Re: BeastieBox, a (Net)BSD BusyBox-like

[iMil <imil%home.imil.net@localhost>]

> In other words, maybe the people who designed crunchgen and /rescue
> actually had some idea what they were doing?

oh, I didn't meant to offence anyone, I'm just digging, learning,  and 
pretty glad to find out there was a better way to do what I initiated.

> I think it would make a lot more sense to concentrate on:
>
> 1) Clean support for alternate lists of executables to crunch, in the
>   existing build system, so a single build could produce multiple
>   crunched executables without a lot of tedious list maintenance.

Agree, but what about executables like sh(1) or ex(1)/vi(1) and 
probably others having "huge" non-reductible dependencies (ncurses, 
libedit...) ? (note this is a real question, better said: "what would you 
suggest ?"). For these two, as an example, I ported NetBSD 0.9 sh(1) and 
2.11BSD ex(1) that only depends on libterm.

> 2) Making the existing "let's get small" (-DSMALL etc.) code cut out
>   more stuff where possible, *particularly* library dependencies.

That's actually what I had in mind when speaking about ifdef's some posts 
ago.

> 3) Ensuring that when libc files are built for use by crunchgen they
>   are built with the options to make them as small as possible: no
>   compat code, little or no nsswitch support, etc.

ditto

> Instead of producing a separate busybox imitation for little or no reason
> when /rescue already does pretty much exactly what is wanted.

As mentionned in my very first announce, this is/was a for-fun project, 
now if there's a need for something similar in NetBSD's base, I'd be glad 
to drop bbox's ball to concentrate on something having a meaning for the 
NetBSD project.

And btw :

~$ du -sh /rescue
7.4M    /rescue

That's really not the kind of size I have in mind when talking about a 
reduced system :)

regards,

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Emile "iMil" Heitor <imil%home.imil.net@localhost>                              
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