How to use telnetd

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Rahul Jain wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Denys Vlasenko

>>> Thanks for the help though, I wish I could have compiled busybox in stead. :)
>>
>> Why you cannot compile busybox? Can I help? Currently there is
>> a "How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc" HOWTO
>> linked from busybox.net start page:
>>
>> http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt
>>
>> and if you are willing to try it and then adapt it so that
>> you end up with "How to build static busybox for armv5"
>> document, you will produce a very useful HOWTO and also
>> will have means to build busybox (and any other binaries
>> you want) for your embedded box.

cross-compiling really is dead-simple. The arch does not really matter,
the procedere to call the compiler is all the same for every target,
generally.

>I cannot compile busybox because I am required to use MontaVista tools
>only. Otherwise I would have compiled it.

I'd argue that the "MontaVista tools" is mvista's toolchain. If they
ship a completely outdated version of busybox with a gazillions of bugs
that were fixed since then, then you should bug them to update or
provide a vaguely recent alternative to their blessed-but-ancient thing.
Note how toolchain != app, and last time i looked, busybox does not
provide a toolchain but classifies as application ;)

have fun and good luck,
Bernhard