On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:13:28AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> I just did a quick check -- disabling both dirname and basename will
> save exactly 256 bytes on x86. Worth it?
yes, we need every byte we can get. powerpc binaries are always
larger then i386 anyway, and we are really hurting.
> Here is something perhaps much more interesting: lazybox lists 'vi'
> as nonexistant, yet the busybox .deb (which is what is used for the
> boot-floppies) is enabling this applet. Disabling 'vi' will save
> 24.3k on x86 (at the cost of losing the One True Editor ;)
definitly kill vi i already did in my Config patch. there is absolutly
no reason for two editors, either we kill vi, or we kill nano-tiny.
that discussion has already occured, nano in vi out.
> Thoughts?
see above.
> > but has anyone actually done any regression testing of posix shell
> > scripts on it?
>
> just the regression tests that we have written ourself for busybox.
> Do you have/know of any comprehensive posix shell test scripts?
not really, you could test debootstrap, ybin and ofpath for a
start... (ofpath requires a powerpc, ybin with proper configuration
will run on anything and install bootstrap onto a floppy disk).
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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