menu "General Configuration"
+config 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.
+
choice
prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
default CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
busybox to support locale settings.
+config CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
+ bool "Enable support for --long-options"
+ default n
+ depends on !CONFIG_NO_GETOPT_LONG
+ help
+ Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
+ style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options.
+
config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS
- bool "Support for devfs"
+ bool "Use devfs names for devices"
default n
help
- Enable if you want BusyBox to work with devfs.
+ This tells busybox to look for names like /dev/loop/0 instead of
+ /dev/loop0. If your /dev directory has normal names instead of
+ devfs names, you don't want this.
+
+ This is obsolete and will be going away someday. Consider it
+ deprecated.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS
bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style
/dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have
- devpts or devfs mounted.
+ devpts mounted.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
default n
help
- Support SUID and SGID binaries.
+ With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
+ to root with the suid bit set, and it'll and it'll automatically drop
+ priviledges for applets that don't need root access.
+
+ If you're really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
+ busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate
+ symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the
+ one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit
+ are login, passwd, su, ping, traceroute, crontab, dnsd, ipcrm, ipcs,
+ and vlock.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
default n if CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
help
- Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined runtime by
- checking /etc/busybox.conf. The format of this file is as follows:
+ Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime
+ by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.)
+ The format of this file is as follows:
<applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>)
config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG_QUIET
bool "Suppress warning message if /etc/busybox.conf is not readable"
- default n
+ default y
depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
help
/etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID, check
menu 'Debugging Options'
config CONFIG_DEBUG
- bool "Build BusyBox with Debugging symbols"
+ bool "Build BusyBox with extra Debugging symbols"
default n
help
- Say Y here if you wish to compile BusyBox with debugging symbols.
- This will allow you to use a debugger to examine BusyBox internals
- while applets are running. This increases the size of the binary
- considerably and should only be used when doing development.
- If you are doing development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y.
+ Say Y here if you wish to examine BusyBox internals while applets are
+ running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and
+ should only be used when doing development. If you are doing
+ development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y.
Most people should answer N.
+config CONFIG_DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
+ bool "Disable compiler optimizations."
+ default n
+ depends on CONFIG_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 CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
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