Re: configure busybox

[Earnie Boyd]

Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 
> Hi, im trying to make a project im involved with
> (http://busybox.lineo.com/) more portable, specifically i want to make it
> compile under GNU/Hurd as well as linux.
> 
> My initial thoughts were that autotools would be ideal, but busybox is an
> unusal project and im unsure how to go about it.
> 
> Busybox is a single binary that can provide the funcionality of one of
> about 130 (i think) general unix commands.
> 
> Current build process goes roughly as follows, there is a manually edited
> config file (Config.h, not to be confused with the autotools config.h) that

Since you're worried about portability then let me warn against using
file names that differ only in case.  This won't work well with file
systems that are case insensitive.

Earnie.

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