Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:40:27 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: busybox port available (was Re: busybox and small scripting languages on FreeBSD...) Message-ID: <20080819154027.GA24372@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <4894E8C3.5060004@freebsd.org> References: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20080802.002039.58462077.imp@bsdimp.com> <4894A9D8.2090606@freebsd.org> <20080802225643.GA84798@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4894E8C3.5060004@freebsd.org>
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replying to a thread of a couple of weeks ago... I managed to build a reasonable subset of busybox (1.11.1) on FreeBSD, you can find patches at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/#busybox-port The linux-specific things (e.g. those relying on /proc or system APIs that we don't have) clearly do not work, and I did not bother trying to implement replacement for them. But many userland commands do work and maybe they are useful to have around in a small system. A sample of the file sizes (the 'dec' column from the 'size' command): 37136 work/busybox-1.11.1/shell/ash.o 18492 work/busybox-1.11.1/libbb/appletlib.o 18258 work/busybox-1.11.1/editors/vi.o 17995 work/busybox-1.11.1/editors/awk.o 9878 work/busybox-1.11.1/networking/httpd.o 9289 work/busybox-1.11.1/archival/bzip2.o 7609 work/busybox-1.11.1/editors/diff.o 6378 work/busybox-1.11.1/miscutils/less.o 6258 work/busybox-1.11.1/editors/sed.o 6170 work/busybox-1.11.1/archival/gzip.o 5367 work/busybox-1.11.1/editors/ed.o 5317 work/busybox-1.11.1/archival/libunarchive/decompress_unzip.o 5132 work/busybox-1.11.1/networking/wget.o 4485 work/busybox-1.11.1/networking/traceroute.o 4277 work/busybox-1.11.1/libbb/dump.o ... overall, the binary in this configuration is around 330kb. cheers luigi
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