[Toybox] Toybox and musl/clang

[Rob Landley]

On 10/1/19 5:07 PM, scsijon wrote:
> Before I start my next T2 build for Puppy quirky, I'm planning at using the
> musl/clang variation, I thought i'd take on replacing busybox totally with
> toybox and see what happens, or can you see something in toybox that might stop
> me using it alone and have to do a busybox plus toybox?

Of the commands that aren't in pending, no. If I was aware of anything that
prevented them from replacing other versions, they'd be in pending.

The problem is missing commands, sh being the biggest one. (I'd say sh is maybe
1/3 done? It parses redirects but doesn't do them, it can assign environment
variables but won't expand them in arguments, etc.)

According to the status page's "development" section, these commands were needed
by aboriginal linux once upon a time, and are missing:

awk dd diff expr fdisk gzip sh tr wget less dnsdomainname ftpd init less mdev
route vi resize2fs tune2fs fsck.ext2 genext2fs mke2fs xzcat

(Several of them are in pending, but I wouldn't trust them yet.)

I also note that I'm currently fixing tar's ability to read old tarballs with
varying format stuff. (My torture test is genext2fs-1.4.1.tar.gz .) So you
probably want to use a current git snapshot (which is more or less what should
be in the next release, which is several weeks late already...)

Rob