[Toybox] Toybox Installer/setup routine?

[Denys Nykula]

> throw symlinks all over the place if you like

Contrarily, I make fewer symlinks.

> (And they've
> apprently rewritten the documentation in rust, which I was unaware was an option?)

RST is ReStructured Text. Sort of like Markdown. Has tooling for tables of
contents and interlinks, generates PDFs and HTML.

> > Mkroot is useful. Regarding allnoconfig, where should I read about kconfig CLI
> > helpers if they exist?
> 
> make help (in toybox or in linux), and there's something under the Documentation
> directory in the kernel but they keep moving the files there.
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt

Config creation I have seen in docs, config updating and deletion too, but what
about config read and analysis? Like for userland, Portage can find the missing
flags on which the present manually specified flags depend, and generates a
config including those flags, bailing out if there are || options but saving
time in the majority of simple cases. So that fewer of those missing flags
ever have to appear in the miniconfig, as config inflator could derive them.

> I also have my own compressed version of the config files:
> 
> http://landley.net/aboriginal/FAQ.html#dev_miniconfig

Yep that's from where I learned about the allnoconfig.

> Which I tried to submit upstream multiple times back when I still engaged with
> linux-kernel:
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/161086/

Todo read. Probably you answered my above question there but I'm offline
at the moment of writing this, sending later.

> > #!/bin/sh
> > # $ kwhy ACPI_WMI
> > # DELL_WMI
> > # IDEAPAD_LAPTOP
> > # ...
> > find /src/linux/ -name Kconfig -not -path '*scripts*tests*' -exec perl -0pe 's/\
> > nconfig (.+)(\n[ \t]+.*)*\n[ \t]+depends on.*[^!\w\n]('$1')[^!\w].*/\n$1\n/g;s/(
> > ^|\n)[^A-Z\n].*/\n/g;s/\s+/\n/g;s/^\n//' {} +
> 
> See you and raise you:
> 
> https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/blob/master/more/miniconfig.sh

I have a miniconfig. Some of its items, now leaves, I once manually selected to
make other items visible. While those items are no longer needed, these leaves
remain in miniconfig. I'm asking if a CLI helper could tell me what items outside
miniconfig depended on the remaining leaves inside miniconfig. Since I haven't
found such a helper, I prototyped mine but it's obviously a stopgap.

> > Build continues, just prints distracting warnings at the beginning. Wrote this
> > down when trying to build as much as possible with LLVM and note all that
> > might have been going wrong.
> 
> There's more or less annual bursts of interest in that

Looks annual to publishers who report on releases, not following the issues and
everyday development much. Kernel releases more often. LLVM 9 has all the
compiler extensions and binutils flags required by the kernels released earlier
this year, so its Clang now builds the kernel without GNU binutils which
reports from previous years were all about.

> >>> if ! sed -n -e '/^# Generated by .*libtool/q0;4q1' "${f}"; then continue; fi
> >>
> >> Ok, so you need the exitcode extension to q, and never previously mentioned it
> >> on this list. Right, easy enough to add...
> > 
> > Haven't mentioned because it's not a bottleneck and is in my own todo list.
> 
> Just added it, and a couple other things while I was in the area.
> 
> (The largest part of the patch was the error checking for q123 having something
> other than digits after it.)

Great!

> > /portage/eclass/epatch.eclass:
> > # Generate some useful debug info ...
> > ${patch_cmd} --dry-run -f < "${PATCH_TARGET}" 2>&1
> > 
> > Gentoo duplicated this in another place, adding two more options to imitate
> > the same dry run behavior in case of a mismatch, dropped support for standard
> > patch and required GNU everywhere. This seems dirty and I'm in favor of
> > letting extra options other than -f remain broken.
> 
> I wonder what funtoo does?

Copies ebuilds with a delay and puts chief architect name on commits?

> And I am riffing on names which means I am sleep deprived

Sorry.