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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Thank you for not using autoconf
From:       Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date:       2013-06-07 2:44:15
Message-ID: 1370573055.2776.76 () driftwood
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On 06/03/2013 10:28:57 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> In concept, I think the Busybox "make menuconfig" style configuration
> is probably the worst of all. It's hard to automate and requires a
> learning curve for each program you want to build. The only reason it
> "works well" for cross-compiling with Busybox is that cross-compiling
> is a major usage case the maintainers care about. If you find a
> non-embedded-oriented program using this build system, you'll probably
> go through hell to get it to cross-compile right.

There's a reason I had "make defconfig" be the maximum sane  
configuration, so people could avoid having to fine-tune anything  
through the gui if they didn't care to.

Rob
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