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| -rw-r--r-- | extra/Configs/Config.in | 59 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in index 28e8d345b..b6c01f967 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.in +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ config FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS segments. These libraries haven't set the DT_TEXTREL tag in the dynamic section (==> objdump). So all your libraries must be compiled with -fPIC or -fpic, and all assembler function must be written as position - independent code (PIC). + independent code (PIC). Enabling this option will makes uClibc's shared library loader a little bit smaller and guarantee that no memory will be wasted by badly coded shared libraries. @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS depends on !HAS_NO_THREADS default y help - If you want to compile uClibc with pthread support, then answer Y. + If you want to compile uClibc with pthread support, then answer Y. This will increase the size of uClibc by adding a bunch of locking to critical data structures, and adding extra code to ensure that functions are properly reentrant. @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ config PTHREADS_DEBUG_SUPPORT depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS help Say Y here if you wish to be able to debug applications that use - uClibc's pthreads library. By enabling this option, a library + uClibc's pthreads library. By enabling this option, a library named libthread_db will be built. This library will be dlopen()'d by gdb and will allow gdb to debug the threads in your application. @@ -306,11 +306,22 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_LFS bool "Large File Support" default y help - If you wish to build uClibc with support for accessing large files - (i.e. files greater then 2 GiB) then answer Y. Do not enable this - if you are using an older Linux kernel (2.0.x) that lacks large file + If you wish to build uClibc with support for accessing large files + (i.e. files greater then 2 GiB) then answer Y. Do not enable this + if you are using an older Linux kernel (2.0.x) that lacks large file support. Enabling this option will increase the size of uClibc. +config UCLIBC_STATIC_LDCONFIG + bool "Link ldconfig statically" + default y + help + Enable this option to statically link the ldconfig binary. + + Making ldconfig static can be beneficial if you have a library + problem and need to used ldconfig to recover. Sometimes, it is + preferable to instead keep the size of the system down, in which + case you should disable this option. + choice prompt "Malloc Implementation" default MALLOC if ! ARCH_HAS_MMU @@ -378,7 +389,7 @@ config UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_ATEXIT global destructors are implemented via atexit(), and it is quite possible to exceed the default number when this option is disabled. Enabling this option adds a few bytes, and more significantly makes - atexit and on_exit depend on malloc, which can be bad when compiling + atexit and on_exit depend on malloc, which can be bad when compiling static executables. Unless you use uClibc with C++, you should probably answer N. @@ -388,7 +399,7 @@ config HAS_SHADOW bool "Shadow Password Support" default y help - Answer N if you do not need shadow password support. + Answer N if you do not need shadow password support. Most people will answer Y. config UNIX98PTY_ONLY @@ -396,7 +407,7 @@ config UNIX98PTY_ONLY default y help If you want to support only Unix 98 PTYs enable this. Some older - applications may need this disabled. For most current programs, + applications may need this disabled. For most current programs, you can generally answer Y. config ASSUME_DEVPTS @@ -404,7 +415,7 @@ config ASSUME_DEVPTS default y help Enable this if /dev/pts is on a devpts or devfs filesystem. Both - these filesystems automatically manage permissions on the /dev/pts + these filesystems automatically manage permissions on the /dev/pts devices. You may need to mount your devpts or devfs filesystem on /dev/pts for this to work. @@ -488,15 +499,15 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6 help If you want to include support for the next version of the Internet Protocol (IP version 6) then answer Y. - + Most people should answer N. config UCLIBC_HAS_RPC bool "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) support" default n help - If you want to include RPC support, enable this. RPC is rarely used - for anything except for the NFS filesystem. Unless you plan to use NFS, + If you want to include RPC support, enable this. RPC is rarely used + for anything except for the NFS filesystem. Unless you plan to use NFS, you can probably leave this set to N and save some space. If you need to use NFS then you should answer Y. @@ -506,7 +517,7 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_FULL_RPC default y if !HAVE_SHARED help Normally we enable just enough RPC support for things like rshd and - nfs mounts to work. If you find you need the rest of the RPC stuff, + nfs mounts to work. If you find you need the rest of the RPC stuff, then enable this option. Most people can safely answer N. endmenu @@ -522,7 +533,7 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_GENERIC_OPT In general, they are faster (but 3-5K larger) than the base uClibc string functions which are optimized solely for size. - Many people will answer Y. + Many people will answer Y. config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_ARCH_OPT bool "Use arch-specific string functions" @@ -541,7 +552,7 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES Answer Y to use table versions of the 'ctype.h' functions. While the non-table versions are often smaller when building staticly linked apps, they work only in stub locale mode. - + Most people will answer Y. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_SIGNED @@ -587,7 +598,7 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR bool "Wide Character Support" default n help - Answer Y to enable wide character support. This will make uClibc + Answer Y to enable wide character support. This will make uClibc much larger. It is also currently required for locale support. Most people will answer N. @@ -600,8 +611,8 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE help uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support (except for wcsftime() and collating items in regex). Be aware that enabling - this option will make uClibc much larger. - + this option will make uClibc much larger. + Enabling UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE with the default set of supported locales (169 UTF-8 locales, and 144 locales for other codesets) will enlarge uClibc by around 300k. You can reduce this size by building your own @@ -985,7 +996,7 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_FTW bool "Support the ftw() and nftw() interfaces" default n help - The SuSv3 ftw() and nftw() interfaces are used to recursively descend + The SuSv3 ftw() and nftw() interfaces are used to recursively descend directory paths while repeatedly calling a function. This interface is rarely used, and adds around 4.5k. Unless you have @@ -998,7 +1009,7 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB The glob interface is somewhat large (weighing in at about 4k). It is used fairly often, but is an option since people wanting to go for - absolute minimum size may wish to omit it. + absolute minimum size may wish to omit it. Most people will answer Y. @@ -1023,7 +1034,7 @@ config SHARED_LIB_LOADER_PREFIX BIG FAT WARNING: If you do not have a shared library loader with the correct name - sitting in the directory this points to, your binaries will not + sitting in the directory this points to, your binaries will not run. config SYSTEM_LDSO @@ -1037,7 +1048,7 @@ config SYSTEM_LDSO BIG FAT WARNING: If you do not have a shared library loader with the correct name - sitting in the directory this points to, your binaries will not + sitting in the directory this points to, your binaries will not run. config RUNTIME_PREFIX @@ -1268,7 +1279,7 @@ config UCLIBC_MALLOC_DEBUGGING 2 - output messages for malloc/free calls and OS allocation calls 4 - output messages for the `MMB' layer 8 - output messages for internal malloc heap manipulation calls - + Because this increases the size of malloc appreciably (due to strings etc), you should say N unless you need to debug a malloc problem. |