config DESKTOP
bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
- default n
+ default y
help
Enable options and features which are not essential.
Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an embedded box.
-config FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
- bool "Assume that 1:1 char/glyph correspondence is not true"
+config EXTRA_COMPAT
+ bool "Provide compatible behavior for rare corner cases (bigger code)"
default n
help
- This makes various applets aware that one byte is not
- one character on screen.
+ This option makes grep, sed etc handle rare corner cases
+ (embedded NUL bytes and such). This makes code bigger and uses
+ some GNU extensions in libc. You probably only need this option
+ if you plan to run busybox on desktop.
- 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 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 USE_PORTABLE_CODE
+ bool "Avoid using GCC-specific code constructs"
+ default n
+ help
+ 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.
+
+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"
endchoice
config SHOW_USAGE
- bool "Show terse applet usage messages"
+ bool "Show applet usage messages"
default y
help
- All BusyBox applets will show help messages when invoked with
- wrong arguments. You can turn off printing these terse usage
- messages if you say no here.
- This will save you up to 7k.
+ Enabling this option, BusyBox applets will show terse help messages
+ when invoked with wrong arguments.
+ If you do not want to show any (helpful) usage message when
+ issuing wrong command syntax, you can say 'N' here,
+ saving approximately 7k.
config FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
- default n
- select SHOW_USAGE
+ default y
+ depends on SHOW_USAGE
help
- All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
+ All BusyBox applets will show verbose help messages when
busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about
13k, but it can add much more depending on your configuration.
default y
depends on SHOW_USAGE
help
- Store usage messages in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly
- when <applet> --help is called.
+ Store usage messages in .bz compressed form, uncompress them
+
on-the-fly when <applet> --help is called.
If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and
bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might
config FEATURE_INSTALLER
bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime"
- default n
+ default y
help
Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use
busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
applets that are compiled into busybox.
+config INSTALL_NO_USR
+ bool "Don't use /usr"
+ default n
+ 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 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 GETOPT_LONG
+config UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ bool "Support Unicode"
+ default y
+ 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 UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ bool "Use libc routines for Unicode (else uses internal ones)"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT && LOCALE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option on, Unicode support is implemented using libc
+ routines. Otherwise, internal implementation is used.
+ Internal implementation is smaller.
+
+config FEATURE_CHECK_UNICODE_IN_ENV
+ bool "Check $LC_ALL, $LC_CTYPE and $LANG environment variables"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT && !UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ help
+ With this option on, Unicode support is activated
+ only if locale-related variables have the value of the form
+ "xxxx.utf8"
+
+ Otherwise, Unicode support will be always enabled and active.
+
+config SUBST_WCHAR
+ int "Character code to substitute unprintable characters with"
+ depends on 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 LAST_SUPPORTED_WCHAR
+ int "Range of supported Unicode characters"
+ depends on 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 UNICODE_COMBINING_WCHARS
+ bool "Allow zero-width Unicode characters on output"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option off, any Unicode char with width of 0
+ is substituted on output.
+
+config UNICODE_WIDE_WCHARS
+ bool "Allow wide Unicode characters on output"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option off, any Unicode char with width > 1
+ is substituted on output.
+
+config UNICODE_BIDI_SUPPORT
+ bool "Bidirectional character-aware line input"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT && !UNICODE_USING_LOCALE
+ help
+ With this option on, right-to-left Unicode characters
+ are treated differently on input (e.g. cursor movement).
+
+config UNICODE_NEUTRAL_TABLE
+ bool "In bidi input, support non-ASCII neutral chars too"
+ default n
+ depends on 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 UNICODE_PRESERVE_BROKEN
+ bool "Make it possible to enter sequences of chars which are not Unicode"
+ default n
+ depends on UNICODE_SUPPORT
+ help
+ With this option on, on line-editing input (such as used by shells)
+ 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 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 FEATURE_UTMP
+ bool "Support utmp file"
+ default y
+ 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 FEATURE_WTMP
+ bool "Support wtmp file"
+ default y
+ depends on 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 FEATURE_PIDFILE
bool "Support writing pidfiles"
- default n
+ default y
help
This option makes some applets (e.g. crond, syslogd, inetd) write
- a pidfile in /var/run. Some applications rely on them.
+ a pidfile at the configured PID_FILE_PATH. It has no effect
+ on applets which require pidfiles to run.
+
+config PID_FILE_PATH
+ string "Path to directory for pidfile"
+ default "/var/run"
+ depends on FEATURE_PIDFILE
+ help
+ This is the default path where pidfiles are created. Applets which
+ allow you to set the pidfile path on the command line will override
+ this value. The option has no effect on applets that require you to
+ specify a pidfile path.
config FEATURE_SUID
bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
- default n
+ 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).
- If you're really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
+ Busybox will automatically drop privileges for applets
+ that don't need root access.
+
+ 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 which require root rights (need suid bit or
+ to be run by root) and will refuse to execute otherwise:
+ crontab, login, passwd, su, vlock, wall.
+
+ The applets which will use root rights if they have them
+ (via suid bit, or because run by root), but would try to work
+ without root right nevertheless:
+ findfs, ping[6], traceroute[6], mount.
+
+ Note that if you DONT select this option, but DO make busybox
+ suid root, ALL applets will run under root, which is a huge
+ security hole (think "cp /some/file /etc/passwd").
config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
- default n if FEATURE_SUID
+ default y
depends on FEATURE_SUID
help
Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime
by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.)
The format of this file is as follows:
- <applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>)
+ APPLET = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] [USER.GROUP]
+
+ s: USER or GROUP is allowed to execute APPLET.
+ APPLET will run under USER or GROUP
+ (reagardless of who's running it).
+ S: USER or GROUP is NOT allowed to execute APPLET.
+ APPLET will run under USER or GROUP.
+ This option is not very sensical.
+ x: USER/GROUP/others are allowed to execute APPLET.
+ No UID/GID change will be done when it is run.
+ -: USER/GROUP/others are not allowed to execute APPLET.
An example might help:
su = ssx # exactly the same
mount = sx- root.disk # applet mount can be run by root and members
- # of group disk and runs with euid=0
+ # of group disk (but not anyone else)
+ # and runs with euid=0 (egid is not changed)
cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone
config SELINUX
bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
default n
+ select 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 FEATURE_SYSLOG
- bool "Support for logging to syslog"
+ bool #No description makes it a hidden option
default n
- 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 FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
- bool "RPC support"
+ 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.
+ #help
+ # This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
+ # You do not need to select it manually.
endmenu
default n
depends on !STATIC
help
- (TODO: what is it and why/when is it useful?)
+ Hardened code option. PIE binaries are loaded at a different
+ address at each invocation. This has some overhead,
+ particularly on x86-32 which is short on registers.
+
Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
config NOMMU
config LFS
bool "Build with Large File Support (for accessing files > 2 GB)"
- default n
- select FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
+ default y
help
If you want to build BusyBox with large file support, then enable
this option. This will have no effect if your kernel or your C
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 SYSROOT
+ string "Path to sysroot"
+ default ""
+ help
+ If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
+ might also need to specify where /usr/include and /usr/lib
+ will be found.
+
+ For example, BusyBox can be built against an installed
+ Android NDK, platform version 9, for ARM ABI with
+
+ CONFIG_SYSROOT=/opt/android-ndk/platforms/android-9/arch-arm
+
+ Native builds leave this empty.
+
+config EXTRA_CFLAGS
+ string "Additional CFLAGS"
+ default ""
+ help
+ Additional CFLAGS to pass to the compiler verbatim.
+
+config EXTRA_LDFLAGS
+ string "Additional LDFLAGS"
+ default ""
+ help
+ Additional LDFLAGS to pass to the linker verbatim.
+
+config EXTRA_LDLIBS
+ string "Additional LDLIBS"
+ default ""
+ help
+ Additional LDLIBS to pass to the linker with -l.
endmenu
endchoice
-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 PARSE
- bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
-
endmenu
-menu 'Installation Options'
-
-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 INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
help
- Choose how you install applets links.
+ Choose what kind of links to applets are created by "make install".
config INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
bool "as soft-links"
config INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
bool "not installed"
- depends on FEATURE_INSTALLER || FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || 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 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 util-linux/Config.in
source miscutils/Config.in
source networking/Config.in
+source printutils/Config.in
+source mailutils/Config.in
source procps/Config.in
-source shell/Config.in
-source sysklogd/Config.in
source runit/Config.in
source selinux/Config.in
-source printutils/Config.in
+source shell/Config.in
+source sysklogd/Config.in
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