If you are preparing your build to be used on an embedded box
where you have tighter control over the entire set of userspace
- tools, you can unselect this option for smaller code size.
+ tools, you can unselect this option for smaller code size.
config EXTRA_COMPAT
bool "Provide compatible behavior for rare corner cases (bigger code)"
compiler other than gcc.
If you do use gcc, this option may needlessly increase code size.
+#fixme: delete, create suboptions for applets which use this
+config FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH
+ bool "Calculate terminal & column widths"
+ default y
+ help
+ This option allows utilities such as 'ls', 'telnet' etc
+ to determine the width of the screen, which can allow them to
+ display additional text or avoid wrapping text onto the next line.
+ If you leave this disabled, your utilities will be especially
+ primitive and will be unable to determine the current screen width.
+
+#fixme: delete, create suboptions for applets which use this
+config FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS
+ bool "Use termios for one-stroke input"
+ default y
+ help
+ This option allows utilities such as 'top' to accept keyboard
+ commands. Without this option, they simply refresh display
+ after a fixed period.
+
config SHOW_USAGE
bool "Show applet usage messages"
default y
never to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
config PAM
- bool "Support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)"
+ bool "Support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)"
default n
help
Use PAM in some busybox applets (currently login and httpd) instead
of direct access to password database.
config LONG_OPTS
- bool "Support for --long-options"
+ bool "Support --long-options"
default y
help
Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
specify a pidfile path.
config FEATURE_SUID
- bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
+ bool "Support SUID/SGID handling"
default y
help
With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
catch bad memory accesses (e.g. buffer overflows), but will make
the executable larger and slow down runtime a bit.
+ This adds -fsanitize=foo options to gcc command line.
+
If you aren't developing/testing busybox, say N here.
config UNIT_TEST
bool "Abort compilation on any warning"
default n
help
- Selecting this will add -Werror to gcc command line.
+ This adds -Werror to gcc command line.
Most people should answer N.