[BusyBox] Building Linux from Scratch 5.0 with busybox: how I did it.

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 15:22, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:34:16PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Okay, I just finished building Linux From Scratch 5.0 all the way through
> > with busybox replacing most of the FSF packages.  The resulting system
> > SEEMS to work...
> >
> > My scripts are attached.  Here's what I did.
>
> [ snip long list of corner-cases exercised by Monster program
> build scripts, and how he resorted to the GNU version of sh, awk, etc. ]
>
> Alternatively, you could attempt to call these things bugs in the
> build scripts, patch them to depend on more widely available
> features, and see if the upstream maintainers are non-parochial
> enough to accept said patches.
>
>     - Larry

1) This is the free software foundation.  Their most recent official release 
version of Tar still doesn't support the -j option for bzip.  (New versions 
downloaded off alphaworks aren't official release versions.)  Grub still 
hasn't had a 1.0 release, either.  The only reason gcc is being updated is 
that it forked (egcs) and the fork inherited the old project name when the 
old project collapsed.  Something similar happened with Ulrich Drepper taking 
over glibc.

2) So you don't want busybox to have the capability to be fully functional 
tested against real-world use cases?

Rob