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| 1 | Please see the LICENSE file for details on copying and usage. | 1 | Please see the LICENSE file for details on copying and usage. |
| 2 | Please refer to the INSTALL file for instructions on how to build. | ||
| 2 | 3 | ||
| 3 | BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single | 4 | BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single |
| 4 | small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities | 5 | small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities |
| @@ -15,17 +16,8 @@ BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded | |||
| 15 | system. | 16 | system. |
| 16 | 17 | ||
| 17 | BusyBox is extremely configurable. This allows you to include only the | 18 | BusyBox is extremely configurable. This allows you to include only the |
| 18 | components you need, thereby reducing binary size. Run 'make config' or | 19 | components you need, thereby reducing binary size. See the file INSTALL |
| 19 | 'make menuconfig' to select the functionality that you wish to enable. | 20 | for details. |
| 20 | |||
| 21 | After the build is complete, a busybox.links file is generated. This is | ||
| 22 | used by 'make install' to create symlinks to the BusyBox binary for all | ||
| 23 | compiled in functions. By default, 'make install' will place the symlink | ||
| 24 | forest into `pwd`/_install unless you have defined the PREFIX environment | ||
| 25 | variable (i.e., 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install') | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | If you wish to install hard links, rather than symlinks, you can use | ||
| 28 | 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install-hardlinks' instead. | ||
| 29 | 21 | ||
| 30 | ---------------- | 22 | ---------------- |
| 31 | 23 | ||
| @@ -110,14 +102,14 @@ be downloaded from | |||
| 110 | 102 | ||
| 111 | CVS: | 103 | CVS: |
| 112 | 104 | ||
| 113 | BusyBox now has its own publicly browsable CVS tree at: | 105 | BusyBox now has its own publicly browsable SVN tree at: |
| 114 | http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/ | 106 | http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/ |
| 115 | 107 | ||
| 116 | Anonymous CVS access is available. For instructions, check out: | 108 | Anonymous SVN access is available. For instructions, check out: |
| 117 | http://busybox.net/cvs_anon.html | 109 | http://busybox.net/subversion.html |
| 118 | 110 | ||
| 119 | For those that are actively contributing there is even CVS write access: | 111 | For those that are actively contributing there is even SVN write access: |
| 120 | http://busybox.net/cvs_write.html | 112 | http://busybox.net/developer.html |
| 121 | 113 | ||
| 122 | ---------------- | 114 | ---------------- |
| 123 | 115 | ||