Re: Busybox vi

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Wed May 02, 2001 at 04:29:11PM +0200, Thierry Laronde 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 :

Thanks.  :-)

> 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';

It is a pretty complete vi.  It doesn't have all the power of
vim, but it is only 22k and requires no external libraries.
Sterling Huxley (who contributed the busybox vi applet) did
a really nice job.

> Has anybody tried to compile other utilities with uClibc ?

I've been known to compile a bunch of things with it.  Also check
out what Jeff Garzik was able to do
    http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/uclibc/2001-March/000630.html
At work, I am currently assigned to get uClibc integrated into
Lineo's SDK (you can think of that as a sortof graphical Debian 
autobuilder with lots of choices for what you build).  This means 
that I basically need to make sure that _everything_ compiles with it.  

The only real downside to uClibc is its limited platform support.
Right now I support x86, arm, m68k, sh, and powerpc.  The shared
library loader is very new, and currently only works on x86 (I'm
working on an ARM port ATM).

 -Erik

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