[OE-core] static busybox?

[Stuart Yoder]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>> On 7/31/12 1:14 PM, Stuart Yoder wrote:
>>>
>>> We are doing some work with LXC (containers) and one of the templates
>>> is for busybox.  For LXC, the busybox package needs to be built statically
>>> and
>>> there is a config option for this.
>>>
>>> A couple possible approaches:
>>>
>>>     -create a new 'busybox_static' recipe that the lxc package
>>>      depends on that turns on the needed build options.   Pretty
>>>      straightforward, but now there are 2 variants of the busybox
>>>      package.
>>>
>>>     -somehow propagate some configuration options through to
>>>      the standard busybox recipe so it turns on the config
>>>      option to build things statically.   Not sure how to
>>>      do this, and seems like it could get pretty messy.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>> We've been talking about this as well..  I'm currently of the opinion that
>> the kernel's config fragement processing be added to busybox.  This way
>> someone can simply add a configuration fragment via a bbappend, or other
>> approach and it'll pick it up.   That same can be used to specify how to
>> enable other optional pieces of busybox.
>
> merge_config.pl can be yanked out of the kernel source tree (it's upstream) and
> packaged as something for use by busy box.
>
> I wouldn't recommend all the scaffolding that the kernel has (it's
> overkill, since
> there are more configs, patches and git manipulations in play for the
> kernel), but a\
> simple scheme to collect the fragments from the SRC_URI and fire them through
> merge_config.pl would be a pretty simple python routine.

So how would this work from the user's point of view?   I somehow
need to get busybox's CONFIG_STATIC config option set.   Does the lxc
recipe somehow
specify this?   Or does the lxc recipe reference a busybox-static
dependency that sets the option?

Stuart