config DESKTOP
bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
- default n
+ default y
help
Enable options and features which are not essential.
Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
compiler other than gcc.
If you do use gcc, this option may needlessly increase code size.
+config PLATFORM_LINUX
+ bool "Enable Linux-specific applets and features"
+ default y
+ help
+ For the most part, busybox requires only POSIX compatibility
+ from the target system, but some applets and features use
+ Linux-specific interfaces.
+
+ Answering 'N' here will disable such applets and hide the
+ corresponding configuration options.
+
choice
prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
default FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
applets that are compiled into busybox.
+config INSTALL_NO_USR
+ bool "Don't use /usr"
+ default n
+ depends on FEATURE_INSTALLER
+ help
+ Disable use of /usr. busybox --install will install applets
+ only to /bin and /sbin, never to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
+
config LOCALE_SUPPORT
bool "Enable locale support (system needs locale for this to work)"
default n
Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
things up manually.
-config FEATURE_UTMP
- bool "Support utmp file"
- default y
- help
- The file /var/run/utmp is used to track who is currently logged in.
- With this option on, certain applets (getty, login, telnetd etc)
- will create and delete entries there.
- "who" applet requires this option.
-
config FEATURE_WTMP
bool "Support wtmp file"
default y
will append new entries there.
"last" applet requires this option.
+config FEATURE_UTMP
+ bool "Support utmp file"
+ default y
+ help
+ The file /var/run/utmp is used to track who is currently logged in.
+ With this option on, certain applets (getty, login, telnetd etc)
+ will create and delete entries there.
+ "who" applet requires this option.
+
config FEATURE_PIDFILE
bool "Support writing pidfiles"
default y
default y
help
With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
- to root with the suid bit set, and it will automatically drop
- priviledges for applets that don't need root access.
+ to root with the suid bit set, enabling some applets to perform
+ root-level operations even when run by ordinary users
+ (for example, mounting of user mounts in fstab needs this).
+
+ Busybox will automatically drop priviledges for applets
+ that don't need root access.
If you are 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:
+ one that needs it.
+
+ The applets currently marked to need the suid bit are:
crontab, dnsd, findfs, ipcrm, ipcs, login, passwd, ping, su,
traceroute, vlock.
config SELINUX
bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
default n
+ depends on PLATFORM_LINUX
help
Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
endmenu
-menu 'Installation Options'
-
-config INSTALL_NO_USR
- bool "Don't use /usr"
- default n
- help
- Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
- that you really want this behaviour.
+menu 'Installation Options ("make install" behavior)'
choice
- prompt "Applets links"
+ prompt "What kind of applet links to install"
default INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
help
- Choose how you install applets links.
+ Choose what kind of links to applets are created by "make install".
config INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
bool "as soft-links"
bool "not installed"
depends on FEATURE_INSTALLER || FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
help
- Do not install applet links. Useful when using the -install feature
- or a standalone shell for rescue purposes.
+ Do not install applet links. Useful when you plan to use
+ busybox --install for installing links, or plan to use
+ a standalone shell and thus don't need applet links.
endchoice
config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPER
bool "as script wrapper"
help
- Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that call the busybox
- binary.
+ Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that calls
+ the busybox binary.
endchoice