libbusybox.so

[Natanael Copa]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 16:03 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007, simon at alcove.fr wrote:
> > I've download the last stable busybox release (1.6.1) and i'm trying to
> > build the shared library libbusybox.so.
> > But it seems the shared library support has been removed from recents
> > versions... the option is still present in the configuration interface but
> > not used by the Makefile scripts...
> >
> > Is the busybox shared library always supported ?
> 
> it's still a dev-only thing not meant general use ... if you dont plan on 
> hacking, dont plan on trying to use it ...

I was thinking the other day that there are some general functions that
I see come up in different projects over and over again, things like
xmalloc and friends. Those are not likely to change their API.

So I was thinking of maybe make an external shared lib and link all my
own small projects to it. I don't know if it would be easier if parts of
of libbb would be an external project?

Candidates are xmalloc, xzalloc, xfopen..., fgetln (replaces
bb_get_chunk_from_file), isdirectory, strlcpy, strlcat, strtonum.
Basicly, things thats not likely to change API, are not in POSIX or in
uclibc.

Thoughts?

> -mike
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