a few short observations on latest BB

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Mar 1 14:54:36 UTC 2006


On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Bernhard Fischer wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:19:00AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> >  next, there doesn't appear to be any difference in either selecting
> >or not selecting "Feature-complete libbusybox".  both generated shared
> >lib files that turn out to be exactly the same size.  the only
>
> in libbb/Makefile.in, see
> # conditionally compiled objects:
>
> >difference is that selecting the full featured library creates an
> >extra hard link in the install directory but that's it.  based on the
>
> There should be no difference for the installation between the full- and
> not full .so
>
> >help message, that's not what i expected.  what difference *should* i
> >have seen?
>
> Right now, you'll only see a small difference and only if you didn't
> select any of the "conditionally compiled" applets. This will hopefully
> change in the future.

ok, so "full feature" doesn't *really* mean full feature.  that
definitely explains things.  thanks.

rday



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