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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-05-07 17:51:34 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-05-07 17:51:34 +0000
commitda7f095c1203bf58fdb16e8151856e6f850e5820 (patch)
tree298993a3602463f6025287312e73448538ef17b4 /Makefile
parent28355a36da6ad4d1b55ba9bb146fb0b6586e7edb (diff)
Update comment re USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GRP
-Erik
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@@ -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/ )