On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 12:21:00AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > I am the author of musl (www.etalabs.net/musl) and also follow busybox > development on and off. Recently one of my project's testers has been > experimenting with building a musl+busybox based mini-distro. I've > been working with him to resolve the build issues caused by things on > my end, but there are a few longstanding portability issues in busybox > that would be easy to fix and would make things a lot easier for us if > they could be fixed. > > Chris's project, Sabotage Linux, contains a patch against busybox > 1.18.4 that illustrates the issues he's encountered: > > https://github.com/chneukirchen/sabotage/blob/master/KEEP/busybox.patch > > Many of the chunks are not correct to apply to busybox. For example, > __musl__ is not defined by musl; it's a hack Chris added to his build > scripts to work around portability problems by special-casing. Some > issues, however, can be fixed right away without controversial > changes, I think, and I hope you'll consider them:
I have since investigated these issues and have reported and proposed patches via the bug tracker: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3607 https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3613 https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3619 Anyone willing to review/apply these? Rich _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
