Scratchbox 0.9.5

1. Release 0.9.5

2003-06-27

Main changes/fixes from previous 0.9.5-pre7.2 release:

• Updated glibc to 2.3.2 which fixes ldconfig

• sbox-config can install the C-library files into target directory (this is needed when different toolchains use different C-libraries)

• Updated uClibc compiler and a new cross-compilation linker wrapper to fix problems with system library paths

• Host-gcc can now compile C++ code (required libraries have to be compiled for Scratchbox, they cannot be copied from host due to C++ ABI changes between different gcc versions)

• SHELL environment variable is /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash (makes gdb work on ARM)

• GNU text, file and shell utils are replaced with GNU coreutils package

• Libtool and ed utilities are added

• Fixes to symbolic links pointing to Scratchbox tools (lex/yacc)

2. Tools in this release

Gcc toolchains and related utilities for ARM and i386 architectures:

• gcc-2.95.3 + 40 patches, glibc-2.2.4, binutils-2.12.1 to be used for compiling kernels

• gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2, binutils-2.13.2.1 for non-kernel compilations

• gcc-3.2.3, uClibc-0.9.19, binutils-2.13.2.1

• ccache 2.2

• dist-cc 2.5

• sbrsh 1.3.6

• scratchbox-base 1.1.0

• scratchbox-utils 0.9.20

Other build tools:

• autoconf 2.54

• automake 1.7

• bash 2.05b

• bison 1.35

• bzip2 1.0.2

• cvs 1.11.2

• coreutils 5.0

• dialog 0.9b-20020814

• diffutils 2.8.1

• ed 0.2

• file 3.41

• findutils 4.1

• flex 2.5.4a

• gawk 3.1.1

• gdb 5.2.1

• gettext 0.11.5

• grep 2.5

• gzip 1.2.4a

• kbd 1.06

• less 378

• libtool 1.5

• m4 1.4

• make 3.80

• mktemp 1.4

• modutils 2.4.25

• patch 2.5.4

• perl 5.8.0

• pkgconfig 0.14.0

• python 2.2.2

• rpm-4.1

• dpkg-1.10.10

• sed 3.02

• strace 4.4-1

• tar 1.13.25

• vim-6.1

• wget 1.8.2

• which 2.14

• zip 2.3

• unzip 5.50

If any of these features don't work, mail detailed bug report to the scratchbox-devel mailing list.

3. Known bugs/misfeatures

• X11 compilation sometimes stop without a reason when you're using Gnome-terminal as your terminal emulator.

  workaround: Run SDK from xterm terminal emulator (we don't know what is the significant different between these terminal emulators, but that fixes it). For example to run SDK in a login shell, use this:

  $ xterm -ls -e /scratchbox/users/$USER/run.sh &

  Rxvt and gnome-terminal 2.2.1 have also been reported not to interrupt X11 compilation (the problem has manifested with gnome-terminal 2.0.1).

  Tip: if you differentiate the SDK terminal from your other terminals with colors, you don't accidentally try to compile software in a wrong window. To get xterm with scrollbar on the right, 256 line buffer, larger font, black background with gray text and text effects reversed, add these options: -sb -rightbar -sl 256 -fn 9x15 -bg Black -fg Gray -rv

• Sbrsh (CPU-transparency) daemon on ARM dies sometimes, this should produce following warning:

  sbrsh: Can't connect (Connection refused)

  workaround: Login to the ARM device and restart sbrshd. Sometimes it's iPAQ that freezes, in that case you have to boot the iPAQ and restart sbrshd.

• /etc/ directories are different in SDK for compilation and on target (because SDK tools need different /etc/ files from the SW compiled for the target).

  workaround: copy required files from /etc/ directory to /targets/[target]/etc/ directory inside the SDK before running ARM software, or change the software to install and use it's configuration files from /usr/etc/ directory.

• On ARM running a program complains about not finding a library that 'ldd' finds for that program, e.g. xterm doesn't find Xft library. This is related to above problem (/etc/ld.so.cache).

  workaround: login to ARM machine (after compiling busybox, so that you have shell there) and run 'ldconfig' there before running the program, for example:

  [sbox-ARM: ~] /login_target.sh $ /sbin/ldconfig -v $ xterm &

(Rest of the bugs are undocumented features.)