- single KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro in platform.h

[oweals/busybox.git] / Config.in

diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index f118923c5313115a9a4043d53df9baa270209d1e..bd94f493c1c44824eff91f1411dc4eeef10b2561 100644 (file)
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
          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
@@ -73,10 +81,12 @@ config CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT
          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"
@@ -183,17 +193,9 @@ config CONFIG_STATIC
 
          Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 
-# The busybox shared library feature is there so make standalone can produce
-# smaller applets.  Since make standalone isn't in yet, there's nothing using
-# this yet, and so it's disabled.
-config CONFIG_DISABLE_SHARED
-       bool
-       default n
-
 config CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
        bool "Build shared libbusybox"
-       default n
-       depends on CONFIG_DISABLE_SHARED
+       default y
        help
          Build a shared library libbusybox.so which contains all
          libraries used inside busybox.
@@ -288,17 +290,27 @@ endmenu
 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