Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:37:10 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>, Albert Yang <albert@achtung.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The heart of the problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251027130.8871-100000@lepton.subatomix.com> In-Reply-To: <20000725162648.A18036@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Tue 2000-07-25 (08:46), Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > > * I believe that the current Pico kit needs to be thrown out and replaced > > with something entirely new. > > > > * Having made my own "Tiny" variant, I believe that I have a darn good > > candidate for 'something entirely new'. :) > > What do you think of the make(1)-based system in picobsd/custom at the > moment, and the Patrick's extensions to it (advertised a few days ago, > which I haven't had the necessary time to look at yet). I think it's a step in the right direction, but not general enough. It's still too highly tied to floppy format and having an mfs root filesystem. The ideal successor/upgrade to PicoBSD would make these kinds of fundamental changes simple. > I can't imagine there's a better approach than a make(1)-based system, > like the rest of the build. The power of our make(1) build systems > (ports, release, world, and now doc) is one of FreeBSD's great > strengths. Right. My TinyBSD variant is also make-based -- just with a config script to read .conf files and generate the makefiles for you. > Actually, while we're at it, can we get a list of the small FreeBSD kits > and their URLs? You can find my version 0.1 at the following address. Watch out, because it's old, rough, and not entirely representative of my kit's current status (which is much better :). http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/S/Jeffrey.S.Sharp-1/ =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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