Fixes the chain of blockers that left redbear-full producing a desktop-less ISO
while still reporting success. None touch the operator's dirty mesa/kf6/redox-drm
source WIP — these are build-system/recipe plumbing only.
build-redbear.sh:
- Critical-package gate: cookbook `make live` returns 0 even when recipes fail
(it packages whatever pkgars exist), so a mesa failure silently cascaded to
qtbase/qt*/sddm/greeter all missing while the build printed "Build Complete!".
Gate on the desktop-critical pkgars existing; fail loudly (exit 1) listing any
missing so a broken desktop build can't masquerade as success.
- Host redoxer toolchain provisioning: cooking a host tool (host:xz, pulled in
for the libclc -> clang21 host path) made redoxer try to download an
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu host toolchain, which is not published on
static.redox-os.org -> 404 "unable to init toolchain", failing every host
cook. The redox-target toolchain on disk is a full host+redox bundle (host
clang + host rust-std), so provision the host toolchain as a symlink to it.
Idempotent self-heal; avoids the REDOXER_TOOLCHAIN Rust-version pitfall.
- Pre-cook libclc before mesa.
local/recipes/libs/mesa/recipe.toml:
- Declare `libclc` as a dependency. Mesa's meson does dependency('libclc') via
pkg-config; without the dep, libclc was never built/staged into mesa's
sysroot, so configure failed "Dependency libclc not found". libclc ships its
.pc in its main package, so depending on "libclc" is sufficient.
recipes/tools/xz/recipe.toml:
- Host build static-only. xz 5.8.1 configure refuses shared+static+--with-pic
on GNU/Linux; DYNAMIC_STATIC_INIT requests both, failing the host:xz build.
Redox target keeps both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comprehensive fix — not a fallback. Each recipe now has explicit
[package] section with name and version. Version inference:
- Git-source recipes without rev/branch: '0.1.0' (Red Bear convention)
- Tar/git recipes with version in URL or dir name: extracted version
- Sysroot-copy recipes: matched to toolchain version
Affected: 250+ recipes across all categories (core, libs, dev, system,
kde, qt, drivers, gpu, drm, kernel, userspace, etc.) Every recipe
in the redbear-mini build chain that was missing [package] now has
explicit version metadata. Cookbook can now always determine a version
at packaging time, eliminating 'cannot guess version' failures.
No cookbook fallback hack — the source of truth is recipe metadata.
All tarballs re-downloaded from upstream mirrors, BLAKE3 hashes
verified against downloaded files. Per user request: walk through ALL
recipes, not just graphics. This is the active build pipeline batch.
Live upstream versions verified 2026-07-11:
- gnu-grep 3.12 (2025-04-10) -- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/
- libsodium 1.0.22-stable (2026-07-08) -- https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/
- autoconf 2.73 (2026-03-20) -- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
Each recipe updated with new tar URL + BLAKE3 hash. Build-tool upgrades are
isolated from the fork content-verification system, so these are SAFE to
upgrade without the relibc-style risk.
diffutils was already at 3.12 (previously committed).
Also: fork-upstream-map.toml — bootloader flagged PENDING_REBASE
(2026-07-11 detection: 1.0.0 tag mismatch, fork based on 0.1.0 archive
not a true rebase — documented inline).
- gettext: use -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal instead of
/usr/share/aclocal so autoreconf picks up the Redox-patched libtool 2.5.4
macros instead of the host system's libtool 2.6.1, fixing version mismatch
at build time
- libxau: add ACLOCAL=true AUTOMAKE=true AUTOHEADER=true to make invocations
to prevent automake regeneration when host autotools version differs from
what the source expects
- build-redbear.sh: make pre-cook failures non-fatal (warn only) and run with
COOKBOOK_OFFLINE=false so packages that need source fetching can succeed
- redox-drm: restore source from git history (was deleted in dc6805430);
update Cargo.toml version 0.1.0 -> 0.2.4 and dependency constraints to
match current project version
- Add x11proto to redbear-full.toml package list
- libxau recipe updated with x11proto dependency and custom build script
- Fixes libxau build failure: 'Package xproto was not found'
- .config: drop REDBEAR_RELEASE?=0.1.0 (was forcing offline)
- local/patches/gettext/01-external-gettext.patch (new): fix
AM_GNU_GETTEXT arg for autopoint 0.23.1+. autopoint now requires
'external' as first arg; gettext 0.22.5 used 'use-libtool'/'here'.
Patched 3 files: gettext-tools, gettext-runtime, gettext-runtime/intl.
- recipes/tools/gettext/01-external-gettext.patch (symlink): durable
source for the patch.
- recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml: fix source script for
gettext 0.22.5:
- Use /usr/share/aclocal (not /share/aclocal) — host sysroot is /.
- Create missing m4/ subdirs in every configure.ac-bearing dir
before autoreconf runs (newer aclocal needs them).
- src/cook/gnu-config/{config.sub,config.guess} (new): vendored
copies so that GNU_CONFIG_GET succeeds even when offline and
gitlab.redox-os.org is unreachable.
Add redbear-usb-storage-check in-guest binary that validates USB mass
storage read and write I/O: discovers /scheme/disk/ devices, writes a
test pattern to sector 2048, reads it back, verifies match, restores
original content. Updates test-usb-storage-qemu.sh with write-proof
verification step.
Includes all accumulated Red Bear OS work: kernel patches, relibc
patches, driver infrastructure, DRM/GPU, KDE recipes, firmware,
validation tooling, build system hardening, and documentation.
Finalize all non-artifact changes accumulated from other sessions:
- config updates, recipe changes, source edits, patches
- pkgar/cache artifacts intentionally excluded (build outputs)
This is the maximum achievable scope for this session.
Hardware-accelerated KDE blocked by: QML gate, KWin/Plasma builds,
hardware GPU validation — all require build system + physical GPU.
Derivative of Redox OS (https://www.redox-os.org) adding:
- AMD GPU driver (amdgpu) via LinuxKPI compat layer
- ext4 filesystem support (ext4d scheme daemon)
- ACPI fixes for AMD bare metal (x2APIC, DMAR, IVRS, MCFG)
- Custom branding (hostname, os-release, boot identity)
Build system is full upstream Redox with RBOS overlay in local/.
Patches for kernel, base, and relibc are symlinked from local/patches/
and protected from make clean/distclean. Custom recipes live in
local/recipes/ with symlinks into the recipes/ search path.
Build: make all CONFIG_NAME=redbear-full
Sync: ./local/scripts/sync-upstream.sh
vasilito