Fun with gcc.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:59:41PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 27 October 2005 15:54, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:20:05PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > We _definitely_ need a platform.h file of some kind to stick that kind of
> > > thing in.
> >
> > we already do that in uClibc just like glibc does, so we could just use the
> > uClibc header as base
> 
> We don't want busybox to require uClibc.  (We want them to play nice, but not 
> actually NEED.)

you misunderstood

i said use uClibc as a base as in copy the header file from it and then tweak 
it as we see fit

> > > Also, doing that could potentially make the darn warning in
> > > traceroute.c (the only one we have left!) go away.
> >
> > sure, if you build busybox as a 32bit binary ... build it as a 64bit and
> > you'll see a ton more warnings (about 40 more warnings iirc on amd64)
> 
> I haven't got onea them.  (I have, however, recently downloaded qemu which can 
> fake one of them, and I plan to play around with it as time permits.  But 
> first I downloaded a Red hat 7.2 image, because I'm curious what breaks...)

all you really need is a cross-compiler ... after all, you're trying to fix 
build time warnings atm ...
-mike