CONFIG_FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE was impossible to turn on

[oweals/busybox.git] / Config.in

diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 9da4e8cb5a9c21ccf44667e040b9bc6d4ab35436..e6acf4971621121aa0513cd0c6527ccd1d7fd4a8 100644 (file)
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ config CONFIG_NITPICK
 choice
        prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
        default CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
+       depends on CONFIG_NITPICK
        help
          There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations:
          - Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc.
@@ -80,6 +81,12 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
          Store usage messages in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly
          when <applet> --help is called.
 
+         If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and
+         bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might
+         be noticeable.  Also, if you run executables directly from ROM
+         and have very little memory, this might not be a win.  Otherwise,
+         you probably want this.
+
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER
        bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime"
        default n
@@ -97,27 +104,17 @@ config CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT
          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 "Use devfs names for devices"
-       default n
-       help
-         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-         This is obsolete and will be going away someday.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.
+       bool
+       default y
+#      bool "Enable support for --long-options"
+#      default n
+#      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_DEVPTS
        bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
-       default y if CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS
+       default y
        help
          Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
          busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
@@ -128,6 +125,7 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
        bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
        default n
+       depends on CONFIG_NITPICK
        help
          As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
          freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files.  This saves
@@ -212,6 +210,16 @@ config CONFIG_SELINUX
 
          Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 
+config CONFIG_BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH
+       string "Path to BusyBox executable"
+       default "/proc/self/exe"
+       help
+         When Busybox applets need to run other busybox applets, BusyBox
+         sometimes needs to exec() itself.  When the /proc filesystem is
+         mounted, /proc/self/exe always points to the currently running
+         executable.  If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you
+         want to run BusyBox from.
+
 endmenu
 
 menu 'Build Options'
@@ -232,11 +240,16 @@ config CONFIG_STATIC
 
 config CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
        bool "Build shared libbusybox"
-       default y
+       default n
        help
          Build a shared library libbusybox.so which contains all
          libraries used inside busybox.
 
+         This is an experimental feature intended to support the upcoming
+         "make standalone" mode.  Enabling it against the one big busybox
+         binary serves no purpose (and increases the size).  You should
+         almost certainly say "no" to this right now.
+
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FULL_LIBBUSYBOX
        bool "Feature-complete libbusybox"
        default n if !CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
@@ -276,33 +289,6 @@ config CONFIG_LFS
          cp, mount, tar, and many others.  If you want to access files larger
          than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option.  Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'.
 
-config USING_CROSS_COMPILER
-       bool "Do you want to build BusyBox with a Cross Compiler?"
-       default n
-       help
-         Do you want to build BusyBox with a Cross Compiler?  If so,
-         then enable this option.  Otherwise leave it set to 'N'.
-
-config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
-       string "Cross Compiler prefix"
-       default "/usr/i386-linux-uclibc/bin/i386-uclibc-"
-       depends on USING_CROSS_COMPILER
-       help
-         If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
-         will need to set this to the cross-compiler prefix.  For example,
-         if my cross-compiler is /usr/i386-linux-uclibc/bin/i386-uclibc-gcc
-         then I would enter '/usr/i386-linux-uclibc/bin/i386-uclibc-' here,
-         which will ensure the correct compiler is used.
-
-config EXTRA_CFLAGS_OPTIONS
-       string "Any extra CFLAGS options for the compiler?"
-       default ""
-       help
-         Do you want to pass any extra CFLAGS options to the compiler as
-         you build BusyBox? If so, this is the option for you...  For example,
-         if you want to add some simple compiler switches (like -march=i686),
-         or check for warnings using -Werror, just those options here.
-
 config CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE
        bool "Compile all sources at once"
        default n