| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Please see the LICENSE file for copyright information. |
| 2 | |
| Eric Andersen | ded6259 | 1999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | BusyBox is a suite of "tiny" Unix utilities in a multi-call binary. It |
| 4 | provides a pretty complete POSIX environment in a very small package. |
| 5 | Just add a kernel, "ash" (Keith Almquists tiny Bourne shell clone), and |
| 6 | an editor such as "elvis-tiny" or "ae", and you have a working system. |
| 7 | Busybox was begun to support the Debian Rescue/Install disks, but it |
| 8 | also makes an excellent environment for any small or embedded system. |
| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
| Erik Andersen | 61677fe | 2000-04-13 01:18:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 10 | As of version 0.20 there is a version number. : ) Also as of version 0.20, BB |
| 11 | is now modularized to easily allow you to build only the BB parts you need, |
| 12 | thereby reducing binary size. To turn off unwanted Busybox components, simply |
| 13 | edit the file busybox.def.h and comment out the parts you do not need using C++ |
| 14 | style (//) comments. |
| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| Eric Andersen | ded6259 | 1999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | After the build is complete a busybox.links file is generated which is |
| 17 | then used by 'make install' to create symlinks to the busybox binary |
| 18 | for all compiled in functions. By default, 'make install' will place |
| Eric Andersen | 84b0092 | 1999-12-11 04:16:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | the symlink forest into `pwd`/_install unless you have defined the |
| Erik Andersen | 61677fe | 2000-04-13 01:18:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 20 | PREFIX environment variable (i.e. make PREFIX="/tmp/foo" install) |
| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| Eric Andersen | ded6259 | 1999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to: |
| 23 | Erik Andersen |
| 24 | <andersen@lineo.com> |
| Eric Andersen | 664584b | 1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | <andersee@debian.org> |
| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | |
| Eric Andersen | 84b0092 | 1999-12-11 04:16:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | <blatent plug> |
| 28 | Many thanks to go to Lineo for paying me to work on busybox. |
| 29 | </blatent plug> |
| 30 | |