Re: How can I use busybox in the original FreeBSD?
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From: "Petr Salinger" <Petr.Salinger@t-systems.cz>
To: <debian-bsd@lists.debian.org>
Cc: "panxj" <xuejian03@ios.cn>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: How can I use busybox in the original FreeBSD?
>> > I tried the GNU/kFreeBSD recently, it's really interesting. I installed busybox with apt-get, and it goes well.
>> > Now I wanna it to run in a original FreeBSD-5.4, but failed.
>> > bash-2.05b# busybox
>> > cannot set up thread-local storage: set_thread_area failed when setting up thread-local storage
>> >
>> > It seems that the program can not be initialized. Does any one know how to fix it? I need your help, thanks very much!
>
> Well, our current glibc needs file
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/sys_machdep.c
> at least in revision 1.92.2.2 or 1.97.
>
> Stock freebsd 5.4 does not have it, because:
> RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE 1.92.2.1.2.1
> RELENG_5_5_BP 1.92.2.4
> RELENG_6_BP 1.102
>
> So you have to wait for FreeBSD 5.5 or use just released FreeBSD 5.5-RC1.
> Of cource FreeBSD 6.0 or newer will also have it.
> You can also built your own glibc with "--without-__thread" and use stock FreeBSD 5.4.
> It would allow you to run single threaded programs.
> But for multi threaded programs you need newer sys_machdep.c and at least clone_signals.diff applied.
Thank you! I tried again in FreeBSD 6.0, and so glad to find the busybox runs. But some functions, such as ps, still seem to not work properly. Here is the output:
#busybox ps
PID uid Vmsizes Stat Command
and no process information appears:( But it goes perfect on gnu/kfreebsd.
>
>> > Besides, I have another question. Has the GNU/kFreeBSD kernel been changed?
>
> Yes, see
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/glibc-bsd/trunk/kfreebsd-5/debian/patches/
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/glibc-bsd/trunk/kfreebsd-6/debian/patches/
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/glibc-bsd/trunk/kfreebsd-7/debian/patches/
>
> Petr
>
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