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

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > another list member and I are working on compiling busybox 1.4.1
>
> Can you apply this patch before you compile? It's small, and trivial.
>
> http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/busybox-1.4.1-wgetSEGV.patch

I presume the other member knows HOW to apply a patch.  He will try making 
a script to let me chroot to ./uclibc as 'user'.  First I need to 'make 
config', unless anyone wants the ENTIRE package statically compiled.  If 
not, what would you like added to the BL3 busybox that I did not include 
in 1.1.0 (which has vi, su and ftpget)?

> It fixes a SEGV error in wget from 1.4.1. Busybox has a new maintainer
> now, and he seems to have the philosophy of "release early, and
> release often" so sometimes small issues like this creep in. But the
> project is progressing at a very rapid pace. For example, busybox less
> now handles regexp and paging properly. It's much smaller than GNU
> less, of course, but unfortunately you can't scroll horizontally yet.
> Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Is this something that was also broken in 1.3.2?  We could compile that 
instead now.  Or wait for the next stable release.

> There were a couple of other patches there, but they didn't seem
> relevant to me. You might check and see if you need any of them.

Okay.

> I'm looking forward to testing this new busybox.
>
> David