[Poly-p-ux] Hi all just installed poly-p-ux on a 586

Joseph Mulloy jdmulloy at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 23:26:43 EDT 2008


I have managed to get a very basic version of links running on my box. It
was actually an option in build root, I just copied over the binary and it
works, I compiled it for 386, can't test it obviously but I believe it
should work. Do you want me to send you a copy? Also ifup usually segfaults,
but if I run it a few times I eventually get an IP address and can access my
network and the Internet. I'll try working on LILO, but it would be helpful
if I had a toolchain and compiler on the box.

Joseph Mulloy

jdmulloy at gmail.com


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Poly-p man <polypolyman at ibiblio.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 August 2008 07:04:18 pm Joseph Mulloy wrote:
> > Is it possible to get gcc onto my poly-p-ux installation? I'm going to
> try
> > using build root to cross compile things on my Gentoo laptop and see if I
> > can get the to run on the Pentium box. I'm going to start with links,
> I've
> > managed to get it's dependencies down to glibc, obviously I'm going to
> have
> > to get it compiled statically or against uClibc which would be preferred
> > since we want to minimize our memory footprint. What version of build
> root
> > did you use for i586 0.01? I will try with the latest svn version but If
> I
> > can download the same version you have then it will be more compatible.
> It
> > may help the project if we could get a build system bundled up into a
> > tarball for people to download. It will also help if people want to build
> > applications for the system, then they can make them available and they
> can
> > be packaged. As for lilo do you have anything in progress that you can
> make
> > available or should I just grab sources from the lilo site? If you could
> > make your build root config files available that would be immensely
> > helpful. Thanks.
> >
> > Joseph Mulloy
> >
> > jdmulloy at gmail.com
>
> shouldn't matter - stuff's binary compatible for the most part (uclibc
> hasn't
> bumped versions...
>
> Anyway, except for my vacation this weekend, I'll be working on 1.0... It's
> pretty much done, and it could DEFINITELY be sped along if someone (you :P
> )
> could compile me LILO binaries - this is what's holding me back right now.
>
> As for your other message - I finally was bullied into 686 by all the
> people
> in OTW complaining about how old their pentium 2 boxen are... and as no one
> ever says - give the people what they want!
>
> I'll give the modules.autoload a shot on my 486... I seem to remember I had
> major trouble with IFS being wrong last time - I think modprobe needs all
> the
> options as seperate argv's... I might as well throw the modules.autoload
> code
> into the c part anyway (snailit is VERY nice, I might add!)
>
> One of my biggest issues in the past has been text-mode browsers being mean
> to
> me - If you could work on that (after getting LILO to work, of course :D ),
> that would be lovely.
>
> Oh, and yes, grub DOES run slowly on my 486 - not to mention my 386 :P
>
> poly-p man
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