This little package is designed to make your life easier if you are using the shell under an Android device. It includes a full-fledged Busybox environment that should make a fair replacement for the poor toolbox that comes with Android by default.
You can install it in two ways: if you are compiling Android yourself, then you can add this package to your repository and Busybox will replace the default Toolbox whenever possible. If you already have a deployed (and rooted!) Android device, you can deploy busybox on it.
Simply add a 'local_manifest.xml' file (or edit the existing one) in the .repo directory located at the root of your Android source tree with the following lines:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<remote name="busybox-android"
fetch="git://github.com/Gnurou/"/>
<project path="busybox-android"
name="busybox-android"
remote="busybox-android"
revision="master"/>
</manifest>
Then run "repo sync" and build your images normally.
Run the 'android-install.sh' script while your device is connected. This will remount the system partition read-write, copy busybox, and make the appropriate symlinks on your device. You will need adb in your path for this to work.
The files busybox-android.patch and busybox-android.config are a patch that allows ash history to work on Android and the configuration used to build Busybox, respectively. The busybox binary has been built statically against glibc - unfortunately, it seems impossible to build it against Android NDK.
Non-executable .sh scripts are not meant to be run directly by the user.
Alexandre Courbot acourbot@nvidia.com