Posts tagged "Porting"

Cross Build Progress
2021-02-08
The sysroot/cross-compile build tree is nearly able to build all of HitchHiker now, with only a few packages left to tweak....
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Compiling for aarch64/riscv64 from qemu user mode chroot
2021-01-28
This is a novel approach that I've been experimenting with lately, to do some legwork towards supporting architectures for which I either don't have physical hardware or else the hardware is limited in capability so much as to make native compilation impractical....
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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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Imported source, pkgsrc on Arm woes, and make includes
2020-08-01
I think we'll start this post discussing some of the differences and misconceptions of same between BSD make and GNU make. In the case of BSD make we're primarily referring to NetBSD make, which is a greatly improved version of the historical Unix make...
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