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
Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
busybox to support locale settings.
+config CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
+ bool "Enable getopt long (system needs struct option for this to work)"
+ default n
+ depends on !CONFIG_NO_GETOPT_LONG
+ help
+ EXPERIMENTAL!
+ Enable this if your system support long options for getopt and
+ you want to use them in busybox.
+
+# remove this comment to disable getopt_long per default.
+#config CONFIG_NO_GETOPT_LONG
+# bool
+# default y
+# depends on !CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
+
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.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS
bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
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'.
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
endchoice
-config CONFIG_STRIP_BINARIES
- bool "Strip busybox objects"
- default y if !CONFIG_DEBUG
- default n if CONFIG_DEBUG
- help
- Whether or not we strip the busybox binary and such.
-
config CONFIG_DEBUG_YANK_SUSv2
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.)
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