Tweaking an embedded linux felt like inventing the tableflip

Cleaning up old storage space you may find oddities like this, well I did and noticed I almost but not quite had forgotten this episode. This collection of attempts to install a #Gentoo prefix environment into the abomination of non-LSB embedded linux that shipped with QNAP hardware surfaced when moving data.

But that frigging showstopper from back then is still a vivid memory. #GCC didn't behave like the documentation said it would, preventing me from sneaking in a library I dearly needed for prefix bootstrapping. I tried numerous times, different libraries and it felt like inventing the tableflip emoji over and over. Now I won't even check the log, this is over. You hear me? *shakes fist at the past

Still, the very same hardware I did this on still runs nicely despite being limited to thin 2GB of DDR2 on an atom CPU. It has been superseded by newer QNAP hardware recently; the ideal backdrop for #ThrowbackThursday with #nerdvalue.

Oh well. Today, an rm -rf old/ fixes this for good. Meanwhile I'm off to TrueNAS land, in which #jailmaker supplies the tiny bits iX systems do not.

$ ls -lA old/
insgesamt 34120
-rwxr-xr--  1  500 users    34254 Jan 10  2012 bootstrap-prefix.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1  500 users    34034 Nov 30  2011 bootstrap-prefix.sh.old
-rwxr-xr-x  1  500 users    33832 Jul 29  2011 bootstrap-prefix.sh.orig
drwxrwxr-x  8  500 users     4096 Dez  6  2011 gcc-4.2.4-r01.4_20111205
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users      137 Dez  6  2011 gcc-4.2.4-r01.4_20111205.sh
drwxrwxr-x  9  500 users     4096 Dez  6  2011 gcc-4.2.4-r01.4_20111206
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users      171 Dez  6  2011 gcc-4.2.4-r01.4_20111206.sh
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users     3676 Aug 30  2011 gentoo-prefix-binutils-emerge-info_20110830.log
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users      114 Aug 30  2011 gentoo-prefix-binutils-emerge-pqv_20110830.log
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users   633626 Aug 30  2011 gentoo-prefix-binutils_20110830.log
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users    34935 Aug 25  2011 gentoo-prefix-coreutils6_20110825.1.log
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users    55355 Aug 25  2011 gentoo-prefix-coreutils_20110825.1.log
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users    15730 Aug 30  2011 gentoo-prefix-gcc-4.4.5_20110830.log
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users     3969 Aug 25  2011 gentoo-prefix_20110825.1.log
drwxr-xr-x 10  500 users     4096 Dez  6  2011 gentoo_20111210.bak
drwxr-xr-x 10  500 users     4096 Mär 18  2012 gentoo_20120318
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users  1897483 Dez  6  2011 gmp-4.3.2.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users  1077886 Dez  6  2011 mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users  1138685 Jun 10  2010 mpfr-3.0.0.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 13   99 root      4096 Okt 30  2012 owncloud
-rw-r--r--  1  500 users 29904951 Nov 30  2011 prefix-overlay-20111110.tar.bz2