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
busybox to support locale settings.
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 "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 'Debugging Options'
+
+config CONFIG_DEBUG
+ bool "Build BusyBox with extra Debugging symbols"
+ default n
+ help
+ 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
+ depends on CONFIG_DEBUG
+ help
+ Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become
+ considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
+ should always leave this option disabled for production use.
+
+ dmalloc support:
+ ----------------
+ This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ )
+ which is an excellent public domain mem leak and malloc problem
+ detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will
+ want to properly set your environment, for example:
+ export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile
+ The 'debug=' value is generated using the following command
+ dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space -p log-elapsed-time \
+ -p check-fence -p check-heap -p check-lists -p check-blank \
+ -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy -p allow-free-null
+
+ Electric-fence support:
+ -----------------------
+ This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric
+ fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses
+ your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory
+ accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger
+ and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless
+ you are hunting a hard to find memory problem.
+
+
+config CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
+ bool "None"
+
+config CONFIG_DMALLOC
+ bool "Dmalloc"
+
+config CONFIG_EFENCE
+ bool "Electric-fence"
+
+endchoice
+
+config CONFIG_DEBUG_YANK_SUSv2
+ bool "Disable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
+ default y
+ help
+ 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
endmenu
+source libbb/Config.in
+
+endmenu
+
+comment "Applets"
+
source archival/Config.in
source coreutils/Config.in
source console-tools/Config.in
source procps/Config.in
source shell/Config.in
source sysklogd/Config.in
-
-menu 'Debugging Options'
-
-config CONFIG_DEBUG
- bool "Build BusyBox with 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.
-
- Most people should answer N.
-
-choice
- prompt "Additional debugging library"
- default CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
- depends on CONFIG_DEBUG
- help
- Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become
- considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
- should always leave this option disabled for production use.
-
- dmalloc support:
- ----------------
- This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ )
- which is an excellent public domain mem leak and malloc problem
- detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will
- want to properly set your environment, for example:
- export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile
- The 'debug=' value is generated using the following command
- dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space -p log-elapsed-time \
- -p check-fence -p check-heap -p check-lists -p check-blank \
- -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy -p allow-free-null
-
- Electric-fence support:
- -----------------------
- This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric
- fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses
- your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory
- accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger
- and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless
- you are hunting a hard to find memory problem.
-
-
-config CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
- bool "None"
-
-config CONFIG_DMALLOC
- bool "Dmalloc"
-
-config CONFIG_EFENCE
- bool "Electric-fence"
-
-endchoice
-
-config CONFIG_DEBUG_YANK_SUSv2
- bool "Disable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
- default y
- help
- This option will disable backwards compatability 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
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