| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Please see the LICENSE file for copyright information. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Busybox is a multicall binary used to provide a minimal subset of |
| 4 | POSIX style commands and specialized functions. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | It is geared toward 'mini-systems' like boot floppies. Specifically |
| 7 | it is used in the Debian Rescue/Install system (which caused the |
| 8 | original busybox to be made), the Linux Router Project, and others. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | As of version 0.20 there is a version number. : ) |
| 11 | Also as of version 0.20, BB is modularized to allow an easy build of |
| 12 | only the BB parts you need, to reduce binary size. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Edit the file busybox.def.h and comment out the parts you do not need |
| 15 | using C++ comments (//) |
| 16 | |
| 17 | After the build is complete a busybox.links file is generated to allow |
| 18 | you to easily make the sym/hard links to the busybox binary. |
| 19 | |
| Eric Andersen | e77ae3a | 1999-10-19 20:03:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | Note the modular system is Makefile based, and purposely very |
| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | simplistic. It does no dependency checking. That is left for you |
| 22 | to figure out by trial and error. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Please feed patches back to: |
| Eric Andersen | e77ae3a | 1999-10-19 20:03:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | Erik Andersen <andersee@deban.org> |
| 26 | and |
| 27 | Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> |
| 28 | and |
| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> |
| 30 | and: |
| 31 | Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> |