From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Nasrat Subject: Re: elkslibc question Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 07:28:08 +0000 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040306072806.GS16792@lichen.truemesh.com> References: <20040305154813.16c40a63@Monolith> <20040306031334.O82235-100000@xs1.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040306031334.O82235-100000@xs1.xs4all.nl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:18:03AM +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, ShadowRage wrote: > > > can you take a common app say, like busybox and use it to compile for 8086? > > If it is compiled in your Elks toolchain, and it links, yes you can. > Busybox works with uCLibc, what is forked from the Elks version of it. So > it is best to try it, and if it won't work, just try to fix it by adding > the required functions to the application by copy-paste from a working > Libc source ;-) Also starting from an older version is probably a good idea. uclibc has grown a lot from dev86 :) http://busybox.net/downloads/legacy/ Paul