Pengutronix has released version 0.3.24 of the userland build system PTXdist, a GPL licensed tool for customizing Linux and the GNU userland to create embedded systems such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), data loggers, and firewalls.

PTXdist provides a kconfig configuration system and a Makefile based framework to document how an embedded Linux was created. The archive is small and downloads all necessary source archives from the original web sites with wget.

Screenshots are available of the ncurses interface and the X window (kconfig) interface.

Highlights of the new release include . . .

• patch system: added generic patch system which gets patches from a web repository; inserted all of Dan Kegel's patches
• ltt: added support for Linux Trace Toolkit
• general: introduced generic architecture support file in config/arch/
• config: support for extra CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS
• general: add customer specific “addons” directory
• kernel: support for linux-2.4.22 on x86
• rtai: support for rtai-24.1.11
• mtd: added mkjffs2 tools
• libnet: added support for libnet
• mips: support for big and little endian
• busybox: update to 1.00-pre3; configuration allows multiple bbs now.
• XFree86: added
• Mozilla-Firebird: added
• NEWPACKET: added script to support creation of new rules files

Special thanks go to Dan Kegel for his great patch system idea and to Marc Kleine-Budde for tweaking it into the ptxdist design.

The release can be found on the PTXdist homepage.

 
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