Stupid question about configuring busybox

[David Collier]

In article <201011272122.24952.vda.linux at googlemail.com>,
vda.linux at googlemail.com (Denys Vlasenko) wrote:

> *From:* Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
> *To:* busybox at busybox.net, from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com
> *Date:* Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:22:24 +0100
> 
> 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.

This is not a problem... it was just a comment that I felt I needed to go
through it in detail and look at what new options had appeared between 13
and 17.

I have no idea why the choices were made on the 1.13 build - it came as
part of buildroot for the AVR32.

For instance they left out sendmail - for what reason escapes me -
there's no great shortage of memory !!!

> > 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?

I don't have a problem... I'm just getting used to the idea of how much
of my system's behaviour is down to busybox.

> > 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:

Thanks - that helps me to be sure I can build it and just stuff it in on
the existing kernel.

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