Stupid question about configuring busybox

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Saturday 27 November 2010 02:24, David Collier wrote:
> I've just worked my way tediously through a busybox config - I had to
> create one for 1.17 from one which worked with 1.13.
> 
> So there are a whole pile of new things, and a few shifted ones.

Can you be more specific what exactly new "things" do you see.
 
> A lot of the things I see in the config file I didn't really realise were
> the responsibility of busybox... they seem to be stuff I'd have expected
> to configure in the kernel.

It sounds like you are using buildroot or something like it.
Can you describe *in detail* what do you do?

> When I config busybox, does that affect my kernel build options in some
> way I haven't understood... or does busybox sit on top of the kernel, and
> the configurations are totally separate?

busybox is just an application:

http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#whatis

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