How to replace toybox with busybox

[Carmelo Carbonara]

Any pointers on how to build with busybox and exclude toybox

or remove toybox and install busybox 1.29 on a working device

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2018-09-12 1:21 GMT+08:00 Carmelo Carbonara <cpcnet...@gmail.com>:
> Any pointers on how to build with busybox and exclude toybox
> or remove toybox and install busybox 1.29 on a working device

busybox has already included in android-x86.

If you want a newer version, you have to port it yourself.
(or try to find a prebuilt static linked binary)

Besides, it's a very bad idea to remove toybox.
It's now a part of AOSP standard and some functions
may depend on it.

Android-x86 installs busybox and all its applets
to /system/xbin/ so it could co-exist with toybox.
If you want to use busybox first, either type
busybox as a prefix of a command, or change
your PATH to /system/xbin:/system/bin/...


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Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org

[Carmelo Carbonara]

I wanted to avoid the busybox shell; not all of the toybox applets are "ready for prime time" or available yet even in the latest version of toybox I wanted to remove the symlinks...but i see your point

on a side note; i think chromiumos uses busybox instead of toybox and it allows almost full linux administration. Not the intention of android i guess

Thanks