Re: static busybox?

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 7/31/12 1:14 PM, Stuart Yoder wrote:
> We are doing some work with LXC (containers) and one of the templates
> is for busybox.  For LXC, the busybox package needs to be built statically and
> there is a config option for this.
>
> A couple possible approaches:
>
>     -create a new 'busybox_static' recipe that the lxc package
>      depends on that turns on the needed build options.   Pretty
>      straightforward, but now there are 2 variants of the busybox
>      package.
>
>     -somehow propagate some configuration options through to
>      the standard busybox recipe so it turns on the config
>      option to build things statically.   Not sure how to
>      do this, and seems like it could get pretty messy.
>
> Any thoughts?

We've been talking about this as well..  I'm currently of the opinion that the 
kernel's config fragement processing be added to busybox.  This way someone can 
simply add a configuration fragment via a bbappend, or other approach and it'll 
pick it up.   That same can be used to specify how to enable other optional 
pieces of busybox.

--Mark

> Thanks,
> Stuart Yoder
>
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