Re: Toybox make root no longer works as expected

On Fri, 2026-05-01 at 16:27 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > What about the patches for J2 support? And can it work with a GCC git tree like [1]?
> 
> They're in musl-cross-make.
> 
> https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make/tree/master/patches/binutils-2.44
> 
> https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make/tree/master/patches/gcc-9.4.0
> 
> Two in each, I think. (Base support and then a later fdpic bugfix.)
> 
> Alas, due to the way Rich maintains musl-cross-make (which is INSANE) if 
> you want to know WHY any of the patches was added (relevant gcc bugzilla 
> entry and so on) you have to find the first release it was added to and 
> log THAT patch to find the commit message, because he never puts helpful 
> comments at the start of the actual files and the commit where the issue 
> was first dealt with is sometimes quite the hunt.
> 
> Another reason I wanted to migrate off mcm...
> 
> Lemme know if you need me to dig for the source of the fdpic bugfix 
> thingies, I knew once but don't have it lying around. (Jeff might?)
> 
> Oh, right also invented his own patch applying infrastructure (cowpatch) 
> which is like fuzz support but worse: silently eats failures of patches 
> to apply. I don't understand why it exists...

Hmm, sounds like a bit too much to be able to do that in a short time now
in order to be able to test the kernel patch. I guess I will merge the patch
now anyways and send it to Linus unless someone else has done that already
anyway.

Adrian

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