patches for building with Android NDK

[Rob Walker]

On 5/22/12 12:56 AM, Tias wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 08:23 AM, Rob Walker wrote:
>> I get the feeling that Android's deliberately different in many of these
>> areas and that a fair number of applets are gonna be broken no matter
>> what.  The ROI's just too low to emulate or fix.  However, isn't this
>> true of a lot of other configurations that BusyBox supports?
>>
>> What kind of system has FULL support?  I.e. every applet compiles and
>> works?
>
> I'm not trying to imply that all applets should be supported on
> android...
>
> Its just that a number of 'basic' applets such as bbconfig, date, df,
> fsck, kill, mke2fs, mount, ipv6 support etc. can currently not be built.
> For many of these applets rather simple patches are already floating
> around, so it makes sense to integrate them upstream, no?

Certainly.  I very much agree with that.

I was didn't mean for the above question to be rhetorical.  I'm quite
new to BusyBox, and am therefore curious.

-Rob