Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

Ben Leslie
2009-06-15T23:41:21Z

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:39 AM, <davidb@quicinc.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:25:35PM -0700, Ben Leslie wrote:
>
>> > The Android busybox
>> > <http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/14/android-busybox> mostly
>> > works.  The poster doesn't seem to provide source, even though
>> > busybox requires modification to build for Android (although not
>> > much).
>>
>> I didn't need to change anything; I just compiled busybox; No changes
>> required. (Note: It is a static binary that includes glibc).
>
> I wonder if it's changed since you built it, then.  I had to hack
> up a few paths since the Android environment doesn't put things
> in normal places.

Possibly, it was quite some time ago! And I have an imperfect memory.

I'm fairly sure I would have put up any patches if I did need to change
things; that is what I normally do. I'm trying to dig the source tree out of
my archive just to verify.

I would say that the binary there is pretty much completely redundant now.
Any new busybox 'for android' should probably build against the Android
C library, with the Android version of gcc etc. My contribution was done
before any of the Android source was available, and was compiled with
the codesourcery gcc compiler.

(Note: Strictly speaking I really should have the source code for it
irrespective of if I made any changes to the source code; rectifying
that now.)

Cheers,

Benno