I get the feeling that Android's deliberately different in many of these areas and that a fair number of applets are gonna be broken no matter what. The ROI's just too low to emulate or fix. However, isn't this true of a lot of other configurations that BusyBox supports?
What kind of system has FULL support? I.e. every applet compiles and works? Thanks, Rob On 5/21/12 10:54 PM, Tito wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
