# Options related to how the build behaves comment "Build behavior" comment "Build options hiden" depends on BACKEND config PARALLEL_JOBS int prompt "Number of parallel jobs" if ! BACKEND default 1 help Number of jobs make will be allowed to run concurently. Set this higher than the number of processors you have, but not too high. A good rule of thumb is twice the number of processors you have. Enter 1 (or 0) to have only one job at a time. config LOAD int prompt "Maximum allowed load" if ! BACKEND default 0 help Specifies that no new jobs should be started if there are others jobs running and the load average is at least this value. Makes sense on SMP machines only. Enter 0 to have no limit on the load average. Note: only the integer part of the load is allowed here (you can't enter 0.75 for example). config USE_PIPES bool prompt "Use -pipe" if ! BACKEND default y help Use gcc's option -pipe to use pipes rather than temp files when building the toolchain. choice bool prompt "Shell to use as CONFIG_SHELL" default CONFIG_SHELL_BASH depends on ! BACKEND config CONFIG_SHELL_SH bool prompt "sh (the system shell)" help Use 'sh' as CONFIG_SHELL. ./configure scripts and Makefiles make intensive use of calling sub-shells. This is usually done by calling /bin/sh. /bin/sh ought to be an at-least-POSIX-conformant shell (that is, able to interpret POSIX shell scripts). On many (most?) systems, /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. On some other systems (eg. Ubuntu, latest Debian), /bin/sh points to dash (or ash). bash is a full-featured shell, with many extension to POSIX, but is quite slow (see ection BUGS in the bash man page), while dash is faster, with very few extensions to POSIX. On the other hand, some ./configure scripts, although written to use /bin/sh, may really require to be run by bash. The default is to use bash, as some components (eg. GMP) will fail to build with anything else than bash. config CONFIG_SHELL_ASH bool prompt "ash (READ HELP!)" help Use 'ash' as CONFIG_SHELL. See help for CONFIG_SHELL_SH, above, for more explanations. NOTE: It is advised that you do NOT use ash as CONFIG_SHELL, as some components are broken. If you decide to use ash, and the build breaks, don't come moaning and set the CONFIG_SHELL to bash, below. config CONFIG_SHELL_BASH bool prompt "bash" help Use 'bash' as CONFIG_SHELL. See help for CONFIG_SHELL_SH, above, for more explanations. config CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM bool prompt "custom shell" help Enter full path to the custom shell below. See help for CONFIG_SHELL_SH, above, for more explanations. endchoice config CONFIG_SHELL string default "sh" if CONFIG_SHELL_SH default "ash" if CONFIG_SHELL_ASH default "bash" if CONFIG_SHELL_BASH default "custom" if CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM || BACKEND config CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM_PATH string prompt "Path to custom shell" if ! BACKEND depends on CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM || BACKEND default "/bin/sh"