BusyBox is extremely configurable. This allows you to include only the
components you need, thereby reducing binary size. Run 'make config' or 'make
-menuconfig' to select the functionality that you wish to enable. The run
+menuconfig' to select the functionality that you wish to enable. Then run
'make' to compile BusyBox using your configuration.
After the compile has finished, you should use 'make install' to install
-BusyBox. This will install the '/bin/busybox' binary, and will also create
-symlinks pointing to the '/bin/busybox' binary for each utility that you
-compile into BusyBox. By default, 'make install' will place these symlinks
-into the './_install' directory, unless you have defined 'PREFIX', thereby
-specifying some alternative location (i.e., 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install').
-If you wish to install using hardlinks, rather than the default of using
-symlinks, you can use 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install-hardlinks' instead.
+BusyBox. This will install the 'bin/busybox' binary, in the target directory
+specified by PREFIX. PREFIX can be set when configuring BusyBox, or you can
+specify an alternative location at install time (i.e., with a command line
+like 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install'). If you enabled any applet installation
+scheme (either as symlinks or hardlinks), these will also be installed in
+the location pointed to by PREFIX.
=head1 USAGE
Currently defined functions include:
- addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, arping, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2,
- busybox, bzcat, cal, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp,
- cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser,
- devfsd, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap,
- dumpleases, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk,
- fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, getopt,
- getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname,
- httpd, hush, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, init, insmod,
- install, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iptunnel, kill,
- killall, klogd, lash, last, length, linuxrc, ln, loadfont, loadkmap,
- logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, ls, lsmod, makedevs, md5sum,
- mesg, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more,
- mount, msh, mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, passwd,
- patch, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, poweroff, printf, ps,
- pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath, reboot, renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod,
- route, rpm, rpm2cpio, run-parts, rx, sed, seq, setkeycodes, sha1sum, sleep,
- sort, start-stop-daemon, strings, stty, su, sulogin, swapoff, swapon, sync,
- sysctl, syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, time, top,
- touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, udhcpc, udhcpd, umount, uname,
- uncompress, uniq, unix2dos, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode,
- vconfig, vi, vlock, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, xargs,
- yes, zcat
-
-=head1 COMMAND DESCRIPTIONS
-
-=over 4
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