• Sbox0988vsApophis

New features

• Architecture
  • devkit building is now separate from sbox building
  • can use foreign toolchains and other unmodified binaries inside scratchbox
  • scratchbox can be installed anywhere, not only to /scratchbox
• User interface
  • new dialog based setup: sb-menu
  • new command line tool: sb-conf
• devkits
  • general: upgrading devkits without rebuilding whole sbox is now possible
  • lower threshold of upgrading tools in devkits
• qemu and sbrsh moved to separate devkit
  • easier upgrades
  • sbrsh is easier to configure
  • doctools devkit extended to include most common tools

    • -> docbook-shit works -> faster builds

• creating extra devkits like Xephyr/emdebian devkit simpler and more flexible
• debian devkit:
  • using apt and dpkg without rootstrap possible

    • -> complete rebuilds from scratch possible

  • dpkg-checkbuilddeps can ignore build depedencies satisfied by scratchbox

    • -> no need to build all tools for target architecture -> thus most build dependency loops are broken

• toolchains
  • toolchains no longer need to be build specifically for scratchbox
  • manipulation gcc command line args in gcc wrapper possible

    • -> SBOX_EXTRA_COMPILER_ARGS=-Os SBOX_BLOCK_COMPILER_ARGS=-O2

  • host-gcc has been separated, scratchbox core is now smaller.
• Notable bugfixes

  • Works also with Linux 2.6.18 http://bugzilla.scratchbox.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279

  • argv handling fixed http://bugzilla.scratchbox.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277

  • doctools devkit works better
  • enviroment is cleaned up in login

Things missing from 0988

• gdb is still old
  • checkpoint: the actual gdb used comes from toolchain, why is there gdb in main sbox as well
• apt is still old
• sbox 0.98 toolchains don't work in 1.x

Things possibly broken

• various tools have been upgraded to sarge level
• flex and flex-old both available..
• fakeroot has been upgraded, need to install fakeroot 1.4.2 to rootstraps
• sbox 0.9.8 did not provice arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc on $PATH

  • -> some builscripts might think the OS is linux-gnueabi and get confused. However this is canonical how gcc is called by configure in other archs.

Things broken both in 0988 and

• only absolute minimal EABI and TLS support in qemu-arm
• installing doctools already included in doctools devkit does not allways work (update-xmlcatalog)