help
Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use
busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
- applets that are compiled into busybox. This feature requires the
- /proc filesystem.
+ applets that are compiled into busybox.
config LOCALE_SUPPORT
bool "Enable locale support (system needs locale for this to work)"
bool "Support writing pidfiles"
default n
help
- This option makes some applets (crond, syslogd and inetd) write
- a pidfile in /var/run. Some applications rely on them
+ This option makes some applets (e.g. crond, syslogd, inetd) write
+ a pidfile in /var/run. Some applications rely on them.
config FEATURE_SUID
bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
are login, passwd, su, ping, traceroute, crontab, dnsd, ipcrm, ipcs,
and vlock.
-config FEATURE_SYSLOG
- bool "Support for syslog"
- default n
- help
- This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
- send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
-
config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
default n if FEATURE_SUID
/etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID, check
this option to avoid users to be notified about missing permissions.
-config FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
- bool "RPC support"
- default y
- help
- Select this if you have rpc support.
- This automatically turns off all configuration options that rely
- on RPC.
-
config SELINUX
bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
default n
help
This is an experimental option which directs applets about to
call 'exec' to try and find an applicable busybox applet before
- searching the PATH. This may affect shell, find -exec, xargs and
- similar programs.
+ searching the PATH. This is typically done by exec'ing
+ /proc/self/exe.
+ This may affect shell, find -exec, xargs and similar applets.
+ They will use applets even if /bin/<applet> -> busybox link
+ is missing (or is not a link to busybox). However, this causes
+ problems in chroot jails without mounted /proc and with ps/top
+ (command name can be shown as 'exe' for applets started this way).
config BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH
string "Path to BusyBox executable"
executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you
want to run BusyBox from.
+# These are auto-selected by other options
+
+config FEATURE_SYSLOG
+ bool "Support for logging to syslog"
+ default n
+ help
+ This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
+ send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
+
+config FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
+ bool "RPC support"
+ default n
+ help
+ This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
+ You do not need to select it manually.
+
endmenu
menu 'Build Options'
Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might count
on a filesystem with few inodes.
+config INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
+ bool "as script wrappers"
+ help
+ Install applets as script wrappers that call the busybox binary.
+
config INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
bool "not installed"
depends on FEATURE_INSTALLER || FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
endchoice
+choice
+ prompt "/bin/sh applet link"
+ default INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
+ depends on INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
+ help
+ Choose how you install /bin/sh applet link.
+
+config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
+ bool "as soft-link"
+ help
+ Install /bin/sh applet as soft-link to the busybox binary.
+
+config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_HARDLINK
+ bool "as hard-link"
+ help
+ Install /bin/sh applet as hard-link to the busybox binary.
+
+config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPER
+ bool "as script wrapper"
+ help
+ Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that call the busybox binary.
+
+endchoice
+
config PREFIX
string "BusyBox installation prefix"
default "./_install"