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On 06/17/2015 02:57 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 22:25 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >> Busybox does not use autoconf or similar. It requires manual platform >> specific configuration which does not yet support a missing >> sethostname(). After adding HAVE_SETHOSTNAME manually and some other >> minor additions, busybox (which many commands enabled) compiles and >> works reasonably. >> Would ITP make sense ? > > TBH I'm not sure. Presuming you're discussing the single-executable > build (so as not to clobber coreutils etc.), there is still the question > of (not) matching the heavily-patched coreutils wrt .exe handling etc. > What do you think the use case would be? Portability testing is one thing - I often compare how bash/dash/zsh/mksh handle a shell construct, and adding busybox sh into the mix adds another perspective. But yeah, I don't see busybox becoming the default source of these apps, so much as an alternative implementation. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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