busybox/Config.in
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   1#
   2# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
   3# see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
   4#
   5
   6mainmenu "BusyBox Configuration"
   7
   8config HAVE_DOT_CONFIG
   9        bool
  10        default y
  11
  12menu "Busybox Settings"
  13
  14menu "General Configuration"
  15
  16config DESKTOP
  17        bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems"
  18        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
  22          desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an embedded box.
  23
  24config 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
  33config INCLUDE_SUSv2
  34        bool "Enable obsolete features removed before SUSv3"
  35        default y
  36        help
  37          This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
  38          specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
  39          will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should
  40          affect renice too.)
  41
  42config USE_PORTABLE_CODE
  43        bool "Avoid using GCC-specific code constructs"
  44        default n
  45        help
  46          Use this option if you are trying to compile busybox with
  47          compiler other than gcc.
  48          If you do use gcc, this option may needlessly increase code size.
  49
  50choice
  51        prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
  52        default FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
  53        help
  54          There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations:
  55          - Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc.
  56          - Put them on stack. For some very small machines with limited stack
  57            space, this can be deadly. For most folks, this works just fine.
  58          - Put them in BSS. This works beautifully for computers with a real
  59            MMU (and OS support), but wastes runtime RAM for uCLinux. This
  60            behavior was the only one available for BusyBox versions 0.48 and
  61            earlier.
  62
  63config FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC
  64        bool "Allocate with Malloc"
  65
  66config FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_ON_STACK
  67        bool "Allocate on the Stack"
  68
  69config FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_IN_BSS
  70        bool "Allocate in the .bss section"
  71
  72endchoice
  73
  74config SHOW_USAGE
  75        bool "Show terse applet usage messages"
  76        default y
  77        help
  78          All BusyBox applets will show help messages when invoked with
  79          wrong arguments. You can turn off printing these terse usage
  80          messages if you say no here.
  81          This will save you up to 7k.
  82
  83config FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
  84        bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
  85        default n
  86        select SHOW_USAGE
  87        help
  88          All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
  89          busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
  90          busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about
  91          13k, but it can add much more depending on your configuration.
  92
  93config FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
  94        bool "Store applet usage messages in compressed form"
  95        default y
  96        depends on SHOW_USAGE
  97        help
  98          Store usage messages in compressed form, uncompress them on-the-fly
  99          when <applet> --help is called.
 100
 101          If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and
 102          bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might
 103          be noticeable. Also, if you run executables directly from ROM
 104          and have very little memory, this might not be a win. Otherwise,
 105          you probably want this.
 106
 107config FEATURE_INSTALLER
 108        bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime"
 109        default n
 110        help
 111          Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use
 112          busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the
 113          applets that are compiled into busybox.
 114
 115config LOCALE_SUPPORT
 116        bool "Enable locale support (system needs locale for this to work)"
 117        default n
 118        help
 119          Enable this if your system has locale support and you would like
 120          busybox to support locale settings.
 121
 122config FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
 123        bool "Support Unicode"
 124        default n
 125        help
 126          This makes various applets aware that one byte is not
 127          one character on screen.
 128
 129          Busybox aims to eventually work correctly with Unicode displays.
 130          Any older encodings are not guaranteed to work.
 131          Probably by the time when busybox will be fully Unicode-clean,
 132          other encodings will be mainly of historic interest.
 133
 134config FEATURE_CHECK_UNICODE_IN_ENV
 135        bool "Check $LANG environment variable"
 136        default y
 137        depends on FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE && !LOCALE_SUPPORT
 138        help
 139          With this option on, Unicode support is activated
 140          only if LANG variable has the value of the form "xxxx.utf8"
 141
 142          Otherwise, Unicode support will be always enabled and active.
 143
 144config LONG_OPTS
 145        bool "Support for --long-options"
 146        default y
 147        help
 148          Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option
 149          style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options.
 150
 151config FEATURE_DEVPTS
 152        bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
 153        default y
 154        help
 155          Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
 156          busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
 157          and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style
 158          /dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have
 159          devpts mounted.
 160
 161config FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
 162        bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
 163        default n
 164        help
 165          As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly
 166          freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves
 167          space since the OS will clean up for us, but it can confuse debuggers
 168          like valgrind, which report tons of memory and resource leaks.
 169
 170          Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
 171          things up manually.
 172
 173config FEATURE_PIDFILE
 174        bool "Support writing pidfiles"
 175        default n
 176        help
 177          This option makes some applets (e.g. crond, syslogd, inetd) write
 178          a pidfile in /var/run. Some applications rely on them.
 179
 180config FEATURE_SUID
 181        bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
 182        default n
 183        help
 184          With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging
 185          to root with the suid bit set, and it will automatically drop
 186          priviledges for applets that don't need root access.
 187
 188          If you are really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two
 189          busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate
 190          symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the
 191          one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit
 192          are:
 193
 194          crontab, dnsd, findfs, ipcrm, ipcs, login, passwd, ping, su,
 195          traceroute, vlock.
 196
 197config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
 198        bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf"
 199        default n if FEATURE_SUID
 200        depends on FEATURE_SUID
 201        help
 202          Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime
 203          by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.)
 204          The format of this file is as follows:
 205
 206          <applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>)
 207
 208          An example might help:
 209
 210          [SUID]
 211          su = ssx root.0 # applet su can be run by anyone and runs with
 212                          # euid=0/egid=0
 213          su = ssx        # exactly the same
 214
 215          mount = sx- root.disk # applet mount can be run by root and members
 216                                # of group disk and runs with euid=0
 217
 218          cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone
 219
 220          The file has to be owned by user root, group root and has to be
 221          writeable only by root:
 222                (chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
 223          The busybox executable has to be owned by user root, group
 224          root and has to be setuid root for this to work:
 225                (chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
 226
 227          Robert 'sandman' Griebl has more information here:
 228          <url: http://www.softforge.de/bb/suid.html >.
 229
 230config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG_QUIET
 231        bool "Suppress warning message if /etc/busybox.conf is not readable"
 232        default y
 233        depends on FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
 234        help
 235          /etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID,
 236          check this option to avoid users to be notified about missing
 237          permissions.
 238
 239config SELINUX
 240        bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
 241        default n
 242        help
 243          Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide
 244          the option of compiling in SELinux applets.
 245
 246          If you do not have a complete SELinux userland installed, this stuff
 247          will not compile. Go visit
 248                http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
 249          to download the necessary stuff to allow busybox to compile with
 250          this option enabled. Specifially, libselinux 1.28 or better is
 251          directly required by busybox. If the installation is located in a
 252          non-standard directory, provide it by invoking make as follows:
 253                CFLAGS=-I<libselinux-include-path> \
 254                LDFLAGS=-L<libselinux-lib-path> \
 255                make
 256
 257          Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 258
 259config FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
 260        bool "exec prefers applets"
 261        default n
 262        help
 263          This is an experimental option which directs applets about to
 264          call 'exec' to try and find an applicable busybox applet before
 265          searching the PATH. This is typically done by exec'ing
 266          /proc/self/exe.
 267          This may affect shell, find -exec, xargs and similar applets.
 268          They will use applets even if /bin/<applet> -> busybox link
 269          is missing (or is not a link to busybox). However, this causes
 270          problems in chroot jails without mounted /proc and with ps/top
 271          (command name can be shown as 'exe' for applets started this way).
 272
 273config BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH
 274        string "Path to BusyBox executable"
 275        default "/proc/self/exe"
 276        help
 277          When Busybox applets need to run other busybox applets, BusyBox
 278          sometimes needs to exec() itself. When the /proc filesystem is
 279          mounted, /proc/self/exe always points to the currently running
 280          executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you
 281          want to run BusyBox from.
 282
 283# These are auto-selected by other options
 284
 285config FEATURE_SYSLOG
 286        bool #No description makes it a hidden option
 287        default n
 288        #help
 289        #  This option is auto-selected when you select any applet which may
 290        #  send its output to syslog. You do not need to select it manually.
 291
 292config FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
 293        bool #No description makes it a hidden option
 294        default n
 295        #help
 296        #  This is automatically selected if any of enabled applets need it.
 297        #  You do not need to select it manually.
 298
 299endmenu
 300
 301menu 'Build Options'
 302
 303config STATIC
 304        bool "Build BusyBox as a static binary (no shared libs)"
 305        default n
 306        help
 307          If you want to build a static BusyBox binary, which does not
 308          use or require any shared libraries, then enable this option.
 309          This can cause BusyBox to be considerably larger, so you should
 310          leave this option false unless you have a good reason (i.e.
 311          your target platform does not support shared libraries, or
 312          you are building an initrd which doesn't need anything but
 313          BusyBox, etc).
 314
 315          Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 316
 317config PIE
 318        bool "Build BusyBox as a position independent executable"
 319        default n
 320        depends on !STATIC
 321        help
 322          (TODO: what is it and why/when is it useful?)
 323          Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 324
 325config NOMMU
 326        bool "Force NOMMU build"
 327        default n
 328        help
 329          Busybox tries to detect whether architecture it is being
 330          built against supports MMU or not. If this detection fails,
 331          or if you want to build NOMMU version of busybox for testing,
 332          you may force NOMMU build here.
 333
 334          Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 335
 336# PIE can be made to work with BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX, but currently
 337# build system does not support that
 338config BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
 339        bool "Build shared libbusybox"
 340        default n
 341        depends on !FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS && !PIE && !STATIC
 342        help
 343          Build a shared library libbusybox.so.N.N.N which contains all
 344          busybox code.
 345
 346          This feature allows every applet to be built as a tiny
 347          separate executable. Enabling it for "one big busybox binary"
 348          approach serves no purpose and increases code size.
 349          You should almost certainly say "no" to this.
 350
 351### config FEATURE_FULL_LIBBUSYBOX
 352###     bool "Feature-complete libbusybox"
 353###     default n if !FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
 354###     depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
 355###     help
 356###       Build a libbusybox with the complete feature-set, disregarding
 357###       the actually selected config.
 358###
 359###       Normally, libbusybox will only contain the features which are
 360###       used by busybox itself. If you plan to write a separate
 361###       standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'.
 362###
 363###       Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
 364###       might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the
 365###       exported function set between releases (even minor version number
 366###       changes), and happily break out-of-tree features.
 367###
 368###       Say 'N' if in doubt.
 369
 370config FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL
 371        bool "Produce a binary for each applet, linked against libbusybox"
 372        default y
 373        depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
 374        help
 375          If your CPU architecture doesn't allow for sharing text/rodata
 376          sections of running binaries, but allows for runtime dynamic
 377          libraries, this option will allow you to reduce memory footprint
 378          when you have many different applets running at once.
 379
 380          If your CPU architecture allows for sharing text/rodata,
 381          having single binary is more optimal.
 382
 383          Each applet will be a tiny program, dynamically linked
 384          against libbusybox.so.N.N.N.
 385
 386          You need to have a working dynamic linker.
 387
 388config FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
 389        bool "Produce additional busybox binary linked against libbusybox"
 390        default y
 391        depends on BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
 392        help
 393          Build busybox, dynamically linked against libbusybox.so.N.N.N.
 394
 395          You need to have a working dynamic linker.
 396
 397### config BUILD_AT_ONCE
 398###     bool "Compile all sources at once"
 399###     default n
 400###     help
 401###       Normally each source-file is compiled with one invocation of
 402###       the compiler.
 403###       If you set this option, all sources are compiled at once.
 404###       This gives the compiler more opportunities to optimize which can
 405###       result in smaller and/or faster binaries.
 406###
 407###       Setting this option will consume alot of memory, e.g. if you
 408###       enable all applets with all features, gcc uses more than 300MB
 409###       RAM during compilation of busybox.
 410###
 411###       This option is most likely only beneficial for newer compilers
 412###       such as gcc-4.1 and above.
 413###
 414###       Say 'N' unless you know what you are doing.
 415
 416config LFS
 417        bool "Build with Large File Support (for accessing files > 2 GB)"
 418        default n
 419        select FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
 420        help
 421          If you want to build BusyBox with large file support, then enable
 422          this option. This will have no effect if your kernel or your C
 423          library lacks large file support for large files. Some of the
 424          programs that can benefit from large file support include dd, gzip,
 425          cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger
 426          than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option. Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'.
 427
 428config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
 429        string "Cross Compiler prefix"
 430        default ""
 431        help
 432          If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
 433          will need to set this to the cross-compiler prefix, for example,
 434          "i386-uclibc-".
 435
 436          Note that CROSS_COMPILE environment variable or
 437          "make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx ..." will override this selection.
 438
 439          Native builds leave this empty.
 440
 441config EXTRA_CFLAGS
 442        string "Additional CFLAGS"
 443        default ""
 444        help
 445          Additional CFLAGS to pass to the compiler verbatim.
 446
 447endmenu
 448
 449menu 'Debugging Options'
 450
 451config DEBUG
 452        bool "Build BusyBox with extra Debugging symbols"
 453        default n
 454        help
 455          Say Y here if you wish to examine BusyBox internals while applets are
 456          running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and
 457          should only be used when doing development. If you are doing
 458          development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y.
 459
 460          Most people should answer N.
 461
 462config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
 463        bool "Disable compiler optimizations"
 464        default n
 465        depends on DEBUG
 466        help
 467          The compiler's optimization of source code can eliminate and reorder
 468          code, resulting in an executable that's hard to understand when
 469          stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting
 470          in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source
 471          code.
 472
 473config WERROR
 474        bool "Abort compilation on any warning"
 475        default n
 476        help
 477          Selecting this will add -Werror to gcc command line.
 478
 479          Most people should answer N.
 480
 481choice
 482        prompt "Additional debugging library"
 483        default NO_DEBUG_LIB
 484        help
 485          Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become
 486          considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
 487          should always leave this option disabled for production use.
 488
 489          dmalloc support:
 490          ----------------
 491          This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ )
 492          which is an excellent public domain mem leak and malloc problem
 493          detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will
 494          want to properly set your environment, for example:
 495            export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile
 496          The 'debug=' value is generated using the following command
 497            dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space \
 498               -p log-elapsed-time -p check-fence -p check-heap \
 499               -p check-lists -p check-blank -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy \
 500               -p allow-free-null
 501
 502          Electric-fence support:
 503          -----------------------
 504          This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric
 505          fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses
 506          your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory
 507          accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger
 508          and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless
 509          you are hunting a hard to find memory problem.
 510
 511
 512config NO_DEBUG_LIB
 513        bool "None"
 514
 515config DMALLOC
 516        bool "Dmalloc"
 517
 518config EFENCE
 519        bool "Electric-fence"
 520
 521endchoice
 522
 523### config PARSE
 524###     bool "Uniform config file parser debugging applet: parse"
 525
 526endmenu
 527
 528menu 'Installation Options'
 529
 530config INSTALL_NO_USR
 531        bool "Don't use /usr"
 532        default n
 533        help
 534          Disable use of /usr. Don't activate this option if you don't know
 535          that you really want this behaviour.
 536
 537choice
 538        prompt "Applets links"
 539        default INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
 540        help
 541          Choose how you install applets links.
 542
 543config INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS
 544        bool "as soft-links"
 545        help
 546          Install applets as soft-links to the busybox binary. This needs some
 547          free inodes on the filesystem, but might help with filesystem
 548          generators that can't cope with hard-links.
 549
 550config INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS
 551        bool "as hard-links"
 552        help
 553          Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might
 554          count on a filesystem with few inodes.
 555
 556config INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
 557        bool "as script wrappers"
 558        help
 559          Install applets as script wrappers that call the busybox binary.
 560
 561config INSTALL_APPLET_DONT
 562        bool "not installed"
 563        depends on FEATURE_INSTALLER || FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE || FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
 564        help
 565          Do not install applet links. Useful when using the -install feature
 566          or a standalone shell for rescue purposes.
 567
 568endchoice
 569
 570choice
 571        prompt "/bin/sh applet link"
 572        default INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
 573        depends on INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS
 574        help
 575          Choose how you install /bin/sh applet link.
 576
 577config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SYMLINK
 578        bool "as soft-link"
 579        help
 580          Install /bin/sh applet as soft-link to the busybox binary.
 581
 582config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_HARDLINK
 583        bool "as hard-link"
 584        help
 585          Install /bin/sh applet as hard-link to the busybox binary.
 586
 587config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPER
 588        bool "as script wrapper"
 589        help
 590          Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that call the busybox
 591          binary.
 592
 593endchoice
 594
 595config PREFIX
 596        string "BusyBox installation prefix"
 597        default "./_install"
 598        help
 599          Define your directory to install BusyBox files/subdirs in.
 600
 601endmenu
 602
 603source libbb/Config.in
 604
 605endmenu
 606
 607comment "Applets"
 608
 609source archival/Config.in
 610source coreutils/Config.in
 611source console-tools/Config.in
 612source debianutils/Config.in
 613source editors/Config.in
 614source findutils/Config.in
 615source init/Config.in
 616source loginutils/Config.in
 617source e2fsprogs/Config.in
 618source modutils/Config.in
 619source util-linux/Config.in
 620source miscutils/Config.in
 621source networking/Config.in
 622source printutils/Config.in
 623source mailutils/Config.in
 624source procps/Config.in
 625source runit/Config.in
 626source selinux/Config.in
 627source shell/Config.in
 628source sysklogd/Config.in
 629