Building an old uClibc version with gcc

2011-08-22 Thread Ian Barnes
Hello, Hopefully I have picked a suitable list for this question, I realise this isn't strictly a development question - but I couldn't find a better place to ask. I have an embedded appliance running linux that I am trying to build a tool chain for. The manufacturer supplies no tool chain, they

Re: Building an old uClibc version with gcc

2011-08-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:29:58PM +1200, Ian Barnes wrote: Hopefully I have picked a suitable list for this question, I realise this isn't strictly a development question - but I couldn't find a better place to ask. I have an embedded appliance running linux that I am trying to build a tool

Re: Building an old uClibc version with gcc

2011-08-22 Thread Laurent Bercot
Hello Ian, First, a quick and dirty solution to what you want to achieve: - go to http://www.landley.net/aboriginal/ and download a prebuilt binary toolchain from x86 to your appliance's architecture. - download busybox (http://busybox.net/), select the tcpsvd and httpd applets, fill in the

RE: Building an old uClibc version with gcc

2011-08-22 Thread Ian Barnes
Sorry I should have said, it's MIPS (Sigma Designs SMP8635LF) I understand about static/dynamic linking, but would prefer dynamic to keep memory usage down, but I will use static if I have to. I do have a root shell to the appliance, so is there any way to extract information

Re: Building an old uClibc version with gcc

2011-08-22 Thread Laurent Bercot
I understand about static/dynamic linking, but would prefer dynamic to keep memory usage down You are falling for a widespread myth. 1. Build a static tcpsvd+httpd busybox with an Aboriginal Linux toolchain. 2. Run it, with 40 simultaneous client connections to the web server. 3. Use the