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authorDenys Vlasenko2017-07-27 02:59:13 +0200
committerDenys Vlasenko2017-07-27 02:59:13 +0200
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config: trim/improve item names and help texts.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index c1cc591..acd3cb8 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
# see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
#
-mainmenu "BusyBox Configuration"
+mainmenu "Configuration"
config HAVE_DOT_CONFIG
bool
default y
-menu "Busybox Settings"
+menu "Settings"
config DESKTOP
bool "Enable compatibility for full-blown desktop systems"
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ config SHOW_USAGE
bool "Show applet usage messages"
default y
help
- Enabling this option, BusyBox applets will show terse help messages
+ Enabling this option, 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,
@@ -68,18 +68,16 @@ config FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
default y
depends on SHOW_USAGE
help
- 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.
+ All applets will show verbose help messages when invoked with --help.
+ This will add a lot of text to the binary.
config FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
bool "Store applet usage messages in compressed form"
default y
depends on SHOW_USAGE
help
- Store usage messages in .bz compressed form, uncompress them
- on-the-fly when <applet> --help is called.
+ Store usage messages in .bz2 compressed form, uncompress them
+ on-the-fly when "APPLET --help" is run.
If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and
bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might
@@ -91,25 +89,24 @@ config LFS
bool "Support files > 2 GB"
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
+ If you need to work with large files, enable this option.
+ This will have no effect if your kernel or your C
library lacks large file support for large files. Some of the
programs that can benefit from large file support include dd, gzip,
- cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger
- than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option.
+ cp, mount, tar.
config PAM
bool "Support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)"
default n
help
- Use PAM in some busybox applets (currently login and httpd) instead
+ Use PAM in some applets (currently login and httpd) instead
of direct access to password database.
config FEATURE_DEVPTS
bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs"
default y
help
- Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
+ Enable if you want to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style
/dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have
@@ -157,9 +154,9 @@ config BUSYBOX
bool "Include busybox applet"
default y
help
- The busybox applet provides general help regarding busybox and
- allows the included applets to be listed. It's also required
- if applet links are to be installed at runtime. If you unselect
+ The busybox applet provides general help message and allows
+ the included applets to be listed. It also provides
+ optional --install command to create applet links. If you unselect
this option, running busybox without any arguments will give
just a cryptic error message:
@@ -181,7 +178,7 @@ config INSTALL_NO_USR
bool "Don't use /usr"
default n
help
- Disable use of /usr. busybox --install and "make install"
+ Disable use of /usr. "busybox --install" and "make install"
will install applets only to /bin and /sbin,
never to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
@@ -194,11 +191,11 @@ config FEATURE_SUID
root-level operations even when run by ordinary users
(for example, mounting of user mounts in fstab needs this).
- With this option enabled, Busybox drops privileges for applets
+ With this option enabled, busybox drops privileges for applets
that don't need root access, before entering their main() function.
If you are really paranoid and don't want even initial busybox code
- to run under root for evey applet, build two busybox binaries with
+ to run under root for every applet, 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.
@@ -284,14 +281,14 @@ config FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
(command name can be shown as 'exe' for applets started this way).
config BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH
- string "Path to BusyBox executable"
+ string "Path to busybox executable"
default "/proc/self/exe"
help
- When Busybox applets need to run other busybox applets, BusyBox
+ When applets need to run other applets, busybox
sometimes needs to exec() itself. When the /proc filesystem is
mounted, /proc/self/exe always points to the currently running
executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you
- want to run BusyBox from.
+ want to run busybox from.
config SELINUX
bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux"
@@ -354,21 +351,17 @@ config PLATFORM_LINUX
comment 'Build Options'
config STATIC
- bool "Build BusyBox as a static binary (no shared libs)"
+ bool "Build static binary (no shared libs)"
default n
help
- If you want to build a static BusyBox binary, which does not
- use or require any shared libraries, then enable this option.
- This can cause BusyBox to be considerably larger, so you should
- leave this option false unless you have a good reason (i.e.
- your target platform does not support shared libraries, or
- you are building an initrd which doesn't need anything but
- BusyBox, etc).
-
- Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
+ If you want to build a static binary, which does not use
+ or require any shared libraries, enable this option.
+ Static binaries are larger, but do not require functioning
+ dynamic libraries to be present, which is important if used
+ as a system rescue tool.
config PIE
- bool "Build BusyBox as a position independent executable"
+ bool "Build position independent executable"
default n
depends on !STATIC
help
@@ -466,10 +459,10 @@ config FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX
### Say 'N' unless you know what you are doing.
config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
- string "Cross Compiler prefix"
+ string "Cross compiler prefix"
default ""
help
- If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
+ 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-".
@@ -482,11 +475,11 @@ config SYSROOT
string "Path to sysroot"
default ""
help
- If you want to build BusyBox with a cross compiler, then you
+ 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
+ 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
@@ -580,21 +573,22 @@ config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPER
endchoice
config PREFIX
- string "BusyBox installation prefix"
+ string "Destination path for 'make install'"
default "./_install"
help
- Define your directory to install BusyBox files/subdirs in.
+ Where "make install" should install busybox binary and links.
comment 'Debugging Options'
config DEBUG
- bool "Build BusyBox with extra Debugging symbols"
+ bool "Build with debug information"
default n
help
- Say Y here if you wish to examine BusyBox internals while applets are
- running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and
- should only be used when doing development. If you are doing
- development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y.
+ Say Y here to compile with debug information.
+ This increases the size of the binary considerably, and
+ should only be used when doing development.
+
+ This adds -g option to gcc command line.
Most people should answer N.
@@ -609,6 +603,8 @@ config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE
in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source
code.
+ This replaces -Os/-O2 with -O0 in gcc command line.
+
config DEBUG_SANITIZE
bool "Enable runtime sanitizers (ASAN/LSAN/USAN/etc...)"
default n
@@ -626,7 +622,7 @@ config UNIT_TEST
default n
help
Say Y here if you want to build unit tests (both the framework and
- test cases) as a Busybox applet. This results in bigger code, so you
+ test cases) as an applet. This results in bigger code, so you
probably don't want this option in production builds.
config WERROR
@@ -641,8 +637,8 @@ choice
prompt "Additional debugging library"
default NO_DEBUG_LIB
help
- Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become
- considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
+ Using an additional debugging library will make busybox become
+ considerably larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You
should always leave this option disabled for production use.
dmalloc support:
@@ -663,7 +659,7 @@ choice
This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric
fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses
your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory
- accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger
+ accesses. This support will make busybox be considerably larger
and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless
you are hunting a hard to find memory problem.