menu "General Configuration"
-config NITPICK
- bool "See lots more (probably unnecessary) configuration options."
- default n
- help
- Some BusyBox applets have more configuration options than anyone
- will ever care about. To avoid drowining people in complexity, most
- of the applet features that can be set to a sane default value are
- hidden, unless you hit the above switch.
-
- This is better than to telling people to edit the busybox source
- code, but not by much.
-
- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly#The_Closet
-
- You have been warned.
-
config DESKTOP
bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
default n
Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an embedded box.
+config FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
+ bool "Assume that 1:1 char/glyph correspondence is not true"
+ default n
+ 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.
+
choice
prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
default FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
- depends on NITPICK
help
There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations:
- Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc.
busybox to support locale settings.
config GETOPT_LONG
- bool "Enable support for --long-options"
+ bool "Support for --long-options"
default y
help
Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
config FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
default n
- depends on NITPICK
help
As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves
Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
+config PIE
+ bool "Build BusyBox as a position independent executable"
+ default n
+ depends on !STATIC
+ help
+ (TODO: what is it and why/when is it useful?)
+ Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
+
config NOMMU
bool "Force NOMMU build"
default n
Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
+# PIE can be made to work with BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX, but currently
+# build system does not support that
config BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
bool "Build shared libbusybox"
default n
- depends on !FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
+ depends on !FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS && !PIE && !STATIC
help
Build a shared library libbusybox.so.N.N.N which contains all
busybox code.
config FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL
bool "Produce a binary for each applet, linked against libbusybox"
default y
- depends on !STATIC && BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
+ depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
help
If your CPU architecture doesn't allow for sharing text/rodata
sections of running binaries, but allows for runtime dynamic
config FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
bool "Produce additional busybox binary linked against libbusybox"
default y
- depends on !STATIC && BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
+ depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
help
Build busybox, dynamically linked against libbusybox.so.N.N.N.
cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger
than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option. Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'.
+config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
+ string "Cross Compiler prefix"
+ default ""
+ help
+ If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
+ will need to set this to the cross-compiler prefix, for example,
+ "i386-uclibc-". Note that CROSS_COMPILE environment variable
+ or "make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx ..." will override this selection.
+ For native build leave it empty.
+
endmenu
menu 'Debugging Options'
Most people should answer N.
+config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
+ bool "Disable compiler optimizations"
+ default n
+ depends on DEBUG
+ help
+ The compiler's optimization of source code can eliminate and reorder
+ code, resulting in an executable that's hard to understand when
+ stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting
+ in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source
+ code.
+
config WERROR
bool "Abort compilation on any warning"
default n
Most people should answer N.
-# Seems to be unused
-#config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
-# bool "Disable compiler optimizations."
-# default n
-# depends on DEBUG
-# help
-# The compiler's optimization of source code can eliminate and reorder
-# code, resulting in an executable that's hard to understand when
-# stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting
-# in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source
-# code.
-
choice
prompt "Additional debugging library"
default NO_DEBUG_LIB
will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
affect renice too.)
+config PARSE
+ bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
+
endmenu
menu 'Installation Options'
source runit/Config.in
source selinux/Config.in
source printutils/Config.in
-source ipsvd/Config.in
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