Build doesn't fail if od not installed

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Sep 17 18:28:43 UTC 2010


On Thursday 16 September 2010 08:25:09 Harald Becker wrote:
> Busybox build successfully several times. Than I started to remove some
> stuff from that system which I expected not to be used (and I really
> never used od visibly in over 20 years) ... and busybox continued to
> build without failure ... only after I moved the executable to the final
> location on the new maintenance/emergency/recovery system I noticed the
> segmentation fault as I requested a usage information ... so what has
> gone wrong? ... primarily I expected some damage of my new recovery
> system ... than the question was, if any modifications to busybox
> produced that error or if an update from 1.17.1 to 1.17.2 solve the
> problem ... but problem still remained ... and I wouldn't have recalled
> your script in that situation.

I already did all this work in aboriginal/firmware linux back around 2007.

This is why I maintain a kernel patch to remove the requirement to install 
perl in order to build the Linux kernel, which was added in 2.6.25 because 
Peter Anvin is insane.  (He added it to syslinux and klibc at the same time, 
but I'm happy to let both those projects rot.)

Rob
-- 
GPLv3: as worthy a successor as The Phantom Menace, as timely as Duke Nukem 
Forever, and as welcome as New Coke.


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