Missing binaries / build system

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That is probably because "defconfig" enables a lot of features in the
> httpd applet that are disabled when you build with "allnoconfig"
>
> Things like: Date header, Last-Modified header, Range requests, HTTP
> authentication, custom error pages, reverse proxying, GZIP encoding,
> and CGI scripting.

I've built it with allnoconfig+menuconfig, set "httpd" and all these features
were seIected automatically, so they were present in 34K binary too. Looks
like the binary size is affected by other default options.

> That's a lot of extra functionality for a 16K increase in size. You
> can of course go back in either config and enable/disable just the
> features you need, but I don't know how you would do that
> non-interactively.

Yep, looks like there is no way to select configuration
non-interactively. The "menu randconfig" is somehow able to click
different options, so I guess it is just a matter of patching the build
system to support "make enable httpd". Not sure if it is C, shell or
make code that does the config management.
-- 
anatoly t.