[BusyBox] Re: how to figure out old config

Jan-Marc Pilawa j.pilawa at tu-bs.de
Fri Jan 23 15:05:15 UTC 2004


Zitat von busybox-request at mail.codepoet.org:

> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:06, Jan-Marc Pilawa wrote:
> > >> Question: Is there any way to find out which config options were
> > >> used to compile a busybox-binary?
> > >
> > >You can see which applets were compiled in just by running busybox,
> > >>but there is no easy way of knowing what options were used.
> > 
> 
> Long time ago we have sendet a patch to get a rid on a such
> behavier. This patch was telling you how busybox was called.
> It was telling you for example: "Busybox was called as: ifconfig"
> So one was able to know which applet is crashing/not working.

Thank you very much, but i am looking for something more like 
a "make cloneconfig". From a Busybox-binary I expect that it 
should be small, so I didn't expected a build in feature but perhaps
something more like: "Do strings busybox | awk '{...}'| sort" and some
work on interpreting th output...


Jan Pilawa.

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