Re: [Astlinux-users] Coreutils compile problem (0.4 branch)

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Sebastian Auriol wrote:
  > Just because a package is not selected by default means that it may 
not work
> and is not supported? My bad. I thought the "Enable Experimental/Test
> Packages" part signified you were selecting a dubious package... Who said I
> was after "basic functionality"? I specifically said what I wanted in my
> e-mail.

Sebastian,

Perhaps I should apologize a little.  I misunderstood what you meant by 
"The minimum needed to build a uClibc development system".

After your clarification, I understand what you are trying to do.  I 
don't necessarily agree with your plans, but I will clarify this one 
more time.

Yes, the only packages known to build and that have been tested by 
myself and Kristian are those that are included in the default 
astlinux.config.  Other packages may work, but in all likelihood, many 
of them are outdated and may need small or very big changes to work.

> But forgive me for assuming that a package that has been in AstLinux for
> some time (and maybe since the start), and is not labelled as experimental,
> works. And, please forgive me for assuming that members of this list would
> want to know if such a package did not work.

I only recently added the experimental flag.  I haven't had time to 
update the packages which are not included by default.  I've included 
this history in the past, but I'll restate it again.  Astlinux was build 
using buildroot2.  Some of the packages were never tried.  At one point 
they probably built ok.  Since they have been unmaintained for so long, 
they may need updating.  As time allows I'll try to flag these as 
testing/experimental, but if you wanted to help, you can test packages 
(as long as you understand that they may not build) and let us know that 
they don't work.

Darrick

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