[parisc-linux] userspace

[parisc-linux] userspace

[Matthew Wilcox]

i've decided to start keeping some userspace programs in cvs for your
joy and edification (and so i don't lose the only working sash source
code again.. duh).  set your CVSROOT as described on the parisc webpages
and `cvs co userspace'.  ifconf.c is the only one worth talking about,
and hopefully we'll have an ethernet driver to test it with RSN...

[parisc-linux] userspace

[Paul Bame]

Check out ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/userspace/
for a bunch of user-space applications including a native compile tool
chain.  The more recent of these tarballs aren't in Matt's NFS roots
so you'll have to add them yourself.

I just fixed a problem in our implementation of the brk() syscall in
glibc, but most of the userspace apps are built with the broken brk()
which amazingly doesn't seem to bother them much.

In misc-utils.tgz are a bunch of handy things like ifconfig, make, and
ash which are placed in /usr/local/bin because some of them were built
using nasty hackery.  If you 'ln /usr/local/bin/ash /bin/sh' quite
a lot of interesting things start to happen in user space.  I've seen
most of a configure script work (core dumps in gcc stopped it) for
example.

OH, and the current cross compiler can be had by unpacking
ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/LinuxX86/xc-20000705.tgz
followed by
ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/LinuxX86/xc-patch-20000706.tgz
to pick up the libc.a with brk() fixed.
This tool chain is prior to any of the brokenness dhd mentioned.

	-Paul Bame