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-rw-r--r--Config.in10
-rw-r--r--applets/applets.c4
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 93534d0..e7207d0 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -37,9 +37,19 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_GO_IN_BSS
endchoice
+config CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
+ bool "Show terse applet usage messages"
+ default y
+ help
+ All BusyBox applets will show help messages when invoked with
+ wrong arguments. You can turn off printing these terse usage
+ messages if you say no here.
+ This will save you up to 7k.
+
config CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
bool "Show verbose applet usage messages"
default n
+ select CONFIG_SHOW_USAGE
help
All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when
busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the
diff --git a/applets/applets.c b/applets/applets.c
index 82a6417..77e4fdb 100644
--- a/applets/applets.c
+++ b/applets/applets.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#include <assert.h>
#include "busybox.h"
+#if ENABLE_SHOW_USAGE
const char usage_messages[] =
#define MAKE_USAGE
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ const char usage_messages[] =
;
#undef MAKE_USAGE
+#endif /* ENABLE_SHOW_USAGE */
#undef APPLET
#undef APPLET_NOUSAGE
#undef PROTOTYPES
@@ -407,6 +409,7 @@ static void check_suid (struct BB_applet *applet)
void bb_show_usage (void)
{
+#if ENABLE_SHOW_USAGE
const char *format_string;
const char *usage_string = usage_messages;
int i;
@@ -422,6 +425,7 @@ void bb_show_usage (void)
format_string = "%s\n\nNo help available.\n\n";
fprintf (stderr, format_string, bb_msg_full_version, applet_using->name,
usage_string);
+#endif /* ENABLE_SHOW_USAGE */
exit (bb_default_error_retval);
}