[Aboriginal] missing applets in current 1.20 system images

[Rob Landley]

I might already have replied to this one, but since gmail eats copies 
of messages lists send back to me (because google has strong opinions 
about what I should and shouldn't see, which are often empirically 
wrong), and I'm not online to check the web archive, I dunno.

On 10/09/2012 07:04:07 PM, John Spencer wrote:
> (mipsel:3) /home # free -m
> /bin/ash: free: not found
> (mipsel:3) /home # /bin/busybox mkswap
> mkswap: applet not found
> (mipsel:3) /home # swapon
> /bin/ash: swapon: not found

Yup. There's a reason for that.

I'm migrating the code from busybox to toybox. (Also from uClibc to 
musl, but I don't have to write that one.)

In preparation for this, I stripped down busybox from "defconfig" to 
sources/baseconfig-busybox with just the list of commands the build 
actually uses (as determiend by more/record-commands.sh). This includes 
the set of commands used to boot the target system, and to build Linux 
From Scratch under the result. I'm then gradually replacing those 
busybox commands with toybox versions.

Since then, I've been adding back commands like "top" that the build 
doesn't use, but which I really miss if they're not there. You've just 
spotted three more (which are already in the repository version of 
toybox, but not in the older release version aboriginal's using).

If you want the old "kitchen sink" configuration of busybox, it's:

  BUSYBOX=1 ./build.sh i686

That'll use a defconfig version of busybox instead of the stripped down 
version plus toybox.

Rob
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