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Add a basic README and an example to "make help".
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:20:39 -0600
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1 Toybox: all-in-one Linux command line.
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3 --- Building Toybox
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5 Type "make help" for build instructions.
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7 Mostly you want:
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9 CFLAGS="--static" CROSS_COMPILE=armv5l- make defconfig toybox install
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11 Or "make menuconfig", which produces the same sort of .config file as the
12 Linux kernel.
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14 --- Using toybox
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16 The build produces a "swiss-army-knife" style multifunction binary, which acts
17 differently depending on the name it was called as (cp, mv, cat...), and
18 installs symlinks under each command name to populate $PATH.
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20 The "toybox" command itself uses its first argument as the command name to run
21 (ala "toybox ls -l"). With no arguments, it lists available commands. (This
22 allows you to use the commands even without the symlinks.)
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24 The "help" command provides information about each command (ala "help cat").
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26 The toybox web page is at "http://landley.net/toybox".
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28 Have fun,
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30 Rob