[BusyBox] It's the preprocessor, stupid

[Mark Whitley]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:38:32AM +0100, Thomas Lundquist wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:13:14PM -0700, Mark Whitley wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm starting to wonder if a quick egg-on-face-bugfix release
> > > might be in order.
> > 
> > All in favor, say "aye".
> 
> aye!

Consensus is building... Methinks we will do a 0.50 "what 0.49 should have
been" release.

> (and since this is my first post to the list, I'll
>  introduce myself a little.)
> 
> I use Busybox on my little project, floppyfw,
> <URL:http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/>.

Thanks! Added to list of known projects. You'll see it toward the bottom of
the busybox.net webpage.

> and on the busybox/netkit-tiny/tinylogin - thing, I vote
> "yes, let's put them all together and have a nice and simple
> configure system for it."

Consensus is likewise building on this front...

Lemme ask you a question Thomas: Would you like to be able to have one binary
that does it all? Shellutils, netutils, login-schtuff and everything?

> and if someone here really knows how to compile a small glibc,
> I'd be happy to hear from you. I've been using debians glibc until
> now. 2.0.7 and 2.1.3.

There is no such thing as a small glibc.

Having said that, there is the mklibs.sh script that Matt Kraai mentioned. You
might also look at uClibc. (http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html)

> well, I'll go back to lurker mode again.

Post anytime, Thomas.


Mark Whitley
markw at lineo.com