On 08/09/19 11:17, Rob Landley wrote:
On 9/3/19 1:18 PM, scsijon wrote:
On 03/09/19 09:10, Denys Nykula wrote:
which awk 2>&1 >/dev/null || ln -fsv nawk /bin/awk
which vi 2>&1 >/dev/null || ln -fsv vim /bin/vi
Those last two are on the todo list. But after toysh and route, which mkroot
needs. (And vi might be after make, and promoting half the stuff currently in
pending.)
Implementing sh and make would definitely be most useful, as nobody has yet
written light build tools ready to drop in place of GNU monopoly. The weakest
bootstrap link would next be a subset of cmake interpreter enough to build
LLVM. While existing awks and editors with simple license are okay.
And if your doing make you also should be doing the config(ure) stage,
Hell no? I am not implementing autoconf in toybox.
That's sort of what I meant, but if your doing your own make, shouldn't
you at least deal with a basic configure script as well (and I don't
mean those fancy things that seem to be turning up with regularity at
present)?
And autoconf's a shell script generator anyway. The resulting shell script calls
the toybox commands, and that's how I got into this mess in the first place:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2004-May/011538.html
but with
the configure / make commands needing to be pulling in all those variable
switches from your system and not require you to work out what it wants each
time. It's a pet bug as far as i'm concerned that we live with, with each
program seeming to want some different ones and some even use different switch
names to do the same thing. And that IS a whole lot of worms. I'm not sure that
even Rob would dare to open that can of worms.
I linked to my years-old configure/make/install rant (in two parts) in a message
a few days ago (your emails to me were caught up in gmail's insane spam filter,
which I didn't check until earlier today).
Maybe it's time to bite the bullet and take a ?couple of days and move
off gmail. What about a simple system on your webserver, there's enough
of them around to do a test run at least.
Rob
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