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