Mercurial > hg > toybox
changeset 1176:9ccb7c975a5e draft
The README trailed off into unfinished confusion at the end, fix up the obvious parts.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Wed, 01 Jan 2014 13:24:03 -0600 |
parents | 0e1b95219311 |
children | 6083bc6005a2 |
files | README |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README Tue Dec 31 09:01:32 2013 -0600 +++ b/README Wed Jan 01 13:24:03 2014 -0600 @@ -71,18 +71,15 @@ together (toybox has been tested with musl, uClibc, and glibc, on Android systems musl is recommended).</p> -<p>The C library is part of a "toolchain", which is an integrated suite +The C library is part of a "toolchain", which is an integrated suite of compiler, assembler, and linker, plus the standard headers and libraries -necessary to build C programs.</p> - +necessary to build C programs. - Static linking (with the --static option) -copies the shared library contents into the program, resulting in -larger but more portable programs. Dynamically linked programs (the default) -Otherwise, the -"dynamically" linked programs require the -library to be present on the target system ("man ldd" and "man ld.so" for -details) statically linked programs do not.</p> +Static linking (with the --static option) copies the shared library contents +into the program, resulting in larger but more portable programs, which +can run even if they'rr the only file in the filesystem. Otherwise, +the "dynamically" linked programs require the library files to be present on +the target system ("man ldd" and "man ld.so" for details). Toybox is not a kernel, it needs Linux to drive the hardware.