busybox.git/Config.in, branch master

busybox: optional --version support

2025-10-13T19:56:47+00:00

function                                             old     new   delta
busybox_main                                         695     734     +39

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

build system: fix "Config.in:117 error: Overlong line"

2023-05-08T10:31:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

build system: Make it possible to build with 64bit time_t

2023-05-07T16:57:06+00:00

On most 32bit architectures time_t (and a few other time related types)
are a signed 32bit wide integer type.
As a consequence they can only represent dates between

	Fri Dec 13 08:45:52 PM UTC 1901

(-0x80000000 seconds before Jan 1 1970) and

	Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 AM UTC 2038

(0x7fffffff seconds after Jan 1 1970). Given that some machines that are
built today have an expected lifetime of >15 years, this needs to be
extended. To to that, define the cpp symbol _TIME_BITS to 64 which
results in some magic in glibc to make time_t (and the few other time
related types) 64 bit wide.

This new switch CONFIG_TIME64 is in the spirit of CONFIG_LFS and only
expected to have the expected effect with glibc. On musl for examples
time_t already defaults to 64bit wide types.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

build system: make -static-libgcc selectable in config

2020-12-16T20:53:05+00:00

OpenWrt wants this off.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

build system: drop PLATFORM_LINUX

2020-08-13T15:12:56+00:00

PLATFORM_LINUX is a hidden configuration option which is disabled by
default and enabled at over a hundred locations for features that are
deemed to be Linux specific.

The only effect of PLATFORM_LINUX is to control compilation of
libbb/match_fstype.c.  This file is only needed by mount and umount.

Remove all references to PLATFORM_LINUX and compile match_fstype.c
if mount or umount is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

config: PID_FILE_PATH required for FEATURE_CROND_SPECIAL_TIMES

2019-10-14T10:48:38+00:00

When crond is built with FEATURE_CROND_SPECIAL_TIMES enabled, it creates
a file called 'crond.reboot' at CONFIG_PID_FILE_PATH, but if
FEATURE_PIDFILE is disabled, this will be an empty string and the file
will be created in the root directory, which is undesirable.

This commit makes PID_FILE_PATH depend on FEATURE_CROND_SPECIAL_TIMES as
well as FEATURE_PIDFILE so that you get sensible behaviour in crond when
FEATURE_PIDFILE is switched off.

Signed-off-by: James Byrne 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

libbb: reduce the overhead of single parameter bb_error_msg() calls

2019-07-02T09:35:03+00:00

Back in 2007, commit 0c97c9d43707 ("'simple' error message functions by
Loic Grenie") introduced bb_simple_perror_msg() to allow for a lower
overhead call to bb_perror_msg() when only a string was being printed
with no parameters. This saves space for some CPU architectures because
it avoids the overhead of a call to a variadic function. However there
has never been a simple version of bb_error_msg(), and since 2007 many
new calls to bb_perror_msg() have been added that only take a single
parameter and so could have been using bb_simple_perror_message().

This changeset introduces 'simple' versions of bb_info_msg(),
bb_error_msg(), bb_error_msg_and_die(), bb_herror_msg() and
bb_herror_msg_and_die(), and replaces all calls that only take a
single parameter, or use something like ("%s", arg), with calls to the
corresponding 'simple' version.

Since it is likely that single parameter calls to the variadic functions
may be accidentally reintroduced in the future a new debugging config
option WARN_SIMPLE_MSG has been introduced. This uses some macro magic
which will cause any such calls to generate a warning, but this is
turned off by default to avoid use of the unpleasant macros in normal
circumstances.

This is a large changeset due to the number of calls that have been
replaced. The only files that contain changes other than simple
substitution of function calls are libbb.h, libbb/herror_msg.c,
libbb/verror_msg.c and libbb/xfuncs_printf.c. In miscutils/devfsd.c,
networking/udhcp/common.h and util-linux/mdev.c additonal macros have
been added for logging so that single parameter and multiple parameter
logging variants exist.

The amount of space saved varies considerably by architecture, and was
found to be as follows (for 'defconfig' using GCC 7.4):

Arm:     -92 bytes
MIPS:    -52 bytes
PPC:   -1836 bytes
x86_64: -938 bytes

Note that for the MIPS architecture only an exception had to be made
disabling the 'simple' calls for 'udhcp' (in networking/udhcp/common.h)
because it made these files larger on MIPS.

Signed-off-by: James Byrne 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

Optionally re-introduce bb_info_msg()

2019-04-30T08:51:27+00:00

Between Busybox 1.24.2 and 1.25.0 the bb_info_msg() function was
eliminated and calls to it changed to be bb_error_msg(). The downside of
this is that daemons now log all messages to syslog at the LOG_ERR level
which makes it hard to filter errors from informational messages.

This change optionally re-introduces bb_info_msg(), controlled by a new
option FEATURE_SYSLOG_INFO, restores all the calls to bb_info_msg() that
were removed (only in applets that set logmode to LOGMODE_SYSLOG or
LOGMODE_BOTH), and also changes informational messages in ifplugd and
ntpd.

The code size change of this is as follows (using 'defconfig' on x86_64
with gcc 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)

function                                             old     new   delta
bb_info_msg                                            -     182    +182
bb_vinfo_msg                                           -      27     +27
static.log7                                          194     198      +4
log8                                                 190     191      +1
log5                                                 190     191      +1
crondlog                                              45       -     -45
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 2/1 grow/shrink: 3/0 up/down: 215/-45)           Total: 170 bytes

If you don't care about everything being logged at LOG_ERR level
then when FEATURE_SYSLOG_INFO is disabled Busybox actually gets smaller:

function                                             old     new   delta
static.log7                                          194     200      +6
log8                                                 190     193      +3
log5                                                 190     193      +3
syslog_level                                           1       -      -1
bb_verror_msg                                        583     581      -2
crondlog                                              45       -     -45
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 3/1 up/down: 12/-48)            Total: -36 bytes

Signed-off-by: James Byrne 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

build system: fix compiler warnings

2019-01-06T19:12:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

busybox: add '--show SCRIPT' option to display scripts

2018-11-18T18:19:29+00:00

Add an option to allow the content of embedded scripts to be
displayed.  This includes applet scripts, custom scripts and the
.profile script.

function                                             old     new   delta
busybox_main                                         624     701     +77
find_script_by_name                                    -      24     +24
scripted_main                                         41      35      -6
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 101/-6)             Total: 95 bytes

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko