Thanks Robert - very useful to know.
Anyway - this morning - jelsrtbt 2.0.114 up and running on my laptop with gigabit ethernet, mouse, and diff, and everything else in 2.0.103 - and 147 sectors free! (**) Amazing!
One question I have been meaning to ask for a while - concerning mv - the version of mv in tomsrtbt seems odd to me. I'm not quite certain exactly what, but I think sometimes it does as expected, sometimes it does something but not as expected, and other times nothing at all; but at all times it always returns rc 0 and no error msg. It appears to be a real binary (ELF) executable, not a busyboxlet and not a lua/ash script. Yet busybox doc says it can provide mv. So this tomsrtbt mv is maybe also wasting some space? Anyone know the semantics of this mv? Source? Why we don't use busybox? I'm thinking of replacing/re-building it ...
John
(**) after pruning unneeded functions from the kernel
----Original Message Follows---- From: Robert de Bath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Lumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] version of diff / diff3 for libc5? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:58:57 +0000 (GMT)
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, John Lumby wrote:
Thanks Tom. cmp is sometimes all I need but it doesn't actually show the diff, only a boolean and an offset (or can it be told to do so?). I need to be able to see what's different. Anyway, I had another go at diffutils, using the 2.7 source, and was able to compile that for libc5. Will it fit though? ... (Have to wait until next time I can shut down to find out).
Just a small note for next time; I find the debian archive is a good place for tomsrtbt compatible binaries. http://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/
You want the 1.3.1 version for libc5 stuff. To unwrap a *.deb without 'dpkg' you can use alien(1) or ar(1) plus tgz.
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Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
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