[ITP] busybox 1.23.2-1

[Achim Gratz]

Christian Franke writes:
> (On NTFS. A copy to a USB flash drive with a FAT will grow the
> non-standalone version to ~10MB due to the many small symlink files).

I was mostly interested in the download size.

> Most space is used by cygwin1.dll itself.
>
> busybox.exe with all working features enabled is ~600MB (bash:
> ~700MB). Removing the daemons, other rarely used commands and some
> features could reduce it to 300-350MB. I did't test LTO build which
> could further reduce size.

Did you just swap MB for kB or what sizes are you talking about there?

For a minimal install-system we should be able to compress everything
using UPX.

> I did a few tests (e.g. running autoconf ./configure scripts) which
> worked as expected. I didn't run any test suite.
> According to the sourcecode, the busybox ash has the same origin as
> dash: the Almquist SHell.

I'd say that's good enough to count as a functional replacement, then.


Regards,
Achim.
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