Scratchbox 0.9.6

1. Release 0.9.6.4

2003-12-10

Changes from 0.9.6 release:

• sbrsh-1.3.20 (fixes many bugs in sbrsh)

• arm_runner replaced with misc_runner

2. Release 0.9.6

Main changes/fixes from 0.9.5 release:

• glibc-toolchains updated to Debian/testing, using hard-float instead of soft-float

• uClibc-toolchains updated to latest from uclibc.org

• Many sbrsh bugfixes and enhancements

• Debian cross-build support tools

• Alien-tools support so binaries can be used from host system without needing to recompile with scratchbox LDFLAGS and CFLAGS

• Improved ldd and sbox-config

• libsb.so & fakeroot to give execution redirection and other interesting hacks to help cross-building debian

3. 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-3.3.2ds5-4, glibc-2.3.2ds1-10, binutils-2.14.90.0.7-2 for non-kernel compilations

• gcc-3.3.1, uClibc-0.9.21, binutils-2.14.90.0.5-0.2

• ccache 2.2

• dist-cc 2.5

• sbrsh 1.3.20

• scratchbox-base 1.14

• scratchbox-utils 0.9.26.1

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 4.1.20

• flex 2.5.4a

• gawk 3.1.1

• gdb 5.2.1

• gettext 0.11.5

• grep 2.5

• gzip 1.3.5

• 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 4.08

• 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.

4. Known bugs/misfeatures

Links are to Bugzilla bugs

• On Debian systems the /scratchbox/users/USERNAME/home/USERNAME/.terminfo directory contents are copied from /usr/share/terminfo when they should be copied from /etc/terminfo. You can fix this manually

Other issues:

• 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.)