Building additional binaries

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 7:13 pm, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I had been using the following patch to build a bFLT binary in the
> top-level Makefile. This configuration should be accomplished in the
> .config.mak file in the output directory. Unfortunately, it's not as
> simple as adding `all: busybox.bflt' to .config.mak, because
> .config.mak is included from Rules.mak and by every Makefile, not just
> the top-level. So, I added `busybox: busybox.bflt' to .config.mak,
> which is a bit of a hack, but works. In any case, I thought I'd poll
> the mailing list for a better solution. Perhaps the `all' target of
> the top-level Makefile should depend on a phony `all-extra' target
> that could be defined by .config.mak.

What are you trying to accomplish?  You're not adding another applet to 
busybox, you're building an external binary with strange dependencies on 
busybox internals?

Rob
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