From busybox  Wed Apr 07 17:32:22 2021
From: Tim Tassonis <stuff () decentral ! ch>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:32:22 +0000
To: busybox
Subject: Re: Issue with "standalone shell" and applets not working
Message-Id: <2d07586e-3be1-ee31-bdad-37b6ab4d3357 () decentral ! ch>
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On 4/6/21 5:04 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 4/4/21 8:59 AM, spiral wrote:
>>
>>> What platform are you using?
>> I am using Linux Mint 20.1 with gcc.
>> Building it on Arch (still with gcc) worked correctly, oddly enough.
>> However, I can't build busybox static with Arch since they don't
>> seem to ship glibc-static. :/
> 
> Busybox static should build successfully on Arch, it just won't be 100%
> static since glibc is actually a bit terrible about that. It will not
> link to any other libraries, but it will warn you during the link stage
> that it will be rigged up to dlopen() the libnss_* libraries.
> 
> Really, people should always do like the official Arch repos do and like
> you discovered yourself, and build with a libc that is not the GNU libc.
> For this purpose, I maintain both the musl libc in the official repos,
> and a fairly featureful desktop-targeted busybox binary built,
> statically, against that musl toolchain. Keep in mind it is always worth
> comparing and contrasting how the distro is doing it!
> 
> https://busybox.net/FAQ.html#libc recommends uclibc as the favorite libc
> of the busybox developers. You may acquire uclibc-ng from the AUR, but I
> can't make any particular guarantees about it as I (obviously) don't use
> this AUR package.
> 
> ...
> 
> I wonder, why does the busybox website mention glibc/uclibc (and warn
> you off of dietlibc or klibc!) and not musl? It seems like musl is
> fairly popular for minimal systems and static distribution, moreso than
> glibc certainly. It could use some mention.


I also use musl, not least because it does not require a full 
independent toolchain, but can be used on a glibc system with normal 
system gcc, using the musl-gcc wrapped. That saves a lot of time.
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