bool
default y
+menu "Busybox Settings"
+
menu "General Configuration"
choice
endchoice
+config CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
+ bool "Show terse applet usage messages"
+ default y
+ help
+ All BusyBox applets will show help messages when invoked with
+ wrong arguments. You can turn off printing these terse usage
+ messages if you say no here.
+ This will save you up to 7k.
+
config CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
default n
+ select CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
help
All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about
13k, but it can add much more depending on your configuration.
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
+ bool "Store applet usage messages in compressed form"
+ default y
+ depends on CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
+ help
+ Store usage messages in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly
+ when <applet> --help is called.
+
config CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER
bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime"
default n
bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
default n
help
- As a size optimization, busybox by default does not cleanup memory
- that is dynamically allocated or close files before exiting. This
- saves space and is usually not needed since the OS will clean up for
- us. Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
+ As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
+ freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves
+ space since the OS will clean up for us, but it can confuse debuggers
+ like valgrind, which report tons of memory and resource leaks.
+
+ Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
things up manually.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
default n
help
- Enable support for SE Linux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
- the option of compiling in SE Linux applets.
+ Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
+ the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
- If you do not have a complete SE Linux Full Userland installed, this
- stuff will not compile. Go visit
+ If you do not have a complete SELinux userland installed, this stuff
+ will not compile. Go visit
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
- to download the necessary stuff to allow busybox to compile with this
- option enabled.
+ to download the necessary stuff to allow busybox to compile with
+ this option enabled. Specifially, libselinux 1.28 or better is
+ directly required by busybox. If the installation is located in a
+ non-standard directory, provide it by invoking make as follows:
+ CFLAGS=-I<libselinux-include-path> \
+ LDFLAGS=-L<libselinux-lib-path> \
+ make
Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
endmenu
-menu 'Installation Options'
-
-config CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR
- bool "Don't use /usr"
- default n
- help
- Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
- that you really want this behaviour.
-
-choice
- prompt "Applets links"
- default CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
- help
- Choose how you install applets links.
-
-config CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
- bool "as soft-links"
- help
- Install applets as soft-links to the busybox binary. This needs some
- free inodes on the filesystem, but might help with filesystem
- generators that can't cope with hard-links.
-
-config CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS
- bool "as hard-links"
- help
- Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might count
- on a filesystem with few inodes.
-
-config CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
- bool
- prompt "not installed"
- depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER || CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL
- help
- Do not install applets links. Usefull when using the -install feature
- or a standalone shell for rescue pruposes.
-
-endchoice
-
-config PREFIX
- string "BusyBox installation prefix"
- default "./_install"
- help
- Define your directory to install BusyBox files/subdirs in.
-
-endmenu
-
-source archival/Config.in
-source coreutils/Config.in
-source console-tools/Config.in
-source debianutils/Config.in
-source editors/Config.in
-source findutils/Config.in
-source init/Config.in
-source loginutils/Config.in
-source e2fsprogs/Config.in
-source modutils/Config.in
-source util-linux/Config.in
-source miscutils/Config.in
-source networking/Config.in
-source procps/Config.in
-source shell/Config.in
-source sysklogd/Config.in
-
menu 'Debugging Options'
config CONFIG_DEBUG
bool "Disable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
default y
help
- This option will disable backwards compatability with SuSv2,
+ This option will disable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
will not be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
yank from renice too.)
endmenu
+
+menu 'Installation Options'
+
+config CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR
+ bool "Don't use /usr"
+ default n
+ help
+ Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
+ that you really want this behaviour.
+
+choice
+ prompt "Applets links"
+ default CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
+ help
+ Choose how you install applets links.
+
+config CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
+ bool "as soft-links"
+ help
+ Install applets as soft-links to the busybox binary. This needs some
+ free inodes on the filesystem, but might help with filesystem
+ generators that can't cope with hard-links.
+
+config CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS
+ bool "as hard-links"
+ help
+ Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might count
+ on a filesystem with few inodes.
+
+config CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
+ bool
+ prompt "not installed"
+ depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER || CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL
+ help
+ Do not install applets links. Usefull when using the -install feature
+ or a standalone shell for rescue pruposes.
+
+endchoice
+
+config PREFIX
+ string "BusyBox installation prefix"
+ default "./_install"
+ help
+ Define your directory to install BusyBox files/subdirs in.
+
+endmenu
+
+source libbb/Config.in
+
+endmenu
+
+comment "Applets"
+
+source archival/Config.in
+source coreutils/Config.in
+source console-tools/Config.in
+source debianutils/Config.in
+source editors/Config.in
+source findutils/Config.in
+source init/Config.in
+source loginutils/Config.in
+source e2fsprogs/Config.in
+source modutils/Config.in
+source util-linux/Config.in
+source miscutils/Config.in
+source networking/Config.in
+source procps/Config.in
+source shell/Config.in
+source sysklogd/Config.in
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