- we've had SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS=yes for ~5 years now
- drop all usages, mostly through `find_toolchains()`
- drop all manual PATH env injections (we've centralized if ever needed)
- optionally, if UBOOT_BINS_TO_OUTPUT=yes, copy them out to output/
- this might reveal differences in binwalk itself more than u-boot
- but better than nothing
Build process generated numerous locale warnings like:
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed
This happened because the Docker container and host environment were
configured to use `en_US.UTF-8`, but the rootfs cache may not contain
this locale (only `C.utf8` and whatever `DEST_LANG` specifies,
e.g. `en_GB.utf8`).
When `chroot_sdcard` runs commands inside the rootfs, environment variables
are inherited from the host/Docker, causing locale lookup failures.
Then use `C.UTF-8` locale for the build environment instead of `en_US.UTF-8`.
This locale is always available in rootfs immediately after mmdebstrap,
requiring no generation.
Changes
`lib/functions/host/docker.sh`: Remove `en_US.UTF-8` locale generation,
set `LANG=C.UTF-8` in container environment
`lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh`: Change locale exports
from `en_US.UTF-8` to `C.UTF-8`
Update all copyright notices in shell scripts from 2025 to 2026.
## Changes
- **Igor Pecovnik**: 2013-2025 → 2013-2026 (129 files)
- **Ricardo Pardini**: 2023-2025 → 2023-2026, 2020-2025 → 2020-2026 (5 files)
## Additional Improvements
Also updated the backtitle in `lib/functions/configuration/interactive.sh`:
- Changed title from "Armbian building script" to "Armbian Linux build framework"
- Removed docs link for cleaner display
- Uses dynamic year calculation with separate declaration (fixes shellcheck SC2155)
- Enable bootscript templating using `envsubst`.
- Add generic bootscript.
- Fix: `test` does not support `==`, but deceptively returns `true` in case you use it.
- De-duplicate kernel commandline console options.
This was introduced in 2a8cb5793f as a relaxation to the previous
state when RISCv64 was not yet officially supported by Debian and
lived in Debian Ports.
Use all parameters to display_alert()
```
[🐳|🌱] Running in container [ Adding provisions for container building ]
[🐳|🌱] Adding package to 'host_dependencies' [ python3-setuptools ]
[🐳|🌱] Python2 not available on host release 'noble' [ ancient u-boot versions might/will fail to build ]
```
- aimed at nanopi-r2s and nanopineo3
- impacts:
- boards (re)using 'nanopi-r2s-rk3328_defconfig' (rk3328)
and:
- boards using U-Boot v2022.04 or
- boards using U-Boot v2022.07
- added explicit dependency on python3-setuptools as (at least) U-Boot
v2022.04 and v2022.07 fail building due to missing 'distutils' for
boards that use U-Boot v2022.04 or v2022.07
I don't know. This doesn't feel right. The package exists in Jammy, Noble and Bookworm in both amd64 and arm64 variants so should be good...though it is probably not needed in all constellations.
Still it is part of the toolchain and not generic packages. If this gets merged as it is this should be revisited.
- python3-pip implies a very old setuptools (which is system-wide and takes precedence)
- python3-dev implies python3-distutils (which is long deprecated)
- get-pip.py allows us to version pip in requirements.txt just like everything else
- in the end this fixes the conundrum with pylibfdt / dtschema on Jammy
- and, finally, the setuptools we specify in requirements.txt will be actually used
- refactor `prepare_host_binfmt_qemu()` out of `prepare_host_noninteractive()` and into `rootfs/qemu-static.sh`
- further split into more functions and return early to avoid deep nesting
- implement force import and load of qemu-arm for non-armhf capable arm64 hosts (incl magic numbers)
- enhance `deploy_qemu_binary_to_chroot()` & `undeploy_qemu_binary_from_chroot()`;
- add 2nd param "caller" for better logging/tracking
- does sanity-check and preserve existing binary if it exists
- explicitly deploy/undeploy for the 3 cases:
- image: moved undeploy from `post_debootstrap_tweaks()` into image build proper for consistency
- rootfs: was leaving trash behind (since post_debootstrap_tweaks never ran for rootfs), now properly undeploys
- initrd: was already fine, just added caller info
- added `arch-test` host dependency
- ensure `arch-test ${ARCH}` works during prepare-host
- > tl,dr: "can build 32-bit armv7 armhf using Apple silicon; can use rootfs cache cross-arch reliably"
Instead of having to add every new release to the list that does not support python2, inverse this if statement and only check if the build host is Debian bullseye or ubuntu jammy. Every release newer than those do not have python2. Older build hosts are unsupported.
Different build hosts have vastly different versions of setuptools and pyelftools depending on the host OS, e.g. Ubuntu 22.04 has setuptools v59 while the latest version at the time of this commit is setuptools v71.
Using Pip instead of APT to download these packages assures that all build hosts use the same version, removing some points of failures and inconsistencies.
