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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2015-10-28 21:41:45 -0500
committerRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2015-10-28 21:41:45 -0500
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Tweak build instructions in README/code.html.
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@@ -18,13 +18,23 @@ specifying a path to it, so this should work:
Type "make help" for build instructions.
-Usually you want something like:
+Toybox uses the "make menuconfig; make; make install" idiom same as
+the Linux kernel. Usually you want something like:
make defconfig
- LDFLAGS="--static" CROSS_COMPILE=armv5l- make toybox
- PREFIX=/path/to/root/filesystem make install
+ make
+ make install
-The CROSS_COMPILE argument is optional, and without it builds a version of
+Or maybe:
+
+ LDFLAGS="--static" CROSS_COMPILE=armv5l- make defconfig toybox
+ PREFIX=/path/to/root/filesystem/bin make install_flat
+
+The file "configure" defines default values for many environment
+variables that control the toybox build; if you set a value for any of
+these, your value is used instead of the default in that file.
+
+The CROSS_COMPILE argument above is optional, the default builds a version of
toybox to run on the current machine. Cross compiling requires an appropriately
prefixed cross compiler toolchain, several example toolchains are available at:
@@ -40,6 +50,9 @@ For more about cross compiling, see:
http://landley.net/writing/docs/cross-compiling.html
http://landley.net/aboriginal/architectures.html
+For a more thorough description of the toybox build process, see
+http://landley.net/toybox/code.html#building
+
--- Using toybox
The toybox build produces a multicall binary, a "swiss-army-knife" program