# 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 0 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 to have only one job at a time. Enter 0 to set automatically based on how many processors the host has. config LOAD string prompt "Maximum allowed load" if ! BACKEND default "" help Specifies that no new jobs should be started if there are others jobs running and the load average is at least this value. Leave to empty for no load limit. Note: any float value is allowed and will be passed to the '-l' option of make (for further details, refer to the make manpage). 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. config EXTRA_CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD string prompt "Extra build compiler flags" default "" help Extra flags to pass to the build C and C++ compiler. May be used to change the default features of the build compiler such as turning off the stack protector or fortify. config EXTRA_LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD string prompt "Extra build linker flags" default "" help Extra flags to pass to the build linker. May be used to change the default features of the build linker. config EXTRA_CFLAGS_FOR_HOST string prompt "Extra host compiler flags" default "" help Extra flags to pass to the host C and C++ compiler. May be used to change the default features of the host compiler such as turning off the stack protector or fortify. config EXTRA_LDFLAGS_FOR_HOST string prompt "Extra host linker flags" default "" help Extra flags to pass to the host linker. May be used to change the default features of the host linker. 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. Unless you have a very strong reason not to (eg. you are debugging the bashisms in a ./configure script), you should use the default, and use 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 # Do not put this into the choice above, because the choice # is not available in BACKEND-mode, while we do want this to # be set even in BACKEND-mode. config CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM_PATH string prompt "Path to custom shell" if ! BACKEND depends on CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM || BACKEND default "/bin/sh" # Ditto. # And we must use the ./configured bash... config CONFIG_SHELL string default "/bin/sh" if CONFIG_SHELL_SH default "/bin/ash" if CONFIG_SHELL_ASH default "${bash}" if CONFIG_SHELL_BASH default CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM_PATH if CONFIG_SHELL_CUSTOM || BACKEND