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.
Thanks in advance,
Tias
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2012-March/077486.html
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