compiling x86 busybox with uclibc support

Set Makefile CROSS_COMPILE variable to gcc which link with uclibc. There are at least 3 possibilities to get such gcc.

AFAIK Option 1) is a must if you plan to use floating point. I use 3) option with below script but it's unreliable (I show it only for reference)

#!/bin/sh

uclibc=/usr/src/uClibc-0.9.29 gccdir="/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/" gccinc="${gccdir}/include" gcclib="${gccdir}" lnxinc="/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.y/include/"

linking="yes" static="no" busybox="no" for opt in $* ; do case $opt in -c|-S|-E) linking="no" ;; -static) static="yes" ;; busybox_unstripped) busybox="yes" ;; # FIXME esac done

ldopts= suffix= if [ "$linking" == "yes" ] ; then ldir="${uclibc}/lib/" if [ "$static" == "yes" ] ; then crt1= if [ "$busybox" == "no" ] ; then crt1="${ldir}/Scrt1.o" fi ld_dyn= ld_libs="-L${ldir} -lc -lgcc"

suffix="${ldir}/libc.a ${gcclib}/libgcc.a" else crt1= if [ "$busybox" == "no" ] ; then crt1="${ldir}/crt1.o" fi ld_dyn="-Wl,-rpath,${uclibc}/lib,--dynamic-linker ${uclibc}/lib/ld-uClibc.so" ld_libs="-L${ldir} -lc -lgcc" fi ldopts="$ld_dyn $crt1 $ld_libs" fi incopts="-nostdinc -I${uclibc}/include -I$lnxinc -isystem $gccinc" libopts="-nostdlib -nodefaultlibs"

exec gcc $incopts $libopts $ldopts $* $suffix

hm, sound complicated...

unfortunately Im unable to backport the debian uclibc package for debian etch.

Hm, this could probable be the way to go. All I need is a static busybox binary after all.

Sven

What is an "debian etch" ?

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 usually know by its codename "etch" :)

Sven

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