[uClibc]RE: [BusyBox] Errors Compiling BusyBox: Update

AVENARD,JEAN-YVES (HP-Australia,ex2) jean-yves_avenard at hp.com
Sun Feb 18 23:55:30 UTC 2001


Hello

I got BusyBox up and running on my Linux 2.4 (for SH3 platform) linked with
uClibc and the size is only 88KB. I find it surprising that there is such a
big size difference between the i386 version and the SH3 version.

BTW, regarding busybox. Each time you want to run a command of busybox, you
must start a new busybox. Is there a way to start the shell of busybox and
then run the built-in commands without starting a new busybox process. We're
running short in memory and we can't afford a new instance of busybox for
every single commands.

Thank you all for your help
Regards
Jean-Yves


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Novoa III [mailto:mnovoa3 at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Friday, 16 February 2001 3:50 AM
> To: Tom Cameron
> Cc: uclibc at uclibc.org
> Subject: [uClibc]RE: [BusyBox] Errors Compiling BusyBox: Update
> 
> 
> Tom,
> 
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > > > 	Anyone know how to get around this?  I have a 
> feeling that BB is the
> > > > reason I can't boot my system (the "init=" problem), so 
> I'd like to
> > > compile
> > > > a newer version against uClibc.  Thanks all!
> > > 
> > > The problems you're seeing stem from the decision to 
> "impersonate" glibc
> > > in the
> > > uClibc header files.  This made several changes to the 
> header files
> > > necessary.  I have just about everything sorted out again 
> so that busybox
> > > will build against uClibc; just need to fix one more 
> header file and write
> > > two
> > > small functions.  Hopefully by tomorrow afternoon I'll 
> have that stuff
> > > finished and committed to cvs.
> 
> I committed the changes this morning.  busybox now builds 
> again with uClibc
> with the usual "make CC=gcc-uClibc-{arch}" command... at 
> least it does for i386.
> 
> [mjn3 at mars busybox-test]$ ls -l busybox-s*
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 mjn3     mjn3       251856 Feb 15 10:42 busybox-shared
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 mjn3     mjn3       321380 Feb 15 10:47 busybox-static
> 
> Manuel
> 
> 
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