Installing applet links as softlinks

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Mar 23 23:14:21 UTC 2006


On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:22 am, Alexander Griesser wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm currently trying to upgrade my old thinclients to the new Busybox
> 1.1.1 and enabled the option CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS during the
> make menuconfig process.
>
> When I then copy the new busybox binary to the thinclient and do
> "busybox --install", no symlinks are generated, instead only hardlinks
> were created.
>
> Did I misunderstand this configuration option or this behaviour not
> expected?

Try "busybox --install -s"

I suspect busybox --help should show busybox command line options now.  I'll 
look into that...

> ciao,

Rob
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