On Tuesday 22 May 2012 00:03:54 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
Hi, at a first glance a few of this patches seems to add missing syscalls and IMO they should be added to bionic libc and not to busybox or at least not to the applets' files, maybe they could be added to a platform.h file. Had not time to look at all of them tough. Ciao, Tito > 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 > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
