new FreeBSD port maintainer

[Matthias Andree]

Greetings,

I am a FreeBSD ports committer and have taken over maintaining the
FreeBSD busybox port from Chris Rees.

I have updated the FreeBSD port to 1.18.5 and a couple of questions:

- Why do parts of the package use #include ?

- Is there a particular reason the sed scripts use GNU extensions or
syntax?  What are the chances of these being replaced by POSIX default
constructs (If none, add: possibly if I submit a patch)?

I figured that there were a few warnings during the build, could these
be addressed for the next release:


--- These are hints that there are missing #include 
directives: ---

coreutils/cp.c:168: warning: implicit declaration of function 'dirname'

archival/unzip.c:225: warning: implicit declaration of function 'dirname'

coreutils/dirname.c:20: warning: implicit declaration of function 'dirname'

coreutils/install.c:164: warning: implicit declaration of function 'dirname'

coreutils/rmdir.c:57: warning: implicit declaration of function 'dirname'


--- The next is a hint that declarations are later down in the code, not
at the beginning of a code block, or that I need to build the code as C99.

QUESTION: is busybox supposed to be C89 or C99 code?

libbb/getpty.c:23: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code


--- The next may need API cleanup, or a (void)fd; cast inside the
function if the API is supposed not to change:

libbb/udp_io.c:16: warning: unused parameter 'fd'


Thanks a lot.

Best regards
Matthias
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Re: [PATCH] ash: add support for history buffer

[Ralf Friedl]

Dennis Groenen wrote:

Ash writes to ~/.ash_history after every command, causing excessive
wear on devices which use a flash-based device as their storage medium
(i.e. one erase block cycle per command).
This patch allows you to set a temporary location where ash's history
will be saved until the shell is exited.
By the way, bash doesn't write the history after every command, just on 
exit from the shell.


Ralf
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Re: new FreeBSD port maintainer

[Matthias Andree]

Am 14.07.2011 11:57, schrieb Matthias Andree:

> - Why do parts of the package use #include ?

Sorry, I meant but mistyped .
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