[Buildroot] base busybox version for buildroot?

[Buildroot] base busybox version for buildroot?

[Drew Cohan]

Hi,

Is the base busybox version for buildroot is now 1.2.0, instead of
1.1.3?  Is there a buildroot config somewhere that determines which
version of busybox is used, or is it just based on the date of the
buildroot package (builds after 30 June 2006 use busybox 1.2.0)?
There seems to have been a file size change recently, just curious
what that might have been:

 buildroot-20060710.t..> 10-Jul-2006 00:17  3.8M
 buildroot-20060711.t..> 11-Jul-2006 00:17  4.3M


TIA,

Drew

[Buildroot] base busybox version for buildroot?

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Jul 27, 2006 at 09:44:42AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is the base busybox version for buildroot is now 1.2.0, instead of
> 1.1.3?  Is there a buildroot config somewhere that determines which
> version of busybox is used, or is it just based on the date of the
> buildroot package (builds after 30 June 2006 use busybox 1.2.0)?
> There seems to have been a file size change recently, just curious
> what that might have been:
> 
> buildroot-20060710.t..> 10-Jul-2006 00:17  3.8M
> buildroot-20060711.t..> 11-Jul-2006 00:17  4.3M

It probably makes sense at this point to have configurable
busybox versions (as with gcc and binuitls) with a specific
default config for each.

 -Erik

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[Buildroot] base busybox version for buildroot?

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 2:37 pm, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Jul 27, 2006 at 09:44:42AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is the base busybox version for buildroot is now 1.2.0, instead of
> > 1.1.3?  Is there a buildroot config somewhere that determines which
> > version of busybox is used, or is it just based on the date of the
> > buildroot package (builds after 30 June 2006 use busybox 1.2.0)?
> > There seems to have been a file size change recently, just curious
> > what that might have been:
> > 
> > buildroot-20060710.t..> 10-Jul-2006 00:17  3.8M
> > buildroot-20060711.t..> 11-Jul-2006 00:17  4.3M
> 
> It probably makes sense at this point to have configurable
> busybox versions (as with gcc and binuitls) with a specific
> default config for each.

I still think the latest release version is all you need, but what do I 
know? :)

Trying to test our nightly snapshots gets you into fun areas like the -Werror 
stuff where the build breaks on warnings as if they were errors, which works 
fine on gcc 4.0 and earlier under i386, but not so well on gcc 4.1 which 
produces _stupid_ warnings for things that are _not_ broken...

Sigh.  Tweaked the makefiles today so gcc 4.1 doesn't have -Werror because I 
don't think we're _ever_ going to fix some of those.  That compiler version 
is just _broken_...

Rob
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.

[Buildroot] base busybox version for buildroot?

[Marc Lindahl]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Thursday 27 July 2006 2:37 pm, Erik Andersen wrote:
>> On Thu Jul 27, 2006 at 09:44:42AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is the base busybox version for buildroot is now 1.2.0, instead of
>>> 1.1.3?  Is there a buildroot config somewhere that determines which
>>> version of busybox is used, or is it just based on the date of the
>>> buildroot package (builds after 30 June 2006 use busybox 1.2.0)?
>>> There seems to have been a file size change recently, just curious
>>> what that might have been:
>>>
>>> buildroot-20060710.t..> 10-Jul-2006 00:17  3.8M
>>> buildroot-20060711.t..> 11-Jul-2006 00:17  4.3M
>>
>> It probably makes sense at this point to have configurable
>> busybox versions (as with gcc and binuitls) with a specific
>> default config for each.
>
> I still think the latest release version is all you need, but what do I
> know? :)
>

If you're building an embedded system you definitely want control over 
the version... so you can freeze it once everything works, and ship it! 
:)

just my $0.002

Marc

[Buildroot] base busybox version for buildroot?

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 31 July 2006 8:15 pm, Marc Lindahl wrote:
> If you're building an embedded system you definitely want control over 
> the version... so you can freeze it once everything works, and ship it! 
> :)

So you don't want to breeze buildroot itself (thus freezing the version it 
considers "stable")?

Admittedly this would be easier if buildroot ever actually had releases...

Rob
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.

[Buildroot] base busybox version for buildroot?

[Daniels, Brian]

> Hi,
> 
> Is the base busybox version for buildroot is now 1.2.0, 
> instead of 1.1.3?  Is there a buildroot config somewhere that 
> determines which version of busybox is used, or is it just 
> based on the date of the buildroot package (builds after 30 
> June 2006 use busybox 1.2.0)?
> There seems to have been a file size change recently, just 
> curious what that might have been:
> 
>  buildroot-20060710.t..> 10-Jul-2006 00:17  3.8M  
> buildroot-20060711.t..> 11-Jul-2006 00:17  4.3M

You can configure the busybox version through the BUSYBOX_VER variable
in package/busybox/busybox.mk.

Brian Daniels