[Documentation / FAQ] Add "can toybox be compiled in a static manner, like busybox", and "is ncurses required"

[rubyFeedback]

You guys have a FAQ already, but most of the entries link to a video. I can not watch a whole
video. I would prefer short statements as answers. (Both a video AND the answer may be the
best solution).

I came specifically here right now because I had problems with busybox. I can not compile it
with ncurses; I can compile htop and other applications that depend on ncurses fine, so this
is a flaw in busybox's build system. Unfortunately the last change to busybox appears to
have been +1 year ago so the project may be dead. Hopefully toybox can replace that use
case I have for busybox.

Why do I use busybox?

I compile it via static option from the make menuconfig menu. I need it in case I break some
shared library on my custom linux system. Hopefully toybox can replace busyboxy here.

Anyway. For this issue request I would like to suggest two new entries into the FAQ:

(1) can toybox be compiled in a static manner, like busybox
(2) is ncurses required for the above ^^^

Hopefully this could be added to the FAQ. Perhaps the FAQ can be a separate .md document
rather than be put into the main README here, but this is entirely up to you of course.

Thank you for reading this issue request.

[landley]

The last commit to https://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/ was 8 weeks ago. I suspect Alpine Linux and Buildroot and so on would notice if it was dead?

How do "most of the entries" link to a video? There are 17 questions in the FAQ and only three links to videos from that page: one to my 2013 talk on why toybox exists (also in the nav bar on the left), one to a talk from an ex-debiain maintainer about why time based releases are a good thing (me citing my sources for where I got the idea, it was from that talk), and one to a 38 second clip of the 1980 hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy BBC television miniseries about vogon poetry (citing where I got the phrase "in brief: avoid").

The relevant FAQ entry for your question seems to be https://landley.net/toybox/faq.html#cross which doesn't link to a video. There's more about static linking in the next FAQ entry https://landley.net/toybox/faq.html#targets and I found those by doing a ctrl-f search for "static" in the page.