[gentoo-embedded] Re: uclibc and busybox

[Ned Ludd]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:00, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> Hello!
>
> What are your intentions w/ busybox used w/ uclibc?


> Do you know of some intention making a "real" baselayout-lite using
> intensively busybox?

To be honest I've not had the chance to work with the baselayout-lite
yet. For the most part I've found for every device I've ever built I
always usually end up reworking the initscripts anyway.

But peb was the man working on this. But he is/(going to be) mostly away
for the better part of the next month now.

Yeah but that's not a problem. Here is what I'm doing now for my target
after installing the uclibc and busybox ipkg's into it.

if [ -e ./bin/busybox ]; then
        echo ">>> Setting up busybox symlinks"
        mount --bind /proc/ proc/
        chroot . /bin/busybox --install -s
        umount proc
fi

This is no quite something that should be done on the build hosting
system however. Now if we don't like what the ebuild does or provides us
with as far as options we can use the savedconfig option which will let
us provide compile time config's for busybox just the way we like it for
said CHOST /etc/busybox/* to use it.

Everybody will probably want to use this for the target busybox to keep
bloat size down.

Hey interesting enough we could pack a uclibc hardened  busybox fully
loaded and a kernel and still probably fit it all on a compressed
floppy. (Hardened Net Rescue System) How stupid is that ! :)

>
> the ebuild itself does not provide anything useful as coreutils and so
> on replacement (the links are not added to the package, only a separate
> tarball is created
-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer