[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] busybox: preserve ncurses progs/tools

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Apr 24 20:03:25 UTC 2017



On 24-04-17 17:36, Danomi Manchego wrote:
> Arnout,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>> 2. Make sure that busybox doesn't overwrite a tool that already exists. Needs to
>> be done for all the different ways that busybox can install things. Then the
>> order doesn't matter. Great solution, except for the bloatification. Also, it is
>> not great when you have FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL selected in busybox, because a
>> busybox-rebuild will not actually rebuild anything.
> 
> Does https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=802bff9c42376078f28aa49d3eab630120940eb0
> not take care of overwriting tools that already exist?

 Hey, I missed that one! So, that means that the dependencies on busybox are in
fact redundant, right? So we could actually revert the busybox.mk part of
33c72344a? Yep, tried that, I'll send a patch.

 So in fact, we can remove all dependencies on busybox? That's nice!

 Regards,
 Arnout

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