[Toybox] Toybox Installer/setup routine?

[scsijon]

On 08/09/19 11:17, Rob Landley wrote:
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> On 9/3/19 1:18 PM, scsijon wrote:
>> On 03/09/19 09:10, Denys Nykula wrote:
>>>>> which awk 2>&1 >/dev/null || ln -fsv nawk /bin/awk
>>>>> which vi 2>&1 >/dev/null || ln -fsv vim /bin/vi
>>>>
>>>> Those last two are on the todo list. But after toysh and route, which mkroot
>>>> needs. (And vi might be after make, and promoting half the stuff currently in
>>>> pending.)
>>>
>>> Implementing sh and make would definitely be most useful, as nobody has yet
>>> written light build tools ready to drop in place of GNU monopoly. The weakest
>>> bootstrap link would next be a subset of cmake interpreter enough to build
>>> LLVM. While existing awks and editors with simple license are okay.
>>>
>> And if your doing make you also should be doing the config(ure) stage,
> 
> Hell no? I am not implementing autoconf in toybox.

That's sort of what I meant, but if your doing your own make, shouldn't 
you at least deal with a basic configure script as well (and I don't 
mean those fancy things that seem to be turning up with regularity at 
present)?
> 
> And autoconf's a shell script generator anyway. The resulting shell script calls
> the toybox commands, and that's how I got into this mess in the first place:
> 
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2004-May/011538.html
> 
>> but with
>> the configure / make commands needing to be pulling in all those variable
>> switches from your system and not require you to work out what it wants each
>> time. It's a pet bug as far as i'm concerned that we live with, with each
>> program seeming to want some different ones and some even use different switch
>> names to do the same thing. And that IS a whole lot of worms. I'm not sure that
>> even Rob would dare to open that can of worms.
> 
> I linked to my years-old configure/make/install rant (in two parts) in a message
> a few days ago (your emails to me were caught up in gmail's insane spam filter,
> which I didn't check until earlier today).

Maybe it's time to bite the bullet and take a ?couple of days and move 
off gmail. What about a simple system on your webserver, there's enough 
of them around to do a test run at least.
> 
> Rob
>