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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

See a previous thread for how to download and set up /uclibc and chroot to 
it for compilation.  I downloaded busybox source code to /uclibc/src 
first.

make menuconfig  (this split programs up into groups)
make

I did not make install, just copied over the busybox file itself and ran 
David's script to make links in the same directory it is in.  Maybe I 
should install it and have some links go to /usr/sbin etc?

It was easy to compile static busybox with make menuconfig - one of the 
first questions was whether to compile statically, and there was help for 
each possible program and option, not all of which I understood.  I 
included all of Steven's programs and added awk, fbset, ftpget, hdparm, 
modprobe, su, telnetd, udhcpd, and vi, and got 600K.  I could probably 
take some other things out that stayed in because I did not understand 
what they did.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/busybox/busybox-1.10-uclibc
and also busybox-1.10.list  (list of programs in it) and busybox.sh

The full wget should be able to fetch the directory, but busybox wget 
might need to do one file at a time.

I put it in /busybox110, which I put on the path ahead of /bin/busybox, in 
/etc/profile.  I can't remove /bin/busybox (in BL2) or eznet stops working
with a complaint about not finding /bin/busybox/busybox.  Why?????

When I do a 'which' the program in busybox 1.1.0 shows up, not in 
/bin/busybox/busybox (which I think is 1.01).

To run busybox.sh in BL2 you first need to make a symlink to expr and 
tail, because the BL2 versions don't work right for this script.  Put it 
on the path (in /etc/profile) then in that directory:
ln -s busybox-1.10-uclibc busybox
ln -s busybox tail
ln -s busybox expr

BL3.40 already has the newer busybox 1.01 so no manual links needed.

So I have in /etc/profile at the end of the PATH line:
:/busybox110:/bin/busybox:."

Things seem to work okay.  I put in all the possible options for fbset 
since whatever David compiled did not work for me (maybe my fault), 
something about recognizing things in fb.modes which it was not doing.


David's script made links for every possible program including things like 
sha1sum which I did not compile for.  If I try to run the link:
./sha1sum --help
sha1sum:  applet not found

Which finds it in that directory (not in /busybox101, where it does exist)
so I should probably remove all those dead links.  How?

'make install' might have avoided this problem.
Make generated a busybox.links which lists where the symlinks are supposed 
to go.  /sbin/e2fsck, fdisk, fbset, fsck, fsck.ext3 (why?), halt, hdparm, 
init, insmod, inetd, ifconfig, klogd, losetup, lsmod.....

When I tried to compile something it looked for a program (sed?) in /bin 
so if you don't install to bin (leave in /busybox110) it could cause 
problems, but I think I just made a symlink in bin to fix this.  I 
replaced the full SW71 sed with the busybox one because it would not 
compile busybox (some option was missing).

The instructions say you can run a little linux based just on busybox and 
/dev /etc and a kernel.   I guess since all the programs are statically 
compiled you don't need any /lib .  You also can't add any non-static 
programs.

I had to check an option so that modprobe would work with 2.2 and 2.4.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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