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docs/A - Credits.txt
author "Benoît THÉBAUDEAU" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Thu Jul 28 22:09:31 2011 +0200 (2011-07-28)
changeset 2573 424fa2092ace
parent 2076 b58109b7b321
child 2829 0c3c95f911ec
child 2912 6467c949c91c
permissions -rw-r--r--
scripts/libc: do not build add-ons by default

Currently, no --enable-add-ons option is passed to libc configure when
"$(do_libc_add_ons_list ,)" is empty, which makes configure automatically search
for present add-ons. In that case, all present add-ons are built, although
no add-on was selected by the user in the config. Moreover, this can make the
configure fail if some non-standard add-ons like eglibc-localedef are present.

This behavior also leads to an inconsistency from a user point of view between
the following cases:
- LIBC_ADDONS_LIST="", LIBC_GLIBC_USE_PORTS=n and THREADS="none" in the config,
which makes "$(do_libc_add_ons_list ,)" return "", so all present add-ons
are built.
- LIBC_ADDONS_LIST="", LIBC_GLIBC_USE_PORTS=n and THREADS!="none" in the
config, which makes "$(do_libc_add_ons_list ,)" return the add-on supporting
the chosen threading implementation, e.g. "nptl", so only this add-on is
built.

This patch disables the building of all add-ons in that case.

It is still possible to build all present add-ons by adding --enable-add-ons to
LIBC_GLIBC_EXTRA_CONFIG_ARRAY.

Signed-off-by: "Benoît THÉBAUDEAU" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> 
     1 File.........: A - Credits.txt

     2 Copyright....: (C) 2010 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

     3 License......: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC-by-sa), v2.5

     4 

     5 

     6 Credits  /

     7 ________/

     8 

     9 

    10 I would like to thank these fine people for making crosstool-NG possible:

    11 

    12   Dan KEGEL, the original author of crosstool: http://www.kegel.com/

    13     Dan was very helpfull and willing to help when I build my first toolchains.

    14     I owe him one. Thank you Dan!

    15     Some crosstool-NG scripts have code snippets coming almost as-is from the

    16     original work by Dan.

    17 

    18 And in order of appearance on the crossgcc ML:

    19 

    20   Allan CLARK for his investigations on building toolchains on MacOS-X.

    21     Allan made extensive tests of the first alpha of crosstool-NG on his

    22     MacOS-X, and unveiled some bash-2.05 weirdness.

    23 

    24   Enrico WEIGELT

    25     - some improvements to the build procedure

    26     - cxa_atexit disabling for C libraries not supporting it (old uClibc)

    27     - misc suggestions (restartable build, ...)

    28     - get rid of some bashisms in ./configure

    29     - contributed OpenRISC or32 support

    30 

    31   Robert P. J. DAY:

    32     - some small improvements to the configurator, misc prompting glitches

    33     - 'sanitised' patches for binutils-2.17

    34     - patches for glibc-2.5

    35     - misc patches, typos and eye candy

    36     - too many to list any more!

    37 

    38   Al Stone:

    39     - initial ia64 support

    40     - some cosmetics

    41 

    42   Szilveszter Ordog:

    43     - a uClibc floating point fix

    44     - initial support for ARM EABI

    45 

    46   Mark Jonas:

    47     - initiated Super-H port

    48 

    49   Michael Abbott:

    50     - make it build with ancient findutils

    51 

    52   Willy Tarreau:

    53     - a patch to glibc to build on 'ancient' shells

    54     - reported mis-use of $CT_CC_NATIVE

    55 

    56   Matthias Kaehlcke:

    57     - fix building glibc-2.7 (and 2.6.1) with newer kernels

    58 

    59   Daniel Dittmann:

    60     - PowerPC support

    61 

    62   Ioannis E. Venetis:

    63     - preliminary Alpha support

    64     - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming

    65 

    66   Thomas Jourdan:

    67     - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming

    68     - eglibc support

    69 

    70   Many others have contributed, either in form of patches, suggestions,

    71   comments, or testing... Thank you to all of you!

    72 

    73 Special dedication to the buildroot people for maintaining a set of patches I

    74 happily and shamelessly vampirise from time to time... :-)

    75 

    76 

    77 20100530: Status of this file

    78 

    79 It's been about a year now that we've moved the repository to Mercurial.

    80 The repository now has proper authorship for each changeset, and this is

    81 used to build the changelog at each release. This file will probably no

    82 longer be updated, and is here to credit people prior to the Mercurial

    83 migration, or for people discussing ideas or otherwise helping without

    84 code.

    85 

    86 If you think you deserve being cited in this file, do yell at me! ;-)
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