2 # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3 # see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
7 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG
11 menu "Busybox Settings"
13 menu "General Configuration"
15 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NITPICK
16 bool "See lots more (probably unnecessary) configuration options."
19 Some BusyBox applets have more configuration options than anyone
20 will ever care about. To avoid drowining people in complexity, most
21 of the applet features that can be set to a sane default value are
22 hidden, unless you hit the above switch.
24 This is better than to telling people to edit the busybox source
25 code, but not by much.
27 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly#The_Closet
31 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DESKTOP
32 bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
35 Enable options and features which are not essential.
36 Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
37 desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an embedded box.
40 prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
41 default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_ON_STACK
42 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NITPICK
44 There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations:
45 - Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc.
46 - Put them on stack. For some very small machines with limited stack
47 space, this can be deadly. For most folks, this works just fine.
48 - Put them in BSS. This works beautifully for computers with a real
49 MMU (and OS support), but wastes runtime RAM for uCLinux. This
50 behavior was the only one available for BusyBox versions 0.48 and
53 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
54 bool "Allocate with Malloc"
56 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_ON_STACK
57 bool "Allocate on the Stack"
59 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_IN_BSS
60 bool "Allocate in the .bss section"
64 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
65 bool "Show terse applet usage messages"
68 All BusyBox applets will show help messages when invoked with
69 wrong arguments. You can turn off printing these terse usage
70 messages if you say no here.
71 This will save you up to 7k.
73 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
74 bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
76 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
78 All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
79 busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
80 busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about
81 13k, but it can add much more depending on your configuration.
83 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
84 bool "Store applet usage messages in compressed form"
86 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
88 Store usage messages in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly
89 when <applet> --help is called.
91 If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and
92 bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might
93 be noticeable. Also, if you run executables directly from ROM
94 and have very little memory, this might not be a win. Otherwise,
95 you probably want this.
97 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER
98 bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime"
101 Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use
102 busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
103 applets that are compiled into busybox. This feature requires the
106 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT
107 bool "Enable locale support (system needs locale for this to work)"
110 Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
111 busybox to support locale settings.
113 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
114 bool "Enable support for --long-options"
117 Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
118 style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options.
120 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS
121 bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
124 Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
125 busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
126 and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style
127 /dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have
130 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
131 bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
133 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NITPICK
135 As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
136 freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves
137 space since the OS will clean up for us, but it can confuse debuggers
138 like valgrind, which report tons of memory and resource leaks.
140 Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
143 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
144 bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
147 With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
148 to root with the suid bit set, and it'll and it'll automatically drop
149 priviledges for applets that don't need root access.
151 If you're really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
152 busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate
153 symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the
154 one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit
155 are login, passwd, su, ping, traceroute, crontab, dnsd, ipcrm, ipcs,
158 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
159 bool "Support for syslog"
162 This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
163 send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
165 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
166 bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
167 default n if BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
168 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
170 Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime
171 by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.)
172 The format of this file is as follows:
174 <applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>)
176 An example might help:
179 su = ssx root.0 # applet su can be run by anyone and runs with euid=0/egid=0
180 su = ssx # exactly the same
182 mount = sx- root.disk # applet mount can be run by root and members of group disk
183 # and runs with euid=0
185 cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone
187 The file has to be owned by user root, group root and has to be
188 writeable only by root:
189 (chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
190 The busybox executable has to be owned by user root, group
191 root and has to be setuid root for this to work:
192 (chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
194 Robert 'sandman' Griebl has more information here:
195 <url: http://www.softforge.de/bb/suid.html >.
197 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG_QUIET
198 bool "Suppress warning message if /etc/busybox.conf is not readable"
200 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
202 /etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID, check
203 this option to avoid users to be notified about missing permissions.
205 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
209 Select this if you have rpc support.
210 This automatically turns off all configuration options that rely
213 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SELINUX
214 bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
217 Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
218 the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
220 If you do not have a complete SELinux userland installed, this stuff
221 will not compile. Go visit
222 http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
223 to download the necessary stuff to allow busybox to compile with
224 this option enabled. Specifially, libselinux 1.28 or better is
225 directly required by busybox. If the installation is located in a
226 non-standard directory, provide it by invoking make as follows:
227 CFLAGS=-I<libselinux-include-path> \
228 LDFLAGS=-L<libselinux-lib-path> \
231 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
233 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH
234 string "Path to BusyBox executable"
235 default "/proc/self/exe"
237 When Busybox applets need to run other busybox applets, BusyBox
238 sometimes needs to exec() itself. When the /proc filesystem is
239 mounted, /proc/self/exe always points to the currently running
240 executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you
241 want to run BusyBox from.
247 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC
248 bool "Build BusyBox as a static binary (no shared libs)"
251 If you want to build a static BusyBox binary, which does not
252 use or require any shared libraries, then enable this option.
253 This can cause BusyBox to be considerably larger, so you should
254 leave this option false unless you have a good reason (i.e.
255 your target platform does not support shared libraries, or
256 you are building an initrd which doesn't need anything but
259 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
261 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
262 bool "Build shared libbusybox"
265 Build a shared library libbusybox.so which contains all
266 libraries used inside busybox.
268 This is an experimental feature intended to support the upcoming
269 "make standalone" mode. Enabling it against the one big busybox
270 binary serves no purpose (and increases the size). You should
271 almost certainly say "no" to this right now.
273 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_FULL_LIBBUSYBOX
274 bool "Feature-complete libbusybox"
275 default n if !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
276 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
278 Build a libbusybox with the complete feature-set, disregarding
279 the actually selected config.
281 Normally, libbusybox will only contain the features which are
282 used by busybox itself. If you plan to write a separate
283 standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'.
285 Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
286 might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the
287 exported function set between releases (even minor version number
288 changes), and happily break out-of-tree features.
292 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
293 bool "Use shared libbusybox for busybox"
294 default n if BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
295 depends on !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
297 Use libbusybox.so also for busybox itself.
298 You need to have a working dynamic linker to use this variant.
300 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LFS
303 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
305 If you want to build BusyBox with large file support, then enable
306 this option. This will have no effect if your kernel or your C
307 library lacks large file support for large files. Some of the
308 programs that can benefit from large file support include dd, gzip,
309 cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger
310 than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option. Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'.
312 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE
313 bool "Compile all sources at once"
316 Normally each source-file is compiled with one invocation of
318 If you set this option, all sources are compiled at once.
319 This gives the compiler more opportunities to optimize which can
320 result in smaller and/or faster binaries.
322 Setting this option will consume alot of memory, e.g. if you
323 enable all applets with all features, gcc uses more than 300MB
324 RAM during compilation of busybox.
326 This option is most likely only beneficial for newer compilers
327 such as gcc-4.1 and above.
329 Say 'N' unless you know what you are doing.
333 menu 'Debugging Options'
335 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DEBUG
336 bool "Build BusyBox with extra Debugging symbols"
339 Say Y here if you wish to examine BusyBox internals while applets are
340 running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and
341 should only be used when doing development. If you are doing
342 development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y.
344 Most people should answer N.
346 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
347 bool "Disable compiler optimizations."
349 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DEBUG
351 The compiler's optimization of source code can eliminate and reorder
352 code, resulting in an executable that's hard to understand when
353 stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting
354 in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source
358 prompt "Additional debugging library"
359 default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
360 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DEBUG
362 Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become
363 considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
364 should always leave this option disabled for production use.
368 This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ )
369 which is an excellent public domain mem leak and malloc problem
370 detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will
371 want to properly set your environment, for example:
372 export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile
373 The 'debug=' value is generated using the following command
374 dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space -p log-elapsed-time \
375 -p check-fence -p check-heap -p check-lists -p check-blank \
376 -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy -p allow-free-null
378 Electric-fence support:
379 -----------------------
380 This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric
381 fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses
382 your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory
383 accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger
384 and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless
385 you are hunting a hard to find memory problem.
388 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
391 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DMALLOC
394 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_EFENCE
395 bool "Electric-fence"
399 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INCLUDE_SUSv2
400 bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
403 This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
404 specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
405 will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
410 menu 'Installation Options'
412 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR
413 bool "Don't use /usr"
416 Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
417 that you really want this behaviour.
420 prompt "Applets links"
421 default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
423 Choose how you install applets links.
425 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
428 Install applets as soft-links to the busybox binary. This needs some
429 free inodes on the filesystem, but might help with filesystem
430 generators that can't cope with hard-links.
432 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS
435 Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might count
436 on a filesystem with few inodes.
438 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
440 prompt "not installed"
441 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL
443 Do not install applet links. Useful when using the -install feature
444 or a standalone shell for rescue pruposes.
448 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PREFIX
449 string "BusyBox installation prefix"
452 Define your directory to install BusyBox files/subdirs in.
456 source package/busybox/config/libbb/Config.in
462 source package/busybox/config/archival/Config.in
463 source package/busybox/config/coreutils/Config.in
464 source package/busybox/config/console-tools/Config.in
465 source package/busybox/config/debianutils/Config.in
466 source package/busybox/config/editors/Config.in
467 source package/busybox/config/findutils/Config.in
468 source package/busybox/config/init/Config.in
469 source package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in
470 source package/busybox/config/e2fsprogs/Config.in
471 source package/busybox/config/modutils/Config.in
472 source package/busybox/config/util-linux/Config.in
473 source package/busybox/config/miscutils/Config.in
474 source package/busybox/config/networking/Config.in
475 source package/busybox/config/procps/Config.in
476 source package/busybox/config/shell/Config.in
477 source package/busybox/config/sysklogd/Config.in
478 source package/busybox/config/runit/Config.in