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Date:      Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:43:38 -0700
From:      John Hein <jhein@symmetricom.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The path is now set for "busybox", FreeBSD style
Message-ID:  <19680.8138.582316.245120@gossamer.timing.com>
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Adrian Chadd wrote at 11:40 +0800 on Nov 14, 2010:
 > I've committed the below changes to -HEAD. You can now create and build your
 > own busybox style binary system, completely cross-compiled within the
 > existing Make framework. It isn't as impressive as it sounds though - a lot
 > of the framework is already there from just building crunchgen'ed
 > rescue/sysinstall binaries.
 > 
 > There's a few things which should be done. Specifically, being able to build
 > an alternative set of libraries before building the crunchgen target. The
 > base crosscompile system may include support for PAM, Kerberos, ATM/IPX, etc
 > but you may not want your crunch'ed image to have them. To do this right
 > now, you have to disable these features in the main build. That may be OK
 > for some.
 > 
 > But just to stress it - I've got a couple of access point images at home
 > running a crunchgen'ed environment under MIPS and besides the obvious binary
 > bloat, it works perfectly well. Besides a cut-down startup framework, the
 > image cross-builds entirely from the base FreeBSD source tree.
 > 
 > Let me know if you'd like to give it a shot and I'll put my "bsdbox"
 > Makefile scripts online to try.

That's great.
I assume it be not be hard for someone to take your scripts as a
starting point and create a sysutils/bsdbox akin to sysutils/busybox?



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