James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote:
> no, i am correct. gentoo's and debian's manpages for busybox starts
> out with:
>
> NAME
> BusyBox - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
>
> SYNTAX
> busybox <applet> [arguments...] # or
>
> <applet> [arguments...] # if symlinked
>
>
> if your dist does something different, then it is a non-typical change
> to the normal bb behaviour.
Farther down in that same manpage; note "most people" and, especially,
the last sentence:
Of course, adding '/bin/busybox' into every command would be painful.
So most people will invoke BusyBox using links to the BusyBox binary.
For example, entering
ln -s /bin/busybox ls
./ls
will cause BusyBox to behave as 'ls' (if the 'ls' command has been
compiled into BusyBox). Generally speaking, you should never need to
make all these links yourself, as the BusyBox build system will do this
for you when you run the 'make install' command.
The links are *normally* included in a busybox installation. Sheesh!
