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  1. #
  2. # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
  3. # see extra/config/Kconfig-language.txt
  4. #
  5. mainmenu "uClibc C Library Configuration"
  6. config DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH
  7. string
  8. option env="ARCH"
  9. choice
  10. prompt "Target Architecture"
  11. default TARGET_alpha if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "alpha"
  12. default TARGET_arm if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
  13. default TARGET_avr32 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "avr32"
  14. default TARGET_bfin if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "bfin"
  15. default TARGET_cris if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "cris"
  16. default TARGET_e1 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "e1"
  17. default TARGET_frv if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "frv"
  18. default TARGET_h8300 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "h8300"
  19. default TARGET_hppa if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "hppa"
  20. default TARGET_i386 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "i386"
  21. default TARGET_i960 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "i960"
  22. default TARGET_ia64 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "ia64"
  23. default TARGET_m68k if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "m68k"
  24. default TARGET_metag if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "metag"
  25. default TARGET_microblaze if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "microblaze"
  26. default TARGET_mips if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "mips"
  27. default TARGET_nios if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "nios"
  28. default TARGET_nios2 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "nios2"
  29. default TARGET_powerpc if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "powerpc"
  30. default TARGET_sh if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "sh"
  31. default TARGET_sh64 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "sh64"
  32. default TARGET_sparc if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "sparc"
  33. default TARGET_v850 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "v850"
  34. default TARGET_vax if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "vax"
  35. default TARGET_x86_64 if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "x86_64"
  36. default TARGET_xtensa if DESIRED_TARGET_ARCH = "xtensa"
  37. help
  38. The architecture of your target.
  39. config TARGET_alpha
  40. bool "alpha"
  41. config TARGET_arm
  42. bool "arm"
  43. config TARGET_avr32
  44. bool "avr32"
  45. config TARGET_bfin
  46. bool "bfin"
  47. config TARGET_c6x
  48. bool "c6x"
  49. config TARGET_cris
  50. bool "cris"
  51. config TARGET_e1
  52. bool "e1 (BROKEN)"
  53. config TARGET_frv
  54. bool "frv (BROKEN)"
  55. config TARGET_h8300
  56. bool "h8300 (BROKEN)"
  57. config TARGET_hppa
  58. bool "hppa"
  59. config TARGET_i386
  60. bool "i386"
  61. config TARGET_i960
  62. bool "i960 (BROKEN)"
  63. config TARGET_ia64
  64. bool "ia64"
  65. config TARGET_m68k
  66. bool "m68k"
  67. config TARGET_metag
  68. bool "metag"
  69. config TARGET_microblaze
  70. bool "microblaze"
  71. config TARGET_mips
  72. bool "mips"
  73. config TARGET_nios
  74. bool "nios"
  75. config TARGET_nios2
  76. bool "nios2"
  77. config TARGET_powerpc
  78. bool "powerpc"
  79. config TARGET_sh
  80. bool "superh"
  81. config TARGET_sh64
  82. bool "sh64"
  83. config TARGET_sparc
  84. bool "sparc"
  85. config TARGET_v850
  86. bool "v850 (BROKEN)"
  87. config TARGET_vax
  88. bool "vax"
  89. config TARGET_x86_64
  90. bool "x86_64"
  91. config TARGET_xtensa
  92. bool "xtensa"
  93. endchoice
  94. menu "Target Architecture Features and Options"
  95. if TARGET_alpha
  96. source "extra/Configs/Config.alpha"
  97. endif
  98. if TARGET_arm
  99. source "extra/Configs/Config.arm"
  100. endif
  101. if TARGET_avr32
  102. source "extra/Configs/Config.avr32"
  103. endif
  104. if TARGET_bfin
  105. source "extra/Configs/Config.bfin"
  106. endif
  107. if TARGET_cris
  108. source "extra/Configs/Config.cris"
  109. endif
  110. if TARGET_e1
  111. source "extra/Configs/Config.e1"
  112. endif
  113. if TARGET_frv
  114. source "extra/Configs/Config.frv"
  115. endif
  116. if TARGET_h8300
  117. source "extra/Configs/Config.h8300"
  118. endif
  119. if TARGET_hppa
  120. source "extra/Configs/Config.hppa"
  121. endif
  122. if TARGET_i386
  123. source "extra/Configs/Config.i386"
  124. endif
  125. if TARGET_i960
  126. source "extra/Configs/Config.i960"
  127. endif
  128. if TARGET_ia64
  129. source "extra/Configs/Config.ia64"
  130. endif
  131. if TARGET_m68k
  132. source "extra/Configs/Config.m68k"
  133. endif
  134. if TARGET_metag
  135. source "extra/Configs/Config.metag"
  136. endif
  137. if TARGET_nios
  138. source "extra/Configs/Config.nios"
  139. endif
  140. if TARGET_nios2
  141. source "extra/Configs/Config.nios2"
  142. endif
  143. if TARGET_microblaze
  144. source "extra/Configs/Config.microblaze"
  145. endif
  146. if TARGET_mips
  147. source "extra/Configs/Config.mips"
  148. endif
  149. if TARGET_powerpc
  150. source "extra/Configs/Config.powerpc"
  151. endif
  152. if TARGET_sh
  153. source "extra/Configs/Config.sh"
  154. endif
  155. if TARGET_sh64
  156. source "extra/Configs/Config.sh64"
  157. endif
  158. if TARGET_sparc
  159. source "extra/Configs/Config.sparc"
  160. endif
  161. if TARGET_v850
  162. source "extra/Configs/Config.v850"
  163. endif
  164. if TARGET_vax
  165. source "extra/Configs/Config.vax"
  166. endif
  167. if TARGET_x86_64
  168. source "extra/Configs/Config.x86_64"
  169. endif
  170. if TARGET_xtensa
  171. source "extra/Configs/Config.xtensa"
  172. endif
  173. if TARGET_c6x
  174. source "extra/Configs/Config.c6x"
  175. endif
  176. config TARGET_SUBARCH
  177. string
  178. default "e500" if CONFIG_E500
  179. default "classic" if CONFIG_CLASSIC
  180. default "sh4" if CONFIG_SH4
  181. default "" if CONFIG_GENERIC_386 || CONFIG_386
  182. default "i486" if CONFIG_486
  183. default "i586" if CONFIG_586 || CONFIG_586MMX
  184. default "i686" if TARGET_ARCH = "i386"
  185. default ""
  186. source "extra/Configs/Config.in.arch"
  187. endmenu
  188. menu "General Library Settings"
  189. config HAVE_NO_PIC
  190. bool
  191. config DOPIC
  192. bool "Generate only Position Independent Code (PIC)"
  193. default y
  194. depends on !HAVE_NO_PIC
  195. help
  196. If you wish to build all of uClibc as PIC objects, then answer Y here.
  197. If you are unsure, then you should answer N.
  198. config ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED
  199. bool
  200. config ARCH_HAS_NO_LDSO
  201. bool
  202. select ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED
  203. config ARCH_HAS_UCONTEXT
  204. bool
  205. config HAVE_SHARED
  206. bool "Enable shared libraries"
  207. depends on !ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED
  208. default y
  209. help
  210. If you wish to build uClibc with support for shared libraries then
  211. answer Y here. If you only want to build uClibc as a static library,
  212. then answer N.
  213. config FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS
  214. bool "Only load shared libraries which can share their text segment"
  215. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  216. select DOPIC
  217. help
  218. If you answer Y here, the uClibc native shared library loader will
  219. only load shared libraries, which do not need to modify any
  220. non-writable segments. These libraries haven't set the DT_TEXTREL
  221. tag in the dynamic section (==> objdump).
  222. All your libraries must be compiled with -fPIC or -fpic, and all
  223. assembler function must be written as position independent code (PIC).
  224. Enabling this option will make uClibc's shared library loader a
  225. little bit smaller and guarantee that no memory will be wasted by
  226. badly coded shared libraries.
  227. config LDSO_LDD_SUPPORT
  228. bool "Native 'ldd' support"
  229. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  230. default y
  231. help
  232. Enable all the code needed to support traditional ldd,
  233. which executes the shared library loader to resolve all dependencies
  234. and then provide a list of shared libraries that are required for an
  235. application to function. Disabling this option will make uClibc's
  236. shared library loader a little bit smaller.
  237. Most people will answer Y.
  238. config LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT
  239. bool "Enable library loader cache (ld.so.conf)"
  240. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  241. default y
  242. help
  243. Enable this to make use of /etc/ld.so.conf, the shared library loader
  244. cache configuration file to support for non-standard library paths.
  245. After updating this file, it is necessary to run 'ldconfig' to update
  246. the /etc/ld.so.cache shared library loader cache file.
  247. config LDSO_PRELOAD_ENV_SUPPORT
  248. bool "Enable library loader LD_PRELOAD environment"
  249. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  250. default y
  251. help
  252. Enable this to make use of LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
  253. A whitespace-separated list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared
  254. libraries to be loaded before all others. This can be used to
  255. selectively override functions in other shared libraries. For
  256. set-user-ID/set-group-ID ELF binaries, only libraries in the standard
  257. search directories that are also set-user-ID will be loaded.
  258. config LDSO_PRELOAD_FILE_SUPPORT
  259. bool "Enable library loader preload file (ld.so.preload)"
  260. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  261. help
  262. Enable this to make use of /etc/ld.so.preload. This file contains a
  263. whitespace separated list of shared libraries to be loaded before
  264. the program.
  265. config LDSO_BASE_FILENAME
  266. string "Shared library loader naming prefix"
  267. depends on HAVE_SHARED && (LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT || LDSO_PRELOAD_FILE_SUPPORT)
  268. default "ld.so"
  269. help
  270. If you wish to support both uClibc and glibc on the same system, it
  271. is necessary to set this to something other than "ld.so" to avoid
  272. conflicts with glibc, which also uses "ld.so". This prevents both
  273. libraries from using the same /etc/ld.so.* files. If you wish to
  274. support both uClibc and glibc on the same system then you should set
  275. this to "ld-uClibc.so".
  276. Most people will leave this set to the default of "ld.so".
  277. WARNING: Changing the default prefix could cause problems with
  278. binutils' ld !
  279. config LDSO_STANDALONE_SUPPORT
  280. bool "Dynamic linker stand-alone mode support"
  281. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  282. help
  283. The dynamic linker can be run either indirectly through running some
  284. dynamically linked program or library (in which case no command line
  285. options to the dynamic linker can be passed and, in the ELF case, the
  286. dynamic linker which is stored in the .interp section of the program
  287. is executed) or directly by running:
  288. /lib/ld-uClibc.so.* [OPTIONS] [PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS]]
  289. Stand-alone execution is a prerequisite for adding prelink
  290. capabilities to uClibc dynamic linker, as well useful for testing an
  291. updated version of the dynamic linker without breaking the system.
  292. config LDSO_PRELINK_SUPPORT
  293. bool "Dynamic linker prelink support"
  294. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  295. select LDSO_STANDALONE_SUPPORT
  296. help
  297. The dynamic linker can be used in stand-alone mode by the prelink tool
  298. for prelinking ELF shared libraries and binaries to speed up startup
  299. time. It also is able to load and handle prelinked libraries and
  300. binaries at runtime.
  301. config UCLIBC_STATIC_LDCONFIG
  302. bool "Link ldconfig statically"
  303. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  304. default y
  305. help
  306. Enable this option to statically link the ldconfig binary.
  307. Making ldconfig static can be beneficial if you have a library
  308. problem and need to use ldconfig to recover. Sometimes it is
  309. preferable to instead keep the size of the system down, in which
  310. case you should disable this option.
  311. config LDSO_RUNPATH
  312. bool "Enable ELF RUNPATH tag support"
  313. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  314. default y if LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT
  315. help
  316. ELF's may have dynamic RPATH/RUNPATH tags. These tags list paths
  317. which extend the library search paths. They are really only useful
  318. if a package installs libraries in non standard locations and
  319. ld.so.conf support is disabled.
  320. Usage of RUNPATH tags is not too common, so disabling this feature
  321. should be safe for most people.
  322. config LDSO_SAFE_RUNPATH
  323. bool "Allow only RUNPATH beginning with /"
  324. depends on LDSO_RUNPATH
  325. default y
  326. help
  327. Allow only absolute path in RPATH/RUNPATH.
  328. config LDSO_SEARCH_INTERP_PATH
  329. bool "Add ldso path to lib search path"
  330. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  331. default y
  332. help
  333. The ldso is told where it is being executed from and can use that
  334. path to find related core libraries. This is useful by default,
  335. but can be annoying in a mixed development environment.
  336. i.e. if the ldso is run from /foo/boo/ldso.so, it will start its
  337. library search with /foo/boo/
  338. If unsure, simply say Y here.
  339. config LDSO_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  340. bool "Add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to lib search path"
  341. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  342. default y
  343. help
  344. On hardened system it could be useful to disable the use of
  345. LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable (a colon-separated list of
  346. directories in which to search for ELF libraries at execution-time).
  347. If unsure, simply say Y here.
  348. config LDSO_NO_CLEANUP
  349. bool "Disable automatic unloading of dynamically loaded shared objects"
  350. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  351. help
  352. If you need complete allocation traces when debugging memory leaks
  353. using Valgrind in a process that dynamically loads shared objects,
  354. then answer Y here. Unlike glibc, uClibc unloads all dynamically
  355. loaded shared objects when a process exits, which prevents Valgrind
  356. from correctly resolving the symbols from the unloaded shared objects.
  357. Unless you know you need this, you should answer N.
  358. config UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR
  359. bool "Support global constructors and destructors"
  360. default y
  361. help
  362. If you wish to build uClibc with support for global constructor
  363. (ctor) and global destructor (dtor) support, then answer Y here.
  364. When ctor/dtor support is enabled, binaries linked with uClibc must
  365. also be linked with crtbegin.o and crtend.o which are provided by gcc
  366. (the "*startfile:" and "*endfile:" settings in your gcc specs file
  367. may need to be adjusted to include these files). This support will
  368. also add a small amount of additional size to each binary compiled vs
  369. uClibc. If you will be using uClibc with C++, or if you need the gcc
  370. __attribute__((constructor)) and __attribute__((destructor)) to work,
  371. then you definitely want to answer Y here. If you don't need ctors
  372. or dtors and want your binaries to be as small as possible, then
  373. answer N.
  374. config LDSO_GNU_HASH_SUPPORT
  375. bool "Enable GNU hash style support"
  376. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  377. help
  378. Newest binutils support a new hash style named GNU-hash. The dynamic
  379. linker will use the new GNU-hash section (.gnu.hash) for symbol lookup
  380. if present into the ELF binaries, otherwise it will use the old SysV
  381. hash style (.hash). This ensures that it is completely backward
  382. compatible.
  383. Further, being the hash table implementation self-contained into each
  384. executable and shared libraries, objects with mixed hash style can
  385. peacefully coexist in the same process.
  386. If you want to use this new feature, answer Y
  387. choice
  388. prompt "Thread support"
  389. #default UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE if (TARGET_alpha || TARGET_arm || TARGET_i386 || TARGET_mips || TARGET_powerpc || TARGET_sh || TARGET_sh64)
  390. default HAS_NO_THREADS
  391. help
  392. If you want to compile uClibc with pthread support, then answer Y.
  393. This will increase the size of uClibc by adding a bunch of locking
  394. to critical data structures, and adding extra code to ensure that
  395. functions are properly reentrant.
  396. config HAS_NO_THREADS
  397. bool "none"
  398. help
  399. Disable thread support.
  400. config LINUXTHREADS_OLD
  401. bool "older (stable) version of linuxthreads"
  402. # linuxthreads and linuxthreads.old need nanosleep()
  403. select UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  404. help
  405. There are two versions of linuxthreads. The older (stable) version
  406. has been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  407. updates other than bugfixes.
  408. config LINUXTHREADS_NEW
  409. bool "slightly newer version of linuxthreads"
  410. depends on ARCH_HAS_DEPRECATED_SYSCALLS
  411. help
  412. The new version has not been tested much, and lacks ports for arches
  413. which glibc does not support (like bfin/frv/etc...), but is based on
  414. the latest code from glibc, so it may be the only choice for the
  415. newer ports (like alpha/amd64/64bit arches and hppa).
  416. config UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  417. bool "Native POSIX Threading (NPTL)"
  418. select UCLIBC_HAS_TLS
  419. select UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_FUTEXES
  420. select UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  421. # i386 has no lowlevellock support (yet) as opposed to i486 onward
  422. depends on !CONFIG_386
  423. help
  424. If you want to compile uClibc with NPTL support, then answer Y.
  425. IMPORTANT NOTE! NPTL requires a Linux 2.6 kernel, binutils
  426. at least version 2.16 and GCC with at least version 4.1.0. NPTL
  427. will not work with older versions of any above sources. If you
  428. ignore any of these guidelines, you do so at your own risk. Do
  429. not ask for help on any of the development mailing lists.
  430. !!!! WARNING !!!! BIG FAT WARNING !!!! REALLY BIG FAT WARNING !!!!
  431. This is experimental code and at times it may not even build and
  432. even if it does it might decide to do random damage. This code is
  433. potentially hazardous to your health and sanity. It will remain
  434. that way until further notice at which point this notice will
  435. disappear. Thank you for your support and for not smoking.
  436. endchoice
  437. config UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS
  438. def_bool y if !HAS_NO_THREADS
  439. config UCLIBC_HAS_TLS
  440. bool "Thread-Local Storage"
  441. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  442. help
  443. If you want to enable TLS support then answer Y.
  444. This is fast an efficient way to store per-thread local data
  445. which is not on stack. It needs __thread support enabled in
  446. gcc.
  447. config PTHREADS_DEBUG_SUPPORT
  448. bool "Build pthreads debugging support"
  449. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS
  450. help
  451. Say Y here if you wish to be able to debug applications that use
  452. uClibc's pthreads library. By enabling this option, a library
  453. named libthread_db will be built. This library will be dlopen()'d
  454. by gdb and will allow gdb to debug the threads in your application.
  455. IMPORTANT NOTE! Because gdb must dlopen() the libthread_db library,
  456. you must compile gdb with uClibc in order for pthread debugging to
  457. work properly.
  458. If you are doing development and want to debug applications using
  459. uClibc's pthread library, answer Y. Otherwise, answer N.
  460. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYSLOG
  461. bool "Syslog support"
  462. default y
  463. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  464. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  465. help
  466. Support sending messages to the system logger.
  467. This requires socket-support.
  468. config UCLIBC_HAS_LFS
  469. bool "Large File Support"
  470. default y
  471. help
  472. If you wish to build uClibc with support for accessing large files
  473. (i.e. files greater then 2 GiB) then answer Y. Do not enable this
  474. if you are using an older Linux kernel (2.0.x) that lacks large file
  475. support. Enabling this option will increase the size of uClibc.
  476. choice
  477. prompt "Malloc Implementation"
  478. default MALLOC if ! ARCH_USE_MMU
  479. default MALLOC_STANDARD if ARCH_USE_MMU
  480. config MALLOC
  481. bool "malloc"
  482. help
  483. "malloc" use mmap for all allocations and so works very well on
  484. MMU-less systems that do not support the brk() system call. It is
  485. pretty smart about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing
  486. memory wastage.
  487. This is the default for uClinux MMU-less systems.
  488. config MALLOC_SIMPLE
  489. bool "malloc-simple"
  490. help
  491. "malloc-simple" is trivially simple and slow as molasses. It
  492. was written from scratch for uClibc, and is the simplest possible
  493. (and therefore smallest) malloc implementation.
  494. This uses only the mmap() system call to allocate and free memory,
  495. and does not use the brk() system call at all, making it a fine
  496. choice for MMU-less systems with very limited memory. It's 100%
  497. standards compliant, thread safe, very small, and releases freed
  498. memory back to the OS immediately rather than keeping it in the
  499. process's heap for reallocation. It is also VERY SLOW.
  500. config MALLOC_STANDARD
  501. bool "malloc-standard"
  502. depends on ARCH_USE_MMU
  503. help
  504. "malloc-standard" is derived from the public domain dlmalloc
  505. implementation by Doug Lea. It is quite fast, and is pretty smart
  506. about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing memory
  507. wastage. This uses brk() for small allocations, while using mmap()
  508. for larger allocations. This is the default malloc implementation
  509. for uClibc.
  510. If unsure, answer "malloc-standard".
  511. endchoice
  512. config MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT
  513. bool "Malloc returns live pointer for malloc(0)"
  514. help
  515. The behavior of malloc(0) is listed as implementation-defined by
  516. SuSv3. Glibc returns a valid pointer to something, while uClibc
  517. normally returns NULL. I personally feel glibc's behavior is
  518. not particularly safe, and allows buggy applications to hide very
  519. serious problems.
  520. When this option is enabled, uClibc will act just like glibc, and
  521. return a live pointer when someone calls malloc(0). This pointer
  522. provides a malloc'ed area with a size of 1 byte. This feature is
  523. mostly useful when dealing with applications using autoconf's broken
  524. AC_FUNC_MALLOC macro (which redefines malloc as rpl_malloc if it
  525. does not detect glibc style returning-a-valid-pointer-for-malloc(0)
  526. behavior). Most people can safely answer N.
  527. config UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_ATEXIT
  528. bool "Dynamic atexit() Support"
  529. default y
  530. help
  531. When this option is enabled, uClibc will support an infinite number,
  532. of atexit() and on_exit() functions, limited only by your available
  533. memory. This can be important when uClibc is used with C++, since
  534. global destructors are implemented via atexit(), and it is quite
  535. possible to exceed the default number when this option is disabled.
  536. Enabling this option adds a few bytes, and more significantly makes
  537. atexit and on_exit depend on malloc, which can be bad when compiling
  538. static executables.
  539. Unless you use uClibc with C++, you should probably answer N.
  540. config COMPAT_ATEXIT
  541. bool "Old (visible) atexit Support"
  542. help
  543. Enable this option if you want to update from 0.9.28 to git/0.9.29,
  544. else you will be missing atexit() until you rebuild all apps.
  545. config UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY
  546. bool "Enable SuSv3 LEGACY functions"
  547. #vfork,
  548. # h_errno
  549. # gethostbyaddr
  550. # gethostbyname
  551. help
  552. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv3 LEGACY functions
  553. in the library, else they are replaced by SuSv3 proposed macros.
  554. Currently applies to:
  555. bcmp, bcopy, bzero, index, rindex, ftime,
  556. bsd_signal, (ecvt), (fcvt), gcvt, (getcontext),
  557. (getwd), (makecontext),
  558. mktemp, (pthread_attr_getstackaddr), (pthread_attr_setstackaddr),
  559. scalb, (setcontext), (swapcontext), ualarm, usleep,
  560. wcswcs.
  561. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  562. config UCLIBC_HAS_CONTEXT_FUNCS
  563. bool "Use obsolescent context control functions"
  564. depends on UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY && ARCH_HAS_UCONTEXT
  565. help
  566. Add into library the SuSv3 obsolescent functions used for context
  567. control. The setcontext family allows the implementation in C of
  568. advanced control flow patterns such as iterators, fibers, and
  569. coroutines. They may be viewed as an advanced version of
  570. setjmp/longjmp; whereas the latter allows only a single non-local jump
  571. up the stack, setcontext allows the creation of multiple cooperative
  572. threads of control, each with its own stack.
  573. These functions are: setcontext, getcontext, makecontext, swapcontext.
  574. config UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY_MACROS
  575. bool "Enable SuSv3 LEGACY macros"
  576. help
  577. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv3 LEGACY macros.
  578. Currently applies to bcopy/bzero/bcmp/index/rindex et al.
  579. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  580. config UCLIBC_SUSV4_LEGACY
  581. bool "Enable SuSv4 LEGACY or obsolescent functions"
  582. help
  583. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv4 LEGACY functions
  584. and macros in the library.
  585. Currently applies to:
  586. - XSI functions:
  587. _longjmp, _setjmp, _tolower, _toupper, ftw, getitimer,
  588. gettimeofday, isascii, pthread_getconcurrency,
  589. pthread_setconcurrency, setitimer, setpgrp, sighold,
  590. sigignore, sigpause, sigrelse, sigset, siginterrupt,
  591. tempnam, toascii, ulimit.
  592. - Base functions:
  593. asctime, asctime_r, ctime, ctime_r, gets, rand_r,
  594. tmpnam, utime.
  595. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  596. config UCLIBC_STRICT_HEADERS
  597. bool "Hide structures and constants for unsupported features"
  598. help
  599. Hide structures and constants in headers that should not be used,
  600. because the respective feature is disabled.
  601. WARNING! enabling this option requires to patch many faulty apps,
  602. since they make (wrongly) use of these structures/constants,
  603. although the feature was disabled.
  604. config UCLIBC_HAS_STUBS
  605. bool "Provide stubs for unavailable functionality"
  606. help
  607. With this option uClibc provides non-functional stubs for
  608. functions which are impossible to implement on the target
  609. architecture. Otherwise, such functions are simply omitted.
  610. config UCLIBC_HAS_SHADOW
  611. bool "Shadow Password Support"
  612. default y
  613. help
  614. Answer N if you do not need shadow password support.
  615. Most people will answer Y.
  616. config UCLIBC_HAS_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME
  617. bool "Support for program_invocation_name"
  618. help
  619. Support for the GNU-specific program_invocation_name and
  620. program_invocation_short_name strings. Some GNU packages
  621. (like tar and coreutils) utilize these for extra useful
  622. output, but in general are not required.
  623. At startup, these external strings are automatically set
  624. up based on the value of ARGV[0].
  625. If unsure, just answer N.
  626. config UCLIBC_HAS___PROGNAME
  627. bool "Support for __progname"
  628. default y
  629. help
  630. Some packages (like openssh) like to peek into internal libc
  631. symbols to make their output a bit more user friendly.
  632. At startup, __progname is automatically set up based on the
  633. value of ARGV[0].
  634. If unsure, just answer N.
  635. config UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  636. bool "Support for pseudo-terminals"
  637. default y
  638. help
  639. This enables support for pseudo-terminals (see man 4 pts
  640. and man 7 pty).
  641. If unsure, just answer Y.
  642. config ASSUME_DEVPTS
  643. bool "Assume that /dev/pts is a devpts or devfs file system"
  644. default y
  645. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  646. help
  647. Enable this if /dev/pts is on a devpts or devfs filesystem. Both
  648. these filesystems automatically manage permissions on the /dev/pts
  649. devices. You may need to mount your devpts or devfs filesystem on
  650. /dev/pts for this to work.
  651. Most people should answer Y.
  652. config UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  653. bool "Support only Unix 98 PTYs"
  654. default y
  655. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  656. help
  657. If you want to support only Unix 98 PTYs enable this. Some older
  658. applications may need this disabled and will thus use legacy BSD
  659. style PTY handling which is more complex and also bigger than
  660. Unix 98 PTY handling.
  661. For most current programs, you can generally answer Y.
  662. if UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  663. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETPT
  664. bool "Support getpt() (glibc-compat)"
  665. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  666. help
  667. Some packages may need getpt().
  668. All of those are non-standard and can be considered
  669. GNU/libc compatibility.
  670. Either use posix_openpt() or just open /dev/ptmx yourself.
  671. If unsure, just say N.
  672. endif
  673. if !UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  674. # Have to use __libc_ptyname{1,2}[] and related bloat
  675. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETPT
  676. def_bool y
  677. endif
  678. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBUTIL
  679. bool "Provide libutil library and functions"
  680. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  681. help
  682. Provide a libutil library.
  683. This non-standard conforming library provides the following
  684. utility functions:
  685. forkpty(): combines openpty(), fork(2), and login_tty() to
  686. create a new process operating in a pseudo-terminal.
  687. login(): write utmp and wtmp entries
  688. login_tty(): prepares for a login on the tty fd by creating a
  689. new session, making fd the controlling terminal for
  690. the calling process, setting fd to be the standard
  691. input, output, and error streams of the current
  692. process, and closing fd.
  693. logout(): write utmp and wtmp entries
  694. logwtmp(): constructs a utmp structure and calls updwtmp() to
  695. append the structure to the utmp file.
  696. openpty(): finds an available pseudo-terminal and returns
  697. file descriptors for the master and slave
  698. This library adds about 3k-4k to your system.
  699. config UCLIBC_HAS_TM_EXTENSIONS
  700. bool "Support 'struct tm' timezone extension fields"
  701. default y
  702. help
  703. Enabling this option adds fields to 'struct tm' in time.h for
  704. tracking the number of seconds east of UTC, and an abbreviation for
  705. the current timezone. These fields are not specified by the SuSv3
  706. standard, but they are commonly used in both GNU and BSD application
  707. code.
  708. To strictly follow the SuSv3 standard, leave this disabled.
  709. Most people will probably want to answer Y.
  710. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_CACHING
  711. bool "Enable caching of the last valid timezone 'TZ' string"
  712. default y
  713. help
  714. Answer Y to enable caching of the last valid 'TZ' string describing
  715. the timezone setting. This allows a quick string compare to avoid
  716. repeated parsing of unchanged 'TZ' strings when tzset() is called.
  717. Most people will answer Y.
  718. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  719. bool "Enable '/etc/TZ' file support to set a default timezone (uClibc-specific)"
  720. default y
  721. help
  722. Answer Y to enable the setting of a default timezone for uClibc.
  723. Ordinarily, uClibc gets the timezone information exclusively from the
  724. 'TZ' environment variable. In particular, there is no support for
  725. the zoneinfo directory tree or the /etc/timezone file used by glibc.
  726. With this option enabled, uClibc will use the value stored in the
  727. file '/etc/TZ' (default path) to obtain timezone information if the
  728. 'TZ' environment variable is missing or has an invalid value. The
  729. file consists of a single line (newline required) of text describing
  730. the timezone in the format specified for the TZ environment variable.
  731. Doing 'echo CST6CDT > /etc/TZ' is enough to create a valid file.
  732. See
  733. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html
  734. for details on valid settings of 'TZ'.
  735. Most people will answer Y.
  736. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE_READ_MANY
  737. bool "Repeatedly read the '/etc/TZ' file"
  738. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  739. default y
  740. help
  741. Answer Y to enable repeated reading of the '/etc/TZ' file even after
  742. a valid value has been read. This incurs the overhead of an
  743. open/read/close for each tzset() call (explicit or implied). However,
  744. setting this will allow applications to update their timezone
  745. information if the contents of the file change.
  746. Most people will answer Y.
  747. config UCLIBC_TZ_FILE_PATH
  748. string "Path to the 'TZ' file for setting the global timezone"
  749. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  750. default "/etc/TZ"
  751. help
  752. This is the path to the 'TZ' file.
  753. Most people will use the default of '/etc/TZ'.
  754. config UCLIBC_FALLBACK_TO_ETC_LOCALTIME
  755. bool "Use /etc/localtime as a fallback"
  756. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  757. default y
  758. help
  759. Answer Y to try to use /etc/localtime file.
  760. On glibc systems this file (if it is in TZif2 format)
  761. contains timezone string at the end.
  762. Most people will answer Y.
  763. endmenu
  764. menu "Advanced Library Settings"
  765. config UCLIBC_PWD_BUFFER_SIZE
  766. int "Buffer size for getpwnam() and friends"
  767. default 256
  768. range 12 1024
  769. help
  770. This sets the value of the buffer size for getpwnam() and friends.
  771. By default, this is 256. (For reference, glibc uses 1024).
  772. The value can be found using sysconf() with the _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX
  773. parameter.
  774. config UCLIBC_GRP_BUFFER_SIZE
  775. int "Buffer size for getgrnam() and friends"
  776. default 256
  777. range 12 1024
  778. help
  779. This sets the value of the buffer size for getgrnam() and friends.
  780. By default, this is 256. (For reference, glibc uses 1024).
  781. The value can be found using sysconf() with the _SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX
  782. parameter.
  783. comment "Support various families of functions"
  784. config UCLIBC_LINUX_MODULE_26
  785. bool "Linux kernel module functions (2.6)"
  786. default y
  787. help
  788. delete_module, init_module
  789. are used in linux for loadable kernel modules.
  790. Say N if you do not use kernel modules.
  791. config UCLIBC_LINUX_MODULE_24
  792. bool "Linux kernel module functions (<2.6)"
  793. depends on !TARGET_bfin && !TARGET_c6x
  794. help
  795. create_module, query_module
  796. are used in linux (prior to 2.6) for loadable kernel modules.
  797. Say N if you do not use kernel modules, or you only support
  798. Linux 2.6+.
  799. config UCLIBC_LINUX_SPECIFIC
  800. bool "Linux specific functions"
  801. default y
  802. help
  803. accept4(), bdflush(),
  804. capget(), capset(), eventfd(), fstatfs(),
  805. inotify_*(), ioperm(), iopl(),
  806. madvise(), modify_ldt(), pipe2(), personality(),
  807. prctl()/arch_prctl(), pivot_root(), modify_ldt(),
  808. ppoll(), readahead(), reboot(), remap_file_pages(),
  809. sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity(), sendfile(),
  810. setfsgid(), setfsuid(), setresgid(), setresuid(),
  811. splice(), vmsplice(), tee(), signalfd(), swapoff(), swapon(),
  812. sync_file_range(), _sysctl(), sysinfo(), timerfd_*(), vhangup(),
  813. umount(), umount2()
  814. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_ERROR
  815. bool "Support GNU extensions for error-reporting"
  816. default y
  817. help
  818. Support for the GNU-specific error(), error_at_line(),
  819. void (* error_print_progname)(), error_message_count
  820. functions and variables. Some GNU packages
  821. utilize these for extra useful output, but in general
  822. are not required.
  823. If unsure, just answer N.
  824. config UCLIBC_BSD_SPECIFIC
  825. bool "BSD specific functions"
  826. default y
  827. help
  828. mincore(), getdomainname(), setdomainname()
  829. If unsure, say N.
  830. config UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_ERR
  831. bool "BSD err functions"
  832. default y
  833. help
  834. These functions are non-standard BSD extensions.
  835. err(), errx(), warn(), warnx(), verr(), verrx(), vwarn(), vwarnx()
  836. If unsure, say N.
  837. config UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_BSD_SIGNAL
  838. bool "BSD obsolete signal functions"
  839. help
  840. These functions are provided as a compatibility interface for
  841. programs that make use of the historical System V signal API.
  842. This API is obsolete:
  843. new applications should use the POSIX signal API (sigaction(2),
  844. sigprocmask(2), etc.).
  845. Affected functions:
  846. sigset(), sighold(), sigrelse(), sigignore()
  847. If unsure, say N.
  848. config UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_SYSV_SIGNAL
  849. bool "SYSV obsolete signal functions"
  850. help
  851. Use of sysv_signal() should be avoided; use sigaction(2) instead.
  852. If unsure, say N.
  853. config UCLIBC_NTP_LEGACY
  854. bool "ntp_*() aliases"
  855. help
  856. Provide legacy aliases for ntp functions:
  857. ntp_adjtime(), ntp_gettime()
  858. It is safe to say N here.
  859. config UCLIBC_SV4_DEPRECATED
  860. bool "Enable SVr4 deprecated functions"
  861. help
  862. These functions are DEPRECATED in System V release 4.
  863. Say N unless you desparately need one of the functions below:
  864. ustat() [use statfs(2) in your code instead]
  865. config UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  866. bool "Realtime-related family of SUSv functions"
  867. default y
  868. help
  869. These functions are part of the Timers option and need not
  870. be available on all implementations.
  871. Includes AIO, message-queue, scheduler, semaphore functions:
  872. aio.h
  873. mqueue.h
  874. sched.h
  875. semaphore.h
  876. aio_cancel()
  877. aio_error()
  878. aio_fsync()
  879. aio_read()
  880. lio_listio()
  881. aio_return()
  882. aio_suspend()
  883. aio_write()
  884. clock_getres(), clock_gettime(), clock_settime()
  885. fdatasync()
  886. mlockall(), munlockall()
  887. mlock(), munlock()
  888. mq_close()
  889. mq_getattr()
  890. mq_notify()
  891. mq_open()
  892. mq_receive()
  893. mq_send()
  894. mq_setattr()
  895. mq_unlink()
  896. nanosleep()
  897. sched_getparam()
  898. sched_get_priority_max(), sched_get_priority_min()
  899. sched_getscheduler()
  900. sched_rr_get_interval()
  901. sched_setparam()
  902. sched_setscheduler()
  903. sem_close()
  904. sem_destroy()
  905. sem_getvalue()
  906. sem_init()
  907. sem_open()
  908. sem_post()
  909. sem_trywait(), sem_wait()
  910. sem_unlink()
  911. sigqueue()
  912. sigtimedwait(), sigwaitinfo()
  913. timer_create()
  914. timer_delete()
  915. timer_getoverrun(), timer_gettime(), timer_settime()
  916. config UCLIBC_HAS_ADVANCED_REALTIME
  917. bool "Advanced realtime-related family of SUSv functions"
  918. default y
  919. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  920. help
  921. These functions are part of the Timers option and need not
  922. be available on all implementations.
  923. clock_getcpuclockid()
  924. clock_nanosleep()
  925. mq_timedreceive()
  926. mq_timedsend()
  927. posix_fadvise()
  928. posix_fallocate()
  929. posix_madvise()
  930. posix_memalign()
  931. posix_mem_offset()
  932. posix_spawnattr_destroy(), posix_spawnattr_init()
  933. posix_spawnattr_getflags(), posix_spawnattr_setflags()
  934. posix_spawnattr_getpgroup(), posix_spawnattr_setpgroup()
  935. posix_spawnattr_getschedparam(), posix_spawnattr_setschedparam()
  936. posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy(), posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy()
  937. posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault(), posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault()
  938. posix_spawnattr_getsigmask(), posix_spawnattr_setsigmask()
  939. posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose()
  940. posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
  941. posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen()
  942. posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy()
  943. posix_spawn_file_actions_init()
  944. posix_spawn()
  945. posix_spawnp()
  946. posix_typed_mem_get_info()
  947. pthread_mutex_timedlock()
  948. sem_timedwait()
  949. #config UCLIBC_HAS_TERMIOS
  950. # bool "termios functions"
  951. # default y
  952. # help
  953. # Get and set terminal attributes, line control, get and set baud
  954. # rate.
  955. # termios(), tcgetattr(), tcsetattr(), tcsendbreak(), tcdrain(),
  956. # tcflush(), tcflow(), cfmakeraw(), cfgetospeed(), cfgetispeed(),
  957. # cfsetispeed(), cfsetospeed(), cfsetspeed()
  958. #
  959. # If unsure, say Y.
  960. config UCLIBC_HAS_EPOLL
  961. bool "epoll"
  962. default y
  963. help
  964. epoll_create(), epoll_ctl(), epoll_wait() functions.
  965. config UCLIBC_HAS_XATTR
  966. bool "Extended Attributes"
  967. default y
  968. help
  969. Extended Attributes support.
  970. setxattr()
  971. lsetxattr()
  972. fsetxattr()
  973. getxattr()
  974. lgetxattr()
  975. fgetxattr()
  976. listxattr()
  977. llistxattr()
  978. flistxattr()
  979. removexattr()
  980. lremovexattr()
  981. fremovexattr()
  982. Say N unless you need support for extended attributes and the
  983. filesystems do actually support them.
  984. config UCLIBC_HAS_PROFILING
  985. bool "Profiling support"
  986. default y
  987. help
  988. gcc's -finstrument-functions needs these.
  989. Most people can safely answer N.
  990. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  991. bool "libcrypt support"
  992. default y
  993. help
  994. libcrypt contains crypt(), setkey() and encrypt()
  995. config UCLIBC_HAS_SHA256_CRYPT_IMPL
  996. bool "libcrypt SHA256 support"
  997. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  998. help
  999. This adds support for SHA256 password hashing via the crypt() function.
  1000. Say N here if you do not need SHA256 crypt support.
  1001. config UCLIBC_HAS_SHA512_CRYPT_IMPL
  1002. bool "libcrypt SHA512 support"
  1003. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  1004. help
  1005. This adds support for SHA512 password hashing via the crypt() function.
  1006. Say N here if you do not need SHA512 crypt support.
  1007. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_STUB
  1008. bool "libcrypt stubs"
  1009. default y
  1010. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  1011. help
  1012. Standards mandate that crypt(3) provides a stub if it is unavailable.
  1013. If you enable this option then stubs for
  1014. crypt(), setkey() and encrypt()
  1015. will be provided in a small libcrypt.
  1016. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT
  1017. def_bool y
  1018. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL || UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_STUB
  1019. endmenu
  1020. menuconfig UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  1021. bool "Networking Support"
  1022. default y
  1023. help
  1024. Say N here if you do not need network support.
  1025. if UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  1026. config UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1027. bool "Socket support"
  1028. default y
  1029. help
  1030. If you want to include support for sockets then answer Y.
  1031. config UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4
  1032. bool "IP version 4 support"
  1033. default y
  1034. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1035. help
  1036. If you want to include support for the Internet Protocol
  1037. (IP version 4) then answer Y.
  1038. Most people will say Y.
  1039. config UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  1040. bool "IP version 6 support"
  1041. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1042. help
  1043. If you want to include support for the next version of the Internet
  1044. Protocol (IP version 6) then answer Y.
  1045. Most people should answer N.
  1046. config UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  1047. bool "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) support"
  1048. # RPC+socket-ipvX doesn't currently work.
  1049. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4 || UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  1050. help
  1051. If you want to include RPC support, enable this. RPC is rarely used
  1052. for anything except for the NFS filesystem. Unless you plan to use
  1053. NFS, you can probably leave this set to N and save some space.
  1054. If you need to use NFS then you should answer Y.
  1055. config UCLIBC_HAS_FULL_RPC
  1056. bool "Full RPC support"
  1057. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  1058. default y if !HAVE_SHARED
  1059. help
  1060. Normally we enable just enough RPC support for things like rshd and
  1061. nfs mounts to work. If you find you need the rest of the RPC stuff,
  1062. then enable this option. Most people can safely answer N.
  1063. config UCLIBC_HAS_REENTRANT_RPC
  1064. bool "Reentrant RPC support"
  1065. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  1066. default y if !HAVE_SHARED
  1067. help
  1068. Most packages utilize the normal (non-reentrant) RPC functions, but
  1069. some (like exportfs from nfs-utils) need these reentrant versions.
  1070. Most people can safely answer N.
  1071. config UCLIBC_USE_NETLINK
  1072. bool "Use netlink to query interfaces"
  1073. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1074. help
  1075. In newer versions of Linux (2.4.17+), support was added for querying
  1076. network device information via netlink rather than the old style
  1077. ioctl's. Most of the time, the older ioctl style is sufficient (and
  1078. it is smaller than netlink), but if you find that not all of your
  1079. devices are being returned by the if_nameindex() function, you will
  1080. have to use the netlink implementation.
  1081. Most people can safely answer N.
  1082. config UCLIBC_SUPPORT_AI_ADDRCONFIG
  1083. bool "Support the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag"
  1084. depends on UCLIBC_USE_NETLINK
  1085. help
  1086. The implementation of AI_ADDRCONFIG is aligned with the glibc
  1087. implementation using netlink to query interfaces to find both
  1088. ipv4 and ipv6 support. This is only needed if an application uses
  1089. the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag.
  1090. Most people can safely answer N.
  1091. config UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_RES_CLOSE
  1092. bool "Support res_close() (bsd-compat)"
  1093. help
  1094. Answer Y if you desperately want to support BSD compatibility in
  1095. the network code.
  1096. Most people will say N.
  1097. config UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1098. bool "Use compatible but bloated _res"
  1099. default y
  1100. help
  1101. Answer Y if you build network utilities and they muck with resolver
  1102. internals a lot (_res global structure). uclibc does not use most
  1103. of _res.XXX fields, and with this option OFF they won't even exist.
  1104. Which will make e.g. dig build fail.
  1105. Answering N saves around 400 bytes in bss.
  1106. config UCLIBC_HAS_EXTRA_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1107. bool "Use extra compatible but extra bloated _res"
  1108. help
  1109. Answer Y if selecting UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE is not enough.
  1110. As far as I can say, this should never be needed.
  1111. config UCLIBC_HAS_RESOLVER_SUPPORT
  1112. bool "DNS resolver functions"
  1113. select UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1114. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4 || UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  1115. help
  1116. Provide implementations for DNS resolver functions.
  1117. In particular, the following functions will be added to the
  1118. library:
  1119. ns_skiprr, ns_initparse, ns_parserr, ns_msg_getflag,
  1120. res_mkquery, res_init, res_ninit, res_close, res_nclose
  1121. res_query, res_search, res_querydomain,
  1122. dn_expand, dn_comp,
  1123. ns_name_uncompress, ns_name_ntop, ns_name_pton, ns_name_unpack,
  1124. ns_name_pack, ns_name_compress, ns_name_skip, dn_skipname,
  1125. ns_get16, ns_get32, ns_put16, ns_put32
  1126. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBRESOLV_STUB
  1127. bool "Provide libresolv stub"
  1128. help
  1129. Provide a dummy resolv library.
  1130. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBNSL_STUB
  1131. bool "Provide libnsl stub"
  1132. help
  1133. Provide a dummy nsl library.
  1134. endif
  1135. menu "String and Stdio Support"
  1136. config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_GENERIC_OPT
  1137. bool "Use faster (but larger) generic string functions"
  1138. default y
  1139. help
  1140. Answer Y to use the (tweaked) glibc generic string functions.
  1141. In general, they are faster (but 3-5K larger) than the base
  1142. uClibc string functions which are optimized solely for size.
  1143. Many people will answer Y.
  1144. config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_ARCH_OPT
  1145. bool "Use arch-specific assembly string functions (where available)"
  1146. default y
  1147. help
  1148. Answer Y to use any archtecture-specific assembly language string
  1149. functions available for this target plaform.
  1150. Note that assembly implementations are not available for all string
  1151. functions, so some generic (written in C) string functions may
  1152. still be used.
  1153. These are small and fast, the only reason _not_ to say Y here is
  1154. for debugging purposes.
  1155. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1156. bool "Use Table Versions Of 'ctype.h' Functions."
  1157. default y
  1158. help
  1159. Answer Y to use table versions of the 'ctype.h' functions.
  1160. While the non-table versions are often smaller when building
  1161. statically linked apps, they work only in stub locale mode.
  1162. Most people will answer Y.
  1163. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_SIGNED
  1164. bool "Support Signed Characters In 'ctype.h' Functions."
  1165. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1166. default y
  1167. help
  1168. Answer Y to enable support for passing signed char values to
  1169. the 'ctype.h' functions. ANSI/ISO C99 and SUSv3 specify that
  1170. these functions are only defined for unsigned char values and
  1171. EOF. However, glibc allows negative signed char values as well
  1172. in order to support 'broken old programs'.
  1173. Most people will answer Y.
  1174. choice
  1175. prompt "ctype argument checking"
  1176. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1177. default UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_UNSAFE
  1178. help
  1179. Please select the invalid arg behavior you want for the 'ctype'
  1180. functions.
  1181. The 'ctype' functions are now implemented using table lookups, with
  1182. the arg being the index. This can result in incorrect memory accesses
  1183. or even segfaults for args outside of the allowed range.
  1184. NOTE: This only affects the 'ctype' _functions_. It does not affect
  1185. the macro implementations.
  1186. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_UNSAFE
  1187. bool "Do not check -- unsafe"
  1188. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_CHECKED
  1189. bool "Detect and handle appropriately"
  1190. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_ENFORCED
  1191. bool "Issue a diagnostic and abort()"
  1192. endchoice
  1193. config UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1194. bool "Wide Character Support"
  1195. help
  1196. Answer Y to enable wide character support. This will make uClibc
  1197. much larger. It is also currently required for locale support.
  1198. Most people will answer N.
  1199. config UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1200. bool "Locale Support"
  1201. select UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1202. select UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1203. help
  1204. uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support (except for
  1205. wcsftime() and collating items in regex). Be aware that enabling
  1206. this option will make uClibc much larger.
  1207. Enabling UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE with the default set of supported locales
  1208. (169 UTF-8 locales, and 144 locales for other codesets) will enlarge
  1209. uClibc by around 300k. You can reduce this size by building your own
  1210. custom set of locate data (see extra/locale/LOCALES for details).
  1211. uClibc's locale support is still under development. For example,
  1212. codesets using shift states are not currently supported. Support is
  1213. planned in the next iteration of locale support.
  1214. Answer Y to enable locale support. Most people will answer N.
  1215. choice
  1216. prompt "Locale data"
  1217. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1218. default UCLIBC_BUILD_ALL_LOCALE
  1219. config UCLIBC_BUILD_ALL_LOCALE
  1220. bool "All locales"
  1221. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1222. help
  1223. This builds all the locales that are available on your
  1224. host-box.
  1225. config UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALE
  1226. bool "Only selected locales"
  1227. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1228. help
  1229. If you do not need all locales that are available on your
  1230. host-box, then set this to 'Y'.
  1231. config UCLIBC_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1232. bool "Use Pre-generated Locale Data"
  1233. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE && !TARGET_metag
  1234. help
  1235. Use pre-built locale data.
  1236. Note that these pregenerated locales are sensitive to your
  1237. target architecture (endianess, bitcount).
  1238. Saying N here is highly recommended.
  1239. endchoice
  1240. config UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALES
  1241. string "locales to use"
  1242. depends on UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALE
  1243. default "en_US"
  1244. help
  1245. Space separated list of locales to use.
  1246. E.g.:
  1247. en_US en_GB de_AT
  1248. default:
  1249. en_US
  1250. config UCLIBC_DOWNLOAD_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1251. bool "Automagically Download the Pre-generated Locale Data (if necessary)"
  1252. depends on UCLIBC_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1253. help
  1254. If you would like the build process to use 'wget' to automatically
  1255. download the pregenerated locale data, enable this option. Otherwise
  1256. you will need to obtain the locale data yourself from:
  1257. http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-locale-*.tgz
  1258. and place the uClibc-locale-*.tgz tarball in the extra/locale/
  1259. directory.
  1260. Note that the use of pregenerated locale data is discouraged.
  1261. config UCLIBC_HAS_XLOCALE
  1262. bool "Extended Locale Support (experimental/incomplete)"
  1263. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1264. help
  1265. Answer Y to enable extended locale support similar to that provided
  1266. by glibc. This is primarily intended to support libstd++
  1267. functionality.
  1268. However, it also allows thread-specific locale selection via
  1269. uselocale().
  1270. Most people will answer N.
  1271. config UCLIBC_HAS_HEXADECIMAL_FLOATS
  1272. bool "Support hexadecimal float notation"
  1273. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1274. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FLOATS
  1275. help
  1276. Answer Y to enable support for hexadecimal float notation in the
  1277. (wchar and) char string to floating point conversion functions, as
  1278. well as support for the %a and %A conversion specifiers in the
  1279. *printf() and *scanf() functions.
  1280. Most people will answer N.
  1281. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1282. bool "Support glibc's \"'\" flag for allowing locale-specific digit grouping"
  1283. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1284. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FLOATS
  1285. help
  1286. Answer Y to enable support for glibc's \"'\" flag for allowing
  1287. locale-specific digit grouping in base 10 integer conversions and
  1288. appropriate floating point conversions in the *printf() and *scanf()
  1289. functions.
  1290. Most people will answer N.
  1291. config UCLIBC_HAS_SCANF_LENIENT_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1292. bool "Do not require digit grouping when the \"'\" flag is specified"
  1293. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1294. default y
  1295. help
  1296. Answer Y to make digit grouping optional when the \"'\" flag is
  1297. specified.
  1298. This is the standard glibc behavior. If the initial string of digits
  1299. exceeds the maximum group number, the input will be treated as a
  1300. normal non-grouped number.
  1301. Most people will answer N.
  1302. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_CUSTOM_PRINTF
  1303. bool "Support glibc's register_printf_function() (glibc-compat)"
  1304. depends on !USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1305. help
  1306. Answer Y to support glibc's register_printf_function() to allow an
  1307. application to add its own printf conversion specifiers.
  1308. parse_printf_format() is also enabled.
  1309. NOTE: Limits the number or registered specifiers to 10.
  1310. NOTE: Requires new conversion specifiers to be ASCII
  1311. characters (0-0x7f). This is to avoid problems with processing
  1312. format strings in locales with different multibyte conversions.
  1313. Most people will answer N.
  1314. config USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1315. bool "Use the old vfprintf implementation"
  1316. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1317. help
  1318. Set to true to use the old vfprintf instead of the new. This is
  1319. roughly C89 compliant with some extensions, and is much smaller.
  1320. However, it does not support wide chars, positional args, or glibc
  1321. custom printf specifiers.
  1322. Most people will answer N.
  1323. config UCLIBC_PRINTF_SCANF_POSITIONAL_ARGS
  1324. int "Maximum number of positional args. Either 0 or >= 9."
  1325. depends on !USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1326. default 9
  1327. help
  1328. Set the maximum number of positional args supported by the
  1329. printf/scanf functions. The Single Unix Specification Version 3
  1330. requires a minimum value of 9. Setting this to a value lower than
  1331. 9 will disable positional arg support and cause the NL_ARGMAX macro
  1332. in limits.h to be #undef'd.
  1333. WARNING! The workspace to support positional args is currently
  1334. allocated on the stack. You probably don't want to set
  1335. this to too high a value.
  1336. Most people will answer 9.
  1337. choice
  1338. prompt "Stdio buffer size"
  1339. default UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_4096
  1340. help
  1341. Please select a value for BUFSIZ. This will be used by the
  1342. stdio subsystem as the default buffer size for a file, and
  1343. affects fopen(), setvbuf(), etc.
  1344. NOTE: Setting this to 'none' will disable buffering completely.
  1345. However, BUFSIZ will still be defined in stdio.h as 256 because
  1346. many applications use this value.
  1347. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1348. bool "none (WARNING - BUFSIZ will be 256 in stdio.h)"
  1349. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1350. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_256
  1351. bool "256 (minimum ANSI/ISO C99 value)"
  1352. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_512
  1353. bool "512"
  1354. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_1024
  1355. bool "1024"
  1356. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_2048
  1357. bool "2048"
  1358. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_4096
  1359. bool "4096"
  1360. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_8192
  1361. bool "8192"
  1362. # If you add more choices, you will need to update uClibc_stdio.h.
  1363. endchoice
  1364. choice
  1365. prompt "Stdio builtin buffer size (uClibc-specific)"
  1366. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1367. default UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_NONE
  1368. help
  1369. When a FILE is created with fopen(), an attempt is made to allocate
  1370. a BUFSIZ buffer for it. If the allocation fails, fopen() will still
  1371. succeed but the FILE will be unbuffered.
  1372. This option adds a small amount of space to each FILE to act as an
  1373. emergency buffer in the event of a buffer allocation failure.
  1374. Most people will answer None.
  1375. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_NONE
  1376. bool "None"
  1377. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_4
  1378. bool "4"
  1379. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_8
  1380. bool "8"
  1381. # If you add more choices, you will need to update uClibc_stdio.h.
  1382. endchoice
  1383. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_SHUTDOWN_ON_ABORT
  1384. bool "Attempt to shutdown stdio subsystem when abort() is called."
  1385. help
  1386. ANSI/ISO C99 requires abort() to be asyn-signal-safe. So there was
  1387. a behavioral change made in SUSv3. Previously, abort() was required
  1388. to have the affect of fclose() on all open streams. The wording has
  1389. been changed to "may" from "shall".
  1390. Most people will answer N.
  1391. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_GETC_MACRO
  1392. bool "Provide a macro version of getc()"
  1393. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1394. default y
  1395. help
  1396. Provide a macro version of getc().
  1397. Most people will answer Y.
  1398. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_PUTC_MACRO
  1399. bool "Provide a macro version of putc()"
  1400. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1401. default y
  1402. help
  1403. Provide a macro version of putc().
  1404. Most people will answer Y.
  1405. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_AUTO_RW_TRANSITION
  1406. bool "Support auto-r/w transition"
  1407. default y
  1408. help
  1409. Answer Y to enable the stdio subsystem to automaticly transition
  1410. between reading and writing. This relaxes the ANSI/ISO C99
  1411. requirement:
  1412. When a file is opened with update mode ('+' as the second or third
  1413. character in the list of mode argument values), both input and output
  1414. may be performed on the associated stream. However, output shall not
  1415. be directly followed by input without an intervening call to the
  1416. fflush function or to a file positioning function (fseek, fsetpos,
  1417. or rewind), and input shall not be directly followed by output without
  1418. an intervening call to a file positioning function, unless the input
  1419. operation encounters end­of­file.
  1420. Most people will answer Y.
  1421. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_LARGEFILE_MODE
  1422. bool "Support an fopen() 'F' flag for large file mode (uClibc-specific)"
  1423. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LFS
  1424. help
  1425. Answer Y to enable a uClibc-specific extension to allow passing an
  1426. additional 'F' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1427. the file should be open()ed with the O_LARGEFILE flag set.
  1428. Most people will answer N.
  1429. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_EXCLUSIVE_MODE
  1430. bool "Support an fopen() 'x' flag for exclusive mode (glibc-compat)"
  1431. help
  1432. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to allow passing
  1433. additional 'x' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1434. the file should be open()ed with the O_EXCL flag set.
  1435. Most people will answer N.
  1436. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_CLOSEEXEC_MODE
  1437. bool "Support an fopen() 'e' flag for close-on-exec mode (glibc-compat)"
  1438. help
  1439. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to allow passing
  1440. additional 'e' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1441. the file should be open()ed with the O_CLOEXEC flag set.
  1442. Most people will answer N.
  1443. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_CUSTOM_STREAMS
  1444. bool "Support fmemopen(), open_memstream(), and fopencookie() (glibc-compat)"
  1445. help
  1446. Answer Y to support the glibc 'custom stream' extension functions
  1447. fmemopen(), open_memstream(), and fopencookie().
  1448. NOTE: There are some minor differences regarding seeking behavior.
  1449. Most people will answer N.
  1450. config UCLIBC_HAS_PRINTF_M_SPEC
  1451. bool "Support the '%m' specifier in printf format strings (glibc-compat)"
  1452. help
  1453. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to interpret '%m' in printf
  1454. format strings as an instruction to output the error message string
  1455. (as generated by strerror) corresponding to the current value of
  1456. 'errno'.
  1457. Most people will answer N.
  1458. config UCLIBC_HAS_ERRNO_MESSAGES
  1459. bool "Include the errno message text in the library"
  1460. default y
  1461. help
  1462. Answer Y if you want to include the errno message text in the
  1463. library. This adds about 3K to the library, but enables strerror()
  1464. to generate text other than 'Unknown error <number>'.
  1465. Most people will answer Y.
  1466. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYS_ERRLIST
  1467. bool "Support sys_errlist[] (obsolete-compat)"
  1468. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_ERRNO_MESSAGES
  1469. help
  1470. Answer Y if you want to support the obsolete sys_errlist[].
  1471. This adds about 0.5k to the library, except for the mips
  1472. arch where it adds over 4K.
  1473. WARNING! In the future, support for sys_errlist[] may be unavailable
  1474. in at least some configurations. In fact, it may be removed
  1475. altogether.
  1476. Most people will answer N.
  1477. Application writers: use the strerror(3) function.
  1478. config UCLIBC_HAS_SIGNUM_MESSAGES
  1479. bool "Include the signum message text in the library"
  1480. default y
  1481. help
  1482. Answer Y if you want to include the signum message text in the
  1483. library. This adds about 0.5K to the library, but enables strsignal()
  1484. to generate text other than 'Unknown signal <number>'.
  1485. Most people will answer Y.
  1486. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYS_SIGLIST
  1487. bool "Support sys_siglist[] (bsd-compat)"
  1488. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SIGNUM_MESSAGES
  1489. help
  1490. Answer Y if you want to support sys_siglist[].
  1491. WARNING! In the future, support for sys_siglist[] may be unavailable
  1492. in at least some configurations. In fact, it may be removed
  1493. altogether.
  1494. Most people will answer N.
  1495. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETTEXT_AWARENESS
  1496. bool "Include gettext awareness"
  1497. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE && UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY
  1498. help
  1499. NOTE!!! Not yet integrated with strerror and strsignal. NOTE!!!
  1500. Answer Y if you want to include weak stub gettext support and
  1501. make the *strerror*() and strsignal() functions gettext-aware.
  1502. Currently, to get functional gettext functionality you will need
  1503. to use gnu gettext.
  1504. Most people will answer N.
  1505. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETOPT
  1506. bool "Support gnu getopt"
  1507. default y
  1508. help
  1509. Answer Y if you want to include full gnu getopt() instead of a
  1510. (much smaller) SUSv3 compatible getopt().
  1511. Most people will answer Y.
  1512. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_FUTEXES
  1513. bool "Use futexes for multithreaded I/O locking"
  1514. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  1515. help
  1516. If you want to compile uClibc to use futexes for low-level
  1517. I/O locking, answer Y. Otherwise, answer N.
  1518. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETOPT_LONG
  1519. bool "Support getopt_long/getopt_long_only"
  1520. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETOPT
  1521. default y
  1522. help
  1523. Answer Y if you want to include getopt_long[_only() used by many
  1524. apps, even busybox.
  1525. Most people will answer Y.
  1526. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETSUBOPT
  1527. bool "Support glibc getsubopt"
  1528. default y
  1529. help
  1530. Answer Y if you want to include glibc getsubopt() instead of a
  1531. smaller SUSv3 compatible getsubopt().
  1532. Most people will answer Y.
  1533. endmenu
  1534. menu "Big and Tall"
  1535. config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX
  1536. bool "Regular Expression Support"
  1537. default y
  1538. help
  1539. POSIX regular expression code is really big -- 53k all by itself.
  1540. If you don't use regular expressions, turn this off and save space.
  1541. Of course, if you only statically link, leave this on, since it will
  1542. only be included in your apps if you use regular expressions.
  1543. config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX_OLD
  1544. bool "Use the older (stable) regular expression code"
  1545. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX
  1546. default y
  1547. help
  1548. There are two versions of regex. The older (stable) version has
  1549. been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  1550. updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
  1551. corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite
  1552. a bit smaller than the newer version.
  1553. If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode
  1554. support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
  1555. Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
  1556. config UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1557. bool "fnmatch Support"
  1558. default y
  1559. help
  1560. POSIX fnmatch.
  1561. config UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH_OLD
  1562. bool "Use the older (stable) fnmatch code"
  1563. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1564. default y
  1565. help
  1566. There are two versions of fnmatch. The older (stable) version has
  1567. been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  1568. updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
  1569. corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite
  1570. a bit smaller than the newer version.
  1571. If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode
  1572. support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
  1573. Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
  1574. config UCLIBC_HAS_WORDEXP
  1575. bool "Support the wordexp() interface"
  1576. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1577. help
  1578. The SuSv3 wordexp() interface performs word expansions per the Shell
  1579. and Utilities volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 2.6. It is
  1580. intended for use by applications that want to implement all of the
  1581. standard Bourne shell expansions on input data.
  1582. This interface is rarely used, and very large. Unless you have a
  1583. pressing need for wordexp(), you should probably answer N.
  1584. config UCLIBC_HAS_NFTW
  1585. bool "Support the nftw() interface"
  1586. help
  1587. The SuSv3 nftw() interface is used to recursively descend
  1588. directory paths while repeatedly calling a function.
  1589. This interface is rarely used, and adds around 4.5k. Unless you have
  1590. a pressing need for nftw(), you should probably answer N.
  1591. config UCLIBC_HAS_FTW
  1592. bool "Support the ftw() interface (SUSv4-obsolete)"
  1593. depends on UCLIBC_SUSV4_LEGACY
  1594. help
  1595. The SuSv3 ftw() interface is used to recursively descend
  1596. directory paths while repeatedly calling a function.
  1597. This interface is rarely used, and adds around 4.5k. Unless you have
  1598. a pressing need for ftw(), you should probably answer N.
  1599. config UCLIBC_HAS_FTS
  1600. bool "Support the fts() interface (bsd-compat)"
  1601. help
  1602. The fts functions are provided for traversing UNIX file hierarchies.
  1603. This interface is currently used by the elfutils and adds
  1604. around 7.5k.
  1605. You should port your application to use the POSIX nftw()
  1606. interface.
  1607. Unless you need to build/use elfutils, you should prolly answer N.
  1608. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1609. bool "Support the glob() interface"
  1610. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1611. default y
  1612. help
  1613. The glob interface is somewhat large (weighing in at about 2,5k). It
  1614. is used fairly often, but is an option since people wanting to go for
  1615. absolute minimum size may wish to omit it.
  1616. Most people will answer Y.
  1617. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GLOB
  1618. bool "Support gnu glob() interface"
  1619. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1620. help
  1621. The gnu glob interface is somewhat larger (weighing in at about 4,2k)
  1622. than it's SuSv3 counterpart (and is out of date). It is an old copy
  1623. from glibc and does not support all the GNU specific options.
  1624. Answer Y if you want to include full gnu glob() instead of the smaller
  1625. SUSv3 compatible glob().
  1626. Most people will answer N.
  1627. config UCLIBC_HAS_UTMPX
  1628. bool "utmpx based support for tracking login/logouts to/from the system"
  1629. help
  1630. Answer y to enable support for accessing user accounting database.
  1631. It can be used to track all login/logout to the system.
  1632. If unsure, just answer N.
  1633. endmenu
  1634. menu "Library Installation Options"
  1635. config RUNTIME_PREFIX
  1636. string "uClibc runtime library directory"
  1637. default "/usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)-linux-uclibc/"
  1638. help
  1639. RUNTIME_PREFIX is the directory into which the uClibc runtime
  1640. libraries will be installed. The result will look something
  1641. like the following:
  1642. $(RUNTIME_PREFIX)/
  1643. lib/ <contains all runtime libraries>
  1644. usr/bin/ldd <the ldd utility program>
  1645. sbin/ldconfig <the ldconfig utility program>
  1646. This value is used by the 'make install' Makefile target. Since this
  1647. directory is compiled into the shared library loader, you will need to
  1648. recompile uClibc if you change this value...
  1649. For a typical target system this should be set to "/", such that
  1650. 'make install' will install /lib/libuClibc-<VERSION>.so
  1651. config DEVEL_PREFIX
  1652. string "uClibc development environment directory"
  1653. default "/usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)-linux-uclibc/usr/"
  1654. help
  1655. DEVEL_PREFIX is the directory into which the uClibc development
  1656. environment will be installed. The result will look something
  1657. like the following:
  1658. $(DEVEL_PREFIX)/
  1659. lib/ <contains static libs>
  1660. include/ <Where all the header files go>
  1661. This value is used by the 'make install' Makefile target when
  1662. installing a uClibc development environment.
  1663. For a typical target system this should be set to "/usr", such that
  1664. 'make install' will install /usr/include/<header files>.
  1665. config MULTILIB_DIR
  1666. string "library path component"
  1667. default "lib"
  1668. help
  1669. Path component where libraries reside.
  1670. For a typical target system this should be set to "lib", such that
  1671. 'make install' will install libraries to "/lib" and "/usr/lib"
  1672. respectively
  1673. DEVEL_PREFIX/MULTILIB_DIR
  1674. RUNTIME_PREFIX/MULTILIB_DIR
  1675. Other settings may include "lib32" or "lib64".
  1676. config HARDWIRED_ABSPATH
  1677. bool "Hardwire absolute paths into linker scripts"
  1678. default y
  1679. help
  1680. This prepends absolute paths to the libraries mentioned in linker
  1681. scripts such as libc.so.
  1682. This is a build time optimization. It has no impact on dynamic
  1683. linking at runtime, which doesn't use linker scripts.
  1684. You must disable this to use uClibc with old non-sysroot toolchains,
  1685. such as the prebuilt binary cross compilers at:
  1686. http://uclibc.org/downloads/binaries
  1687. The amount of time saved by this optimization is actually too small to
  1688. measure. The linker just had to search the library path to find the
  1689. linker script, so the dentries are cache hot if it has to search the
  1690. same path again. But it's what glibc does, so we do it too.
  1691. endmenu
  1692. menu "Security options"
  1693. config UCLIBC_BUILD_PIE
  1694. bool "Build utilities as ET_DYN/PIE executables"
  1695. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1696. depends on TARGET_arm || TARGET_frv || TARGET_i386 || TARGET_mips || TARGET_powerpc
  1697. select FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS
  1698. help
  1699. If you answer Y here, ldd and iconv are built as ET_DYN/PIE
  1700. executables.
  1701. It requires gcc-3.4 and binutils-2.15 (for arm 2.16) or later.
  1702. More about ET_DYN/PIE binaries on <http://pax.grsecurity.net/> .
  1703. WARNING: This option also enables FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS, so
  1704. all libraries have to be built with -fPIC or -fpic, and all
  1705. assembler functions must be written as position independent
  1706. code (PIC).
  1707. config UCLIBC_HAS_ARC4RANDOM
  1708. bool "Include the arc4random() function"
  1709. help
  1710. Answer Y to support the OpenBSD-like arc4random() function. This
  1711. function picks a random number between 0 and N, and will always return
  1712. something even if the random driver is dead. If urandom fails then
  1713. gettimeofday(2) will be used as the random seed. This function is
  1714. designed to be more dependable than invoking /dev/urandom directly.
  1715. OpenSSL and OpenNTPD currently support this function.
  1716. Most people will answer N.
  1717. config ARC4RANDOM_USES_NODEV
  1718. bool "Do not use /dev/urandom with arc4random()"
  1719. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_ARC4RANDOM
  1720. help
  1721. Answer Y to use gettimeofday(2) and getpid(2) exclusively for
  1722. arc4random(). This is not a bad idea for a diskless system, but
  1723. it uses a lot of syscalls to stir each array element.
  1724. Most people will answer N.
  1725. config HAVE_NO_SSP
  1726. bool
  1727. config UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1728. bool "Support for GCC stack smashing protector"
  1729. depends on !HAVE_NO_SSP
  1730. help
  1731. Add code to support GCC's -fstack-protector[-all] option to uClibc.
  1732. This requires GCC 4.1 or newer. GCC does not have to provide libssp,
  1733. the needed functions are added to ldso/libc instead.
  1734. GCC's stack protector is a reimplementation of IBM's propolice.
  1735. See http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/ and
  1736. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/ssp.txt
  1737. for details.
  1738. Note that NOEXECSTACK on a kernel with address space randomization
  1739. is generally sufficient to prevent most buffer overflow exploits
  1740. without increasing code size. This option essentially adds debugging
  1741. code to catch them.
  1742. Most people will answer N.
  1743. config UCLIBC_HAS_SSP_COMPAT
  1744. bool "Support for gcc-3.x propolice smashing stack protector"
  1745. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1746. help
  1747. Add gcc-3.x propolice smashing stack protector to the library.
  1748. This requires a patched version of GCC, supporting the
  1749. -fstack-protector[-all] options, with the __guard and
  1750. __stack_smash_handler functions removed from libgcc.
  1751. These functions are added to ldso/libc instead.
  1752. More information at:
  1753. <http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/>
  1754. Most people will answer N.
  1755. config SSP_QUICK_CANARY
  1756. bool "Use simple guard values without accessing /dev/urandom"
  1757. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1758. help
  1759. Use gettimeofday(2) to define the __guard without accessing
  1760. /dev/urandom.
  1761. WARNING: This makes smashing stack protector vulnerable to timing
  1762. attacks.
  1763. Most people will answer N.
  1764. choice
  1765. prompt "Propolice protection blocking signal"
  1766. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1767. depends on DODEBUG
  1768. default PROPOLICE_BLOCK_SEGV
  1769. help
  1770. "abort" use SIGABRT to block offending programs.
  1771. This is the default implementation.
  1772. "segfault" use SIGSEGV to block offending programs.
  1773. Use this for debugging.
  1774. If unsure, answer "abort".
  1775. config PROPOLICE_BLOCK_ABRT
  1776. bool "abort"
  1777. config PROPOLICE_BLOCK_SEGV
  1778. bool "segfault"
  1779. endchoice
  1780. config UCLIBC_BUILD_SSP
  1781. bool "Build uClibc with -fstack-protector"
  1782. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1783. help
  1784. Build all uClibc libraries and executables with -fstack-protector,
  1785. adding extra stack overflow checking to most uClibc functions.
  1786. config UCLIBC_BUILD_RELRO
  1787. bool "Build uClibc with linker option -z RELRO"
  1788. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1789. default y
  1790. help
  1791. Build all libraries and executables with "ld -z relro".
  1792. This tells the linker to mark chunks of an executable or shared
  1793. library read-only after applying dynamic relocations. (This comes
  1794. up when a global const variable is initialized to the address of a
  1795. function or the value of another global variable.)
  1796. This is a fairly obscure option the ld man page doesn't even bother
  1797. to document properly. It's a security paranoia issue that's more
  1798. likely to consume memory (by allocating an extra page) rather than
  1799. save it.
  1800. This is explained in more depth at
  1801. http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/189
  1802. Nobody is likely to care whether you say Y or N here.
  1803. config UCLIBC_BUILD_NOW
  1804. bool "Build uClibc with linker option -z NOW"
  1805. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1806. help
  1807. Build all libraries and executables with "ld -z now".
  1808. This tells the linker to resolve all symbols when the library is
  1809. first loaded, rather than when each function is first called. This
  1810. increases start-up latency by a few microseconds and may do
  1811. unnecessary work (resolving symbols that are never used), but the
  1812. realtime people like it for making microbenchmark timings slightly
  1813. more predictable and in some cases it can be slightly faster due to
  1814. CPU cache behavior (not having to fault the linker back in to do
  1815. lazy symbol resolution).
  1816. Most people can't tell the difference between selecting Y or N here.
  1817. config UCLIBC_BUILD_NOEXECSTACK
  1818. bool "Build uClibc with noexecstack marking"
  1819. default y
  1820. help
  1821. Mark all assembler files as noexecstack, which will mark uClibc
  1822. as not requiring an executable stack. (This doesn't prevent other
  1823. files you link against from claiming to need an executable stack, it
  1824. just won't cause uClibc to request it unnecessarily.)
  1825. This is a security thing to make buffer overflows harder to exploit.
  1826. By itself, it's kind of useless, as Linus Torvalds explained in 1998:
  1827. http://old.lwn.net/1998/0806/a/linus-noexec.html
  1828. It only actually provides any security when combined with address
  1829. space randomization, explained here: http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/
  1830. Address space randomization is on by default in current linux
  1831. kernels (although it can be disabled using the option
  1832. CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK).
  1833. You should probably say Y.
  1834. endmenu
  1835. menu "Development/debugging options"
  1836. config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
  1837. string "Cross-compiling toolchain prefix"
  1838. default ""
  1839. help
  1840. The prefix used to execute your cross-compiling toolchain. For
  1841. example, if you run 'arm-linux-uclibc-gcc' to compile something,
  1842. then enter 'arm-linux-uclibc-' here.
  1843. config UCLIBC_EXTRA_CFLAGS
  1844. string "Extra CFLAGS"
  1845. default ""
  1846. help
  1847. Add any additional CFLAGS to be used to build uClibc.
  1848. config DODEBUG
  1849. bool "Enable debugging symbols"
  1850. select EXTRA_WARNINGS
  1851. help
  1852. Say Y here if you wish to compile uClibc with debugging symbols.
  1853. This will allow you to use a debugger to examine uClibc internals
  1854. while applications are running. This increases the size of the
  1855. library considerably and should only be used when doing development.
  1856. If you are doing development and want to debug uClibc, answer Y.
  1857. Otherwise, answer N.
  1858. config DODEBUG_PT
  1859. bool "Build pthread with debugging output"
  1860. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS && LINUXTHREADS_OLD
  1861. help
  1862. Enable debug output in libpthread. This is only useful when doing
  1863. development in libpthread itself.
  1864. Otherwise, answer N.
  1865. config DOSTRIP
  1866. bool "Strip libraries and executables"
  1867. default y
  1868. depends on !DODEBUG
  1869. help
  1870. Say Y here if you do wish to strip all uClibc libraries and
  1871. executables. No stripping increases the size of the binaries
  1872. considerably, but makes it possible to debug uClibc libraries.
  1873. Most people will answer Y.
  1874. config DOASSERTS
  1875. bool "Build with run-time assertion testing"
  1876. help
  1877. Say Y here to include runtime assertion tests.
  1878. This enables runtime assertion testing in some code, which can
  1879. increase the size of the library and incur runtime overhead.
  1880. If you say N, then this testing will be disabled.
  1881. config SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG
  1882. bool "Build the shared library loader with debugging support"
  1883. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1884. help
  1885. Answer Y here to enable all the extra code needed to debug the uClibc
  1886. native shared library loader. The level of debugging noise that is
  1887. generated depends on the LD_DEBUG environment variable... Just set
  1888. LD_DEBUG to something like: 'LD_DEBUG=token1,token2,.. prog' to
  1889. debug your application. Diagnostic messages will then be printed to
  1890. the stderr.
  1891. For now these debugging tokens are available:
  1892. detail provide more information for some options
  1893. move display copy processing
  1894. symbols display symbol table processing
  1895. reloc display relocation processing; detail shows the
  1896. relocation patch
  1897. nofixups never fixes up jump relocations
  1898. bindings displays the resolve processing (function calls);
  1899. detail shows the relocation patch
  1900. all Enable everything!
  1901. The additional environment variable:
  1902. LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT=file
  1903. redirects the diagnostics to an output file created using
  1904. the specified name and the process id as a suffix.
  1905. An excellent start is simply:
  1906. $ LD_DEBUG=binding,move,symbols,reloc,detail ./appname
  1907. or to log everything to a file named 'logfile', try this
  1908. $ LD_DEBUG=all LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT=logfile ./appname
  1909. If you are doing development and want to debug uClibc's shared library
  1910. loader, answer Y. Mere mortals answer N.
  1911. config SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG_EARLY
  1912. bool "Build the shared library loader with early debugging support"
  1913. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1914. help
  1915. Answer Y here to if you find the uClibc shared library loader is
  1916. crashing or otherwise not working very early on. This is typical
  1917. only when starting a new port when you haven't figured out how to
  1918. properly get the values for argc, argv, environ, etc. This method
  1919. allows a degree of visibility into the very early shared library
  1920. loader initialization process. If you are doing development and want
  1921. to debug the uClibc shared library loader early initialization,
  1922. answer Y. Mere mortals answer N.
  1923. config UCLIBC_MALLOC_DEBUGGING
  1924. bool "Build malloc with debugging support"
  1925. depends on MALLOC || MALLOC_STANDARD
  1926. help
  1927. Answer Y here to compile extra debugging support code into malloc.
  1928. Malloc debugging output may then be enabled at runtime using the
  1929. MALLOC_DEBUG environment variable.
  1930. The value of MALLOC_DEBUG should be an integer, which is interpreted
  1931. as a bitmask with the following bits:
  1932. 1 - do extra consistency checking
  1933. 2 - output messages for malloc/free calls and OS
  1934. allocation calls
  1935. 4 - output messages for the `MMB' layer
  1936. 8 - output messages for internal malloc heap manipulation
  1937. calls
  1938. Because this increases the size of malloc appreciably (due to strings
  1939. etc), you should say N unless you need to debug a malloc problem.
  1940. config UCLIBC_HAS_BACKTRACE
  1941. bool "Add support for application self-debugging"
  1942. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1943. help
  1944. Answer Y here to compile support for application self-debugging, by adding
  1945. a new shared object "libubacktrace.so" that provides the following new
  1946. functions:
  1947. backtrace, backtrace_symbols, backtrace_symbols_fd
  1948. The backtrace functionality is currently supported on SH platform, and it
  1949. based on dwarf2 informations to properly work, so any application that
  1950. want to use backtrace needs to be built with -fexceptions flag.
  1951. The symbol names may be unavailable without the use of special linker
  1952. options. For systems using the GNU linker, it is necessary to use the
  1953. -rdynamic linker option too. Note that names of "static" functions are not
  1954. exposed, and won't be available in the backtrace.
  1955. config WARNINGS
  1956. string "Compiler Warnings"
  1957. default "-Wall"
  1958. help
  1959. Set this to the set of compiler warnings you wish to see while compiling.
  1960. config EXTRA_WARNINGS
  1961. bool "Enable extra annoying warnings"
  1962. help
  1963. If you wish to build with extra warnings enabled, say Y here.
  1964. config DOMULTI
  1965. bool "Compile all sources at once into an object"
  1966. help
  1967. Set this to compile all sources at once into an object (IMA).
  1968. This mode of compilation uses alot of memory but may produce
  1969. smaller binaries.
  1970. Note that you need a very recent GCC for this to work, like
  1971. gcc >= 4.3 plus eventually some patches.
  1972. If unsure, keep the default of N.
  1973. config UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY
  1974. bool "Manuel's hidden warnings"
  1975. help
  1976. Answer Y here to see all Manuel's personal notes, warnings, and todos.
  1977. Most people will answer N.
  1978. endmenu