@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#
-
config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOCONF
- bool"autoconf"
+ bool "autoconf"
default n
help
- Add help text here.
+ Extensible program for developing configure scripts. These
+ scripts handle all the mundane system/feature detection.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOMAKE
- bool"automake"
+ bool "automake"
+ Tool for automatically generating Makefile's for input to
+ configure scripts (made by autoconf).
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
config BR2_PACKAGE_BERKELEYDB
- bool"berkeleydb"
+ bool "berkeleydb"
+ The Berkeley database. A very common library for database
+ applications.
+ http://www.sleepycat.com/products/db.shtml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
config BR2_PACKAGE_BISON
- bool"bison"
+ bool "bison"
+ General-purpose parser generator that converts a
+ grammar description for an LALR context-free grammar into a C
+ program to parse that grammar.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/
config BR2_PACKAGE_BOA
- bool"boa"
+ bool "boa"
+ A very small and very fast http daemon. Not intended as
+ a feature-packed server.
+ http://www.boa.org/
config BR2_PACKAGE_BRIDGE
- bool"bridge"
+ bool "bridge"
+ Manage ethernet bridging; a way to connect networks together to
+ form a larger network.
+ http://bridge.sourceforge.net/
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
config BR2_PACKAGE_BZIP2
- bool"bzip2"
+ bool "bzip2"
+ Freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor.
+ It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best
+ available techniques, while being around twice as fast at
+ compression and six times faster at decompression.
+ http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_COREUTILS
bool "coreutils"
- All of the basic file/text/shell utilities.
+ All of the basic file/text/shell utilities. These are the
+ core utilities which are expected to exist on every system.
+ Busybox implements many of the most common.
Things like:
- chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls, etc...
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
config BR2_PACKAGE_CUSTOMIZE
- bool"customize"
+ bool "customize"
+ Add custom stuff to your buildroot.
+ (edit package/customize/customize.mk)
config BR2_PACKAGE_DHCP_RELAY
- bool"dhcp_relay"
+ bool "dhcp_relay"
+ DHCP relay agent from the ISC DHCP distribution.
+ http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
config BR2_PACKAGE_ED
- bool"ed"
+ bool "ed"
+ A line-oriented text editor. Used to create, display, modify,
+ and otherwise manipulate text files. Often used in scripts
+ rather than invoked directly.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/
config BR2_PACKAGE_FLEX
- bool"flex"
+ bool "flex"
+ A fast lexical analyser generator. A tool for generating
+ programs that perform pattern-matching on text.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/
config BR2_PACKAGE_GAWK
- bool"gawk"
+ bool "gawk"
+ A special-purpose programming language which is data driven
+ rather than procedural. Allows for simple data-reformatting jobs
+ with just a few lines of code.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
config BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT
- bool"gettext"
+ bool "gettext"
+ The GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provide a
+ framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual
+ messages.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/