Hi Philipp, On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 at 0:24 +0300, Philipp Riegger wrote: > Damn, i'm not able to pick the right email address. I should really > go to bed.
;) > Begin forwarded message: > > >From: Philipp Riegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: October 18, 2006 11:53:43 PM GMT+03:00 > >To: pkgsrc-user MailingList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [FreeWRT-users] Bootstrap on OS X > >Reply-To: pkgsrc-user MailingList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >On Oct 18, 2006, at 11:30 PM, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > > > >>Not yet. sorry. > > > >Ok... can do anything to help you? Yes, you could download the latest trunk and try to build. The post the logfiles to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacOS X support does not exist, yet, because nobody was interested. > >>There is one big problem with MacOS X. The default root filesystem > >>on MacOSX is normally HFS+ in case-insensitive mode. > > > >I know. I don't really like it and i hate software that depends on > >that (i had that one time, program writes "file" and reads "File") > >but... since i come from the Linux people i like case sensitive > >filesystems and i run my OS X on it and have it on all my OS X > >harddisks. I see no chance to change the linux kernel source tree, to not depend on case sensitive filesystems. > >>The Linux kernel source needs a case-sensitive filesystem. > >> > >>There are three options: > >>- reinstall macosx on a case-sensitive HFS+ partition > >>- use a usb disk or free partition to create a case-sensitive HFS+ > >> partition for the buildroot > >>- use a script to create a imagefile with a case-sensitive > >> filesystem > > > >Creating the images is no big deal, you just have to know the > >command. You don't need a script for that, usually 5-10 lines in > >the manual are enough. I think, the pkgsrc manual describes how to > >do that, if you want an example. > > > >>The base system compiles fine on BSD. There are some packages which > >>checks some Linux specific stuff, which do not let you cross-compile > >>on BSD. (f.e. mysql) > > > >Ok, that's nothing you can easily change, but no big deal as long > >as you don't depend on the packages. > > > >>We will try to finish MacOSX support for 1.1. > > > >Ok. If i find some time and you provide me some help, i can try to > >play around with it a bit. Is there some documnentation or > >something like a roadmap online? Last time i looked i did not find > >anything. https://www.freewrt.org/trac/wiki/Development/ToDo > >And... before i try to bootstrap... which Accesspoint would you > >recommend? I own a WRT54G v2, but i can't use it for that. I would > >be interestes in something with WLAN, USB (2.0 if possible) and 2 > >or more network ports. Asus WL500g Premium. 8 MB flash, 266 Mhz, 32 MB RAM. Works fine with FreeWRT 1.0. best regards Waldemar -- don't open your wrt, free it http://www.freewrt.org _______________________________________________ freewrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-users
