menu "General Configuration"
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NITPICK
- bool "See lots more (probably unnecessary) configuration options."
- default n
- help
- Some BusyBox applets have more configuration options than anyone
- will ever care about. To avoid drowining people in complexity, most
- of the applet features that can be set to a sane default value are
- hidden, unless you hit the above switch.
-
- This is better than to telling people to edit the busybox source
- code, but not by much.
-
- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly#The_Closet
-
- You have been warned.
-
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DESKTOP
bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
default n
Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an embedded box.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
+ bool "Assume that 1:1 char/glyph correspondence is not true"
+ default n
+ help
+ This makes various applets aware that one byte is not
+ one character on screen.
+
+ Busybox aims to eventually work correctly with Unicode displays.
+ Any older encodings are not guaranteed to work.
+ Probably by the time when busybox will be fully Unicode-clean,
+ other encodings will be mainly of historic interest.
+
choice
prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_ON_STACK
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NITPICK
help
There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations:
- Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc.
busybox to support locale settings.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
- bool "Enable support for --long-options"
+ bool "Support for --long-options"
default y
help
Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
default n
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NITPICK
help
As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves
The file has to be owned by user root, group root and has to be
writeable only by root:
- (chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
+ (chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
The busybox executable has to be owned by user root, group
root and has to be setuid root for this to work:
- (chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
+ (chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
Robert 'sandman' Griebl has more information here:
<url: http://www.softforge.de/bb/suid.html >.
Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
- bool "Build shared libbusybox"
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PIE
+ bool "Build BusyBox as a position independent executable"
+ default n
+ depends on !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC
+ help
+ (TODO: what is it and why/when is it useful?)
+ Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NOMMU
+ bool "Force NOMMU build"
default n
help
- Build a shared library libbusybox.so which contains all
- libraries used inside busybox.
+ Busybox tries to detect whether architecture it is being
+ built against supports MMU or not. If this detection fails,
+ or if you want to build NOMMU version of busybox for testing,
+ you may force NOMMU build here.
- 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.
+ Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_FULL_LIBBUSYBOX
- bool "Feature-complete libbusybox"
- default n if !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
+# PIE can be made to work with BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX, but currently
+# build system does not support that
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
+ bool "Build shared libbusybox"
+ default n
+ depends on !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS && !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PIE && !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC
+ help
+ Build a shared library libbusybox.so.N.N.N which contains all
+ busybox code.
+
+ This feature allows every applet to be built as a tiny
+ separate executable. Enabling it for "one big busybox binary"
+ approach serves no purpose and increases code size.
+ You should almost certainly say "no" to this.
+
+### config FEATURE_FULL_LIBBUSYBOX
+### bool "Feature-complete libbusybox"
+### default n if !FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
+### depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
+### help
+### Build a libbusybox with the complete feature-set, disregarding
+### the actually selected config.
+###
+### Normally, libbusybox will only contain the features which are
+### used by busybox itself. If you plan to write a separate
+### standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'.
+###
+### Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
+### might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the
+### exported function set between releases (even minor version number
+### changes), and happily break out-of-tree features.
+###
+### Say 'N' if in doubt.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL
+ bool "Produce a binary for each applet, linked against libbusybox"
+ default n
+ depends on !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
help
- Build a libbusybox with the complete feature-set, disregarding
- the actually selected config.
+ If your CPU architecture doesn't allow for sharing text/rodata
+ sections of running binaries, but allows for runtime dynamic
+ libraries, this option will allow you to reduce memory footprint
+ when you have many different applets running at once.
- Normally, libbusybox will only contain the features which are
- used by busybox itself. If you plan to write a separate
- standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'.
+ If your CPU architecture allows for sharing text/rodata,
+ having single binary is more optimal.
- Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
- might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the
- exported function set between releases (even minor version number
- changes), and happily break out-of-tree features.
+ Each applet will be a tiny program, dynamically linked
+ against libbusybox.so.N.N.N.
- Say 'N' if in doubt.
+ You need to have a working dynamic linker.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
- bool "Use shared libbusybox for busybox"
- default n if BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
+ bool "Produce additional busybox binary linked against libbusybox"
+ default n
depends on !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
help
- Use libbusybox.so also for busybox itself.
- You need to have a working dynamic linker to use this variant.
+ Build busybox, dynamically linked against libbusybox.so.N.N.N.
+
+ You need to have a working dynamic linker.
+
+### config BUILD_AT_ONCE
+### bool "Compile all sources at once"
+### default n
+### help
+### Normally each source-file is compiled with one invocation of
+### the compiler.
+### If you set this option, all sources are compiled at once.
+### This gives the compiler more opportunities to optimize which can
+### result in smaller and/or faster binaries.
+###
+### Setting this option will consume alot of memory, e.g. if you
+### enable all applets with all features, gcc uses more than 300MB
+### RAM during compilation of busybox.
+###
+### This option is most likely only beneficial for newer compilers
+### such as gcc-4.1 and above.
+###
+### Say 'N' unless you know what you are doing.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LFS
bool
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 BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE
- bool "Compile all sources at once"
- default n
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
+ string "Cross Compiler prefix"
+ default ""
help
- Normally each source-file is compiled with one invocation of
- the compiler.
- If you set this option, all sources are compiled at once.
- This gives the compiler more opportunities to optimize which can
- result in smaller and/or faster binaries.
-
- Setting this option will consume alot of memory, e.g. if you
- enable all applets with all features, gcc uses more than 300MB
- RAM during compilation of busybox.
-
- This option is most likely only beneficial for newer compilers
- such as gcc-4.1 and above.
-
- Say 'N' unless you know what you are doing.
+ If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
+ will need to set this to the cross-compiler prefix, for example,
+ "i386-uclibc-". Note that CROSS_COMPILE environment variable
+ or "make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx ..." will override this selection.
+ For native build leave it empty.
endmenu
Most people should answer N.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
+ bool "Disable compiler optimizations."
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_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.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_WERROR
bool "Abort compilation on any warning"
default n
Most people should answer N.
-# Seems to be unused
-#config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
-# bool "Disable compiler optimizations."
-# default n
-# depends on 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 BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might count
on a filesystem with few inodes.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
+ bool "as script wrappers"
+ help
+ Install applets as script wrappers that call the busybox binary.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
bool "not installed"
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
endchoice
+choice
+ prompt "/bin/sh applet link"
+ default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
+ help
+ Choose how you install /bin/sh applet link.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
+ bool "as soft-link"
+ help
+ Install /bin/sh applet as soft-link to the busybox binary.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_SH_APPLET_HARDLINK
+ bool "as hard-link"
+ help
+ Install /bin/sh applet as hard-link to the busybox binary.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPER
+ bool "as script wrapper"
+ help
+ Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that call the busybox binary.
+
+endchoice
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PREFIX
string "BusyBox installation prefix"
default "./_install"
source package/busybox/config/sysklogd/Config.in
source package/busybox/config/runit/Config.in
source package/busybox/config/selinux/Config.in
-source package/busybox/config/ipsvd/Config.in
+source package/busybox/config/printutils/Config.in