[Toybox] mkroot works again, pending release.

[Patrick Oppenlander]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:09 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On 10/20/20 10:03 PM, Patrick Oppenlander wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:38 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >> So yeah, allyesconfig throws #warnings during the build for a reason. I forgot
> >> people test like that.
> >
> > Well that was a lucky coincidence then.
> >
> > I initially observed the issue on my ARMv7-M NOMMU target.
> > "allyesconfig" was the closest hammer to get a toybox build with sh on
> > my host, and just happened to also show the same behaviour.
> >
> > Thanks for looking into it.
>
> I do need to fix nommu subshells, yes. Good bug report. But fixing it might be
> out of scope for this release.

No problem, happy to wait as I have a working shell.

But I do get excited whenever you mention toysh. It will allow me to
throw away another external dependency, simplify build systems,
improve build times, reduce maintenance overhead, etc. etc.

So, thanks again for working on it!

Patrick