some GNU extensions in libc. You probably only need this option
if you plan to run busybox on desktop.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
- bool "Assume that 1:1 char/glyph correspondence is not true"
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INCLUDE_SUSv2
+ bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3"
+ default y
+ help
+ This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
+ specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
+ will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
+ affect renice too.)
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_PORTABLE_CODE
+ bool "Avoid using GCC-specific code constructs"
default n
help
- This makes various applets aware that one byte is not
- one character on screen.
+ Use this option if you are trying to compile busybox with
+ compiler other than gcc.
+ If you do use gcc, this option may needlessly increase code size.
- 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.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PLATFORM_LINUX
+ bool "Enable Linux-specific applets and features"
+ default y
+ help
+ For the most part, busybox requires only POSIX compatibility
+ from the target system, but some applets and features use
+ Linux-specific interfaces.
+
+ Answering 'N' here will disable such applets and hide the
+ corresponding configuration options.
choice
prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
default y
- select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
help
All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
applets that are compiled into busybox.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR
+ bool "Don't use /usr"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER
+ help
+ Disable use of /usr. busybox --install and "make install"
+ will install applets only to /bin and /sbin,
+ never to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT
bool "Enable locale support (system needs locale for this to work)"
default n
Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
busybox to support locale settings.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ bool "Support Unicode"
+ 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.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ bool "Use libc routines for Unicode (else uses internal ones)"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option on, Unicode support is implemented using libc
+ routines. Otherwise, internal implementation is used.
+ Internal implementation is smaller.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_UNICODE_IN_ENV
+ bool "Check $LANG environment variable"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT && !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ help
+ With this option on, Unicode support is activated
+ only if LANG variable has the value of the form "xxxx.utf8"
+
+ Otherwise, Unicode support will be always enabled and active.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SUBST_WCHAR
+ int "Character code to substitute unprintable characters with"
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ default 63
+ help
+ Typical values are 63 for '?' (works with any output device),
+ 30 for ASCII substitute control code,
+ 65533 (0xfffd) for Unicode replacement character.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LAST_SUPPORTED_WCHAR
+ int "Range of supported Unicode characters"
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ default 767
+ help
+ Any character with Unicode value bigger than this is assumed
+ to be non-printable on output device. Many applets replace
+ such chars with substitution character.
+
+ The idea is that many valid printable Unicode chars are
+ nevertheless are not displayed correctly. Think about
+ combining charachers, double-wide hieroglyphs, obscure
+ characters in dozens of ancient scripts...
+ Many terminals, terminal emulators, xterms etc will fail
+ to handle them correctly. Choose the smallest value
+ which suits your needs.
+
+ Typical values are:
+ 126 - ASCII only
+ 767 (0x2ff) - there are no combining chars in [0..767] range
+ (the range includes Latin 1, Latin Ext. A and B),
+ code is ~700 bytes smaller for this case.
+ 4351 (0x10ff) - there are no double-wide chars in [0..4351] range,
+ code is ~300 bytes smaller for this case.
+ 12799 (0x31ff) - nearly all non-ideographic characters are
+ available in [0..12799] range, including
+ East Asian scripts like katakana, hiragana, hangul,
+ bopomofo...
+ 0 - off, any valid printable Unicode character will be printed.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_COMBINING_WCHARS
+ bool "Allow zero-width Unicode characters on output"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option off, any Unicode char with width of 0
+ is substituted on output.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_WIDE_WCHARS
+ bool "Allow wide Unicode characters on output"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option off, any Unicode char with width > 1
+ is substituted on output.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_BIDI_SUPPORT
+ bool "Bidirectional character-aware line input"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT && !BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ help
+ With this option on, right-to-left Unicode characters
+ are treated differently on input (e.g. cursor movement).
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_NEUTRAL_TABLE
+ bool "In bidi input, support non-ASCII neutral chars too"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_BIDI_SUPPORT
+ help
+ In most cases it's enough to treat only ASCII non-letters
+ (i.e. punctuation, numbers and space) as characters
+ with neutral directionality.
+ With this option on, more extensive (and bigger) table
+ of neutral chars will be used.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_PRESERVE_BROKEN
+ bool "Make it possible to enter sequences of chars which are not Unicode"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option on, invalid UTF-8 bytes are not substituted
+ with the selected substitution character.
+ For example, this means that entering 'l', 's', ' ', 0xff, [Enter]
+ at shell prompt will list file named 0xff (single char name
+ with char value 255), not file named '?'.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LONG_OPTS
bool "Support for --long-options"
default y
help
Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
things up manually.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_WTMP
+ bool "Support wtmp file"
+ default n
+ select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_UTMP
+ help
+ The file /var/run/wtmp is used to track when users have logged into
+ and logged out of the system.
+ With this option on, certain applets (getty, login, telnetd etc)
+ will append new entries there.
+ "last" applet requires this option.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_UTMP
+ bool "Support utmp file"
+ default n
+ help
+ The file /var/run/utmp is used to track who is currently logged in.
+ With this option on, certain applets (getty, login, telnetd etc)
+ will create and delete entries there.
+ "who" applet requires this option.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PIDFILE
bool "Support writing pidfiles"
default y
default y
help
With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
- to root with the suid bit set, and it'll and it'll automatically drop
- priviledges for applets that don't need root access.
+ to root with the suid bit set, enabling some applets to perform
+ root-level operations even when run by ordinary users
+ (for example, mounting of user mounts in fstab needs this).
+
+ Busybox will automatically drop priviledges for applets
+ that don't need root access.
- If you're really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
+ If you are really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate
symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the
- one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit
- are login, passwd, su, ping, traceroute, crontab, dnsd, ipcrm, ipcs,
- and vlock.
+ one that needs it.
+
+ The applets currently marked to need the suid bit are:
+
+ crontab, dnsd, findfs, ipcrm, ipcs, login, passwd, ping, su,
+ traceroute, vlock.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SELINUX
bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PLATFORM_LINUX
help
Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
# These are auto-selected by other options
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
- bool "Support for logging to syslog"
+ bool #No description makes it a hidden option
default y
- help
- This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
- send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
+ #help
+ # This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
+ # send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
- bool "RPC support"
- default y
- help
- This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
- You do not need to select it manually.
+ bool #No description makes it a hidden option
+ default n
+ #help
+ # This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
+ # You do not need to select it manually.
endmenu
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,
- "i386-uclibc-". Note that CROSS_COMPILE environment variable
- or "make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx ..." will override this selection.
- For native build leave it empty.
+ "i386-uclibc-".
+
+ Note that CROSS_COMPILE environment variable or
+ "make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx ..." will override this selection.
+
+ Native builds leave this empty.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS
+ string "Additional CFLAGS"
+ default ""
+ help
+ Additional CFLAGS to pass to the compiler verbatim.
endmenu
endchoice
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INCLUDE_SUSv2
- bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
- default y
- help
- This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
- specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
- will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
- affect renice too.)
-
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PARSE
- bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
+### config PARSE
+### bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
endmenu
-menu 'Installation Options'
-
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR
- bool "Don't use /usr"
- default n
- help
- Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
- that you really want this behaviour.
+menu 'Installation Options ("make install" behavior)'
choice
- prompt "Applets links"
+ prompt "What kind of applet links to install"
default BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
help
- Choose how you install applets links.
+ Choose what kind of links to applets are created by "make install".
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
bool "as soft-links"
bool "not installed"
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
help
- Do not install applet links. Useful when using the -install feature
- or a standalone shell for rescue purposes.
+ Do not install applet links. Useful when you plan to use
+ busybox --install for installing links, or plan to use
+ a standalone shell and thus don't need applet links.
endchoice
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.
+ Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that calls
+ the busybox binary.
endchoice
source package/busybox/config/util-linux/Config.in
source package/busybox/config/miscutils/Config.in
source package/busybox/config/networking/Config.in
+source package/busybox/config/printutils/Config.in
+source package/busybox/config/mailutils/Config.in
source package/busybox/config/procps/Config.in
-source package/busybox/config/shell/Config.in
-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/printutils/Config.in
+source package/busybox/config/shell/Config.in
+source package/busybox/config/sysklogd/Config.in