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Add a basic README and an example to "make help".
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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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 |