Re: Busybox vi

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:29:11PM +0200 wrote:
> FWIW, I have taken the great work of Erik Andersen and others for BusyBox (not
> to mention Bruce Perens for the beginning) and uClibc, and I must say that 
> I am quite impressed :
> 
> 1) by the size : BB statically compiled against uClibc with vi is 219 Ko
> (IIRC 480 Ko with glibc);
> 2) I found the `vi' emulation far better and far easier to use than, say, `ae';
> 
> Has anybody tried to compile other utilities with uClibc ?

I have played with uCilbc on debian-installer, never got the complete thing done
though.  It would be really neat to use on d-i.  I've thought about, once d-i is
back in full swing, making it work with uclibc on as many archs as possible.
That would mean packaging it and tricking the buildd's into building udeb's for
use wiht uclibc.  That would be sneaky.

David