config DESKTOP
bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
- default n
+ default y
help
Enable options and features which are not essential.
Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
some GNU extensions in libc. You probably only need this option
if you plan to run busybox on desktop.
-config FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
- bool "Assume that 1:1 char/glyph correspondence is not true"
+config INCLUDE_SUSv2
+ bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3"
+ default y
+ help
+ This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
+ specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
+ will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
+ affect renice too.)
+
+config USE_PORTABLE_CODE
+ bool "Avoid using GCC-specific code constructs"
default n
help
- This makes various applets aware that one byte is not
- one character on screen.
+ Use this option if you are trying to compile busybox with
+ compiler other than gcc.
+ If you do use gcc, this option may needlessly increase code size.
- Busybox aims to eventually work correctly with Unicode displays.
- Any older encodings are not guaranteed to work.
- Probably by the time when busybox will be fully Unicode-clean,
- other encodings will be mainly of historic interest.
+config PLATFORM_LINUX
+ bool "Enable Linux-specific applets and features"
+ default y
+ help
+ For the most part, busybox requires only POSIX compatibility
+ from the target system, but some applets and features use
+ Linux-specific interfaces.
+
+ Answering 'N' here will disable such applets and hide the
+ corresponding configuration options.
choice
prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
config FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
- default n
- select SHOW_USAGE
+ default y
+ depends on 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
config FEATURE_INSTALLER
bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime"
- default n
+ default y
help
Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use
busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
busybox to support locale settings.
-config GETOPT_LONG
+config UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ bool "Support Unicode"
+ default y
+ help
+ This makes various applets aware that one byte is not
+ one character on screen.
+
+ Busybox aims to eventually work correctly with Unicode displays.
+ Any older encodings are not guaranteed to work.
+ Probably by the time when busybox will be fully Unicode-clean,
+ other encodings will be mainly of historic interest.
+
+config UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ bool "Use libc routines for Unicode (else uses internal ones)"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT && LOCALE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option on, Unicode support is implemented using libc
+ routines. Otherwise, internal implementation is used.
+ Internal implementation is smaller.
+
+config FEATURE_CHECK_UNICODE_IN_ENV
+ bool "Check $LANG environment variable"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT && !UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ help
+ With this option on, Unicode support is activated
+ only if LANG variable has the value of the form "xxxx.utf8"
+
+ Otherwise, Unicode support will be always enabled and active.
+
+config SUBST_WCHAR
+ int "Character code to substitute unprintable characters with"
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ default 63
+ help
+ Typical values are 63 for '?' (works with any output device),
+ 30 for ASCII substitute control code,
+ 65533 (0xfffd) for Unicode replacement character.
+
+config LAST_SUPPORTED_WCHAR
+ int "Range of supported Unicode characters"
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ default 767
+ help
+ Any character with Unicode value bigger than this is assumed
+ to be non-printable on output device. Many applets replace
+ such chars with substitution character.
+
+ The idea is that many valid printable Unicode chars are
+ nevertheless are not displayed correctly. Think about
+ combining charachers, double-wide hieroglyphs, obscure
+ characters in dozens of ancient scripts...
+ Many terminals, terminal emulators, xterms etc will fail
+ to handle them correctly. Choose the smallest value
+ which suits your needs.
+
+ Typical values are:
+ 126 - ASCII only
+ 767 (0x2ff) - there are no combining chars in [0..767] range
+ (the range includes Latin 1, Latin Ext. A and B),
+ code is ~700 bytes smaller for this case.
+ 4351 (0x10ff) - there are no double-wide chars in [0..4351] range,
+ code is ~300 bytes smaller for this case.
+ 12799 (0x31ff) - nearly all non-ideographic characters are
+ available in [0..12799] range, including
+ East Asian scripts like katakana, hiragana, hangul,
+ bopomofo...
+ 0 - off, any valid printable Unicode character will be printed.
+
+config UNICODE_COMBINING_WCHARS
+ bool "Allow zero-width Unicode characters on output"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option off, any Unicode char with width of 0
+ is substituted on output.
+
+config UNICODE_WIDE_WCHARS
+ bool "Allow wide Unicode characters on output"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option off, any Unicode char with width > 1
+ is substituted on output.
+
+config UNICODE_BIDI_SUPPORT
+ bool "Bidirectional character-aware line input"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT && !UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ help
+ With this option on, right-to-left Unicode characters
+ are treated differently on input (e.g. cursor movement).
+
+config UNICODE_NEUTRAL_TABLE
+ bool "In bidi input, support non-ASCII neutral chars too"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_BIDI_SUPPORT
+ help
+ In most cases it's enough to treat only ASCII non-letters
+ (i.e. punctuation, numbers and space) as characters
+ with neutral directionality.
+ With this option on, more extensive (and bigger) table
+ of neutral chars will be used.
+
+config UNICODE_PRESERVE_BROKEN
+ bool "Make it possible to enter sequences of chars which are not Unicode"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option on, invalid UTF-8 bytes are not substituted
+ with the selected substitution character.
+ For example, this means that entering 'l', 's', ' ', 0xff, [Enter]
+ at shell prompt will list file named 0xff (single char name
+ with char value 255), not file named '?'.
+
+config LONG_OPTS
bool "Support for --long-options"
default y
help
Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
things up manually.
+config FEATURE_UTMP
+ bool "Support utmp file"
+ default y
+ help
+ The file /var/run/utmp is used to track who is currently logged in.
+ With this option on, certain applets (getty, login, telnetd etc)
+ will create and delete entries there.
+ "who" applet requires this option.
+
+config FEATURE_WTMP
+ bool "Support wtmp file"
+ default y
+ select FEATURE_UTMP
+ help
+ The file /var/run/wtmp is used to track when users have logged into
+ and logged out of the system.
+ With this option on, certain applets (getty, login, telnetd etc)
+ will append new entries there.
+ "last" applet requires this option.
+
config FEATURE_PIDFILE
bool "Support writing pidfiles"
- default n
+ default y
help
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"
- default n
+ default y
help
With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
to root with the suid bit set, and it will automatically drop
config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
- default n if FEATURE_SUID
+ default y if FEATURE_SUID
depends on FEATURE_SUID
help
Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime
config SELINUX
bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
default n
+ depends on PLATFORM_LINUX
help
Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
# These are auto-selected by other options
config FEATURE_SYSLOG
- bool "Support for logging to syslog"
+ bool #No description makes it a hidden option
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.
+ #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"
+ bool #No description makes it a hidden option
default n
- help
- This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
- You do not need to select it manually.
+ #help
+ # This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
+ # You do not need to select it manually.
endmenu
config LFS
bool "Build with Large File Support (for accessing files > 2 GB)"
- default n
+ default y
select FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
help
If you want to build BusyBox with large file support, then enable
Native builds leave this empty.
+config EXTRA_CFLAGS
+ string "Additional CFLAGS"
+ default ""
+ help
+ Additional CFLAGS to pass to the compiler verbatim.
+
endmenu
menu 'Debugging Options'
endchoice
-config INCLUDE_SUSv2
- bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
- default y
- help
- This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
- specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
- will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
- affect renice too.)
-
### config PARSE
-### bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
+### bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
endmenu
source miscutils/Config.in
source networking/Config.in
source printutils/Config.in
+source mailutils/Config.in
source procps/Config.in
source runit/Config.in
source selinux/Config.in
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