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.
105 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT
106 bool "Enable locale support (system needs locale for this to work)"
109 Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
110 busybox to support locale settings.
112 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
113 bool "Enable support for --long-options"
116 Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
117 style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options.
119 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS
120 bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
123 Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
124 busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
125 and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style
126 /dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have
129 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
130 bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
132 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NITPICK
134 As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
135 freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves
136 space since the OS will clean up for us, but it can confuse debuggers
137 like valgrind, which report tons of memory and resource leaks.
139 Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
142 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PIDFILE
143 bool "Support writing pidfiles"
146 This option makes some applets (e.g. crond, syslogd, inetd) write
147 a pidfile in /var/run. Some applications rely on them.
149 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
150 bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
153 With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
154 to root with the suid bit set, and it'll and it'll automatically drop
155 priviledges for applets that don't need root access.
157 If you're really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
158 busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate
159 symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the
160 one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit
161 are login, passwd, su, ping, traceroute, crontab, dnsd, ipcrm, ipcs,
164 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
165 bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
166 default n if BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
167 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
169 Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime
170 by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.)
171 The format of this file is as follows:
173 <applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>)
175 An example might help:
178 su = ssx root.0 # applet su can be run by anyone and runs with euid=0/egid=0
179 su = ssx # exactly the same
181 mount = sx- root.disk # applet mount can be run by root and members of group disk
182 # and runs with euid=0
184 cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone
186 The file has to be owned by user root, group root and has to be
187 writeable only by root:
188 (chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
189 The busybox executable has to be owned by user root, group
190 root and has to be setuid root for this to work:
191 (chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
193 Robert 'sandman' Griebl has more information here:
194 <url: http://www.softforge.de/bb/suid.html >.
196 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG_QUIET
197 bool "Suppress warning message if /etc/busybox.conf is not readable"
199 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
201 /etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID, check
202 this option to avoid users to be notified about missing permissions.
204 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SELINUX
205 bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
208 Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
209 the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
211 If you do not have a complete SELinux userland installed, this stuff
212 will not compile. Go visit
213 http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
214 to download the necessary stuff to allow busybox to compile with
215 this option enabled. Specifially, libselinux 1.28 or better is
216 directly required by busybox. If the installation is located in a
217 non-standard directory, provide it by invoking make as follows:
218 CFLAGS=-I<libselinux-include-path> \
219 LDFLAGS=-L<libselinux-lib-path> \
222 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
224 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
225 bool "exec prefers applets"
228 This is an experimental option which directs applets about to
229 call 'exec' to try and find an applicable busybox applet before
230 searching the PATH. This is typically done by exec'ing
232 This may affect shell, find -exec, xargs and similar applets.
233 They will use applets even if /bin/<applet> -> busybox link
234 is missing (or is not a link to busybox). However, this causes
235 problems in chroot jails without mounted /proc and with ps/top
236 (command name can be shown as 'exe' for applets started this way).
238 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH
239 string "Path to BusyBox executable"
240 default "/proc/self/exe"
242 When Busybox applets need to run other busybox applets, BusyBox
243 sometimes needs to exec() itself. When the /proc filesystem is
244 mounted, /proc/self/exe always points to the currently running
245 executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you
246 want to run BusyBox from.
248 # These are auto-selected by other options
250 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
251 bool "Support for logging to syslog"
254 This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
255 send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
257 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
261 This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
262 You do not need to select it manually.
268 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC
269 bool "Build BusyBox as a static binary (no shared libs)"
272 If you want to build a static BusyBox binary, which does not
273 use or require any shared libraries, then enable this option.
274 This can cause BusyBox to be considerably larger, so you should
275 leave this option false unless you have a good reason (i.e.
276 your target platform does not support shared libraries, or
277 you are building an initrd which doesn't need anything but
280 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
282 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
283 bool "Build shared libbusybox"
286 Build a shared library libbusybox.so which contains all
287 libraries used inside busybox.
289 This is an experimental feature intended to support the upcoming
290 "make standalone" mode. Enabling it against the one big busybox
291 binary serves no purpose (and increases the size). You should
292 almost certainly say "no" to this right now.
294 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_FULL_LIBBUSYBOX
295 bool "Feature-complete libbusybox"
296 default n if !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
297 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
299 Build a libbusybox with the complete feature-set, disregarding
300 the actually selected config.
302 Normally, libbusybox will only contain the features which are
303 used by busybox itself. If you plan to write a separate
304 standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'.
306 Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
307 might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the
308 exported function set between releases (even minor version number
309 changes), and happily break out-of-tree features.
313 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
314 bool "Use shared libbusybox for busybox"
315 default n if BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
316 depends on !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_STATIC && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
318 Use libbusybox.so also for busybox itself.
319 You need to have a working dynamic linker to use this variant.
321 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LFS
324 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
326 If you want to build BusyBox with large file support, then enable
327 this option. This will have no effect if your kernel or your C
328 library lacks large file support for large files. Some of the
329 programs that can benefit from large file support include dd, gzip,
330 cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger
331 than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option. Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'.
333 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE
334 bool "Compile all sources at once"
337 Normally each source-file is compiled with one invocation of
339 If you set this option, all sources are compiled at once.
340 This gives the compiler more opportunities to optimize which can
341 result in smaller and/or faster binaries.
343 Setting this option will consume alot of memory, e.g. if you
344 enable all applets with all features, gcc uses more than 300MB
345 RAM during compilation of busybox.
347 This option is most likely only beneficial for newer compilers
348 such as gcc-4.1 and above.
350 Say 'N' unless you know what you are doing.
354 menu 'Debugging Options'
356 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DEBUG
357 bool "Build BusyBox with extra Debugging symbols"
360 Say Y here if you wish to examine BusyBox internals while applets are
361 running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and
362 should only be used when doing development. If you are doing
363 development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y.
365 Most people should answer N.
367 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_WERROR
368 bool "Abort compilation on any warning"
371 Selecting this will add -Werror to gcc command line.
373 Most people should answer N.
376 #config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
377 # bool "Disable compiler optimizations."
381 # The compiler's optimization of source code can eliminate and reorder
382 # code, resulting in an executable that's hard to understand when
383 # stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting
384 # in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source
388 prompt "Additional debugging library"
389 default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
391 Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become
392 considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
393 should always leave this option disabled for production use.
397 This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ )
398 which is an excellent public domain mem leak and malloc problem
399 detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will
400 want to properly set your environment, for example:
401 export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile
402 The 'debug=' value is generated using the following command
403 dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space -p log-elapsed-time \
404 -p check-fence -p check-heap -p check-lists -p check-blank \
405 -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy -p allow-free-null
407 Electric-fence support:
408 -----------------------
409 This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric
410 fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses
411 your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory
412 accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger
413 and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless
414 you are hunting a hard to find memory problem.
417 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NO_DEBUG_LIB
420 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DMALLOC
423 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_EFENCE
424 bool "Electric-fence"
428 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INCLUDE_SUSv2
429 bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
432 This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
433 specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
434 will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
439 menu 'Installation Options'
441 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR
442 bool "Don't use /usr"
445 Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
446 that you really want this behaviour.
449 prompt "Applets links"
450 default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
452 Choose how you install applets links.
454 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
457 Install applets as soft-links to the busybox binary. This needs some
458 free inodes on the filesystem, but might help with filesystem
459 generators that can't cope with hard-links.
461 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS
464 Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might count
465 on a filesystem with few inodes.
467 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
469 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
471 Do not install applet links. Useful when using the -install feature
472 or a standalone shell for rescue purposes.
476 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PREFIX
477 string "BusyBox installation prefix"
480 Define your directory to install BusyBox files/subdirs in.
484 source package/busybox/config/libbb/Config.in
490 source package/busybox/config/archival/Config.in
491 source package/busybox/config/coreutils/Config.in
492 source package/busybox/config/console-tools/Config.in
493 source package/busybox/config/debianutils/Config.in
494 source package/busybox/config/editors/Config.in
495 source package/busybox/config/findutils/Config.in
496 source package/busybox/config/init/Config.in
497 source package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in
498 source package/busybox/config/e2fsprogs/Config.in
499 source package/busybox/config/modutils/Config.in
500 source package/busybox/config/util-linux/Config.in
501 source package/busybox/config/miscutils/Config.in
502 source package/busybox/config/networking/Config.in
503 source package/busybox/config/procps/Config.in
504 source package/busybox/config/shell/Config.in
505 source package/busybox/config/sysklogd/Config.in
506 source package/busybox/config/runit/Config.in
507 source package/busybox/config/selinux/Config.in
508 source package/busybox/config/ipsvd/Config.in