# Options specific to downloading packages comment "Downloading" config FORBID_DOWNLOAD bool prompt "Forbid downloads" default n help Normally, crosstool-NG will try to download missing tarballs (or checkout from CVS/SVN...). If you do not have network connectivity when you run crosstool-NG, and some files are missing, it can be a long time before crosstool-NG fails. Saying 'y' here will prevent crosstool-NG from downloading missing files, thus failing early so that you don't get stuck. if ! FORBID_DOWNLOAD config FORCE_DOWNLOAD bool prompt "Force downloads" default n help Force downloading tarballs, even if one already exists. Usefull if you suspect a tarball to be damaged. menuconfig USE_PROXY bool prompt "Use a proxy" default n help Say 'Y' here if you need to use a proxy to connect to the internet. You can then choose between an HTTP or a SOCKS 4/5 proxy. **** NOTE **** The settings below may not cover all possible proxy configurations! You'd be better off setting proxy in the environment! if USE_PROXY choice bool prompt "Proxy type" config PROXY_TYPE_HTTP bool prompt "HTTP proxy" help Use an HTTP proxy to connect to to the internet. Only the http and ftp protocols will be tunneled through this proxy. Alternatively to setting this option, you can set and export the following variables in your environment: ftp_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy.server:port/ http_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy.server:port/ https_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy.server:port/ # Haha! Here is an interesting feature/bug of mconf! # The following config entries will be shown out-side the # choice menu! # To add a third entry in the choice menu, add it after the # if...endif conditional below, and so on for a fourth entry... if PROXY_TYPE_HTTP config PROXY_HOST string prompt "hostname/IP" config PROXY_PORT int prompt "port" default 8080 config PROXY_USER string prompt "user name" config PROXY_PASS string prompt "password" endif # USE_HTTP_PROXY config PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS bool prompt "SOCKS 4/5 proxy" help Use a Socks 4/5 proxy to connect to the internet. All protocols can get tunneled through this kind of proxy (your proxy configuration may not allow all protocols, but chances are that protocols needed by crosstool-NG are allowed). Alternatively to setting this option, you can configure tsocks system-wide, and set and export the following variable in your environment: LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/your/tsocks-library.so This option makes use of the tsocks library. You will have to have tsocks installed on your system, of course. If you think you do not know what tsocks is, or how to configure it, chances are that you do not need to set this option. if PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS choice bool prompt "type" default PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_SYS config PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_SYS bool prompt "Use system settings" help Use that if tsocks is already configured on your system. config PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_AUTO bool prompt "Auto" help crosstool-NG will attempt to guess what type of SOCKS version the proxy speaks. config PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_4 bool prompt "SOCKS 4" config PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_5 bool prompt "SOCKS 5" endchoice if ! PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_SYS config PROXY_HOST string prompt "hostname/IP" config PROXY_PORT int prompt "port" default 1080 config PROXY_USER string prompt "user name" config PROXY_PASS string prompt "password" endif # ! PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_SYS endif # USE_SOCKS_PROXY endchoice endif # USE_PROXY config PROXY_TYPE string default "none" if ! USE_PROXY default "http" if PROXY_TYPE_HTTP default "sockssys" if PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_SYS default "socksauto" if PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_AUTO default "socks4" if PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_4 default "socks5" if PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS_5 menuconfig USE_MIRROR bool prompt "Use LAN mirror" default n help If you have a machine on your LAN that mirrors some of the needed tarballs, you can say 'Y' here, and configure adequate values in the following options. Tarballs will be be preferably fetched from the LAN mirror, and if not found there, standard places will be searched for. Obviously, nothing prevents you from using a mirror that is in fact *not* on your LAN, for example on another subnet of your company's network, or a mirror on the Internet. I (Yann E. MORIN) have set up such a mirror to host snapshots of some components, when those snapshots are volatile on the upstream servers. The mirror is *slow*, because it is hosted behind an ADSL line. For the time being, I haven't set up bandwidth limitations, but should the mirror be abused, I will. Please avoid using my machine when you can... The mirror is available as (fill in those values in the fields below): host name: ymorin.is-a-geek.org base dir : /mirrors if USE_MIRROR config PREFER_MIRROR bool prompt "Prefer the LAN mirror" default n help Say 'Y' here if you prefer the LAN miror over the upstream sources. choice bool prompt "Server type:" config MIRROR_HTTP bool prompt "http" config MIRROR_FTP bool prompt "ftp" endchoice # Server type config MIRROR_SCHEME string default "http" if MIRROR_HTTP default "ftp" if MIRROR_FTP config MIRROR_HOSTNAME string prompt "hostname" default "" help Enter here the hostname on your LAN mirror. config MIRROR_BASE string prompt "Base directory" default "" help This is the base directory searched for for tarballs. If you enter /mirror, then the search is performed in the following directories on the server: /mirror// /mirror/ where is replaced with the actual package name. config MIRROR_LS_R bool # prompt "Use ls-lR et al." depends on EXPERIMENTAL default n help If the tarball was not found at the above location, see if the server has a ls-lr.gz (or similar) file, and use that file to see if the tarball is listed somewhere in that file. Common file names looked for are: ls-lrRt.txt (used at ftp.gnu.org) find.txt (ditto) ls-lR endif # USE_MIRROR config CONNECT_TIMEOUT int prompt "connection timeout" default 10 help From the curl manual: Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take. The scenario is as follows; - some enterprise networks have firewalls that prohibit FTP traffic, while still allowing HTTP - most download sites have http:// equivalent for the ftp:// URL - after this number of seconds, it is considered that the connection could not be established, and the next URL in the list is tried, until we reach an URL that will go through the firewall, most probably an http:// URL. If you have a slow network, you'd better set this value higher than the default 10s. If you know a firewall is blocking connections, but your network is globally fast, you can try to lower this value to jump more quickly to allowed URLs. YMMV. Note that this value applies equally to wget if you have that installed. Of course, you'd be better off to use a proxy, as offered by the previous option. config ONLY_DOWNLOAD bool prompt "Stop after downloading tarballs" default n help Only download the tarballs. Exit once it done. Usefull to pre-retrieve the tarballs before going off-line. endif # ! FORBID_DOWNLOAD