| Please see the LICENSE file for copyright information. |
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| BusyBox is a suite of "tiny" Unix utilities in a multi-call binary. It |
| provides a pretty complete POSIX environment in a very small package. |
| Just add a kernel, "ash" (Keith Almquists tiny Bourne shell clone), and |
| an editor such as "elvis-tiny" or "ae", and you have a working system. |
| Busybox was begun to support the Debian Rescue/Install disks, but it |
| also makes an excellent environment for any small or embedded system. |
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| As of version 0.20 there is a version number. : ) Also as of version 0.20, BB |
| is now modularized to easily allow you to build only the BB parts you need, |
| thereby reducing binary size. To turn off unwanted Busybox components, simply |
| edit the file busybox.def.h and comment out the parts you do not need using C++ |
| style (//) comments. |
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| After the build is complete a busybox.links file is generated which is |
| then used by 'make install' to create symlinks to the busybox binary |
| for all compiled in functions. By default, 'make install' will place |
| the symlink forest into `pwd`/_install unless you have defined the |
| PREFIX environment variable (i.e. make PREFIX="/tmp/foo" install) |
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| Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to: |
| Erik Andersen |
| <andersen@lineo.com> |
| <andersee@debian.org> |
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| <blatent plug> |
| Many thanks to go to Lineo for paying me to work on busybox. |
| </blatent plug> |
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