patches for building with Android NDK

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun May 27 23:13:50 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 22 May 2012 00:03, Tias wrote:
> Dear Busybox developers,
> 
> Since Rob Walker's patch[1], building busybox with the Android NDK has 
> really become dead simple; no special hacks or external libraries are 
> needed anymore.
> 
> However, a large number of applets can currently not be built.
> 
> I started documenting why applets don't build, as well as collecting 
> patches from different sources, that fix the issues:
> https://github.com/tias/android-busybox-ndk
> https://github.com/tias/android-busybox-ndk/tree/master/patches
> 
> I would love to see the ideas behind these patches integrated, so that a 
> standard busybox build can be used in the many android open-source 
> projects that depend on it (and currently use a statically built 
> third-party blob).
> 
> However, I am unfamiliar with the coding practices of the busybox 
> community, and many of these patches were written to fix the build and 
> not necessarily to get merged upstream.
> I consider my work in collecting these patches as just a first step.
> Hence, I would like to solicit feedback on what can and can not be 
> merged, and what would be required to get these fixes in.

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vda


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