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-rw-r--r--Makefile11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d767e715a..06b42a8e9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -45,11 +45,12 @@ DODEBUG = false
# password and group functions. Assuming you use GNU libc, when this is
# `true', you will need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file
# and the required libnss_* libraries. This generally makes your embedded
-# system quite a bit larger... If you leave this off, busybox will directly
-# use the /etc/password, /etc/group files (and your system will be smaller, and
-# I will get fewer emails asking about how glibc NSS works). Enabling this adds
-# just 1.4k to the binary size (which is a _lot_ less then glibc NSS costs),
-# Most people will want to leave this set to false.
+# system quite a bit larger... If you leave this off, busybox will directly use
+# the /etc/password, /etc/group files (and your system will be smaller, and I
+# will get fewer emails asking about how glibc NSS works). Enabling this adds
+# just 1.4k to the binary size (which is a _lot_ less then glibc NSS costs).
+# Note that if you want hostname resolution to work with glibc, you still need
+# the libnss_* libraries. Most people will want to leave this set to false.
USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GRP = true
# This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ )