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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 (BROKEN)"
  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. endchoice
  89. menu "Target Architecture Features and Options"
  90. if TARGET_alpha
  91. source "extra/Configs/Config.alpha"
  92. endif
  93. if TARGET_arm
  94. source "extra/Configs/Config.arm"
  95. endif
  96. if TARGET_avr32
  97. source "extra/Configs/Config.avr32"
  98. endif
  99. if TARGET_bfin
  100. source "extra/Configs/Config.bfin"
  101. endif
  102. if TARGET_cris
  103. source "extra/Configs/Config.cris"
  104. endif
  105. if TARGET_e1
  106. source "extra/Configs/Config.e1"
  107. endif
  108. if TARGET_frv
  109. source "extra/Configs/Config.frv"
  110. endif
  111. if TARGET_h8300
  112. source "extra/Configs/Config.h8300"
  113. endif
  114. if TARGET_hppa
  115. source "extra/Configs/Config.hppa"
  116. endif
  117. if TARGET_i386
  118. source "extra/Configs/Config.i386"
  119. endif
  120. if TARGET_i960
  121. source "extra/Configs/Config.i960"
  122. endif
  123. if TARGET_ia64
  124. source "extra/Configs/Config.ia64"
  125. endif
  126. if TARGET_m68k
  127. source "extra/Configs/Config.m68k"
  128. endif
  129. if TARGET_nios
  130. source "extra/Configs/Config.nios"
  131. endif
  132. if TARGET_nios2
  133. source "extra/Configs/Config.nios2"
  134. endif
  135. if TARGET_microblaze
  136. source "extra/Configs/Config.microblaze"
  137. endif
  138. if TARGET_mips
  139. source "extra/Configs/Config.mips"
  140. endif
  141. if TARGET_powerpc
  142. source "extra/Configs/Config.powerpc"
  143. endif
  144. if TARGET_sh
  145. source "extra/Configs/Config.sh"
  146. endif
  147. if TARGET_sh64
  148. source "extra/Configs/Config.sh64"
  149. endif
  150. if TARGET_sparc
  151. source "extra/Configs/Config.sparc"
  152. endif
  153. if TARGET_v850
  154. source "extra/Configs/Config.v850"
  155. endif
  156. if TARGET_vax
  157. source "extra/Configs/Config.vax"
  158. endif
  159. if TARGET_x86_64
  160. source "extra/Configs/Config.x86_64"
  161. endif
  162. if TARGET_xtensa
  163. source "extra/Configs/Config.xtensa"
  164. endif
  165. config TARGET_SUBARCH
  166. string
  167. default "e500" if CONFIG_E500
  168. default "classic" if CONFIG_CLASSIC
  169. default "sh4" if CONFIG_SH4
  170. default "" if CONFIG_GENERIC_386 || CONFIG_386
  171. default "i486" if CONFIG_486
  172. default "i586" if CONFIG_586 || CONFIG_586MMX
  173. default "i686" if TARGET_ARCH = "i386"
  174. default ""
  175. source "extra/Configs/Config.in.arch"
  176. endmenu
  177. menu "General Library Settings"
  178. config HAVE_NO_PIC
  179. bool
  180. default n
  181. config DOPIC
  182. bool "Generate only Position Independent Code (PIC)"
  183. default y
  184. depends on !HAVE_NO_PIC
  185. help
  186. If you wish to build all of uClibc as PIC objects, then answer Y here.
  187. If you are unsure, then you should answer N.
  188. config ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED
  189. bool
  190. default n
  191. config ARCH_HAS_NO_LDSO
  192. bool
  193. select ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED
  194. default n
  195. config HAVE_SHARED
  196. bool "Enable shared libraries"
  197. depends on !ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED
  198. default y
  199. help
  200. If you wish to build uClibc with support for shared libraries then
  201. answer Y here. If you only want to build uClibc as a static library,
  202. then answer N.
  203. config FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS
  204. bool "Only load shared libraries which can share their text segment"
  205. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  206. select DOPIC
  207. default n
  208. help
  209. If you answer Y here, the uClibc native shared library loader will
  210. only load shared libraries, which do not need to modify any
  211. non-writable segments. These libraries haven't set the DT_TEXTREL
  212. tag in the dynamic section (==> objdump).
  213. All your libraries must be compiled with -fPIC or -fpic, and all
  214. assembler function must be written as position independent code (PIC).
  215. Enabling this option will make uClibc's shared library loader a
  216. little bit smaller and guarantee that no memory will be wasted by
  217. badly coded shared libraries.
  218. config LDSO_LDD_SUPPORT
  219. bool "Native 'ldd' support"
  220. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  221. default y
  222. help
  223. Enable all the code needed to support traditional ldd,
  224. which executes the shared library loader to resolve all dependencies
  225. and then provide a list of shared libraries that are required for an
  226. application to function. Disabling this option will make uClibc's
  227. shared library loader a little bit smaller.
  228. Most people will answer Y.
  229. config LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT
  230. bool "Enable library loader cache (ld.so.conf)"
  231. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  232. default y
  233. help
  234. Enable this to make use of /etc/ld.so.conf, the shared library loader
  235. cache configuration file to support for non-standard library paths.
  236. After updating this file, it is necessary to run 'ldconfig' to update
  237. the /etc/ld.so.cache shared library loader cache file.
  238. config LDSO_PRELOAD_ENV_SUPPORT
  239. bool "Enable library loader LD_PRELOAD environment"
  240. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  241. default y
  242. help
  243. Enable this to make use of LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
  244. A whitespace-separated list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared
  245. libraries to be loaded before all others. This can be used to
  246. selectively override functions in other shared libraries. For
  247. set-user-ID/set-group-ID ELF binaries, only libraries in the standard
  248. search directories that are also set-user-ID will be loaded.
  249. config LDSO_PRELOAD_FILE_SUPPORT
  250. bool "Enable library loader preload file (ld.so.preload)"
  251. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  252. default n
  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. default n
  275. help
  276. The dynamic linker can be run either indirectly through running some
  277. dynamically linked program or library (in which case no command line
  278. options to the dynamic linker can be passed and, in the ELF case, the
  279. dynamic linker which is stored in the .interp section of the program
  280. is executed) or directly by running:
  281. /lib/ld-uClibc.so.* [OPTIONS] [PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS]]
  282. Stand-alone execution is a prerequisite for adding prelink
  283. capabilities to uClibc dynamic linker, as well useful for testing an
  284. updated version of the dynamic linker without breaking the system.
  285. config UCLIBC_STATIC_LDCONFIG
  286. bool "Link ldconfig statically"
  287. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  288. default y
  289. help
  290. Enable this option to statically link the ldconfig binary.
  291. Making ldconfig static can be beneficial if you have a library
  292. problem and need to use ldconfig to recover. Sometimes it is
  293. preferable to instead keep the size of the system down, in which
  294. case you should disable this option.
  295. config LDSO_RUNPATH
  296. bool "Enable ELF RUNPATH tag support"
  297. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  298. default y if LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT
  299. default n if !LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT
  300. help
  301. ELF's may have dynamic RPATH/RUNPATH tags. These tags list paths
  302. which extend the library search paths. They are really only useful
  303. if a package installs libraries in non standard locations and
  304. ld.so.conf support is disabled.
  305. Usage of RUNPATH tags is not too common, so disabling this feature
  306. should be safe for most people.
  307. config LDSO_SEARCH_INTERP_PATH
  308. bool "Add ldso path to lib search path"
  309. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  310. default y
  311. help
  312. The ldso is told where it is being executed from and can use that
  313. path to find related core libraries. This is useful by default,
  314. but can be annoying in a mixed development environment.
  315. i.e. if the ldso is run from /foo/boo/ldso.so, it will start its
  316. library search with /foo/boo/
  317. If unsure, simply say Y here.
  318. config UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR
  319. bool "Support global constructors and destructors"
  320. default y
  321. help
  322. If you wish to build uClibc with support for global constructor
  323. (ctor) and global destructor (dtor) support, then answer Y here.
  324. When ctor/dtor support is enabled, binaries linked with uClibc must
  325. also be linked with crtbegin.o and crtend.o which are provided by gcc
  326. (the "*startfile:" and "*endfile:" settings in your gcc specs file
  327. may need to be adjusted to include these files). This support will
  328. also add a small amount of additional size to each binary compiled vs
  329. uClibc. If you will be using uClibc with C++, or if you need the gcc
  330. __attribute__((constructor)) and __attribute__((destructor)) to work,
  331. then you definitely want to answer Y here. If you don't need ctors
  332. or dtors and want your binaries to be as small as possible, then
  333. answer N.
  334. config LDSO_GNU_HASH_SUPPORT
  335. bool "Enable GNU hash style support"
  336. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  337. default n
  338. help
  339. Newest binutils support a new hash style named GNU-hash. The dynamic
  340. linker will use the new GNU-hash section (.gnu.hash) for symbol lookup
  341. if present into the ELF binaries, otherwise it will use the old SysV
  342. hash style (.hash). This ensures that it is completely backward
  343. compatible.
  344. Further, being the hash table implementation self-contained into each
  345. executable and shared libraries, objects with mixed hash style can
  346. peacefully coexist in the same process.
  347. If you want to use this new feature, answer Y
  348. choice
  349. prompt "Thread support"
  350. #default UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE if (TARGET_alpha || TARGET_arm || TARGET_i386 || TARGET_mips || TARGET_powerpc || TARGET_sh || TARGET_sh64)
  351. default HAS_NO_THREADS
  352. help
  353. If you want to compile uClibc with pthread support, then answer Y.
  354. This will increase the size of uClibc by adding a bunch of locking
  355. to critical data structures, and adding extra code to ensure that
  356. functions are properly reentrant.
  357. config HAS_NO_THREADS
  358. bool "none"
  359. help
  360. Disable thread support.
  361. config LINUXTHREADS_OLD
  362. bool "older (stable) version of linuxthreads"
  363. # linuxthreads and linuxthreads.old need nanosleep()
  364. select UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  365. help
  366. There are two versions of linuxthreads. The older (stable) version
  367. has been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  368. updates other than bugfixes.
  369. config LINUXTHREADS_NEW
  370. bool "slightly newer version of linuxthreads"
  371. help
  372. The new version has not been tested much, and lacks ports for arches
  373. which glibc does not support (like bfin/frv/etc...), but is based on
  374. the latest code from glibc, so it may be the only choice for the
  375. newer ports (like alpha/amd64/64bit arches and hppa).
  376. config UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  377. bool "Native POSIX Threading (NPTL)"
  378. select UCLIBC_HAS_TLS
  379. select UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_FUTEXES
  380. # NPTL local:
  381. select EXTRA_WARNINGS
  382. help
  383. If you want to compile uClibc with NPTL support, then answer Y.
  384. IMPORTANT NOTE! NPTL requires a Linux 2.6 kernel, binutils
  385. at least version 2.16 and GCC with at least version 4.1.0. NPTL
  386. will not work with older versions of any above sources. If you
  387. ignore any of these guidelines, you do so at your own risk. Do
  388. not ask for help on any of the development mailing lists.
  389. !!!! WARNING !!!! BIG FAT WARNING !!!! REALLY BIG FAT WARNING !!!!
  390. This is experimental code and at times it may not even build and
  391. even if it does it might decide to do random damage. This code is
  392. potentially hazardous to your health and sanity. It will remain
  393. that way until further notice at which point this notice will
  394. disappear. Thank you for your support and for not smoking.
  395. endchoice
  396. config UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS
  397. def_bool y if !HAS_NO_THREADS
  398. config UCLIBC_HAS_TLS
  399. bool "Thread-Local Storage"
  400. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  401. default n
  402. help
  403. If you want to enable TLS support then answer Y.
  404. This is fast an efficient way to store per-thread local data
  405. which is not on stack. It needs __thread support enabled in
  406. gcc.
  407. config PTHREADS_DEBUG_SUPPORT
  408. bool "Build pthreads debugging support"
  409. default n
  410. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS
  411. help
  412. Say Y here if you wish to be able to debug applications that use
  413. uClibc's pthreads library. By enabling this option, a library
  414. named libthread_db will be built. This library will be dlopen()'d
  415. by gdb and will allow gdb to debug the threads in your application.
  416. IMPORTANT NOTE! Because gdb must dlopen() the libthread_db library,
  417. you must compile gdb with uClibc in order for pthread debugging to
  418. work properly.
  419. If you are doing development and want to debug applications using
  420. uClibc's pthread library, answer Y. Otherwise, answer N.
  421. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYSLOG
  422. bool "Syslog support"
  423. default y
  424. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  425. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  426. help
  427. Support sending messages to the system logger.
  428. This requires socket-support.
  429. config UCLIBC_HAS_LFS
  430. bool "Large File Support"
  431. default y
  432. help
  433. If you wish to build uClibc with support for accessing large files
  434. (i.e. files greater then 2 GiB) then answer Y. Do not enable this
  435. if you are using an older Linux kernel (2.0.x) that lacks large file
  436. support. Enabling this option will increase the size of uClibc.
  437. choice
  438. prompt "Malloc Implementation"
  439. default MALLOC if ! ARCH_USE_MMU
  440. default MALLOC_STANDARD if ARCH_USE_MMU
  441. config MALLOC
  442. bool "malloc"
  443. help
  444. "malloc" use mmap for all allocations and so works very well on
  445. MMU-less systems that do not support the brk() system call. It is
  446. pretty smart about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing
  447. memory wastage.
  448. This is the default for uClinux MMU-less systems.
  449. config MALLOC_SIMPLE
  450. bool "malloc-simple"
  451. help
  452. "malloc-simple" is trivially simple and slow as molasses. It
  453. was written from scratch for uClibc, and is the simplest possible
  454. (and therefore smallest) malloc implementation.
  455. This uses only the mmap() system call to allocate and free memory,
  456. and does not use the brk() system call at all, making it a fine
  457. choice for MMU-less systems with very limited memory. It's 100%
  458. standards compliant, thread safe, very small, and releases freed
  459. memory back to the OS immediately rather than keeping it in the
  460. process's heap for reallocation. It is also VERY SLOW.
  461. config MALLOC_STANDARD
  462. bool "malloc-standard"
  463. depends on ARCH_USE_MMU
  464. help
  465. "malloc-standard" is derived from the public domain dlmalloc
  466. implementation by Doug Lea. It is quite fast, and is pretty smart
  467. about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing memory
  468. wastage. This uses brk() for small allocations, while using mmap()
  469. for larger allocations. This is the default malloc implementation
  470. for uClibc.
  471. If unsure, answer "malloc-standard".
  472. endchoice
  473. config MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT
  474. bool "Malloc returns live pointer for malloc(0)"
  475. default n
  476. help
  477. The behavior of malloc(0) is listed as implementation-defined by
  478. SuSv3. Glibc returns a valid pointer to something, while uClibc
  479. normally returns NULL. I personally feel glibc's behavior is
  480. not particularly safe, and allows buggy applications to hide very
  481. serious problems.
  482. When this option is enabled, uClibc will act just like glibc, and
  483. return a live pointer when someone calls malloc(0). This pointer
  484. provides a malloc'ed area with a size of 1 byte. This feature is
  485. mostly useful when dealing with applications using autoconf's broken
  486. AC_FUNC_MALLOC macro (which redefines malloc as rpl_malloc if it
  487. does not detect glibc style returning-a-valid-pointer-for-malloc(0)
  488. behavior). Most people can safely answer N.
  489. config UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_ATEXIT
  490. bool "Dynamic atexit() Support"
  491. default y
  492. help
  493. When this option is enabled, uClibc will support an infinite number,
  494. of atexit() and on_exit() functions, limited only by your available
  495. memory. This can be important when uClibc is used with C++, since
  496. global destructors are implemented via atexit(), and it is quite
  497. possible to exceed the default number when this option is disabled.
  498. Enabling this option adds a few bytes, and more significantly makes
  499. atexit and on_exit depend on malloc, which can be bad when compiling
  500. static executables.
  501. Unless you use uClibc with C++, you should probably answer N.
  502. config COMPAT_ATEXIT
  503. bool "Old (visible) atexit Support"
  504. default n
  505. help
  506. Enable this option if you want to update from 0.9.28 to git/0.9.29,
  507. else you will be missing atexit() until you rebuild all apps.
  508. config UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY
  509. bool "Enable SuSv3 LEGACY functions"
  510. default n
  511. #vfork,
  512. # h_errno
  513. # gethostbyaddr
  514. # gethostbyname
  515. help
  516. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv3 LEGACY functions
  517. in the library, else they are replaced by SuSv3 proposed macros.
  518. Currently applies to:
  519. bcmp, bcopy, bzero, index, rindex, ftime,
  520. bsd_signal, (ecvt), (fcvt), gcvt, (getcontext),
  521. (getwd), (makecontext),
  522. mktemp, (pthread_attr_getstackaddr), (pthread_attr_setstackaddr),
  523. scalb, (setcontext), (swapcontext), ualarm, usleep,
  524. wcswcs.
  525. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  526. config UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY_MACROS
  527. bool "Enable SuSv3 LEGACY macros"
  528. default n
  529. help
  530. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv3 LEGACY macros.
  531. Currently applies to bcopy/bzero/bcmp/index/rindex et al.
  532. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  533. config UCLIBC_SUSV4_LEGACY
  534. bool "Enable SuSv4 LEGACY or obsolescent functions"
  535. default n
  536. help
  537. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv4 LEGACY functions
  538. and macros in the library.
  539. Currently applies to:
  540. - XSI functions:
  541. _longjmp, _setjmp, _tolower, _toupper, ftw, getitimer,
  542. gettimeofday, isascii, pthread_getconcurrency,
  543. pthread_setconcurrency, setitimer, setpgrp, sighold,
  544. sigignore, sigpause, sigrelse, sigset, siginterrupt,
  545. tempnam, toascii, ulimit.
  546. - Base functions:
  547. asctime, asctime_r, ctime, ctime_r, gets, rand_r,
  548. tmpnam, utime.
  549. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  550. config UCLIBC_HAS_STUBS
  551. bool "Provide stubs for unavailable functionality"
  552. default n
  553. help
  554. With this option uClibc provides non-functional stubs for
  555. functions which are impossible to implement on the target
  556. architecture. Otherwise, such functions are simply omitted.
  557. As of 2008-07, this option makes uClibc provide fork() stub
  558. on NOMMU targets. It always sets errno to ENOSYS and returns -1.
  559. This may be useful if you port a lot of software and cannot
  560. audit all of it and replace or disable fork() usage.
  561. With this option, a program which uses fork() will build
  562. successfully. Of course, it may be useless if fork()
  563. is essential for its operation.
  564. config UCLIBC_HAS_SHADOW
  565. bool "Shadow Password Support"
  566. default y
  567. help
  568. Answer N if you do not need shadow password support.
  569. Most people will answer Y.
  570. config UCLIBC_HAS_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME
  571. bool "Support for program_invocation_name"
  572. default n
  573. help
  574. Support for the GNU-specific program_invocation_name and
  575. program_invocation_short_name strings. Some GNU packages
  576. (like tar and coreutils) utilize these for extra useful
  577. output, but in general are not required.
  578. At startup, these external strings are automatically set
  579. up based on the value of ARGV[0].
  580. If unsure, just answer N.
  581. config UCLIBC_HAS___PROGNAME
  582. bool "Support for __progname"
  583. default y
  584. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME
  585. help
  586. Some packages (like openssh) like to peek into internal libc
  587. symbols to make their output a bit more user friendly.
  588. At startup, __progname is automatically set up based on the
  589. value of ARGV[0].
  590. If unsure, just answer N.
  591. config UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  592. bool "Support for pseudo-terminals"
  593. default y
  594. help
  595. This enables support for pseudo-terminals (see man 4 pts
  596. and man 7 pty).
  597. If unsure, just answer Y.
  598. config ASSUME_DEVPTS
  599. bool "Assume that /dev/pts is a devpts or devfs file system"
  600. default y
  601. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  602. help
  603. Enable this if /dev/pts is on a devpts or devfs filesystem. Both
  604. these filesystems automatically manage permissions on the /dev/pts
  605. devices. You may need to mount your devpts or devfs filesystem on
  606. /dev/pts for this to work.
  607. Most people should answer Y.
  608. config UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  609. bool "Support only Unix 98 PTYs"
  610. default y
  611. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  612. help
  613. If you want to support only Unix 98 PTYs enable this. Some older
  614. applications may need this disabled and will thus use legacy BSD
  615. style PTY handling which is more complex and also bigger than
  616. Unix 98 PTY handling.
  617. For most current programs, you can generally answer Y.
  618. if UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  619. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETPT
  620. bool "Support getpt() (glibc-compat)"
  621. default n
  622. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  623. help
  624. Some packages may need getpt().
  625. All of those are non-standard and can be considered
  626. GNU/libc compatibility.
  627. Either use posix_openpt() or just open /dev/ptmx yourself.
  628. If unsure, just say N.
  629. endif
  630. if !UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  631. # Have to use __libc_ptyname{1,2}[] and related bloat
  632. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETPT
  633. def_bool y
  634. endif
  635. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBUTIL
  636. bool "Provide libutil library and functions"
  637. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  638. default n
  639. help
  640. Provide a libutil library.
  641. This non-standard conforming library provides the following
  642. utility functions:
  643. forkpty(): combines openpty(), fork(2), and login_tty() to
  644. create a new process operating in a pseudo-terminal.
  645. login(): write utmp and wtmp entries
  646. login_tty(): prepares for a login on the tty fd by creating a
  647. new session, making fd the controlling terminal for
  648. the calling process, setting fd to be the standard
  649. input, output, and error streams of the current
  650. process, and closing fd.
  651. logout(): write utmp and wtmp entries
  652. logwtmp(): constructs a utmp structure and calls updwtmp() to
  653. append the structure to the utmp file.
  654. openpty(): finds an available pseudo-terminal and returns
  655. file descriptors for the master and slave
  656. This library adds about 3k-4k to your system.
  657. config UCLIBC_HAS_TM_EXTENSIONS
  658. bool "Support 'struct tm' timezone extension fields"
  659. default y
  660. help
  661. Enabling this option adds fields to 'struct tm' in time.h for
  662. tracking the number of seconds east of UTC, and an abbreviation for
  663. the current timezone. These fields are not specified by the SuSv3
  664. standard, but they are commonly used in both GNU and BSD application
  665. code.
  666. To strictly follow the SuSv3 standard, leave this disabled.
  667. Most people will probably want to answer Y.
  668. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_CACHING
  669. bool "Enable caching of the last valid timezone 'TZ' string"
  670. default y
  671. help
  672. Answer Y to enable caching of the last valid 'TZ' string describing
  673. the timezone setting. This allows a quick string compare to avoid
  674. repeated parsing of unchanged 'TZ' strings when tzset() is called.
  675. Most people will answer Y.
  676. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  677. bool "Enable '/etc/TZ' file support to set a default timezone (uClibc-specific)"
  678. default y
  679. help
  680. Answer Y to enable the setting of a default timezone for uClibc.
  681. Ordinarily, uClibc gets the timezone information exclusively from the
  682. 'TZ' environment variable. In particular, there is no support for
  683. the zoneinfo directory tree or the /etc/timezone file used by glibc.
  684. With this option enabled, uClibc will use the value stored in the
  685. file '/etc/TZ' (default path) to obtain timezone information if the
  686. 'TZ' environment variable is missing or has an invalid value. The
  687. file consists of a single line (newline required) of text describing
  688. the timezone in the format specified for the TZ environment variable.
  689. Doing 'echo CST6CDT > /etc/TZ' is enough to create a valid file.
  690. See
  691. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html
  692. for details on valid settings of 'TZ'.
  693. Most people will answer Y.
  694. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE_READ_MANY
  695. bool "Repeatedly read the '/etc/TZ' file"
  696. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  697. default y
  698. help
  699. Answer Y to enable repeated reading of the '/etc/TZ' file even after
  700. a valid value has been read. This incurs the overhead of an
  701. open/read/close for each tzset() call (explicit or implied). However,
  702. setting this will allow applications to update their timezone
  703. information if the contents of the file change.
  704. Most people will answer Y.
  705. config UCLIBC_TZ_FILE_PATH
  706. string "Path to the 'TZ' file for setting the global timezone"
  707. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  708. default "/etc/TZ"
  709. help
  710. This is the path to the 'TZ' file.
  711. Most people will use the default of '/etc/TZ'.
  712. config UCLIBC_FALLBACK_TO_ETC_LOCALTIME
  713. bool "Use /etc/localtime as a fallback"
  714. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  715. default y
  716. help
  717. Answer Y to try to use /etc/localtime file.
  718. On glibc systems this file (if it is in TZif2 format)
  719. contains timezone string at the end.
  720. Most people will answer Y.
  721. endmenu
  722. menu "Advanced Library Settings"
  723. config UCLIBC_PWD_BUFFER_SIZE
  724. int "Buffer size for getpwnam() and friends"
  725. default 256
  726. range 12 1024
  727. help
  728. This sets the value of the buffer size for getpwnam() and friends.
  729. By default, this is 256. (For reference, glibc uses 1024).
  730. The value can be found using sysconf() with the _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX
  731. parameter.
  732. config UCLIBC_GRP_BUFFER_SIZE
  733. int "Buffer size for getgrnam() and friends"
  734. default 256
  735. range 12 1024
  736. help
  737. This sets the value of the buffer size for getgrnam() and friends.
  738. By default, this is 256. (For reference, glibc uses 1024).
  739. The value can be found using sysconf() with the _SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX
  740. parameter.
  741. comment "Support various families of functions"
  742. config UCLIBC_LINUX_MODULE_24
  743. bool "Linux kernel module functions"
  744. default !(TARGET_bfin)
  745. help
  746. create_module, query_module
  747. are used in linux (prior to 2.6) for loadable kernel modules.
  748. Say N if you do not use kernel modules, or you only support
  749. Linux 2.6+.
  750. config UCLIBC_LINUX_SPECIFIC
  751. bool "Linux specific functions"
  752. default y
  753. help
  754. capget(), capset(), fstatfs(), inotify_*(), ioperm(), iopl(),
  755. madvise(), modify_ldt(), personality(), prctl()/arch_prctl(),
  756. ppoll(), readahead(), reboot(), remap_file_pages(),
  757. sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity(), sendfile(),
  758. setfsgid(), setfsuid(), setresuid(),
  759. splice(), vmsplice(), tee(), signalfd(), swapoff(), swapon(),
  760. sync_file_range(), sysctl(), sysinfo(), vhangup()
  761. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_ERROR
  762. bool "Support GNU extensions for error-reporting"
  763. default y
  764. help
  765. Support for the GNU-specific error(), error_at_line(),
  766. void (* error_print_progname)(), error_message_count
  767. functions and variables. Some GNU packages
  768. utilize these for extra useful output, but in general
  769. are not required.
  770. If unsure, just answer N.
  771. config UCLIBC_BSD_SPECIFIC
  772. bool "BSD specific functions"
  773. default y
  774. help
  775. mincore(), getdomainname(), setdomainname()
  776. If unsure, say N.
  777. config UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_ERR
  778. bool "BSD err functions"
  779. default y
  780. help
  781. These functions are non-standard BSD extensions.
  782. err(), errx(), warn(), warnx(), verr(), verrx(), vwarn(), vwarnx()
  783. If unsure, say N.
  784. config UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_BSD_SIGNAL
  785. bool "BSD obsolete signal functions"
  786. default n
  787. help
  788. These functions are provided as a compatibility interface for
  789. programs that make use of the historical System V signal API.
  790. This API is obsolete:
  791. new applications should use the POSIX signal API (sigaction(2),
  792. sigprocmask(2), etc.).
  793. Affected functions:
  794. sigset(), sighold(), sigrelse(), sigignore()
  795. If unsure, say N.
  796. config UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_SYSV_SIGNAL
  797. bool "SYSV obsolete signal functions"
  798. default n
  799. help
  800. Use of sysv_signal() should be avoided; use sigaction(2) instead.
  801. If unsure, say N.
  802. config UCLIBC_NTP_LEGACY
  803. bool "ntp_*() aliases"
  804. default n
  805. help
  806. Provide legacy aliases for ntp functions:
  807. ntp_adjtime(), ntp_gettime()
  808. It is safe to say N here.
  809. config UCLIBC_SV4_DEPRECATED
  810. bool "Enable SVr4 deprecated functions"
  811. default n
  812. help
  813. These functions are DEPRECATED in System V release 4.
  814. Say N unless you desparately need one of the functions below:
  815. ustat() [use statfs(2) in your code instead]
  816. config UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  817. bool "Realtime-related family of SUSv functions"
  818. default y
  819. help
  820. These functions are part of the Timers option and need not
  821. be available on all implementations.
  822. Includes AIO, message-queue, scheduler, semaphore functions:
  823. aio.h
  824. mqueue.h
  825. sched.h
  826. semaphore.h
  827. aio_cancel()
  828. aio_error()
  829. aio_fsync()
  830. aio_read()
  831. lio_listio()
  832. aio_return()
  833. aio_suspend()
  834. aio_write()
  835. clock_getres(), clock_gettime(), clock_settime()
  836. fdatasync()
  837. mlockall(), munlockall()
  838. mlock(), munlock()
  839. mq_close()
  840. mq_getattr()
  841. mq_notify()
  842. mq_open()
  843. mq_receive()
  844. mq_send()
  845. mq_setattr()
  846. mq_unlink()
  847. nanosleep()
  848. sched_getparam()
  849. sched_get_priority_max(), sched_get_priority_min()
  850. sched_getscheduler()
  851. sched_rr_get_interval()
  852. sched_setparam()
  853. sched_setscheduler()
  854. sem_close()
  855. sem_destroy()
  856. sem_getvalue()
  857. sem_init()
  858. sem_open()
  859. sem_post()
  860. sem_trywait(), sem_wait()
  861. sem_unlink()
  862. sigqueue()
  863. sigtimedwait(), sigwaitinfo()
  864. timer_create()
  865. timer_delete()
  866. timer_getoverrun(), timer_gettime(), timer_settime()
  867. config UCLIBC_HAS_ADVANCED_REALTIME
  868. bool "Advanced realtime-related family of SUSv functions"
  869. default y
  870. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  871. help
  872. These functions are part of the Timers option and need not
  873. be available on all implementations.
  874. clock_getcpuclockid()
  875. clock_nanosleep()
  876. mq_timedreceive()
  877. mq_timedsend()
  878. posix_fadvise()
  879. posix_fallocate()
  880. posix_madvise()
  881. posix_memalign()
  882. posix_mem_offset()
  883. posix_spawnattr_destroy(), posix_spawnattr_init()
  884. posix_spawnattr_getflags(), posix_spawnattr_setflags()
  885. posix_spawnattr_getpgroup(), posix_spawnattr_setpgroup()
  886. posix_spawnattr_getschedparam(), posix_spawnattr_setschedparam()
  887. posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy(), posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy()
  888. posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault(), posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault()
  889. posix_spawnattr_getsigmask(), posix_spawnattr_setsigmask()
  890. posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose()
  891. posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
  892. posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen()
  893. posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy()
  894. posix_spawn_file_actions_init()
  895. posix_spawn()
  896. posix_spawnp()
  897. posix_typed_mem_get_info()
  898. pthread_mutex_timedlock()
  899. sem_timedwait()
  900. #config UCLIBC_HAS_TERMIOS
  901. # bool "termios functions"
  902. # default y
  903. # help
  904. # Get and set terminal attributes, line control, get and set baud
  905. # rate.
  906. # termios(), tcgetattr(), tcsetattr(), tcsendbreak(), tcdrain(),
  907. # tcflush(), tcflow(), cfmakeraw(), cfgetospeed(), cfgetispeed(),
  908. # cfsetispeed(), cfsetospeed(), cfsetspeed()
  909. #
  910. # If unsure, say Y.
  911. config UCLIBC_HAS_EPOLL
  912. bool "epoll"
  913. default y
  914. help
  915. epoll_create(), epoll_ctl(), epoll_wait() functions.
  916. config UCLIBC_HAS_XATTR
  917. bool "Extended Attributes"
  918. default y
  919. help
  920. Extended Attributes support.
  921. setxattr()
  922. lsetxattr()
  923. fsetxattr()
  924. getxattr()
  925. lgetxattr()
  926. fgetxattr()
  927. listxattr()
  928. llistxattr()
  929. flistxattr()
  930. removexattr()
  931. lremovexattr()
  932. fremovexattr()
  933. Say N unless you need support for extended attributes and the
  934. filesystems do actually support them.
  935. config UCLIBC_HAS_PROFILING
  936. bool "Profiling support"
  937. default y
  938. help
  939. gcc's -finstrument-functions needs these.
  940. Most people can safely answer N.
  941. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  942. bool "libcrypt support"
  943. default y
  944. help
  945. libcrypt contains crypt(), setkey() and encrypt()
  946. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_STUB
  947. bool "libcrypt stubs"
  948. default y
  949. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  950. help
  951. Standards mandate that crypt(3) provides a stub if it is unavailable.
  952. If you enable this option then stubs for
  953. crypt(), setkey() and encrypt()
  954. will be provided in a small libcrypt.
  955. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT
  956. def_bool y
  957. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL || UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_STUB
  958. endmenu
  959. menuconfig UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  960. bool "Networking Support"
  961. default y
  962. help
  963. Say N here if you do not need network support.
  964. if UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  965. config UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  966. bool "Socket support"
  967. default y
  968. help
  969. If you want to include support for sockets then answer Y.
  970. config UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4
  971. bool "IP version 4 support"
  972. default y
  973. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  974. help
  975. If you want to include support for the Internet Protocol
  976. (IP version 4) then answer Y.
  977. Most people will say Y.
  978. config UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  979. bool "IP version 6 support"
  980. default n
  981. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  982. help
  983. If you want to include support for the next version of the Internet
  984. Protocol (IP version 6) then answer Y.
  985. Most people should answer N.
  986. config UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  987. bool "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) support"
  988. default n
  989. # RPC+socket-ipvX doesn't currently work.
  990. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4 || UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  991. help
  992. If you want to include RPC support, enable this. RPC is rarely used
  993. for anything except for the NFS filesystem. Unless you plan to use
  994. NFS, you can probably leave this set to N and save some space.
  995. If you need to use NFS then you should answer Y.
  996. config UCLIBC_HAS_FULL_RPC
  997. bool "Full RPC support"
  998. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  999. default y if !HAVE_SHARED
  1000. help
  1001. Normally we enable just enough RPC support for things like rshd and
  1002. nfs mounts to work. If you find you need the rest of the RPC stuff,
  1003. then enable this option. Most people can safely answer N.
  1004. config UCLIBC_HAS_REENTRANT_RPC
  1005. bool "Reentrant RPC support"
  1006. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  1007. default y if !HAVE_SHARED
  1008. help
  1009. Most packages utilize the normal (non-reentrant) RPC functions, but
  1010. some (like exportfs from nfs-utils) need these reentrant versions.
  1011. Most people can safely answer N.
  1012. config UCLIBC_USE_NETLINK
  1013. bool "Use netlink to query interfaces"
  1014. default n
  1015. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1016. help
  1017. In newer versions of Linux (2.4.17+), support was added for querying
  1018. network device information via netlink rather than the old style
  1019. ioctl's. Most of the time, the older ioctl style is sufficient (and
  1020. it is smaller than netlink), but if you find that not all of your
  1021. devices are being returned by the if_nameindex() function, you will
  1022. have to use the netlink implementation.
  1023. Most people can safely answer N.
  1024. config UCLIBC_SUPPORT_AI_ADDRCONFIG
  1025. bool "Support the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag"
  1026. depends on UCLIBC_USE_NETLINK
  1027. default n
  1028. help
  1029. The implementation of AI_ADDRCONFIG is aligned with the glibc
  1030. implementation using netlink to query interfaces to find both
  1031. ipv4 and ipv6 support. This is only needed if an application uses
  1032. the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag.
  1033. Most people can safely answer N.
  1034. config UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_RES_CLOSE
  1035. bool "Support res_close() (bsd-compat)"
  1036. default n
  1037. help
  1038. Answer Y if you desperately want to support BSD compatibility in
  1039. the network code.
  1040. Most people will say N.
  1041. config UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1042. bool "Use compatible but bloated _res"
  1043. default y
  1044. help
  1045. Answer Y if you build network utilities and they muck with resolver
  1046. internals a lot (_res global structure). uclibc does not use most
  1047. of _res.XXX fields, and with this option OFF they won't even exist.
  1048. Which will make e.g. dig build fail.
  1049. Answering N saves around 400 bytes in bss.
  1050. config UCLIBC_HAS_EXTRA_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1051. bool "Use extra compatible but extra bloated _res"
  1052. default n
  1053. help
  1054. Answer Y if selecting UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE is not enough.
  1055. As far as I can say, this should never be needed.
  1056. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBRESOLV_STUB
  1057. bool "Provide libresolv stub"
  1058. default n
  1059. help
  1060. Provide a dummy resolv library.
  1061. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBNSL_STUB
  1062. bool "Provide libnsl stub"
  1063. default n
  1064. help
  1065. Provide a dummy nsl library.
  1066. endif
  1067. menu "String and Stdio Support"
  1068. config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_GENERIC_OPT
  1069. bool "Use faster (but larger) generic string functions"
  1070. default y
  1071. help
  1072. Answer Y to use the (tweaked) glibc generic string functions.
  1073. In general, they are faster (but 3-5K larger) than the base
  1074. uClibc string functions which are optimized solely for size.
  1075. Many people will answer Y.
  1076. config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_ARCH_OPT
  1077. bool "Use arch-specific assembly string functions (where available)"
  1078. default y
  1079. help
  1080. Answer Y to use any archtecture-specific assembly language string
  1081. functions available for this target plaform.
  1082. Note that assembly implementations are not available for all string
  1083. functions, so some generic (written in C) string functions may
  1084. still be used.
  1085. These are small and fast, the only reason _not_ to say Y here is
  1086. for debugging purposes.
  1087. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1088. bool "Use Table Versions Of 'ctype.h' Functions."
  1089. default y
  1090. help
  1091. Answer Y to use table versions of the 'ctype.h' functions.
  1092. While the non-table versions are often smaller when building
  1093. statically linked apps, they work only in stub locale mode.
  1094. Most people will answer Y.
  1095. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_SIGNED
  1096. bool "Support Signed Characters In 'ctype.h' Functions."
  1097. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1098. default y
  1099. help
  1100. Answer Y to enable support for passing signed char values to
  1101. the 'ctype.h' functions. ANSI/ISO C99 and SUSv3 specify that
  1102. these functions are only defined for unsigned char values and
  1103. EOF. However, glibc allows negative signed char values as well
  1104. in order to support 'broken old programs'.
  1105. Most people will answer Y.
  1106. choice
  1107. prompt "ctype argument checking"
  1108. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1109. default UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_UNSAFE
  1110. help
  1111. Please select the invalid arg behavior you want for the 'ctype'
  1112. functions.
  1113. The 'ctype' functions are now implemented using table lookups, with
  1114. the arg being the index. This can result in incorrect memory accesses
  1115. or even segfaults for args outside of the allowed range.
  1116. NOTE: This only affects the 'ctype' _functions_. It does not affect
  1117. the macro implementations.
  1118. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_UNSAFE
  1119. bool "Do not check -- unsafe"
  1120. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_CHECKED
  1121. bool "Detect and handle appropriately"
  1122. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_ENFORCED
  1123. bool "Issue a diagnostic and abort()"
  1124. endchoice
  1125. config UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1126. bool "Wide Character Support"
  1127. default n
  1128. help
  1129. Answer Y to enable wide character support. This will make uClibc
  1130. much larger. It is also currently required for locale support.
  1131. Most people will answer N.
  1132. config UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1133. bool "Locale Support"
  1134. select UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1135. select UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1136. default n
  1137. help
  1138. uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support (except for
  1139. wcsftime() and collating items in regex). Be aware that enabling
  1140. this option will make uClibc much larger.
  1141. Enabling UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE with the default set of supported locales
  1142. (169 UTF-8 locales, and 144 locales for other codesets) will enlarge
  1143. uClibc by around 300k. You can reduce this size by building your own
  1144. custom set of locate data (see extra/locale/LOCALES for details).
  1145. uClibc's locale support is still under development. For example,
  1146. codesets using shift states are not currently supported. Support is
  1147. planned in the next iteration of locale support.
  1148. Answer Y to enable locale support. Most people will answer N.
  1149. choice
  1150. prompt "Locale data"
  1151. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1152. default UCLIBC_BUILD_ALL_LOCALE
  1153. config UCLIBC_BUILD_ALL_LOCALE
  1154. bool "All locales"
  1155. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1156. help
  1157. This builds all the locales that are available on your
  1158. host-box.
  1159. config UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALE
  1160. bool "Only selected locales"
  1161. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1162. help
  1163. If you do not need all locales that are available on your
  1164. host-box, then set this to 'Y'.
  1165. config UCLIBC_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1166. bool "Use Pre-generated Locale Data"
  1167. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1168. help
  1169. Use pre-built locale data.
  1170. Note that these pregenerated locales are sensitive to your
  1171. target architecture (endianess, bitcount).
  1172. Saying N here is highly recommended.
  1173. endchoice
  1174. config UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALES
  1175. string "locales to use"
  1176. depends on UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALE
  1177. default "en_US"
  1178. help
  1179. Space separated list of locales to use.
  1180. E.g.:
  1181. en_US en_GB de_AT
  1182. default:
  1183. en_US
  1184. config UCLIBC_DOWNLOAD_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1185. bool "Automagically Download the Pre-generated Locale Data (if necessary)"
  1186. depends on UCLIBC_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1187. default n
  1188. help
  1189. If you would like the build process to use 'wget' to automatically
  1190. download the pregenerated locale data, enable this option. Otherwise
  1191. you will need to obtain the locale data yourself from:
  1192. http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-locale-*.tgz
  1193. and place the uClibc-locale-*.tgz tarball in the extra/locale/
  1194. directory.
  1195. Note that the use of pregenerated locale data is discouraged.
  1196. config UCLIBC_HAS_XLOCALE
  1197. bool "Extended Locale Support (experimental/incomplete)"
  1198. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1199. default n
  1200. help
  1201. Answer Y to enable extended locale support similar to that provided
  1202. by glibc. This is primarily intended to support libstd++
  1203. functionality.
  1204. However, it also allows thread-specific locale selection via
  1205. uselocale().
  1206. Most people will answer N.
  1207. config UCLIBC_HAS_HEXADECIMAL_FLOATS
  1208. bool "Support hexadecimal float notation"
  1209. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1210. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FLOATS
  1211. default n
  1212. help
  1213. Answer Y to enable support for hexadecimal float notation in the
  1214. (wchar and) char string to floating point conversion functions, as
  1215. well as support for the %a and %A conversion specifiers in the
  1216. *printf() and *scanf() functions.
  1217. Most people will answer N.
  1218. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1219. bool "Support glibc's \"'\" flag for allowing locale-specific digit grouping"
  1220. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1221. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FLOATS
  1222. default n
  1223. help
  1224. Answer Y to enable support for glibc's \"'\" flag for allowing
  1225. locale-specific digit grouping in base 10 integer conversions and
  1226. appropriate floating point conversions in the *printf() and *scanf()
  1227. functions.
  1228. Most people will answer N.
  1229. config UCLIBC_HAS_SCANF_LENIENT_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1230. bool "Do not require digit grouping when the \"'\" flag is specified"
  1231. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1232. default y
  1233. help
  1234. Answer Y to make digit grouping optional when the \"'\" flag is
  1235. specified.
  1236. This is the standard glibc behavior. If the initial string of digits
  1237. exceeds the maximum group number, the input will be treated as a
  1238. normal non-grouped number.
  1239. Most people will answer N.
  1240. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_CUSTOM_PRINTF
  1241. bool "Support glibc's register_printf_function() (glibc-compat)"
  1242. depends on !USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1243. default n
  1244. help
  1245. Answer Y to support glibc's register_printf_function() to allow an
  1246. application to add its own printf conversion specifiers.
  1247. NOTE: Limits the number or registered specifiers to 10.
  1248. NOTE: Requires new conversion specifiers to be ASCII
  1249. characters (0-0x7f). This is to avoid problems with processing
  1250. format strings in locales with different multibyte conversions.
  1251. Most people will answer N.
  1252. config USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1253. bool "Use the old vfprintf implementation"
  1254. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1255. default n
  1256. help
  1257. Set to true to use the old vfprintf instead of the new. This is
  1258. roughly C89 compliant with some extensions, and is much smaller.
  1259. However, it does not support wide chars, positional args, or glibc
  1260. custom printf specifiers.
  1261. Most people will answer N.
  1262. config UCLIBC_PRINTF_SCANF_POSITIONAL_ARGS
  1263. int "Maximum number of positional args. Either 0 or >= 9."
  1264. depends on !USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1265. default 9
  1266. help
  1267. Set the maximum number of positional args supported by the
  1268. printf/scanf functions. The Single Unix Specification Version 3
  1269. requires a minimum value of 9. Setting this to a value lower than
  1270. 9 will disable positional arg support and cause the NL_ARGMAX macro
  1271. in limits.h to be #undef'd.
  1272. WARNING! The workspace to support positional args is currently
  1273. allocated on the stack. You probably don't want to set
  1274. this to too high a value.
  1275. Most people will answer 9.
  1276. config UCLIBC_HAS_SCANF_GLIBC_A_FLAG
  1277. bool "Support glibc's 'a' flag for scanf string conversions (not implemented)"
  1278. default n
  1279. help
  1280. NOTE!!! Currently Not Implemented!!! Just A Place Holder!! NOTE!!!
  1281. NOTE!!! Conflicts with an ANSI/ISO C99 scanf flag!! NOTE!!!
  1282. Answer Y to enable support for glibc's 'a' flag for the scanf string
  1283. conversions '%s', '%[', '%ls', '%l[', and '%S'. This is used to
  1284. auto-allocate sufficient memory to hold the data retrieved.
  1285. Most people will answer N.
  1286. choice
  1287. prompt "Stdio buffer size"
  1288. default UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_4096
  1289. help
  1290. Please select a value for BUFSIZ. This will be used by the
  1291. stdio subsystem as the default buffer size for a file, and
  1292. affects fopen(), setvbuf(), etc.
  1293. NOTE: Setting this to 'none' will disable buffering completely.
  1294. However, BUFSIZ will still be defined in stdio.h as 256 because
  1295. many applications use this value.
  1296. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1297. bool "none (WARNING - BUFSIZ will be 256 in stdio.h)"
  1298. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1299. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_256
  1300. bool "256 (minimum ANSI/ISO C99 value)"
  1301. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_512
  1302. bool "512"
  1303. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_1024
  1304. bool "1024"
  1305. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_2048
  1306. bool "2048"
  1307. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_4096
  1308. bool "4096"
  1309. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_8192
  1310. bool "8192"
  1311. # If you add more choices, you will need to update uClibc_stdio.h.
  1312. endchoice
  1313. choice
  1314. prompt "Stdio builtin buffer size (uClibc-specific)"
  1315. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1316. default UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_NONE
  1317. help
  1318. When a FILE is created with fopen(), an attempt is made to allocate
  1319. a BUFSIZ buffer for it. If the allocation fails, fopen() will still
  1320. succeed but the FILE will be unbuffered.
  1321. This option adds a small amount of space to each FILE to act as an
  1322. emergency buffer in the event of a buffer allocation failure.
  1323. Most people will answer None.
  1324. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_NONE
  1325. bool "None"
  1326. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_4
  1327. bool "4"
  1328. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_8
  1329. bool "8"
  1330. # If you add more choices, you will need to update uClibc_stdio.h.
  1331. endchoice
  1332. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_SHUTDOWN_ON_ABORT
  1333. bool "Attempt to shutdown stdio subsystem when abort() is called."
  1334. default n
  1335. help
  1336. ANSI/ISO C99 requires abort() to be asyn-signal-safe. So there was
  1337. a behavioral change made in SUSv3. Previously, abort() was required
  1338. to have the affect of fclose() on all open streams. The wording has
  1339. been changed to "may" from "shall".
  1340. Most people will answer N.
  1341. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_GETC_MACRO
  1342. bool "Provide a macro version of getc()"
  1343. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1344. default y
  1345. help
  1346. Provide a macro version of getc().
  1347. Most people will answer Y.
  1348. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_PUTC_MACRO
  1349. bool "Provide a macro version of putc()"
  1350. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1351. default y
  1352. help
  1353. Provide a macro version of putc().
  1354. Most people will answer Y.
  1355. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_AUTO_RW_TRANSITION
  1356. bool "Support auto-r/w transition"
  1357. default y
  1358. help
  1359. Answer Y to enable the stdio subsystem to automaticly transition
  1360. between reading and writing. This relaxes the ANSI/ISO C99
  1361. requirement:
  1362. When a file is opened with update mode ('+' as the second or third
  1363. character in the list of mode argument values), both input and output
  1364. may be performed on the associated stream. However, output shall not
  1365. be directly followed by input without an intervening call to the
  1366. fflush function or to a file positioning function (fseek, fsetpos,
  1367. or rewind), and input shall not be directly followed by output without
  1368. an intervening call to a file positioning function, unless the input
  1369. operation encounters end­of­file.
  1370. Most people will answer Y.
  1371. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_LARGEFILE_MODE
  1372. bool "Support an fopen() 'F' flag for large file mode (uClibc-specific)"
  1373. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LFS
  1374. default n
  1375. help
  1376. Answer Y to enable a uClibc-specific extension to allow passing an
  1377. additional 'F' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1378. the file should be open()ed with the O_LARGEFILE flag set.
  1379. Most people will answer N.
  1380. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_EXCLUSIVE_MODE
  1381. bool "Support an fopen() 'x' flag for exclusive mode (glibc-compat)"
  1382. default n
  1383. help
  1384. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to allow passing
  1385. additional 'x' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1386. the file should be open()ed with the O_EXCL flag set.
  1387. Most people will answer N.
  1388. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_CUSTOM_STREAMS
  1389. bool "Support fmemopen(), open_memstream(), and fopencookie() (glibc-compat)"
  1390. default n
  1391. help
  1392. Answer Y to support the glibc 'custom stream' extension functions
  1393. fmemopen(), open_memstream(), and fopencookie().
  1394. NOTE: There are some minor differences regarding seeking behavior.
  1395. Most people will answer N.
  1396. config UCLIBC_HAS_PRINTF_M_SPEC
  1397. bool "Support the '%m' specifier in printf format strings (glibc-compat)"
  1398. default n
  1399. help
  1400. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to interpret '%m' in printf
  1401. format strings as an instruction to output the error message string
  1402. (as generated by strerror) corresponding to the current value of
  1403. 'errno'.
  1404. Most people will answer N.
  1405. config UCLIBC_HAS_ERRNO_MESSAGES
  1406. bool "Include the errno message text in the library"
  1407. default y
  1408. help
  1409. Answer Y if you want to include the errno message text in the
  1410. library. This adds about 3K to the library, but enables strerror()
  1411. to generate text other than 'Unknown error <number>'.
  1412. Most people will answer Y.
  1413. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYS_ERRLIST
  1414. bool "Support sys_errlist[] (obsolete-compat)"
  1415. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_ERRNO_MESSAGES
  1416. default n
  1417. help
  1418. Answer Y if you want to support the obsolete sys_errlist[].
  1419. This adds about 0.5k to the library, except for the mips
  1420. arch where it adds over 4K.
  1421. WARNING! In the future, support for sys_errlist[] may be unavailable
  1422. in at least some configurations. In fact, it may be removed
  1423. altogether.
  1424. Most people will answer N.
  1425. Application writers: use the strerror(3) function.
  1426. config UCLIBC_HAS_SIGNUM_MESSAGES
  1427. bool "Include the signum message text in the library"
  1428. default y
  1429. help
  1430. Answer Y if you want to include the signum message text in the
  1431. library. This adds about 0.5K to the library, but enables strsignal()
  1432. to generate text other than 'Unknown signal <number>'.
  1433. Most people will answer Y.
  1434. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYS_SIGLIST
  1435. bool "Support sys_siglist[] (bsd-compat)"
  1436. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SIGNUM_MESSAGES
  1437. default n
  1438. help
  1439. Answer Y if you want to support sys_siglist[].
  1440. WARNING! In the future, support for sys_siglist[] may be unavailable
  1441. in at least some configurations. In fact, it may be removed
  1442. altogether.
  1443. Most people will answer N.
  1444. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETTEXT_AWARENESS
  1445. bool "Include gettext awareness"
  1446. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE && UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY
  1447. default n
  1448. help
  1449. NOTE!!! Not yet integrated with strerror and strsignal. NOTE!!!
  1450. Answer Y if you want to include weak stub gettext support and
  1451. make the *strerror*() and strsignal() functions gettext-aware.
  1452. Currently, to get functional gettext functionality you will need
  1453. to use gnu gettext.
  1454. Most people will answer N.
  1455. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETOPT
  1456. bool "Support gnu getopt"
  1457. default y
  1458. help
  1459. Answer Y if you want to include full gnu getopt() instead of a
  1460. (much smaller) SUSv3 compatible getopt().
  1461. Most people will answer Y.
  1462. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_FUTEXES
  1463. bool "Use futexes for multithreaded I/O locking"
  1464. default n
  1465. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  1466. help
  1467. If you want to compile uClibc to use futexes for low-level
  1468. I/O locking, answer Y. Otherwise, answer N.
  1469. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETOPT_LONG
  1470. bool "Support getopt_long/getopt_long_only"
  1471. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETOPT
  1472. default y
  1473. help
  1474. Answer Y if you want to include getopt_long[_only() used by many
  1475. apps, even busybox.
  1476. Most people will answer Y.
  1477. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETSUBOPT
  1478. bool "Support glibc getsubopt"
  1479. default y
  1480. help
  1481. Answer Y if you want to include glibc getsubopt() instead of a
  1482. smaller SUSv3 compatible getsubopt().
  1483. Most people will answer Y.
  1484. endmenu
  1485. menu "Big and Tall"
  1486. config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX
  1487. bool "Regular Expression Support"
  1488. default y
  1489. help
  1490. POSIX regular expression code is really big -- 53k all by itself.
  1491. If you don't use regular expressions, turn this off and save space.
  1492. Of course, if you only statically link, leave this on, since it will
  1493. only be included in your apps if you use regular expressions.
  1494. config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX_OLD
  1495. bool "Use the older (stable) regular expression code"
  1496. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX
  1497. default y
  1498. help
  1499. There are two versions of regex. The older (stable) version has
  1500. been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  1501. updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
  1502. corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite
  1503. a bit smaller than the newer version.
  1504. If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode
  1505. support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
  1506. Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
  1507. config UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1508. bool "fnmatch Support"
  1509. default y
  1510. help
  1511. POSIX fnmatch.
  1512. config UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH_OLD
  1513. bool "Use the older (stable) fnmatch code"
  1514. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1515. default y
  1516. help
  1517. There are two versions of fnmatch. The older (stable) version has
  1518. been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  1519. updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
  1520. corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite
  1521. a bit smaller than the newer version.
  1522. If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode
  1523. support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
  1524. Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
  1525. config UCLIBC_HAS_WORDEXP
  1526. bool "Support the wordexp() interface"
  1527. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1528. default n
  1529. help
  1530. The SuSv3 wordexp() interface performs word expansions per the Shell
  1531. and Utilities volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 2.6. It is
  1532. intended for use by applications that want to implement all of the
  1533. standard Bourne shell expansions on input data.
  1534. This interface is rarely used, and very large. Unless you have a
  1535. pressing need for wordexp(), you should probably answer N.
  1536. config UCLIBC_HAS_NFTW
  1537. bool "Support the nftw() interface"
  1538. default n
  1539. help
  1540. The SuSv3 nftw() interface is used to recursively descend
  1541. directory paths while repeatedly calling a function.
  1542. This interface is rarely used, and adds around 4.5k. Unless you have
  1543. a pressing need for nftw(), you should probably answer N.
  1544. config UCLIBC_HAS_FTW
  1545. bool "Support the ftw() interface"
  1546. default n
  1547. depends on UCLIBC_SUSV4_LEGACY
  1548. help
  1549. The SuSv3 ftw() interface is used to recursively descend
  1550. directory paths while repeatedly calling a function.
  1551. This interface is rarely used, and adds around 4.5k. Unless you have
  1552. a pressing need for ftw(), you should probably answer N.
  1553. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1554. bool "Support the glob() interface"
  1555. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1556. default y
  1557. help
  1558. The glob interface is somewhat large (weighing in at about 2,5k). It
  1559. is used fairly often, but is an option since people wanting to go for
  1560. absolute minimum size may wish to omit it.
  1561. Most people will answer Y.
  1562. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GLOB
  1563. bool "Support gnu glob() interface"
  1564. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1565. default n
  1566. help
  1567. The gnu glob interface is somewhat larger (weighing in at about 4,2k)
  1568. than it's SuSv3 counterpart (and is out of date). It is an old copy
  1569. from glibc and does not support all the GNU specific options.
  1570. Answer Y if you want to include full gnu glob() instead of the smaller
  1571. SUSv3 compatible glob().
  1572. Most people will answer N.
  1573. config UCLIBC_HAS_UTMPX
  1574. bool "utmpx based support for tracking login/logouts to/from the system"
  1575. default n
  1576. help
  1577. Answer y to enable support for accessing user accounting database.
  1578. It can be used to track all login/logout to the system.
  1579. If unsure, just answer N.
  1580. endmenu
  1581. menu "Library Installation Options"
  1582. config RUNTIME_PREFIX
  1583. string "uClibc runtime library directory"
  1584. default "/usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)-linux-uclibc/"
  1585. help
  1586. RUNTIME_PREFIX is the directory into which the uClibc runtime
  1587. libraries will be installed. The result will look something
  1588. like the following:
  1589. $(RUNTIME_PREFIX)/
  1590. lib/ <contains all runtime libraries>
  1591. usr/bin/ldd <the ldd utility program>
  1592. sbin/ldconfig <the ldconfig utility program>
  1593. This value is used by the 'make install' Makefile target. Since this
  1594. directory is compiled into the shared library loader, you will need to
  1595. recompile uClibc if you change this value...
  1596. For a typical target system this should be set to "/", such that
  1597. 'make install' will install /lib/libuClibc-<VERSION>.so
  1598. config DEVEL_PREFIX
  1599. string "uClibc development environment directory"
  1600. default "/usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)-linux-uclibc/usr/"
  1601. help
  1602. DEVEL_PREFIX is the directory into which the uClibc development
  1603. environment will be installed. The result will look something
  1604. like the following:
  1605. $(DEVEL_PREFIX)/
  1606. lib/ <contains static libs>
  1607. include/ <Where all the header files go>
  1608. This value is used by the 'make install' Makefile target when
  1609. installing a uClibc development environment.
  1610. For a typical target system this should be set to "/usr", such that
  1611. 'make install' will install /usr/include/<header files>.
  1612. config MULTILIB_DIR
  1613. string "library path component"
  1614. default "lib"
  1615. help
  1616. Path component where libraries reside.
  1617. For a typical target system this should be set to "lib", such that
  1618. 'make install' will install libraries to "/lib" and "/usr/lib"
  1619. respectively
  1620. DEVEL_PREFIX/MULTILIB_DIR
  1621. RUNTIME_PREFIX/MULTILIB_DIR
  1622. Other settings may include "lib32" or "lib64".
  1623. config HARDWIRED_ABSPATH
  1624. bool "Hardwire absolute paths into linker scripts"
  1625. default y
  1626. help
  1627. This prepends absolute paths to the libraries mentioned in linker
  1628. scripts such as libc.so.
  1629. This is a build time optimization. It has no impact on dynamic
  1630. linking at runtime, which doesn't use linker scripts.
  1631. You must disable this to use uClibc with old non-sysroot toolchains,
  1632. such as the prebuilt binary cross compilers at:
  1633. http://uclibc.org/downloads/binaries
  1634. The amount of time saved by this optimization is actually too small to
  1635. measure. The linker just had to search the library path to find the
  1636. linker script, so the dentries are cache hot if it has to search the
  1637. same path again. But it's what glibc does, so we do it too.
  1638. endmenu
  1639. menu "Security options"
  1640. config UCLIBC_BUILD_PIE
  1641. bool "Build utilities as ET_DYN/PIE executables"
  1642. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1643. depends on TARGET_arm || TARGET_frv || TARGET_i386 || TARGET_mips || TARGET_powerpc
  1644. select FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS
  1645. default n
  1646. help
  1647. If you answer Y here, ldd and iconv are built as ET_DYN/PIE
  1648. executables.
  1649. It requires gcc-3.4 and binutils-2.15 (for arm 2.16) or later.
  1650. More about ET_DYN/PIE binaries on <http://pax.grsecurity.net/> .
  1651. WARNING: This option also enables FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS, so
  1652. all libraries have to be built with -fPIC or -fpic, and all
  1653. assembler functions must be written as position independent
  1654. code (PIC).
  1655. config UCLIBC_HAS_ARC4RANDOM
  1656. bool "Include the arc4random() function"
  1657. default n
  1658. help
  1659. Answer Y to support the OpenBSD-like arc4random() function. This
  1660. function picks a random number between 0 and N, and will always return
  1661. something even if the random driver is dead. If urandom fails then
  1662. gettimeofday(2) will be used as the random seed. This function is
  1663. designed to be more dependable than invoking /dev/urandom directly.
  1664. OpenSSL and OpenNTPD currently support this function.
  1665. Most people will answer N.
  1666. config HAVE_NO_SSP
  1667. bool
  1668. default n
  1669. config UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1670. bool "Support for GCC stack smashing protector"
  1671. depends on !HAVE_NO_SSP
  1672. default n
  1673. help
  1674. Add code to support GCC's -fstack-protector[-all] option to uClibc.
  1675. This requires GCC 4.1 or newer. GCC does not have to provide libssp,
  1676. the needed functions are added to ldso/libc instead.
  1677. GCC's stack protector is a reimplementation of IBM's propolice.
  1678. See http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/ and
  1679. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/ssp.txt
  1680. for details.
  1681. Note that NOEXECSTACK on a kernel with address space randomization
  1682. is generally sufficient to prevent most buffer overflow exploits
  1683. without increasing code size. This option essentially adds debugging
  1684. code to catch them.
  1685. Most people will answer N.
  1686. config UCLIBC_HAS_SSP_COMPAT
  1687. bool "Support for gcc-3.x propolice smashing stack protector"
  1688. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1689. default n
  1690. help
  1691. Add gcc-3.x propolice smashing stack protector to the library.
  1692. This requires a patched version of GCC, supporting the
  1693. -fstack-protector[-all] options, with the __guard and
  1694. __stack_smash_handler functions removed from libgcc.
  1695. These functions are added to ldso/libc instead.
  1696. More information at:
  1697. <http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/>
  1698. Most people will answer N.
  1699. config SSP_QUICK_CANARY
  1700. bool "Use simple guard values without accessing /dev/urandom"
  1701. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1702. default n
  1703. help
  1704. Use gettimeofday(2) to define the __guard without accessing
  1705. /dev/urandom.
  1706. WARNING: This makes smashing stack protector vulnerable to timing
  1707. attacks.
  1708. Most people will answer N.
  1709. choice
  1710. prompt "Propolice protection blocking signal"
  1711. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1712. default PROPOLICE_BLOCK_ABRT if ! DODEBUG
  1713. default PROPOLICE_BLOCK_SEGV if DODEBUG
  1714. help
  1715. "abort" use SIGABRT to block offending programs.
  1716. This is the default implementation.
  1717. "segfault" use SIGSEGV to block offending programs.
  1718. Use this for debugging.
  1719. If unsure, answer "abort".
  1720. config PROPOLICE_BLOCK_ABRT
  1721. bool "abort"
  1722. config PROPOLICE_BLOCK_SEGV
  1723. bool "segfault"
  1724. endchoice
  1725. config UCLIBC_BUILD_SSP
  1726. bool "Build uClibc with -fstack-protector"
  1727. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1728. default n
  1729. help
  1730. Build all uClibc libraries and executables with -fstack-protector,
  1731. adding extra stack overflow checking to most uClibc functions.
  1732. config UCLIBC_BUILD_RELRO
  1733. bool "Build uClibc with linker option -z RELRO"
  1734. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1735. default y
  1736. help
  1737. Build all libraries and executables with "ld -z relro".
  1738. This tells the linker to mark chunks of an executable or shared
  1739. library read-only after applying dynamic relocations. (This comes
  1740. up when a global const variable is initialized to the address of a
  1741. function or the value of another global variable.)
  1742. This is a fairly obscure option the ld man page doesn't even bother
  1743. to document properly. It's a security paranoia issue that's more
  1744. likely to consume memory (by allocating an extra page) rather than
  1745. save it.
  1746. This is explained in more depth at
  1747. http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/189
  1748. Nobody is likely to care whether you say Y or N here.
  1749. config UCLIBC_BUILD_NOW
  1750. bool "Build uClibc with linker option -z NOW"
  1751. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1752. default n
  1753. help
  1754. Build all libraries and executables with "ld -z now".
  1755. This tells the linker to resolve all symbols when the library is
  1756. first loaded, rather than when each function is first called. This
  1757. increases start-up latency by a few microseconds and may do
  1758. unnecessary work (resolving symbols that are never used), but the
  1759. realtime people like it for making microbenchmark timings slightly
  1760. more predictable and in some cases it can be slightly faster due to
  1761. CPU cache behavior (not having to fault the linker back in to do
  1762. lazy symbol resolution).
  1763. Most people can't tell the difference between selecting Y or N here.
  1764. config UCLIBC_BUILD_NOEXECSTACK
  1765. bool "Build uClibc with noexecstack marking"
  1766. default y
  1767. help
  1768. Mark all assembler files as noexecstack, which will mark uClibc
  1769. as not requiring an executable stack. (This doesn't prevent other
  1770. files you link against from claiming to need an executable stack, it
  1771. just won't cause uClibc to request it unnecessarily.)
  1772. This is a security thing to make buffer overflows harder to exploit.
  1773. By itself, it's kind of useless, as Linus Torvalds explained in 1998:
  1774. http://old.lwn.net/1998/0806/a/linus-noexec.html
  1775. It only actually provides any security when combined with address
  1776. space randomization, explained here: http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/
  1777. Address space randomization is on by default in current linux
  1778. kernels (although it can be disabled using the option
  1779. CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK).
  1780. You should probably say Y.
  1781. endmenu
  1782. menu "uClibc development/debugging options"
  1783. config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
  1784. string "Cross-compiling toolchain prefix"
  1785. default ""
  1786. help
  1787. The prefix used to execute your cross-compiling toolchain. For
  1788. example, if you run 'arm-linux-uclibc-gcc' to compile something,
  1789. then enter 'arm-linux-uclibc-' here.
  1790. config UCLIBC_EXTRA_CFLAGS
  1791. string "Enter any extra CFLAGS to use to build uClibc"
  1792. default ""
  1793. help
  1794. Add any additional CFLAGS to be used to build uClibc.
  1795. config DODEBUG
  1796. bool "Build uClibc with debugging symbols"
  1797. default n
  1798. select EXTRA_WARNINGS
  1799. help
  1800. Say Y here if you wish to compile uClibc with debugging symbols.
  1801. This will allow you to use a debugger to examine uClibc internals
  1802. while applications are running. This increases the size of the
  1803. library considerably and should only be used when doing development.
  1804. If you are doing development and want to debug uClibc, answer Y.
  1805. Otherwise, answer N.
  1806. config DODEBUG_PT
  1807. bool "Build pthread with debugging output"
  1808. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS && LINUXTHREADS_OLD
  1809. default n
  1810. help
  1811. Enable debug output in libpthread. This is only useful when doing
  1812. development in libpthread itself.
  1813. Otherwise, answer N.
  1814. config DOSTRIP
  1815. bool "Strip libraries and executables"
  1816. default y
  1817. depends on !DODEBUG
  1818. help
  1819. Say Y here if you do wish to strip all uClibc libraries and
  1820. executables. No stripping increases the size of the binaries
  1821. considerably, but makes it possible to debug uClibc libraries.
  1822. Most people will answer Y.
  1823. config DOASSERTS
  1824. bool "Build uClibc with run-time assertion testing"
  1825. default n
  1826. help
  1827. Say Y here to include runtime assertion tests.
  1828. This enables runtime assertion testing in some code, which can
  1829. increase the size of the library and incur runtime overhead.
  1830. If you say N, then this testing will be disabled.
  1831. config SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG
  1832. bool "Build the shared library loader with debugging support"
  1833. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1834. default n
  1835. help
  1836. Answer Y here to enable all the extra code needed to debug the uClibc
  1837. native shared library loader. The level of debugging noise that is
  1838. generated depends on the LD_DEBUG environment variable... Just set
  1839. LD_DEBUG to something like: 'LD_DEBUG=token1,token2,.. prog' to
  1840. debug your application. Diagnostic messages will then be printed to
  1841. the stderr.
  1842. For now these debugging tokens are available:
  1843. detail provide more information for some options
  1844. move display copy processing
  1845. symbols display symbol table processing
  1846. reloc display relocation processing; detail shows the
  1847. relocation patch
  1848. nofixups never fixes up jump relocations
  1849. bindings displays the resolve processing (function calls);
  1850. detail shows the relocation patch
  1851. all Enable everything!
  1852. The additional environment variable:
  1853. LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT=file
  1854. redirects the diagnostics to an output file created using
  1855. the specified name and the process id as a suffix.
  1856. An excellent start is simply:
  1857. $ LD_DEBUG=binding,move,symbols,reloc,detail ./appname
  1858. or to log everything to a file named 'logfile', try this
  1859. $ LD_DEBUG=all LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT=logfile ./appname
  1860. If you are doing development and want to debug uClibc's shared library
  1861. loader, answer Y. Mere mortals answer N.
  1862. config SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG_EARLY
  1863. bool "Build the shared library loader with early debugging support"
  1864. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1865. default n
  1866. help
  1867. Answer Y here to if you find the uClibc shared library loader is
  1868. crashing or otherwise not working very early on. This is typical
  1869. only when starting a new port when you haven't figured out how to
  1870. properly get the values for argc, argv, environ, etc. This method
  1871. allows a degree of visibility into the very early shared library
  1872. loader initialization process. If you are doing development and want
  1873. to debug the uClibc shared library loader early initialization,
  1874. answer Y. Mere mortals answer N.
  1875. config UCLIBC_MALLOC_DEBUGGING
  1876. bool "Build malloc with debugging support"
  1877. depends on MALLOC || MALLOC_STANDARD
  1878. default n
  1879. help
  1880. Answer Y here to compile extra debugging support code into malloc.
  1881. Malloc debugging output may then be enabled at runtime using the
  1882. MALLOC_DEBUG environment variable.
  1883. The value of MALLOC_DEBUG should be an integer, which is interpreted
  1884. as a bitmask with the following bits:
  1885. 1 - do extra consistency checking
  1886. 2 - output messages for malloc/free calls and OS
  1887. allocation calls
  1888. 4 - output messages for the `MMB' layer
  1889. 8 - output messages for internal malloc heap manipulation
  1890. calls
  1891. Because this increases the size of malloc appreciably (due to strings
  1892. etc), you should say N unless you need to debug a malloc problem.
  1893. config UCLIBC_HAS_BACKTRACE
  1894. bool "Add support for application self-debugging"
  1895. depends on HAVE_SHARED && TARGET_sh
  1896. default n
  1897. help
  1898. Answer Y here to compile support for application self-debugging, by adding
  1899. a new shared object "libubacktrace.so" that provides the following new
  1900. functions:
  1901. backtrace, backtrace_symbols, backtrace_symbols_fd
  1902. The backtrace functionality is currently supported on SH platform, and it
  1903. based on dwarf2 informations to properly work, so any application that
  1904. want to use backtrace needs to be built with -fexceptions flag.
  1905. The symbol names may be unavailable without the use of special linker
  1906. options. For systems using the GNU linker, it is necessary to use the
  1907. -rdynamic linker option too. Note that names of "static" functions are not
  1908. exposed, and won't be available in the backtrace.
  1909. config WARNINGS
  1910. string "Compiler Warnings"
  1911. default "-Wall"
  1912. help
  1913. Set this to the set of gcc warnings you wish to see while compiling.
  1914. config EXTRA_WARNINGS
  1915. bool "Enable extra annoying warnings"
  1916. default n
  1917. help
  1918. If you wish to build with extra warnings enabled, say Y here.
  1919. config DOMULTI
  1920. bool "Compile all sources at once into an object"
  1921. default n
  1922. help
  1923. Set this to compile all sources at once into an object (IMA).
  1924. This mode of compilation uses alot of memory but may produce
  1925. smaller binaries.
  1926. Note that you need a very recent GCC for this to work, like
  1927. gcc >= 4.3 plus eventually some patches.
  1928. If unsure, keep the default of N.
  1929. config UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY
  1930. bool "Manuel's hidden warnings"
  1931. default n
  1932. help
  1933. Answer Y here to see all Manuel's personal notes, warnings, and todos.
  1934. Most people will answer N.
  1935. endmenu