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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2006-01-19 21:22:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2006-01-19 21:22:37 +0000 |
| commit | c8e41157a2b6486397ded716846c6cd8c8edac8e (patch) | |
| tree | c9ad557debeb994094593e43cdcfce1cb203b996 | |
| parent | 5a620ea22003cba12dc58bc1f30c11cfe9965825 (diff) | |
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Update readme and install.sh usage message.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 19 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | applets/install.sh | 2 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
| @@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ What is busybox: | |||
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single | 6 | BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single |
| 7 | small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the | 7 | small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the |
| 8 | utilities you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, file, findutils, gawk, grep, | 8 | utilities you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, e2fsprogs, file, findutils, |
| 9 | inetutils, modutils, net-tools, procps, sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, | 9 | gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, procps, sed, shadow, |
| 10 | util-linux, and vim. The utilities in BusyBox often have fewer options than | 10 | sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. The utilities in BusyBox |
| 11 | their full-featured cousins; however, the options that are included provide | 11 | often have fewer options than their full-featured cousins; however, the |
| 12 | the expected functionality and behave very much like their larger | 12 | options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave |
| 13 | counterparts. | 13 | very much like their larger counterparts. |
| 14 | 14 | ||
| 15 | BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in | 15 | BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in |
| 16 | mind, both to produce small binaries and to reduce run-time memory usage. | 16 | mind, both to produce small binaries and to reduce run-time memory usage. |
| @@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ Using busybox: | |||
| 50 | 50 | ||
| 51 | The build automatically generates a file "busybox.links", which is used by | 51 | The build automatically generates a file "busybox.links", which is used by |
| 52 | 'make install' to create symlinks to the BusyBox binary for all compiled in | 52 | 'make install' to create symlinks to the BusyBox binary for all compiled in |
| 53 | commands. Use the PREFIX environment variable to specify where to install | 53 | commands. This uses the PREFIX environment variable to specify where to |
| 54 | the busybox binary and symlink forest. (i.e., 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install', | 54 | install, and installs hardlinks or symlinks depending on the configuration |
| 55 | or 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install-hardlinks' if you prefer hard links.) | 55 | preferences. (You can also manually run the install script at |
| 56 | "applets/install.sh"). | ||
| 56 | 57 | ||
| 57 | ---------------- | 58 | ---------------- |
| 58 | 59 | ||
diff --git a/applets/install.sh b/applets/install.sh index cc6c1fa49..0bffc7300 100755 --- a/applets/install.sh +++ b/applets/install.sh | |||
| @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export LC_CTYPE=POSIX | |||
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | prefix=${1} | 6 | prefix=${1} |
| 7 | if [ -z "$prefix" ]; then | 7 | if [ -z "$prefix" ]; then |
| 8 | echo "No installation directory, aborting." | 8 | echo "usage: applets/install.sh DESTINATION [--symlinks/--hardlinks]" |
| 9 | exit 1; | 9 | exit 1; |
| 10 | fi | 10 | fi |
| 11 | h=`sort busybox.links | uniq` | 11 | h=`sort busybox.links | uniq` |