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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2005-12-02 18:27:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2005-12-02 18:27:39 +0000 |
| commit | d4f15e95d6a66847eee99fb4bb2131d0622ba8b5 (patch) | |
| tree | f1b07074339f7ee43c309df4c95adffc4f4edc47 /docs/busybox_header.pod | |
| parent | d1569c215cf7cdbbe1b04f75f05c0bd99df435cf (diff) | |
| download | busybox-d4f15e95d6a66847eee99fb4bb2131d0622ba8b5.tar.gz | |
Install links patch from Yann E. Morin. (Another thing hanging around in my
tree forever. Tweaked the docs a bit.)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/busybox_header.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/busybox_header.pod b/docs/busybox_header.pod index 5af92401c..7a5b0f716 100644 --- a/docs/busybox_header.pod +++ b/docs/busybox_header.pod @@ -28,17 +28,16 @@ system. BusyBox is extremely configurable. This allows you to include only the components you need, thereby reducing binary size. Run 'make config' or 'make -menuconfig' to select the functionality that you wish to enable. The run +menuconfig' to select the functionality that you wish to enable. Then run 'make' to compile BusyBox using your configuration. After the compile has finished, you should use 'make install' to install -BusyBox. This will install the '/bin/busybox' binary, and will also create -symlinks pointing to the '/bin/busybox' binary for each utility that you -compile into BusyBox. By default, 'make install' will place these symlinks -into the './_install' directory, unless you have defined 'PREFIX', thereby -specifying some alternative location (i.e., 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install'). -If you wish to install using hardlinks, rather than the default of using -symlinks, you can use 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install-hardlinks' instead. +BusyBox. This will install the 'bin/busybox' binary, in the target directory +specified by PREFIX. PREFIX can be set when configuring BusyBox, or you can +specify an alternative location at install time (i.e., with a command line +like 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install'). If you enabled any applet installation +scheme (either as symlinks or hardlinks), these will also be installed in +the location pointed to by PREFIX. =head1 USAGE |