BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the
- utilities you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, file, findutils, gawk, grep,
- inetutils, modutils, net-tools, procps, sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar,
- util-linux, and vim. The utilities in BusyBox often have fewer options than
- their full-featured cousins; however, the options that are included provide
- the expected functionality and behave very much like their larger
- counterparts.
+ utilities you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, dhcp, diffutils, e2fsprogs,
+ file, findutils, gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, procps,
+ sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. The utilities
+ in BusyBox often have fewer options than their full-featured cousins;
+ however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality
+ and behave very much like their larger counterparts.
BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in
mind, both to produce small binaries and to reduce run-time memory usage.
The behavior of busybox is determined by the name it's called under: as
"cp" it behaves like cp, as "sed" it behaves like sed, and so on. Called
as "busybox" it takes the second argument as the name of the applet to
- run (I.E. "./busybox ls -l /proc").
+ run (I.E. "./busybox ls -l /proc").
The "standalone shell" mode is an easy way to try out busybox; this is a
- command shell that calls the builtin applets without needing them to be
+ command shell that calls the built-in applets without needing them to be
installed in the path. (Note that this requires /proc to be mounted, if
testing from a boot floppy or in a chroot environment.)
The build automatically generates a file "busybox.links", which is used by
'make install' to create symlinks to the BusyBox binary for all compiled in
- commands. Use the PREFIX environment variable to specify where to install
- the busybox binary and symlink forest. (i.e., 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install',
- or 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install-hardlinks' if you prefer hard links.)
+ commands. This uses the CONFIG_PREFIX environment variable to specify
+ where to install, and installs hardlinks or symlinks depending
+ on the configuration preferences. (You can also manually run
+ the install script at "applets/install.sh").
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http://busybox.net/downloads/
You can browse the up to the minute source code and change history online.
- The "stable" series is at:
- http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_00_stable/busybox/
+ http://git.busybox.net/busybox/
- And the development series is at:
+ Anonymous GIT access is available. For instructions, check out:
- http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/
-
- Anonymous SVN access is available. For instructions, check out:
-
- http://busybox.net/subversion.html
+ http://www.busybox.net/source.html
For those that are actively contributing and would like to check files in,
see:
http://busybox.net/developer.html
The developers also have a bug and patch tracking system
- (http://bugs.busybox.net) although posting a bug/patch to the mailing list
+ (https://bugs.busybox.net) although posting a bug/patch to the mailing list
is generally a faster way of getting it fixed, and the complete archive of
- what happened is the subversion changelog.
+ what happened is the git changelog.
+
+ Note: if you want to compile busybox in a busybox environment you must
+ select CONFIG_DESKTOP.
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-getting help:
+Getting help:
when you find you need help, you can check out the busybox mailing list
archives at http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/ or even join
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-bugs:
+Bugs:
if you find bugs, please submit a detailed bug report to the busybox mailing
list at busybox@busybox.net. a well-written bug report should include a
illegal instruction
i am using debian unstable, kernel version 2.4.25-vrs2 on a netwinder,
- and the latest uclibc from cvs. thanks for the wonderful program!
+ and the latest uclibc from cvs.
-diligent
MacOS X, Solaris, Cygwin, or the BSD Fork Du Jour). This generally involves
a different kernel and a different C library at the same time. While it
should be possible to port the majority of the code to work in one of
- these environments, don't be suprised if it doesn't work out of the box. If
+ these environments, don't be surprised if it doesn't work out of the box. If
you're into that sort of thing, start small (selecting just a few applets)
and work your way up.
- Shaun Jackman has recently (2005) ported busybox to a combination of newlib
- and libgloss, and some of his patches have been integrated. This platform
- may join glibc/uclibc and Linux as a supported combination with the 1.1
- release, but is not supported in 1.0.
+ In 2005 Shaun Jackman has ported busybox to a combination of newlib
+ and libgloss, and some of his patches have been integrated.
Supported hardware:
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Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the busybox
-maintainer:
- Erik Andersen
- <andersen@codepoet.org>
+mailing list:
+
+ busybox@busybox.net
+
+and/or maintainer:
+
+ Denys Vlasenko
+ <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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