# Options related to how the build behaves comment "Build behavior" config PARALLEL_JOBS int prompt "Number of parallel jobs" 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" 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 NICE int prompt "Nice level" default 0 range 0 19 help Renices the build process up. config USE_PIPES bool prompt "Use -pipe" default y help Use gcc's option -pipe to use pipes rather than temp files when building the toolchain. config CONFIG_SHELL_ASH bool prompt "Use 'ash' as CONFIG_SHELL" default n help Use /bin/ash as the shell used by ./configure scripts. ./configure scripts make intensive use of calling a sub-shell, and the traditional bash is slow, whereas ash is faster. Saying 'y' here should be safe enough, but some components may not accept using a shell other than bash (this is most probably true for old versions). If you have trouble, say 'n' here and see if it fixes it.