[oe] Is there a recipe for building and using busybox with libbusybox out there ?

[Hauser, Wolfgang (external)]

Hello, what memory footprint do you mean, the image or the ram ?

If I have to run several busybox applets at a time, e.g. sh, inetd, ftpd, telnetd, syslogd ... it would probably be better to load the shared library once and share it by the applets.

May be I am wrong, but the shared library overhead isn't that big at runtime. Especially if several applets are running at the same time.

Wolfgang Hauser

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Von: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] Im Auftrag von Phil Blundell
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2010 12:26
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Betreff: Re: [oe] Is there a recipe for building and using busybox with libbusybox out there ?

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:45 +0200, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wrote:
> I want to use busybox with the applet binaries linked against libbusybox
> in our system.
> We need a wide range of applets at the same time, so I suppose it will
> save overall needed memory space.

What's the advantage of this?  I would have thought it would give you a
larger memory footprint rather than a smaller one.  I guess I must be
missing something.

> Also I want to prevent the system from updating alternatives while the
> first boot. We have to provide a read only root file system.

Yeah, this is a long-standing piece of OE suckage.  We should fix the
alternative selection to work at image construction time.

p.



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