot into with the following features:
• Built almost entirely with llvm/clang (see caveats below)
• Rust nightly compiler installed early in the build, accessible for all users
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On Libc, rust experiments, and Risc-V
2020-11-15
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Some More Home Cooking
2020-10-06
After removing GNU coreutils and taking closer stock of what we have as a "base system", I am mostly happy with the selection but now wish to spend some time making behaviors, documentation and source code itself more uniform. I have also done some work towards correcting a couple of omissions that are present due to the previous surgury. The commit that I pushed this morning has a few notable changes....
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Goodbye GNU coreutils, importing sed
2020-09-22
The porting effort has reached the point where it is now safe to remove GNU coreutils. At this point, there are now only 16 utilities provided by the coreutils package...
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Continued porting of BSD userland against remaining self-hosting
2020-09-03
At this juncture we're well over the halfway point in regards to providing a predominately BSD userland in HitchHiker, with over 90 console utilities ported against a total of 59 remaining programs brought in from GNU coreutils. That total includes...
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Editors, glibc-2.32
2020-08-28
Most people who use any form of Unix have a favorite editor. Most of them also think that everyone else is wrong...
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Improved porting with libbsd
2020-08-24
The libbsd project was begun originally by the developers of the Debian K-FreeBSD project as a means of addressing differences in the available functions, headers and c macros between BSD libc and GNU libc. I have imported the source...
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Porting NetBSD userland, infrastructure improvements
2020-08-17
As noted previously, I have some issues with the complexity of GNU autotools and the bloat that it introduces into building what should be very simple programs. I pointed out coreutils as one of the worst offenders at that time, and have been exploring ways to either port coreutils to a simpler build system or outright replace the package....
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More Pkgsrc
2020-07-14
While attempting to build the Thunar file manager (via pkgsrc) I encountered a couple of other errors when it pulled in Samba4 as a dependency. Samba4 has switched from using GNU autotools to it's own internal version of waf, a Python based tool for configuring software....
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Building packages using pkgsrc
2020-07-13
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