Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: base-system@g.o
Cc: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@×××.net>, gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Re: portage profiles for alternatives (uclibc)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 02:05:46
Message-Id: 200406112205.39987.vapier@gentoo.org
1 On Friday 11 June 2004 09:45 pm, Aron Griffis wrote:
2 > You can't use busybox to replace most of these and still build a
3 > system. The ebuilds often depend (I don't mean DEPEND) on the
4 > specific behavior and features of the GNU versions. The busybox
5 > implementation would have to be perfect in order for this to work.
6
7 very true ... ever try to use the busybox wget in a portage env for
8 example ? :)
9 it doesnt support passive ftp iirc
10
11 > > 8. gawk provides libfuncs.so, if this could be a separate package (it
12 > > builds currently only against gawk headers), it could be used on systems
13 > > where only mawk or busybox awk are installed
14 >
15 > Huh? epm -ql gawk | grep libfuncs (nothing reported)
16
17 he's talking about the module in files/filefuncs/ ... you know, the thing
18 baselayout needs ? :)
19 /lib/rcscripts/filefuncs.so
20 -mike
21
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