busybox as self hosting posix env?

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:21:07PM +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
>On 2/27/06, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:

>> Rogelio Serrano wrote:
>> > Whats needed to make busybox self hosting as much as possible?
>> >
>> > Has it been tried before? I tried about a year ago but it was lacking
>> > a lot of features to support the toolchain bootstrap.
>>
>
>Be able to bootstrap, binutils, uclibc and gcc with only busybox, gcc,
>and binutils installed.
>
>I almost succeded bootstraping gcc that way a year ago but i dont
>remember the exact problem that had me stumped.

IIRC Rob Landleys image is self-hosted. I checked in a trivial fix for
awk to be able to deal with the awk scripts needed for gcc, so this is
supposed to work.

Please let us know if you find anything that is not working.

TIA,
Bernhard