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diff --git a/docs/configure.txt b/docs/configure.txt index 3fadc1f48..5dd4690fb 100644 --- a/docs/configure.txt +++ b/docs/configure.txt @@ -7,12 +7,9 @@ Cross-compilation toolchain --------------------------- A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows you to compile -code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our case, +gcc+), -binary utils like assembler and linker (in our case, +binutils+) and a -C standard library (either -http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html[GNU Libc], -http://www.uclibc.org/[uClibc] or -http://www.musl-libc.org/[musl]). +code for your system. It consists of a compiler, +binary utils like assembler and linker and a +C standard library. The system installed on your development station certainly already has a compilation toolchain that you can use to compile an application @@ -41,28 +38,24 @@ target system uses ARM, the regular compilation toolchain on your host runs on x86 and generates code for x86, while the cross-compilation toolchain runs on x86 and generates code for ARM. -OpenADK provides only one solution for the cross-compilation toolchain. -The versions for binutils, gcc, gdb and libc are fixed. It is a combination -of mostly the latest versions, which are known to work in this combination -and are known to produce usable firmware images. You normally do not need to -know the deep details, it is part of OpenADK policy to keep this part -simple for the user. - -You can only choose between three C libraries: -http://www.uclibc.org[uClibc], the +You can choose between four C libraries: +http://www.uclibc-ng.org[uClibc-ng], +http://www.uclibc.org[uClibc], http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html[glibc] and http://www.musl-libc.org[musl]. -There are some minimal configuration options provided in +Toolchain settings+. +There are some configuration options provided in +Toolchain settings+. You can enable or disable the building of following components and toolchain options: -* GDB (enabled by default) +* Optimization level + +* Stack Smashing Protection (SSP) support -* GNU C++ compiler (enabled by default, when disabled - will prevent some packages to show up in the menu selection) +* Position Independent Executable (PIE) support -* Stack Smashing Support (SSP) support for GNU C/C++ Compiler (experimental, some packages will fail to build) +* Link Time Optimization (LTO) support -* Link Time Optimization (LTO) support for GNU C/C++ Compiler (experimental, some packages will fail to build) +* GNU Hashstyle support +* GOLD LD support |