source: clfs-embedded/BOOK/final-system/common/busybox.xml@ 65257bb

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<sect1 id="ch-system-busybox" role="wrap">
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  <title>BusyBox-&busybox-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-busybox">
    <primary sortas="a-BusyBox">BusyBox</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a 
    single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities 
    you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in 
    BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; 
    however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality 
    and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides
     a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of BusyBox</title>

<!-- Version 1.18.4 does not require any "fixes" patch, none exists, yet
    <para os="p1">The following patch contains a number of fixes to version
    &busybox-version; by the BusyBox developers:</para>

<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&busybox-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
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    <para os="a">First ensure the BusyBox source is completely clean:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>make distclean</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">The following patch contains a default configuration for BusyBox:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&busybox-config-patch;
cp -v clfs/config .config</userinput></screen>

    <note os="e">
      <para>Currently we are just telling BusyBox to use a generic
      configuration. For those for more adventurous, you can use
      <command>make menuconfig</command>, and create a custom or modified
      configuration for your build.</para>
    </note>

    <para os="f">The following tells BusyBox to validate the configuration,
    and makes sure all required options are defined:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make oldconfig</userinput></screen>

    <para os="h">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="i"><userinput>make CROSS_COMPILE="${CLFS_TARGET}-"</userinput></screen>

    <para os="j">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="k"><userinput>make CROSS_COMPILE="${CLFS_TARGET}-" \
  CONFIG_PREFIX="${CLFS}" install</userinput></screen>

    <para os="l">If you're going to build your kernel with modules, you will need
    to make sure <command>depmod.pl</command> is available:</para>

<screen os="m"><userinput>cp examples/depmod.pl ${CLFS}/cross-tools/bin
chmod 755 ${CLFS}/cross-tools/bin/depmod.pl</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-busybox" role="content">
    <title>Contents of BusyBox</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>To be Written</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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          <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
          expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
          it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
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          formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
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          <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
          as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
          startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
          closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
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