[CFT][patch] buildsys touch-up and standalone applets

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:23:44PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

>> Please let me know that you dislike something like that beforehand, i.e.
>> when i start adding that stuff to the buildsys without using it. It
>> saves time and nerves for both of us :)
>
>The shared library stuff isn't in search of a user, it's just the user isn't 
>in yet.  I'm glad you did it, thanks for doing it, and there is a reason I 
>checked it in.  There is a clear plan where to go from here.
>
>That said, until the user goes in I consider it a debug feature.  "Make sure 
>code builds as a shared library."

I was referring to me wrapping $(CP) $(MPDIR_P) etc, if i didn't make this
clear.

[snip]
>> Attached.
>> Statistics with the attached patch for defconfig (mainly due to the
>> gc-sections):
>>
>> $ ls -las ../busybox.oorig/busybox.orig busybox.new
>> 924 -rwxr-xr-x  1 0 0 939320 Feb 23 11:03 ../busybox.oorig/busybox.orig
>> 912 -rwxr-xr-x  1 0 0 927444 Feb 23 11:02 busybox.new
>> $ size ../busybox.oorig/busybox.orig busybox.new
>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>  923911   12356 1047364 1983631  1e448f ../busybox.oorig/busybox.orig
>>  913595   12340 1048516 1974451  1e20b3 busybox.new
>>
>> Please test with your setup. Ok with you for me to ci?
>
>What do you mean by "ci"?

checkin