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Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +00001#
2# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3# see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
4#
5
6mainmenu "BusyBox Configuration"
7
Eric Andersen068b6b02002-12-13 22:53:28 +00008config HAVE_DOT_CONFIG
9 bool
10 default y
11
Rob Landley9dc69132006-03-13 02:52:23 +000012menu "Busybox Settings"
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +000013
Eric Andersen23b51462002-12-05 21:25:20 +000014menu "General Configuration"
15
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000016config DESKTOP
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer68532b32006-11-17 12:47:50 +000017 bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
Denis Vlasenko97a8dd32006-10-01 15:55:11 +000018 default n
19 help
20 Enable options and features which are not essential.
21 Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer68532b32006-11-17 12:47:50 +000022 desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an embedded box.
Denis Vlasenko97a8dd32006-10-01 15:55:11 +000023
Denis Vlasenko3fd15e12008-08-09 16:15:14 +000024config EXTRA_COMPAT
25 bool "Provide compatible behavior for rare corner cases (bigger code)"
26 default n
27 help
28 This option makes grep, sed etc handle rare corner cases
29 (embedded NUL bytes and such). This makes code bigger and uses
30 some GNU extensions in libc. You probably only need this option
31 if you plan to run busybox on desktop.
32
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000033choice
34 prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000035 default FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000036 help
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +000037 There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations:
38 - Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc.
39 - Put them on stack. For some very small machines with limited stack
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +000040 space, this can be deadly. For most folks, this works just fine.
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +000041 - Put them in BSS. This works beautifully for computers with a real
42 MMU (and OS support), but wastes runtime RAM for uCLinux. This
43 behavior was the only one available for BusyBox versions 0.48 and
44 earlier.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000045
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000046config FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000047 bool "Allocate with Malloc"
48
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000049config FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_ON_STACK
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000050 bool "Allocate on the Stack"
51
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000052config FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_IN_BSS
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000053 bool "Allocate in the .bss section"
54
55endchoice
56
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000057config SHOW_USAGE
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer81901a02006-03-31 18:43:55 +000058 bool "Show terse applet usage messages"
59 default y
60 help
61 All BusyBox applets will show help messages when invoked with
62 wrong arguments. You can turn off printing these terse usage
63 messages if you say no here.
64 This will save you up to 7k.
65
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000066config FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000067 bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
68 default n
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000069 select SHOW_USAGE
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000070 help
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +000071 All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +000072 busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
73 busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +000074 13k, but it can add much more depending on your configuration.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000075
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000076config FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
Rob Landley7e21d5f2006-04-27 23:34:46 +000077 bool "Store applet usage messages in compressed form"
78 default y
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000079 depends on SHOW_USAGE
Rob Landley7e21d5f2006-04-27 23:34:46 +000080 help
81 Store usage messages in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly
82 when <applet> --help is called.
83
Rob Landleyc7ddefc2006-06-14 01:24:33 +000084 If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and
85 bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +000086 be noticeable. Also, if you run executables directly from ROM
87 and have very little memory, this might not be a win. Otherwise,
Rob Landleyc7ddefc2006-06-14 01:24:33 +000088 you probably want this.
89
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000090config FEATURE_INSTALLER
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000091 bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime"
92 default n
93 help
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +000094 Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +000095 busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
Denis Vlasenkoa7825f22007-06-16 13:56:51 +000096 applets that are compiled into busybox.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000097
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000098config LOCALE_SUPPORT
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000099 bool "Enable locale support (system needs locale for this to work)"
100 default n
101 help
Eric Andersen88c916b2003-10-22 09:58:56 +0000102 Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +0000103 busybox to support locale settings.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000104
Denys Vlasenko42a8fd02009-07-11 21:36:13 +0200105config FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
106 bool "Support Unicode"
107 default n
108 help
109 This makes various applets aware that one byte is not
110 one character on screen.
111
112 Busybox aims to eventually work correctly with Unicode displays.
113 Any older encodings are not guaranteed to work.
114 Probably by the time when busybox will be fully Unicode-clean,
115 other encodings will be mainly of historic interest.
116
117config FEATURE_CHECK_UNICODE_IN_ENV
118 bool "Check $LANG environment variable"
119 default y
120 depends on FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE && !LOCALE_SUPPORT
121 help
122 With this option on, Unicode support is activated
123 only if LANG variable has the value of the form "xxxx.utf8"
124
125 Otherwise, Unicode support will be always enabled and active.
126
Denys Vlasenkof3b92d32009-06-19 12:10:38 +0200127config LONG_OPTS
Denis Vlasenko4ee7cd42008-03-17 09:13:22 +0000128 bool "Support for --long-options"
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer74704192006-06-16 14:03:23 +0000129 default y
Denis Vlasenkoc61852a2006-11-29 11:09:43 +0000130 help
131 Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
132 style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options.
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer01d23ad2006-05-26 20:19:22 +0000133
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000134config FEATURE_DEVPTS
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000135 bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
Rob Landleyc7ddefc2006-06-14 01:24:33 +0000136 default y
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000137 help
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +0000138 Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
139 busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000140 and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style
Eric Andersen53601822002-12-05 21:12:42 +0000141 /dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have
Rob Landleyd5b9b602006-05-31 23:23:42 +0000142 devpts mounted.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000143
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000144config FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000145 bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
146 default n
147 help
Rob Landley1ab4c3d2006-02-08 18:50:17 +0000148 As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000149 freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves
Rob Landley1ab4c3d2006-02-08 18:50:17 +0000150 space since the OS will clean up for us, but it can confuse debuggers
151 like valgrind, which report tons of memory and resource leaks.
152
153 Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
Eric Andersene5642112003-07-14 19:37:08 +0000154 things up manually.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000155
Denis Vlasenko10457b92007-03-27 22:01:31 +0000156config FEATURE_PIDFILE
157 bool "Support writing pidfiles"
158 default n
159 help
Denis Vlasenkobb23c062007-08-15 20:05:37 +0000160 This option makes some applets (e.g. crond, syslogd, inetd) write
Denis Vlasenkoa7825f22007-06-16 13:56:51 +0000161 a pidfile in /var/run. Some applications rely on them.
Denis Vlasenko10457b92007-03-27 22:01:31 +0000162
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000163config FEATURE_SUID
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000164 bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
165 default n
166 help
Rob Landleyd5b9b602006-05-31 23:23:42 +0000167 With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
Bernhard Reutner-Fischeraa2a1c02008-10-24 19:48:47 +0000168 to root with the suid bit set, and it will automatically drop
Rob Landleyd5b9b602006-05-31 23:23:42 +0000169 priviledges for applets that don't need root access.
170
Bernhard Reutner-Fischeraa2a1c02008-10-24 19:48:47 +0000171 If you are really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
Rob Landleyd5b9b602006-05-31 23:23:42 +0000172 busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate
173 symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000174 one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit
Bernhard Reutner-Fischeraa2a1c02008-10-24 19:48:47 +0000175 are:
176
177 crontab, dnsd, findfs, ipcrm, ipcs, login, passwd, ping, su,
178 traceroute, vlock.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000179
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000180config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000181 bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000182 default n if FEATURE_SUID
183 depends on FEATURE_SUID
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000184 help
Rob Landleyd5b9b602006-05-31 23:23:42 +0000185 Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000186 by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.)
Rob Landleyd5b9b602006-05-31 23:23:42 +0000187 The format of this file is as follows:
Eric Andersene5272072003-07-22 22:15:21 +0000188
189 <applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>)
Eric Andersen5043ea12005-06-23 19:15:40 +0000190
Eric Andersene5272072003-07-22 22:15:21 +0000191 An example might help:
192
193 [SUID]
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000194 su = ssx root.0 # applet su can be run by anyone and runs with
195 # euid=0/egid=0
Eric Andersene5272072003-07-22 22:15:21 +0000196 su = ssx # exactly the same
197
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000198 mount = sx- root.disk # applet mount can be run by root and members
199 # of group disk and runs with euid=0
Eric Andersene5272072003-07-22 22:15:21 +0000200
201 cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone
202
Rob Landleyfdc4c202005-04-29 19:48:29 +0000203 The file has to be owned by user root, group root and has to be
204 writeable only by root:
Denis Vlasenko6cee58e2007-11-04 15:43:26 +0000205 (chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
Rob Landleyfdc4c202005-04-29 19:48:29 +0000206 The busybox executable has to be owned by user root, group
207 root and has to be setuid root for this to work:
Denis Vlasenko6cee58e2007-11-04 15:43:26 +0000208 (chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
Rob Landleyfdc4c202005-04-29 19:48:29 +0000209
Eric Andersene5272072003-07-22 22:15:21 +0000210 Robert 'sandman' Griebl has more information here:
211 <url: http://www.softforge.de/bb/suid.html >.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000212
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000213config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG_QUIET
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000214 bool "Suppress warning message if /etc/busybox.conf is not readable"
Rob Landleyd5b9b602006-05-31 23:23:42 +0000215 default y
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000216 depends on FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000217 help
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000218 /etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID,
219 check this option to avoid users to be notified about missing
220 permissions.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000221
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000222config SELINUX
Eric Andersen9e480452003-07-03 10:07:04 +0000223 bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
224 default n
225 help
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000226 Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
Rob Landley24b0a952006-03-29 15:35:23 +0000227 the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
Eric Andersen9e480452003-07-03 10:07:04 +0000228
Rob Landley24b0a952006-03-29 15:35:23 +0000229 If you do not have a complete SELinux userland installed, this stuff
230 will not compile. Go visit
Eric Andersen31d898f2004-02-05 00:18:26 +0000231 http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
Rob Landley24b0a952006-03-29 15:35:23 +0000232 to download the necessary stuff to allow busybox to compile with
233 this option enabled. Specifially, libselinux 1.28 or better is
234 directly required by busybox. If the installation is located in a
235 non-standard directory, provide it by invoking make as follows:
236 CFLAGS=-I<libselinux-include-path> \
237 LDFLAGS=-L<libselinux-lib-path> \
238 make
Eric Andersen31d898f2004-02-05 00:18:26 +0000239
240 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
241
Denis Vlasenko80d14be2007-04-10 23:03:30 +0000242config FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
Denis Vlasenko2f0c0d02007-01-21 00:41:04 +0000243 bool "exec prefers applets"
244 default n
245 help
246 This is an experimental option which directs applets about to
247 call 'exec' to try and find an applicable busybox applet before
Denis Vlasenko92c0b822007-05-08 17:27:17 +0000248 searching the PATH. This is typically done by exec'ing
249 /proc/self/exe.
250 This may affect shell, find -exec, xargs and similar applets.
251 They will use applets even if /bin/<applet> -> busybox link
252 is missing (or is not a link to busybox). However, this causes
253 problems in chroot jails without mounted /proc and with ps/top
254 (command name can be shown as 'exe' for applets started this way).
Denis Vlasenko2f0c0d02007-01-21 00:41:04 +0000255
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000256config BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH
Rob Landleyc7ddefc2006-06-14 01:24:33 +0000257 string "Path to BusyBox executable"
258 default "/proc/self/exe"
259 help
260 When Busybox applets need to run other busybox applets, BusyBox
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000261 sometimes needs to exec() itself. When the /proc filesystem is
Rob Landleyc7ddefc2006-06-14 01:24:33 +0000262 mounted, /proc/self/exe always points to the currently running
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000263 executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you
Rob Landleyc7ddefc2006-06-14 01:24:33 +0000264 want to run BusyBox from.
265
Denis Vlasenkoa7825f22007-06-16 13:56:51 +0000266# These are auto-selected by other options
267
268config FEATURE_SYSLOG
Denis Vlasenko35a064b2008-11-06 00:49:59 +0000269 bool #No description makes it a hidden option
Denis Vlasenkoa7825f22007-06-16 13:56:51 +0000270 default n
Denis Vlasenko35a064b2008-11-06 00:49:59 +0000271 #help
272 # This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
273 # send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
Denis Vlasenkoa7825f22007-06-16 13:56:51 +0000274
275config FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
Denis Vlasenko35a064b2008-11-06 00:49:59 +0000276 bool #No description makes it a hidden option
Denis Vlasenkoa7825f22007-06-16 13:56:51 +0000277 default n
Denis Vlasenko35a064b2008-11-06 00:49:59 +0000278 #help
279 # This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
280 # You do not need to select it manually.
Denis Vlasenkoa7825f22007-06-16 13:56:51 +0000281
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000282endmenu
283
284menu 'Build Options'
285
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000286config STATIC
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000287 bool "Build BusyBox as a static binary (no shared libs)"
288 default n
289 help
Eric Andersenc7bda1c2004-03-15 08:29:22 +0000290 If you want to build a static BusyBox binary, which does not
291 use or require any shared libraries, then enable this option.
Eric Andersen88c916b2003-10-22 09:58:56 +0000292 This can cause BusyBox to be considerably larger, so you should
Eric Andersene5272072003-07-22 22:15:21 +0000293 leave this option false unless you have a good reason (i.e.
294 your target platform does not support shared libraries, or
295 you are building an initrd which doesn't need anything but
296 BusyBox, etc).
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000297
Eric Andersene5272072003-07-22 22:15:21 +0000298 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
299
Denis Vlasenko1da86d22008-06-04 11:28:24 +0000300config PIE
301 bool "Build BusyBox as a position independent executable"
302 default n
303 depends on !STATIC
304 help
305 (TODO: what is it and why/when is it useful?)
306 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
307
Denis Vlasenkod2c450c2008-01-08 20:32:12 +0000308config NOMMU
309 bool "Force NOMMU build"
310 default n
311 help
312 Busybox tries to detect whether architecture it is being
313 built against supports MMU or not. If this detection fails,
314 or if you want to build NOMMU version of busybox for testing,
315 you may force NOMMU build here.
316
317 Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
318
Denis Vlasenkocc3f20b2008-06-23 22:31:52 +0000319# PIE can be made to work with BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX, but currently
320# build system does not support that
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000321config BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer2aba3952006-01-24 16:14:14 +0000322 bool "Build shared libbusybox"
Rob Landleyc7ddefc2006-06-14 01:24:33 +0000323 default n
Denis Vlasenkofc5e8062008-07-09 21:24:18 +0000324 depends on !FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS && !PIE && !STATIC
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer2aba3952006-01-24 16:14:14 +0000325 help
Denis Vlasenkod62fd842007-10-07 20:46:34 +0000326 Build a shared library libbusybox.so.N.N.N which contains all
327 busybox code.
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer2aba3952006-01-24 16:14:14 +0000328
Denis Vlasenkod62fd842007-10-07 20:46:34 +0000329 This feature allows every applet to be built as a tiny
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000330 separate executable. Enabling it for "one big busybox binary"
Denis Vlasenkod62fd842007-10-07 20:46:34 +0000331 approach serves no purpose and increases code size.
332 You should almost certainly say "no" to this.
Rob Landleyd6e50832006-06-15 15:04:53 +0000333
Denis Vlasenkodef88982007-10-07 17:06:01 +0000334### config FEATURE_FULL_LIBBUSYBOX
335### bool "Feature-complete libbusybox"
336### default n if !FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
337### depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
338### help
339### Build a libbusybox with the complete feature-set, disregarding
340### the actually selected config.
341###
342### Normally, libbusybox will only contain the features which are
343### used by busybox itself. If you plan to write a separate
344### standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'.
345###
346### Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000347### might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the
Denis Vlasenkodef88982007-10-07 17:06:01 +0000348### exported function set between releases (even minor version number
349### changes), and happily break out-of-tree features.
350###
351### Say 'N' if in doubt.
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer2aba3952006-01-24 16:14:14 +0000352
Denis Vlasenkof545be02007-10-07 17:06:26 +0000353config FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL
354 bool "Produce a binary for each applet, linked against libbusybox"
355 default y
Denis Vlasenkofc5e8062008-07-09 21:24:18 +0000356 depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer2aba3952006-01-24 16:14:14 +0000357 help
Denis Vlasenkof545be02007-10-07 17:06:26 +0000358 If your CPU architecture doesn't allow for sharing text/rodata
359 sections of running binaries, but allows for runtime dynamic
360 libraries, this option will allow you to reduce memory footprint
361 when you have many different applets running at once.
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer2aba3952006-01-24 16:14:14 +0000362
Denis Vlasenkof545be02007-10-07 17:06:26 +0000363 If your CPU architecture allows for sharing text/rodata,
364 having single binary is more optimal.
365
366 Each applet will be a tiny program, dynamically linked
367 against libbusybox.so.N.N.N.
368
369 You need to have a working dynamic linker.
370
371config FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
372 bool "Produce additional busybox binary linked against libbusybox"
373 default y
Denis Vlasenkofc5e8062008-07-09 21:24:18 +0000374 depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000375 help
Denis Vlasenkof545be02007-10-07 17:06:26 +0000376 Build busybox, dynamically linked against libbusybox.so.N.N.N.
377
378 You need to have a working dynamic linker.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000379
Denis Vlasenkodef88982007-10-07 17:06:01 +0000380### config BUILD_AT_ONCE
381### bool "Compile all sources at once"
382### default n
383### help
384### Normally each source-file is compiled with one invocation of
385### the compiler.
386### If you set this option, all sources are compiled at once.
387### This gives the compiler more opportunities to optimize which can
388### result in smaller and/or faster binaries.
389###
390### Setting this option will consume alot of memory, e.g. if you
391### enable all applets with all features, gcc uses more than 300MB
392### RAM during compilation of busybox.
393###
394### This option is most likely only beneficial for newer compilers
395### such as gcc-4.1 and above.
396###
397### Say 'N' unless you know what you are doing.
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer2aba3952006-01-24 16:14:14 +0000398
Denis Vlasenkof545be02007-10-07 17:06:26 +0000399config LFS
400 bool "Build with Large File Support (for accessing files > 2 GB)"
401 default n
402 select FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
403 help
404 If you want to build BusyBox with large file support, then enable
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000405 this option. This will have no effect if your kernel or your C
406 library lacks large file support for large files. Some of the
Denis Vlasenkof545be02007-10-07 17:06:26 +0000407 programs that can benefit from large file support include dd, gzip,
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000408 cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger
409 than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option. Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'.
Denis Vlasenkof545be02007-10-07 17:06:26 +0000410
Denis Vlasenkob8e653b2008-06-02 04:51:29 +0000411config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
412 string "Cross Compiler prefix"
413 default ""
414 help
415 If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
416 will need to set this to the cross-compiler prefix, for example,
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer7d0d3e22008-08-22 08:25:26 +0000417 "i386-uclibc-".
418
419 Note that CROSS_COMPILE environment variable or
420 "make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx ..." will override this selection.
421
422 Native builds leave this empty.
Denis Vlasenkob8e653b2008-06-02 04:51:29 +0000423
Bernhard Reutner-Fischerf6107c72009-01-22 13:27:14 +0000424config EXTRA_CFLAGS
425 string "Additional CFLAGS"
426 default ""
427 help
428 Additional CFLAGS to pass to the compiler verbatim.
429
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000430endmenu
431
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000432menu 'Debugging Options'
433
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000434config DEBUG
Rob Landleyc503df52006-05-09 22:08:56 +0000435 bool "Build BusyBox with extra Debugging symbols"
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000436 default n
437 help
Rob Landleyc503df52006-05-09 22:08:56 +0000438 Say Y here if you wish to examine BusyBox internals while applets are
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000439 running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and
440 should only be used when doing development. If you are doing
Rob Landleyc503df52006-05-09 22:08:56 +0000441 development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000442
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000443 Most people should answer N.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000444
Denis Vlasenkobd8390a2008-06-12 20:23:03 +0000445config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
Denis Vlasenkoc185e292008-07-16 23:45:11 +0000446 bool "Disable compiler optimizations"
Denis Vlasenkobd8390a2008-06-12 20:23:03 +0000447 default n
448 depends on DEBUG
449 help
450 The compiler's optimization of source code can eliminate and reorder
451 code, resulting in an executable that's hard to understand when
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000452 stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting
Denis Vlasenkobd8390a2008-06-12 20:23:03 +0000453 in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source
454 code.
455
Denis Vlasenkoe0eebc12007-01-27 13:44:53 +0000456config WERROR
457 bool "Abort compilation on any warning"
Rob Landleyc503df52006-05-09 22:08:56 +0000458 default n
Rob Landleyc503df52006-05-09 22:08:56 +0000459 help
Denis Vlasenkoe0eebc12007-01-27 13:44:53 +0000460 Selecting this will add -Werror to gcc command line.
461
462 Most people should answer N.
463
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000464choice
465 prompt "Additional debugging library"
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000466 default NO_DEBUG_LIB
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000467 help
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000468 Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000469 considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000470 should always leave this option disabled for production use.
471
472 dmalloc support:
473 ----------------
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000474 This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ )
475 which is an excellent public domain mem leak and malloc problem
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000476 detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000477 want to properly set your environment, for example:
478 export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile
479 The 'debug=' value is generated using the following command
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000480 dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space \
481 -p log-elapsed-time -p check-fence -p check-heap \
482 -p check-lists -p check-blank -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy \
483 -p allow-free-null
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000484
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000485 Electric-fence support:
486 -----------------------
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000487 This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric
Eric Andersen88c916b2003-10-22 09:58:56 +0000488 fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses
Eric Andersenc7bda1c2004-03-15 08:29:22 +0000489 your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000490 accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger
Eric Andersenc7bda1c2004-03-15 08:29:22 +0000491 and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000492 you are hunting a hard to find memory problem.
493
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000494
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000495config NO_DEBUG_LIB
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000496 bool "None"
497
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000498config DMALLOC
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000499 bool "Dmalloc"
500
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000501config EFENCE
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000502 bool "Electric-fence"
503
504endchoice
505
Denis Vlasenko08492072006-12-22 13:56:36 +0000506config INCLUDE_SUSv2
507 bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
Rob Landleyf8fd4db2006-01-30 01:30:39 +0000508 default y
509 help
Denis Vlasenko08492072006-12-22 13:56:36 +0000510 This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
Rob Landleyf8fd4db2006-01-30 01:30:39 +0000511 specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000512 will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
Denis Vlasenko08492072006-12-22 13:56:36 +0000513 affect renice too.)
Eric Andersenf086ed82004-05-25 11:30:22 +0000514
Denis Vlasenko2d5bd802008-10-24 10:49:49 +0000515### config PARSE
516### bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
Denis Vlasenko2e157dd2008-07-19 09:27:19 +0000517
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000518endmenu
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000519
520menu 'Installation Options'
521
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000522config INSTALL_NO_USR
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000523 bool "Don't use /usr"
524 default n
525 help
526 Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
527 that you really want this behaviour.
528
529choice
Mike Frysinger71a6a4e2007-01-24 08:24:43 +0000530 prompt "Applets links"
531 default INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
532 help
533 Choose how you install applets links.
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000534
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000535config INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
Mike Frysinger71a6a4e2007-01-24 08:24:43 +0000536 bool "as soft-links"
537 help
538 Install applets as soft-links to the busybox binary. This needs some
539 free inodes on the filesystem, but might help with filesystem
540 generators that can't cope with hard-links.
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000541
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000542config INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS
Mike Frysinger71a6a4e2007-01-24 08:24:43 +0000543 bool "as hard-links"
544 help
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000545 Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might
546 count on a filesystem with few inodes.
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000547
Denis Vlasenko737d1312007-08-25 18:25:24 +0000548config INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
549 bool "as script wrappers"
550 help
551 Install applets as script wrappers that call the busybox binary.
552
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000553config INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
Mike Frysinger6cda8972007-01-24 09:32:42 +0000554 bool "not installed"
Denis Vlasenko80d14be2007-04-10 23:03:30 +0000555 depends on FEATURE_INSTALLER || FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
Mike Frysinger71a6a4e2007-01-24 08:24:43 +0000556 help
557 Do not install applet links. Useful when using the -install feature
Denis Vlasenko80d14be2007-04-10 23:03:30 +0000558 or a standalone shell for rescue purposes.
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000559
560endchoice
561
Denis Vlasenko737d1312007-08-25 18:25:24 +0000562choice
563 prompt "/bin/sh applet link"
564 default INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
565 depends on INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
566 help
567 Choose how you install /bin/sh applet link.
568
569config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
570 bool "as soft-link"
571 help
572 Install /bin/sh applet as soft-link to the busybox binary.
573
574config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_HARDLINK
575 bool "as hard-link"
576 help
577 Install /bin/sh applet as hard-link to the busybox binary.
578
579config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPER
580 bool "as script wrapper"
581 help
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000582 Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that call the busybox
583 binary.
Denis Vlasenko737d1312007-08-25 18:25:24 +0000584
585endchoice
586
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000587config PREFIX
588 string "BusyBox installation prefix"
589 default "./_install"
590 help
591 Define your directory to install BusyBox files/subdirs in.
592
593endmenu
594
595source libbb/Config.in
596
Rob Landley9dc69132006-03-13 02:52:23 +0000597endmenu
598
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000599comment "Applets"
600
601source archival/Config.in
602source coreutils/Config.in
603source console-tools/Config.in
604source debianutils/Config.in
605source editors/Config.in
606source findutils/Config.in
607source init/Config.in
608source loginutils/Config.in
609source e2fsprogs/Config.in
610source modutils/Config.in
611source util-linux/Config.in
612source miscutils/Config.in
613source networking/Config.in
Bernhard Reutner-Fischeraa2a1c02008-10-24 19:48:47 +0000614source printutils/Config.in
Denis Vlasenkob9d572a2008-11-06 23:41:38 +0000615source mailutils/Config.in
Mike Frysinger72d59db2006-03-10 23:17:17 +0000616source procps/Config.in
Denis Vlasenkofe544582006-10-03 15:57:40 +0000617source runit/Config.in
Denis Vlasenkod46d3c22007-02-06 19:28:50 +0000618source selinux/Config.in
Bernhard Reutner-Fischeraa2a1c02008-10-24 19:48:47 +0000619source shell/Config.in
620source sysklogd/Config.in