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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_c6x
  47. bool "c6x"
  48. config TARGET_cris
  49. bool "cris"
  50. config TARGET_e1
  51. bool "e1 (BROKEN)"
  52. config TARGET_frv
  53. bool "frv (BROKEN)"
  54. config TARGET_h8300
  55. bool "h8300 (BROKEN)"
  56. config TARGET_hppa
  57. bool "hppa"
  58. config TARGET_i386
  59. bool "i386"
  60. config TARGET_i960
  61. bool "i960 (BROKEN)"
  62. config TARGET_ia64
  63. bool "ia64"
  64. config TARGET_m68k
  65. bool "m68k"
  66. config TARGET_microblaze
  67. bool "microblaze"
  68. config TARGET_mips
  69. bool "mips"
  70. config TARGET_nios
  71. bool "nios"
  72. config TARGET_nios2
  73. bool "nios2"
  74. config TARGET_powerpc
  75. bool "powerpc"
  76. config TARGET_sh
  77. bool "superh"
  78. config TARGET_sh64
  79. bool "sh64"
  80. config TARGET_sparc
  81. bool "sparc"
  82. config TARGET_v850
  83. bool "v850 (BROKEN)"
  84. config TARGET_vax
  85. bool "vax"
  86. config TARGET_x86_64
  87. bool "x86_64"
  88. config TARGET_xtensa
  89. bool "xtensa"
  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 ARCH_HAS_UCONTEXT
  198. bool
  199. config HAVE_SHARED
  200. bool "Enable shared libraries"
  201. depends on !ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED
  202. default y
  203. help
  204. If you wish to build uClibc with support for shared libraries then
  205. answer Y here. If you only want to build uClibc as a static library,
  206. then answer N.
  207. config FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS
  208. bool "Only load shared libraries which can share their text segment"
  209. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  210. select DOPIC
  211. help
  212. If you answer Y here, the uClibc native shared library loader will
  213. only load shared libraries, which do not need to modify any
  214. non-writable segments. These libraries haven't set the DT_TEXTREL
  215. tag in the dynamic section (==> objdump).
  216. All your libraries must be compiled with -fPIC or -fpic, and all
  217. assembler function must be written as position independent code (PIC).
  218. Enabling this option will make uClibc's shared library loader a
  219. little bit smaller and guarantee that no memory will be wasted by
  220. badly coded shared libraries.
  221. config LDSO_LDD_SUPPORT
  222. bool "Native 'ldd' support"
  223. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  224. default y
  225. help
  226. Enable all the code needed to support traditional ldd,
  227. which executes the shared library loader to resolve all dependencies
  228. and then provide a list of shared libraries that are required for an
  229. application to function. Disabling this option will make uClibc's
  230. shared library loader a little bit smaller.
  231. Most people will answer Y.
  232. config LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT
  233. bool "Enable library loader cache (ld.so.conf)"
  234. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  235. default y
  236. help
  237. Enable this to make use of /etc/ld.so.conf, the shared library loader
  238. cache configuration file to support for non-standard library paths.
  239. After updating this file, it is necessary to run 'ldconfig' to update
  240. the /etc/ld.so.cache shared library loader cache file.
  241. config LDSO_PRELOAD_ENV_SUPPORT
  242. bool "Enable library loader LD_PRELOAD environment"
  243. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  244. default y
  245. help
  246. Enable this to make use of LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
  247. A whitespace-separated list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared
  248. libraries to be loaded before all others. This can be used to
  249. selectively override functions in other shared libraries. For
  250. set-user-ID/set-group-ID ELF binaries, only libraries in the standard
  251. search directories that are also set-user-ID will be loaded.
  252. config LDSO_PRELOAD_FILE_SUPPORT
  253. bool "Enable library loader preload file (ld.so.preload)"
  254. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  255. help
  256. Enable this to make use of /etc/ld.so.preload. This file contains a
  257. whitespace separated list of shared libraries to be loaded before
  258. the program.
  259. config LDSO_BASE_FILENAME
  260. string "Shared library loader naming prefix"
  261. depends on HAVE_SHARED && (LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT || LDSO_PRELOAD_FILE_SUPPORT)
  262. default "ld.so"
  263. help
  264. If you wish to support both uClibc and glibc on the same system, it
  265. is necessary to set this to something other than "ld.so" to avoid
  266. conflicts with glibc, which also uses "ld.so". This prevents both
  267. libraries from using the same /etc/ld.so.* files. If you wish to
  268. support both uClibc and glibc on the same system then you should set
  269. this to "ld-uClibc.so".
  270. Most people will leave this set to the default of "ld.so".
  271. WARNING: Changing the default prefix could cause problems with
  272. binutils' ld !
  273. config LDSO_STANDALONE_SUPPORT
  274. bool "Dynamic linker stand-alone mode support"
  275. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  276. help
  277. The dynamic linker can be run either indirectly through running some
  278. dynamically linked program or library (in which case no command line
  279. options to the dynamic linker can be passed and, in the ELF case, the
  280. dynamic linker which is stored in the .interp section of the program
  281. is executed) or directly by running:
  282. /lib/ld-uClibc.so.* [OPTIONS] [PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS]]
  283. Stand-alone execution is a prerequisite for adding prelink
  284. capabilities to uClibc dynamic linker, as well useful for testing an
  285. updated version of the dynamic linker without breaking the system.
  286. config LDSO_PRELINK_SUPPORT
  287. bool "Dynamic linker prelink support"
  288. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  289. select LDSO_STANDALONE_SUPPORT
  290. help
  291. The dynamic linker can be used in stand-alone mode by the prelink tool
  292. for prelinking ELF shared libraries and binaries to speed up startup
  293. time. It also is able to load and handle prelinked libraries and
  294. binaries at runtime.
  295. config UCLIBC_STATIC_LDCONFIG
  296. bool "Link ldconfig statically"
  297. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  298. default y
  299. help
  300. Enable this option to statically link the ldconfig binary.
  301. Making ldconfig static can be beneficial if you have a library
  302. problem and need to use ldconfig to recover. Sometimes it is
  303. preferable to instead keep the size of the system down, in which
  304. case you should disable this option.
  305. config LDSO_RUNPATH
  306. bool "Enable ELF RUNPATH tag support"
  307. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  308. default y if LDSO_CACHE_SUPPORT
  309. help
  310. ELF's may have dynamic RPATH/RUNPATH tags. These tags list paths
  311. which extend the library search paths. They are really only useful
  312. if a package installs libraries in non standard locations and
  313. ld.so.conf support is disabled.
  314. Usage of RUNPATH tags is not too common, so disabling this feature
  315. should be safe for most people.
  316. config LDSO_SAFE_RUNPATH
  317. bool "Allow only RUNPATH beginning with /"
  318. depends on LDSO_RUNPATH
  319. default y
  320. help
  321. Allow only absolute path in RPATH/RUNPATH.
  322. config LDSO_SEARCH_INTERP_PATH
  323. bool "Add ldso path to lib search path"
  324. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  325. default y
  326. help
  327. The ldso is told where it is being executed from and can use that
  328. path to find related core libraries. This is useful by default,
  329. but can be annoying in a mixed development environment.
  330. i.e. if the ldso is run from /foo/boo/ldso.so, it will start its
  331. library search with /foo/boo/
  332. If unsure, simply say Y here.
  333. config LDSO_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  334. bool "Add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to lib search path"
  335. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  336. default y
  337. help
  338. On hardened system it could be useful to disable the use of
  339. LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable (a colon-separated list of
  340. directories in which to search for ELF libraries at execution-time).
  341. If unsure, simply say Y here.
  342. config LDSO_NO_CLEANUP
  343. bool "Disable automatic unloading of dynamically loaded shared objects"
  344. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  345. default n
  346. help
  347. If you need complete allocation traces when debugging memory leaks
  348. using Valgrind in a process that dynamically loads shared objects,
  349. then answer Y here. Unlike glibc, uClibc unloads all dynamically
  350. loaded shared objects when a process exits, which prevents Valgrind
  351. from correctly resolving the symbols from the unloaded shared objects.
  352. Unless you know you need this, you should answer N.
  353. config UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR
  354. bool "Support global constructors and destructors"
  355. default y
  356. help
  357. If you wish to build uClibc with support for global constructor
  358. (ctor) and global destructor (dtor) support, then answer Y here.
  359. When ctor/dtor support is enabled, binaries linked with uClibc must
  360. also be linked with crtbegin.o and crtend.o which are provided by gcc
  361. (the "*startfile:" and "*endfile:" settings in your gcc specs file
  362. may need to be adjusted to include these files). This support will
  363. also add a small amount of additional size to each binary compiled vs
  364. uClibc. If you will be using uClibc with C++, or if you need the gcc
  365. __attribute__((constructor)) and __attribute__((destructor)) to work,
  366. then you definitely want to answer Y here. If you don't need ctors
  367. or dtors and want your binaries to be as small as possible, then
  368. answer N.
  369. config LDSO_GNU_HASH_SUPPORT
  370. bool "Enable GNU hash style support"
  371. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  372. help
  373. Newest binutils support a new hash style named GNU-hash. The dynamic
  374. linker will use the new GNU-hash section (.gnu.hash) for symbol lookup
  375. if present into the ELF binaries, otherwise it will use the old SysV
  376. hash style (.hash). This ensures that it is completely backward
  377. compatible.
  378. Further, being the hash table implementation self-contained into each
  379. executable and shared libraries, objects with mixed hash style can
  380. peacefully coexist in the same process.
  381. If you want to use this new feature, answer Y
  382. choice
  383. prompt "Thread support"
  384. #default UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE if (TARGET_alpha || TARGET_arm || TARGET_i386 || TARGET_mips || TARGET_powerpc || TARGET_sh || TARGET_sh64)
  385. default HAS_NO_THREADS
  386. help
  387. If you want to compile uClibc with pthread support, then answer Y.
  388. This will increase the size of uClibc by adding a bunch of locking
  389. to critical data structures, and adding extra code to ensure that
  390. functions are properly reentrant.
  391. config HAS_NO_THREADS
  392. bool "none"
  393. help
  394. Disable thread support.
  395. config LINUXTHREADS_OLD
  396. bool "older (stable) version of linuxthreads"
  397. # linuxthreads and linuxthreads.old need nanosleep()
  398. select UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  399. help
  400. There are two versions of linuxthreads. The older (stable) version
  401. has been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  402. updates other than bugfixes.
  403. config LINUXTHREADS_NEW
  404. bool "slightly newer version of linuxthreads"
  405. help
  406. The new version has not been tested much, and lacks ports for arches
  407. which glibc does not support (like bfin/frv/etc...), but is based on
  408. the latest code from glibc, so it may be the only choice for the
  409. newer ports (like alpha/amd64/64bit arches and hppa).
  410. config UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  411. bool "Native POSIX Threading (NPTL)"
  412. select UCLIBC_HAS_TLS
  413. select UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_FUTEXES
  414. select UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  415. # i386 has no lowlevellock support (yet) as opposed to i486 onward
  416. depends on !CONFIG_386
  417. help
  418. If you want to compile uClibc with NPTL support, then answer Y.
  419. IMPORTANT NOTE! NPTL requires a Linux 2.6 kernel, binutils
  420. at least version 2.16 and GCC with at least version 4.1.0. NPTL
  421. will not work with older versions of any above sources. If you
  422. ignore any of these guidelines, you do so at your own risk. Do
  423. not ask for help on any of the development mailing lists.
  424. !!!! WARNING !!!! BIG FAT WARNING !!!! REALLY BIG FAT WARNING !!!!
  425. This is experimental code and at times it may not even build and
  426. even if it does it might decide to do random damage. This code is
  427. potentially hazardous to your health and sanity. It will remain
  428. that way until further notice at which point this notice will
  429. disappear. Thank you for your support and for not smoking.
  430. endchoice
  431. config UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS
  432. def_bool y if !HAS_NO_THREADS
  433. config UCLIBC_HAS_TLS
  434. bool "Thread-Local Storage"
  435. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  436. help
  437. If you want to enable TLS support then answer Y.
  438. This is fast an efficient way to store per-thread local data
  439. which is not on stack. It needs __thread support enabled in
  440. gcc.
  441. config PTHREADS_DEBUG_SUPPORT
  442. bool "Build pthreads debugging support"
  443. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS
  444. help
  445. Say Y here if you wish to be able to debug applications that use
  446. uClibc's pthreads library. By enabling this option, a library
  447. named libthread_db will be built. This library will be dlopen()'d
  448. by gdb and will allow gdb to debug the threads in your application.
  449. IMPORTANT NOTE! Because gdb must dlopen() the libthread_db library,
  450. you must compile gdb with uClibc in order for pthread debugging to
  451. work properly.
  452. If you are doing development and want to debug applications using
  453. uClibc's pthread library, answer Y. Otherwise, answer N.
  454. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYSLOG
  455. bool "Syslog support"
  456. default y
  457. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  458. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  459. help
  460. Support sending messages to the system logger.
  461. This requires socket-support.
  462. config UCLIBC_HAS_LFS
  463. bool "Large File Support"
  464. default y
  465. help
  466. If you wish to build uClibc with support for accessing large files
  467. (i.e. files greater then 2 GiB) then answer Y. Do not enable this
  468. if you are using an older Linux kernel (2.0.x) that lacks large file
  469. support. Enabling this option will increase the size of uClibc.
  470. choice
  471. prompt "Malloc Implementation"
  472. default MALLOC if ! ARCH_USE_MMU
  473. default MALLOC_STANDARD if ARCH_USE_MMU
  474. config MALLOC
  475. bool "malloc"
  476. help
  477. "malloc" use mmap for all allocations and so works very well on
  478. MMU-less systems that do not support the brk() system call. It is
  479. pretty smart about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing
  480. memory wastage.
  481. This is the default for uClinux MMU-less systems.
  482. config MALLOC_SIMPLE
  483. bool "malloc-simple"
  484. help
  485. "malloc-simple" is trivially simple and slow as molasses. It
  486. was written from scratch for uClibc, and is the simplest possible
  487. (and therefore smallest) malloc implementation.
  488. This uses only the mmap() system call to allocate and free memory,
  489. and does not use the brk() system call at all, making it a fine
  490. choice for MMU-less systems with very limited memory. It's 100%
  491. standards compliant, thread safe, very small, and releases freed
  492. memory back to the OS immediately rather than keeping it in the
  493. process's heap for reallocation. It is also VERY SLOW.
  494. config MALLOC_STANDARD
  495. bool "malloc-standard"
  496. depends on ARCH_USE_MMU
  497. help
  498. "malloc-standard" is derived from the public domain dlmalloc
  499. implementation by Doug Lea. It is quite fast, and is pretty smart
  500. about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing memory
  501. wastage. This uses brk() for small allocations, while using mmap()
  502. for larger allocations. This is the default malloc implementation
  503. for uClibc.
  504. If unsure, answer "malloc-standard".
  505. endchoice
  506. config MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT
  507. bool "Malloc returns live pointer for malloc(0)"
  508. help
  509. The behavior of malloc(0) is listed as implementation-defined by
  510. SuSv3. Glibc returns a valid pointer to something, while uClibc
  511. normally returns NULL. I personally feel glibc's behavior is
  512. not particularly safe, and allows buggy applications to hide very
  513. serious problems.
  514. When this option is enabled, uClibc will act just like glibc, and
  515. return a live pointer when someone calls malloc(0). This pointer
  516. provides a malloc'ed area with a size of 1 byte. This feature is
  517. mostly useful when dealing with applications using autoconf's broken
  518. AC_FUNC_MALLOC macro (which redefines malloc as rpl_malloc if it
  519. does not detect glibc style returning-a-valid-pointer-for-malloc(0)
  520. behavior). Most people can safely answer N.
  521. config UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_ATEXIT
  522. bool "Dynamic atexit() Support"
  523. default y
  524. help
  525. When this option is enabled, uClibc will support an infinite number,
  526. of atexit() and on_exit() functions, limited only by your available
  527. memory. This can be important when uClibc is used with C++, since
  528. global destructors are implemented via atexit(), and it is quite
  529. possible to exceed the default number when this option is disabled.
  530. Enabling this option adds a few bytes, and more significantly makes
  531. atexit and on_exit depend on malloc, which can be bad when compiling
  532. static executables.
  533. Unless you use uClibc with C++, you should probably answer N.
  534. config COMPAT_ATEXIT
  535. bool "Old (visible) atexit Support"
  536. help
  537. Enable this option if you want to update from 0.9.28 to git/0.9.29,
  538. else you will be missing atexit() until you rebuild all apps.
  539. config UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY
  540. bool "Enable SuSv3 LEGACY functions"
  541. #vfork,
  542. # h_errno
  543. # gethostbyaddr
  544. # gethostbyname
  545. help
  546. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv3 LEGACY functions
  547. in the library, else they are replaced by SuSv3 proposed macros.
  548. Currently applies to:
  549. bcmp, bcopy, bzero, index, rindex, ftime,
  550. bsd_signal, (ecvt), (fcvt), gcvt, (getcontext),
  551. (getwd), (makecontext),
  552. mktemp, (pthread_attr_getstackaddr), (pthread_attr_setstackaddr),
  553. scalb, (setcontext), (swapcontext), ualarm, usleep,
  554. wcswcs.
  555. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  556. config UCLIBC_HAS_CONTEXT_FUNCS
  557. bool "Use obsolescent context control functions"
  558. depends on UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY && ARCH_HAS_UCONTEXT
  559. help
  560. Add into library the SuSv3 obsolescent functions used for context
  561. control. The setcontext family allows the implementation in C of
  562. advanced control flow patterns such as iterators, fibers, and
  563. coroutines. They may be viewed as an advanced version of
  564. setjmp/longjmp; whereas the latter allows only a single non-local jump
  565. up the stack, setcontext allows the creation of multiple cooperative
  566. threads of control, each with its own stack.
  567. These functions are: setcontext, getcontext, makecontext, swapcontext.
  568. config UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY_MACROS
  569. bool "Enable SuSv3 LEGACY macros"
  570. help
  571. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv3 LEGACY macros.
  572. Currently applies to bcopy/bzero/bcmp/index/rindex et al.
  573. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  574. config UCLIBC_SUSV4_LEGACY
  575. bool "Enable SuSv4 LEGACY or obsolescent functions"
  576. help
  577. Enable this option if you want to have SuSv4 LEGACY functions
  578. and macros in the library.
  579. Currently applies to:
  580. - XSI functions:
  581. _longjmp, _setjmp, _tolower, _toupper, ftw, getitimer,
  582. gettimeofday, isascii, pthread_getconcurrency,
  583. pthread_setconcurrency, setitimer, setpgrp, sighold,
  584. sigignore, sigpause, sigrelse, sigset, siginterrupt,
  585. tempnam, toascii, ulimit.
  586. - Base functions:
  587. asctime, asctime_r, ctime, ctime_r, gets, rand_r,
  588. tmpnam, utime.
  589. WARNING! ABI incompatibility.
  590. config UCLIBC_STRICT_HEADERS
  591. bool "Hide structures and constants for unsupported features"
  592. help
  593. Hide structures and constants in headers that should not be used,
  594. because the respective feature is disabled.
  595. WARNING! enabling this option requires to patch many faulty apps,
  596. since they make (wrongly) use of these structures/constants,
  597. although the feature was disabled.
  598. config UCLIBC_HAS_STUBS
  599. bool "Provide stubs for unavailable functionality"
  600. help
  601. With this option uClibc provides non-functional stubs for
  602. functions which are impossible to implement on the target
  603. architecture. Otherwise, such functions are simply omitted.
  604. config UCLIBC_HAS_SHADOW
  605. bool "Shadow Password Support"
  606. default y
  607. help
  608. Answer N if you do not need shadow password support.
  609. Most people will answer Y.
  610. config UCLIBC_HAS_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME
  611. bool "Support for program_invocation_name"
  612. help
  613. Support for the GNU-specific program_invocation_name and
  614. program_invocation_short_name strings. Some GNU packages
  615. (like tar and coreutils) utilize these for extra useful
  616. output, but in general are not required.
  617. At startup, these external strings are automatically set
  618. up based on the value of ARGV[0].
  619. If unsure, just answer N.
  620. config UCLIBC_HAS___PROGNAME
  621. bool "Support for __progname"
  622. default y
  623. help
  624. Some packages (like openssh) like to peek into internal libc
  625. symbols to make their output a bit more user friendly.
  626. At startup, __progname is automatically set up based on the
  627. value of ARGV[0].
  628. If unsure, just answer N.
  629. config UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  630. bool "Support for pseudo-terminals"
  631. default y
  632. help
  633. This enables support for pseudo-terminals (see man 4 pts
  634. and man 7 pty).
  635. If unsure, just answer Y.
  636. config ASSUME_DEVPTS
  637. bool "Assume that /dev/pts is a devpts or devfs file system"
  638. default y
  639. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  640. help
  641. Enable this if /dev/pts is on a devpts or devfs filesystem. Both
  642. these filesystems automatically manage permissions on the /dev/pts
  643. devices. You may need to mount your devpts or devfs filesystem on
  644. /dev/pts for this to work.
  645. Most people should answer Y.
  646. config UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  647. bool "Support only Unix 98 PTYs"
  648. default y
  649. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  650. help
  651. If you want to support only Unix 98 PTYs enable this. Some older
  652. applications may need this disabled and will thus use legacy BSD
  653. style PTY handling which is more complex and also bigger than
  654. Unix 98 PTY handling.
  655. For most current programs, you can generally answer Y.
  656. if UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  657. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETPT
  658. bool "Support getpt() (glibc-compat)"
  659. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  660. help
  661. Some packages may need getpt().
  662. All of those are non-standard and can be considered
  663. GNU/libc compatibility.
  664. Either use posix_openpt() or just open /dev/ptmx yourself.
  665. If unsure, just say N.
  666. endif
  667. if !UNIX98PTY_ONLY
  668. # Have to use __libc_ptyname{1,2}[] and related bloat
  669. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETPT
  670. def_bool y
  671. endif
  672. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBUTIL
  673. bool "Provide libutil library and functions"
  674. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_PTY
  675. help
  676. Provide a libutil library.
  677. This non-standard conforming library provides the following
  678. utility functions:
  679. forkpty(): combines openpty(), fork(2), and login_tty() to
  680. create a new process operating in a pseudo-terminal.
  681. login(): write utmp and wtmp entries
  682. login_tty(): prepares for a login on the tty fd by creating a
  683. new session, making fd the controlling terminal for
  684. the calling process, setting fd to be the standard
  685. input, output, and error streams of the current
  686. process, and closing fd.
  687. logout(): write utmp and wtmp entries
  688. logwtmp(): constructs a utmp structure and calls updwtmp() to
  689. append the structure to the utmp file.
  690. openpty(): finds an available pseudo-terminal and returns
  691. file descriptors for the master and slave
  692. This library adds about 3k-4k to your system.
  693. config UCLIBC_HAS_TM_EXTENSIONS
  694. bool "Support 'struct tm' timezone extension fields"
  695. default y
  696. help
  697. Enabling this option adds fields to 'struct tm' in time.h for
  698. tracking the number of seconds east of UTC, and an abbreviation for
  699. the current timezone. These fields are not specified by the SuSv3
  700. standard, but they are commonly used in both GNU and BSD application
  701. code.
  702. To strictly follow the SuSv3 standard, leave this disabled.
  703. Most people will probably want to answer Y.
  704. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_CACHING
  705. bool "Enable caching of the last valid timezone 'TZ' string"
  706. default y
  707. help
  708. Answer Y to enable caching of the last valid 'TZ' string describing
  709. the timezone setting. This allows a quick string compare to avoid
  710. repeated parsing of unchanged 'TZ' strings when tzset() is called.
  711. Most people will answer Y.
  712. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  713. bool "Enable '/etc/TZ' file support to set a default timezone (uClibc-specific)"
  714. default y
  715. help
  716. Answer Y to enable the setting of a default timezone for uClibc.
  717. Ordinarily, uClibc gets the timezone information exclusively from the
  718. 'TZ' environment variable. In particular, there is no support for
  719. the zoneinfo directory tree or the /etc/timezone file used by glibc.
  720. With this option enabled, uClibc will use the value stored in the
  721. file '/etc/TZ' (default path) to obtain timezone information if the
  722. 'TZ' environment variable is missing or has an invalid value. The
  723. file consists of a single line (newline required) of text describing
  724. the timezone in the format specified for the TZ environment variable.
  725. Doing 'echo CST6CDT > /etc/TZ' is enough to create a valid file.
  726. See
  727. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html
  728. for details on valid settings of 'TZ'.
  729. Most people will answer Y.
  730. config UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE_READ_MANY
  731. bool "Repeatedly read the '/etc/TZ' file"
  732. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  733. default y
  734. help
  735. Answer Y to enable repeated reading of the '/etc/TZ' file even after
  736. a valid value has been read. This incurs the overhead of an
  737. open/read/close for each tzset() call (explicit or implied). However,
  738. setting this will allow applications to update their timezone
  739. information if the contents of the file change.
  740. Most people will answer Y.
  741. config UCLIBC_TZ_FILE_PATH
  742. string "Path to the 'TZ' file for setting the global timezone"
  743. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  744. default "/etc/TZ"
  745. help
  746. This is the path to the 'TZ' file.
  747. Most people will use the default of '/etc/TZ'.
  748. config UCLIBC_FALLBACK_TO_ETC_LOCALTIME
  749. bool "Use /etc/localtime as a fallback"
  750. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_TZ_FILE
  751. default y
  752. help
  753. Answer Y to try to use /etc/localtime file.
  754. On glibc systems this file (if it is in TZif2 format)
  755. contains timezone string at the end.
  756. Most people will answer Y.
  757. endmenu
  758. menu "Advanced Library Settings"
  759. config UCLIBC_PWD_BUFFER_SIZE
  760. int "Buffer size for getpwnam() and friends"
  761. default 256
  762. range 12 1024
  763. help
  764. This sets the value of the buffer size for getpwnam() and friends.
  765. By default, this is 256. (For reference, glibc uses 1024).
  766. The value can be found using sysconf() with the _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX
  767. parameter.
  768. config UCLIBC_GRP_BUFFER_SIZE
  769. int "Buffer size for getgrnam() and friends"
  770. default 256
  771. range 12 1024
  772. help
  773. This sets the value of the buffer size for getgrnam() and friends.
  774. By default, this is 256. (For reference, glibc uses 1024).
  775. The value can be found using sysconf() with the _SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX
  776. parameter.
  777. comment "Support various families of functions"
  778. config UCLIBC_LINUX_MODULE_26
  779. bool "Linux kernel module functions (2.6)"
  780. default y
  781. help
  782. delete_module, init_module
  783. are used in linux for loadable kernel modules.
  784. Say N if you do not use kernel modules.
  785. config UCLIBC_LINUX_MODULE_24
  786. bool "Linux kernel module functions (<2.6)"
  787. depends on !TARGET_bfin && !TARGET_c6x
  788. help
  789. create_module, query_module
  790. are used in linux (prior to 2.6) for loadable kernel modules.
  791. Say N if you do not use kernel modules, or you only support
  792. Linux 2.6+.
  793. config UCLIBC_LINUX_SPECIFIC
  794. bool "Linux specific functions"
  795. default y
  796. help
  797. accept4(), bdflush(),
  798. capget(), capset(), eventfd(), fstatfs(),
  799. inotify_*(), ioperm(), iopl(),
  800. madvise(), modify_ldt(), pipe2(), personality(),
  801. prctl()/arch_prctl(), pivot_root(), modify_ldt(),
  802. ppoll(), readahead(), reboot(), remap_file_pages(),
  803. sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity(), sendfile(),
  804. setfsgid(), setfsuid(), setresgid(), setresuid(),
  805. splice(), vmsplice(), tee(), signalfd(), swapoff(), swapon(),
  806. sync_file_range(), _sysctl(), sysinfo(), timerfd_*(), vhangup(),
  807. umount(), umount2()
  808. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_ERROR
  809. bool "Support GNU extensions for error-reporting"
  810. default y
  811. help
  812. Support for the GNU-specific error(), error_at_line(),
  813. void (* error_print_progname)(), error_message_count
  814. functions and variables. Some GNU packages
  815. utilize these for extra useful output, but in general
  816. are not required.
  817. If unsure, just answer N.
  818. config UCLIBC_BSD_SPECIFIC
  819. bool "BSD specific functions"
  820. default y
  821. help
  822. mincore(), getdomainname(), setdomainname()
  823. If unsure, say N.
  824. config UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_ERR
  825. bool "BSD err functions"
  826. default y
  827. help
  828. These functions are non-standard BSD extensions.
  829. err(), errx(), warn(), warnx(), verr(), verrx(), vwarn(), vwarnx()
  830. If unsure, say N.
  831. config UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_BSD_SIGNAL
  832. bool "BSD obsolete signal functions"
  833. help
  834. These functions are provided as a compatibility interface for
  835. programs that make use of the historical System V signal API.
  836. This API is obsolete:
  837. new applications should use the POSIX signal API (sigaction(2),
  838. sigprocmask(2), etc.).
  839. Affected functions:
  840. sigset(), sighold(), sigrelse(), sigignore()
  841. If unsure, say N.
  842. config UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_SYSV_SIGNAL
  843. bool "SYSV obsolete signal functions"
  844. help
  845. Use of sysv_signal() should be avoided; use sigaction(2) instead.
  846. If unsure, say N.
  847. config UCLIBC_NTP_LEGACY
  848. bool "ntp_*() aliases"
  849. help
  850. Provide legacy aliases for ntp functions:
  851. ntp_adjtime(), ntp_gettime()
  852. It is safe to say N here.
  853. config UCLIBC_SV4_DEPRECATED
  854. bool "Enable SVr4 deprecated functions"
  855. help
  856. These functions are DEPRECATED in System V release 4.
  857. Say N unless you desparately need one of the functions below:
  858. ustat() [use statfs(2) in your code instead]
  859. config UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  860. bool "Realtime-related family of SUSv functions"
  861. default y
  862. help
  863. These functions are part of the Timers option and need not
  864. be available on all implementations.
  865. Includes AIO, message-queue, scheduler, semaphore functions:
  866. aio.h
  867. mqueue.h
  868. sched.h
  869. semaphore.h
  870. aio_cancel()
  871. aio_error()
  872. aio_fsync()
  873. aio_read()
  874. lio_listio()
  875. aio_return()
  876. aio_suspend()
  877. aio_write()
  878. clock_getres(), clock_gettime(), clock_settime()
  879. fdatasync()
  880. mlockall(), munlockall()
  881. mlock(), munlock()
  882. mq_close()
  883. mq_getattr()
  884. mq_notify()
  885. mq_open()
  886. mq_receive()
  887. mq_send()
  888. mq_setattr()
  889. mq_unlink()
  890. nanosleep()
  891. sched_getparam()
  892. sched_get_priority_max(), sched_get_priority_min()
  893. sched_getscheduler()
  894. sched_rr_get_interval()
  895. sched_setparam()
  896. sched_setscheduler()
  897. sem_close()
  898. sem_destroy()
  899. sem_getvalue()
  900. sem_init()
  901. sem_open()
  902. sem_post()
  903. sem_trywait(), sem_wait()
  904. sem_unlink()
  905. sigqueue()
  906. sigtimedwait(), sigwaitinfo()
  907. timer_create()
  908. timer_delete()
  909. timer_getoverrun(), timer_gettime(), timer_settime()
  910. config UCLIBC_HAS_ADVANCED_REALTIME
  911. bool "Advanced realtime-related family of SUSv functions"
  912. default y
  913. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REALTIME
  914. help
  915. These functions are part of the Timers option and need not
  916. be available on all implementations.
  917. clock_getcpuclockid()
  918. clock_nanosleep()
  919. mq_timedreceive()
  920. mq_timedsend()
  921. posix_fadvise()
  922. posix_fallocate()
  923. posix_madvise()
  924. posix_memalign()
  925. posix_mem_offset()
  926. posix_spawnattr_destroy(), posix_spawnattr_init()
  927. posix_spawnattr_getflags(), posix_spawnattr_setflags()
  928. posix_spawnattr_getpgroup(), posix_spawnattr_setpgroup()
  929. posix_spawnattr_getschedparam(), posix_spawnattr_setschedparam()
  930. posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy(), posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy()
  931. posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault(), posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault()
  932. posix_spawnattr_getsigmask(), posix_spawnattr_setsigmask()
  933. posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose()
  934. posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
  935. posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen()
  936. posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy()
  937. posix_spawn_file_actions_init()
  938. posix_spawn()
  939. posix_spawnp()
  940. posix_typed_mem_get_info()
  941. pthread_mutex_timedlock()
  942. sem_timedwait()
  943. #config UCLIBC_HAS_TERMIOS
  944. # bool "termios functions"
  945. # default y
  946. # help
  947. # Get and set terminal attributes, line control, get and set baud
  948. # rate.
  949. # termios(), tcgetattr(), tcsetattr(), tcsendbreak(), tcdrain(),
  950. # tcflush(), tcflow(), cfmakeraw(), cfgetospeed(), cfgetispeed(),
  951. # cfsetispeed(), cfsetospeed(), cfsetspeed()
  952. #
  953. # If unsure, say Y.
  954. config UCLIBC_HAS_EPOLL
  955. bool "epoll"
  956. default y
  957. help
  958. epoll_create(), epoll_ctl(), epoll_wait() functions.
  959. config UCLIBC_HAS_XATTR
  960. bool "Extended Attributes"
  961. default y
  962. help
  963. Extended Attributes support.
  964. setxattr()
  965. lsetxattr()
  966. fsetxattr()
  967. getxattr()
  968. lgetxattr()
  969. fgetxattr()
  970. listxattr()
  971. llistxattr()
  972. flistxattr()
  973. removexattr()
  974. lremovexattr()
  975. fremovexattr()
  976. Say N unless you need support for extended attributes and the
  977. filesystems do actually support them.
  978. config UCLIBC_HAS_PROFILING
  979. bool "Profiling support"
  980. default y
  981. help
  982. gcc's -finstrument-functions needs these.
  983. Most people can safely answer N.
  984. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  985. bool "libcrypt support"
  986. default y
  987. help
  988. libcrypt contains crypt(), setkey() and encrypt()
  989. config UCLIBC_HAS_SHA256_CRYPT_IMPL
  990. bool "libcrypt SHA256 support"
  991. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  992. help
  993. This adds support for SHA256 password hashing via the crypt() function.
  994. Say N here if you do not need SHA256 crypt support.
  995. config UCLIBC_HAS_SHA512_CRYPT_IMPL
  996. bool "libcrypt SHA512 support"
  997. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  998. help
  999. This adds support for SHA512 password hashing via the crypt() function.
  1000. Say N here if you do not need SHA512 crypt support.
  1001. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_STUB
  1002. bool "libcrypt stubs"
  1003. default y
  1004. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL
  1005. help
  1006. Standards mandate that crypt(3) provides a stub if it is unavailable.
  1007. If you enable this option then stubs for
  1008. crypt(), setkey() and encrypt()
  1009. will be provided in a small libcrypt.
  1010. config UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT
  1011. def_bool y
  1012. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_IMPL || UCLIBC_HAS_CRYPT_STUB
  1013. endmenu
  1014. menuconfig UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  1015. bool "Networking Support"
  1016. default y
  1017. help
  1018. Say N here if you do not need network support.
  1019. if UCLIBC_HAS_NETWORK_SUPPORT
  1020. config UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1021. bool "Socket support"
  1022. default y
  1023. help
  1024. If you want to include support for sockets then answer Y.
  1025. config UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4
  1026. bool "IP version 4 support"
  1027. default y
  1028. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1029. help
  1030. If you want to include support for the Internet Protocol
  1031. (IP version 4) then answer Y.
  1032. Most people will say Y.
  1033. config UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  1034. bool "IP version 6 support"
  1035. select UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1036. help
  1037. If you want to include support for the next version of the Internet
  1038. Protocol (IP version 6) then answer Y.
  1039. Most people should answer N.
  1040. config UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  1041. bool "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) support"
  1042. # RPC+socket-ipvX doesn't currently work.
  1043. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4 || UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  1044. help
  1045. If you want to include RPC support, enable this. RPC is rarely used
  1046. for anything except for the NFS filesystem. Unless you plan to use
  1047. NFS, you can probably leave this set to N and save some space.
  1048. If you need to use NFS then you should answer Y.
  1049. config UCLIBC_HAS_FULL_RPC
  1050. bool "Full RPC support"
  1051. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  1052. default y if !HAVE_SHARED
  1053. help
  1054. Normally we enable just enough RPC support for things like rshd and
  1055. nfs mounts to work. If you find you need the rest of the RPC stuff,
  1056. then enable this option. Most people can safely answer N.
  1057. config UCLIBC_HAS_REENTRANT_RPC
  1058. bool "Reentrant RPC support"
  1059. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_RPC
  1060. default y if !HAVE_SHARED
  1061. help
  1062. Most packages utilize the normal (non-reentrant) RPC functions, but
  1063. some (like exportfs from nfs-utils) need these reentrant versions.
  1064. Most people can safely answer N.
  1065. config UCLIBC_USE_NETLINK
  1066. bool "Use netlink to query interfaces"
  1067. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SOCKET
  1068. help
  1069. In newer versions of Linux (2.4.17+), support was added for querying
  1070. network device information via netlink rather than the old style
  1071. ioctl's. Most of the time, the older ioctl style is sufficient (and
  1072. it is smaller than netlink), but if you find that not all of your
  1073. devices are being returned by the if_nameindex() function, you will
  1074. have to use the netlink implementation.
  1075. Most people can safely answer N.
  1076. config UCLIBC_SUPPORT_AI_ADDRCONFIG
  1077. bool "Support the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag"
  1078. depends on UCLIBC_USE_NETLINK
  1079. help
  1080. The implementation of AI_ADDRCONFIG is aligned with the glibc
  1081. implementation using netlink to query interfaces to find both
  1082. ipv4 and ipv6 support. This is only needed if an application uses
  1083. the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag.
  1084. Most people can safely answer N.
  1085. config UCLIBC_HAS_BSD_RES_CLOSE
  1086. bool "Support res_close() (bsd-compat)"
  1087. help
  1088. Answer Y if you desperately want to support BSD compatibility in
  1089. the network code.
  1090. Most people will say N.
  1091. config UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1092. bool "Use compatible but bloated _res"
  1093. default y
  1094. help
  1095. Answer Y if you build network utilities and they muck with resolver
  1096. internals a lot (_res global structure). uclibc does not use most
  1097. of _res.XXX fields, and with this option OFF they won't even exist.
  1098. Which will make e.g. dig build fail.
  1099. Answering N saves around 400 bytes in bss.
  1100. config UCLIBC_HAS_EXTRA_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1101. bool "Use extra compatible but extra bloated _res"
  1102. help
  1103. Answer Y if selecting UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE is not enough.
  1104. As far as I can say, this should never be needed.
  1105. config UCLIBC_HAS_RESOLVER_SUPPORT
  1106. bool "DNS resolver functions"
  1107. select UCLIBC_HAS_COMPAT_RES_STATE
  1108. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_IPV4 || UCLIBC_HAS_IPV6
  1109. help
  1110. Provide implementations for DNS resolver functions.
  1111. In particular, the following functions will be added to the
  1112. library:
  1113. ns_get16, ns_get32, ns_put16, ns_put32
  1114. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBRESOLV_STUB
  1115. bool "Provide libresolv stub"
  1116. help
  1117. Provide a dummy resolv library.
  1118. config UCLIBC_HAS_LIBNSL_STUB
  1119. bool "Provide libnsl stub"
  1120. help
  1121. Provide a dummy nsl library.
  1122. endif
  1123. menu "String and Stdio Support"
  1124. config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_GENERIC_OPT
  1125. bool "Use faster (but larger) generic string functions"
  1126. default y
  1127. help
  1128. Answer Y to use the (tweaked) glibc generic string functions.
  1129. In general, they are faster (but 3-5K larger) than the base
  1130. uClibc string functions which are optimized solely for size.
  1131. Many people will answer Y.
  1132. config UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_ARCH_OPT
  1133. bool "Use arch-specific assembly string functions (where available)"
  1134. default y
  1135. help
  1136. Answer Y to use any archtecture-specific assembly language string
  1137. functions available for this target plaform.
  1138. Note that assembly implementations are not available for all string
  1139. functions, so some generic (written in C) string functions may
  1140. still be used.
  1141. These are small and fast, the only reason _not_ to say Y here is
  1142. for debugging purposes.
  1143. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1144. bool "Use Table Versions Of 'ctype.h' Functions."
  1145. default y
  1146. help
  1147. Answer Y to use table versions of the 'ctype.h' functions.
  1148. While the non-table versions are often smaller when building
  1149. statically linked apps, they work only in stub locale mode.
  1150. Most people will answer Y.
  1151. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_SIGNED
  1152. bool "Support Signed Characters In 'ctype.h' Functions."
  1153. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1154. default y
  1155. help
  1156. Answer Y to enable support for passing signed char values to
  1157. the 'ctype.h' functions. ANSI/ISO C99 and SUSv3 specify that
  1158. these functions are only defined for unsigned char values and
  1159. EOF. However, glibc allows negative signed char values as well
  1160. in order to support 'broken old programs'.
  1161. Most people will answer Y.
  1162. choice
  1163. prompt "ctype argument checking"
  1164. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1165. default UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_UNSAFE
  1166. help
  1167. Please select the invalid arg behavior you want for the 'ctype'
  1168. functions.
  1169. The 'ctype' functions are now implemented using table lookups, with
  1170. the arg being the index. This can result in incorrect memory accesses
  1171. or even segfaults for args outside of the allowed range.
  1172. NOTE: This only affects the 'ctype' _functions_. It does not affect
  1173. the macro implementations.
  1174. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_UNSAFE
  1175. bool "Do not check -- unsafe"
  1176. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_CHECKED
  1177. bool "Detect and handle appropriately"
  1178. config UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_ENFORCED
  1179. bool "Issue a diagnostic and abort()"
  1180. endchoice
  1181. config UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1182. bool "Wide Character Support"
  1183. help
  1184. Answer Y to enable wide character support. This will make uClibc
  1185. much larger. It is also currently required for locale support.
  1186. Most people will answer N.
  1187. config UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1188. bool "Locale Support"
  1189. select UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1190. select UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1191. help
  1192. uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support (except for
  1193. wcsftime() and collating items in regex). Be aware that enabling
  1194. this option will make uClibc much larger.
  1195. Enabling UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE with the default set of supported locales
  1196. (169 UTF-8 locales, and 144 locales for other codesets) will enlarge
  1197. uClibc by around 300k. You can reduce this size by building your own
  1198. custom set of locate data (see extra/locale/LOCALES for details).
  1199. uClibc's locale support is still under development. For example,
  1200. codesets using shift states are not currently supported. Support is
  1201. planned in the next iteration of locale support.
  1202. Answer Y to enable locale support. Most people will answer N.
  1203. choice
  1204. prompt "Locale data"
  1205. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1206. default UCLIBC_BUILD_ALL_LOCALE
  1207. config UCLIBC_BUILD_ALL_LOCALE
  1208. bool "All locales"
  1209. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1210. help
  1211. This builds all the locales that are available on your
  1212. host-box.
  1213. config UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALE
  1214. bool "Only selected locales"
  1215. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1216. help
  1217. If you do not need all locales that are available on your
  1218. host-box, then set this to 'Y'.
  1219. config UCLIBC_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1220. bool "Use Pre-generated Locale Data"
  1221. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1222. help
  1223. Use pre-built locale data.
  1224. Note that these pregenerated locales are sensitive to your
  1225. target architecture (endianess, bitcount).
  1226. Saying N here is highly recommended.
  1227. endchoice
  1228. config UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALES
  1229. string "locales to use"
  1230. depends on UCLIBC_BUILD_MINIMAL_LOCALE
  1231. default "en_US"
  1232. help
  1233. Space separated list of locales to use.
  1234. E.g.:
  1235. en_US en_GB de_AT
  1236. default:
  1237. en_US
  1238. config UCLIBC_DOWNLOAD_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1239. bool "Automagically Download the Pre-generated Locale Data (if necessary)"
  1240. depends on UCLIBC_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA
  1241. help
  1242. If you would like the build process to use 'wget' to automatically
  1243. download the pregenerated locale data, enable this option. Otherwise
  1244. you will need to obtain the locale data yourself from:
  1245. http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-locale-*.tgz
  1246. and place the uClibc-locale-*.tgz tarball in the extra/locale/
  1247. directory.
  1248. Note that the use of pregenerated locale data is discouraged.
  1249. config UCLIBC_HAS_XLOCALE
  1250. bool "Extended Locale Support (experimental/incomplete)"
  1251. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1252. help
  1253. Answer Y to enable extended locale support similar to that provided
  1254. by glibc. This is primarily intended to support libstd++
  1255. functionality.
  1256. However, it also allows thread-specific locale selection via
  1257. uselocale().
  1258. Most people will answer N.
  1259. config UCLIBC_HAS_HEXADECIMAL_FLOATS
  1260. bool "Support hexadecimal float notation"
  1261. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_CTYPE_TABLES
  1262. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FLOATS
  1263. help
  1264. Answer Y to enable support for hexadecimal float notation in the
  1265. (wchar and) char string to floating point conversion functions, as
  1266. well as support for the %a and %A conversion specifiers in the
  1267. *printf() and *scanf() functions.
  1268. Most people will answer N.
  1269. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1270. bool "Support glibc's \"'\" flag for allowing locale-specific digit grouping"
  1271. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE
  1272. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FLOATS
  1273. help
  1274. Answer Y to enable support for glibc's \"'\" flag for allowing
  1275. locale-specific digit grouping in base 10 integer conversions and
  1276. appropriate floating point conversions in the *printf() and *scanf()
  1277. functions.
  1278. Most people will answer N.
  1279. config UCLIBC_HAS_SCANF_LENIENT_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1280. bool "Do not require digit grouping when the \"'\" flag is specified"
  1281. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_DIGIT_GROUPING
  1282. default y
  1283. help
  1284. Answer Y to make digit grouping optional when the \"'\" flag is
  1285. specified.
  1286. This is the standard glibc behavior. If the initial string of digits
  1287. exceeds the maximum group number, the input will be treated as a
  1288. normal non-grouped number.
  1289. Most people will answer N.
  1290. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_CUSTOM_PRINTF
  1291. bool "Support glibc's register_printf_function() (glibc-compat)"
  1292. depends on !USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1293. help
  1294. Answer Y to support glibc's register_printf_function() to allow an
  1295. application to add its own printf conversion specifiers.
  1296. parse_printf_format() is also enabled.
  1297. NOTE: Limits the number or registered specifiers to 10.
  1298. NOTE: Requires new conversion specifiers to be ASCII
  1299. characters (0-0x7f). This is to avoid problems with processing
  1300. format strings in locales with different multibyte conversions.
  1301. Most people will answer N.
  1302. config USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1303. bool "Use the old vfprintf implementation"
  1304. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1305. help
  1306. Set to true to use the old vfprintf instead of the new. This is
  1307. roughly C89 compliant with some extensions, and is much smaller.
  1308. However, it does not support wide chars, positional args, or glibc
  1309. custom printf specifiers.
  1310. Most people will answer N.
  1311. config UCLIBC_PRINTF_SCANF_POSITIONAL_ARGS
  1312. int "Maximum number of positional args. Either 0 or >= 9."
  1313. depends on !USE_OLD_VFPRINTF
  1314. default 9
  1315. help
  1316. Set the maximum number of positional args supported by the
  1317. printf/scanf functions. The Single Unix Specification Version 3
  1318. requires a minimum value of 9. Setting this to a value lower than
  1319. 9 will disable positional arg support and cause the NL_ARGMAX macro
  1320. in limits.h to be #undef'd.
  1321. WARNING! The workspace to support positional args is currently
  1322. allocated on the stack. You probably don't want to set
  1323. this to too high a value.
  1324. Most people will answer 9.
  1325. choice
  1326. prompt "Stdio buffer size"
  1327. default UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_4096
  1328. help
  1329. Please select a value for BUFSIZ. This will be used by the
  1330. stdio subsystem as the default buffer size for a file, and
  1331. affects fopen(), setvbuf(), etc.
  1332. NOTE: Setting this to 'none' will disable buffering completely.
  1333. However, BUFSIZ will still be defined in stdio.h as 256 because
  1334. many applications use this value.
  1335. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1336. bool "none (WARNING - BUFSIZ will be 256 in stdio.h)"
  1337. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR
  1338. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_256
  1339. bool "256 (minimum ANSI/ISO C99 value)"
  1340. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_512
  1341. bool "512"
  1342. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_1024
  1343. bool "1024"
  1344. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_2048
  1345. bool "2048"
  1346. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_4096
  1347. bool "4096"
  1348. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_8192
  1349. bool "8192"
  1350. # If you add more choices, you will need to update uClibc_stdio.h.
  1351. endchoice
  1352. choice
  1353. prompt "Stdio builtin buffer size (uClibc-specific)"
  1354. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1355. default UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_NONE
  1356. help
  1357. When a FILE is created with fopen(), an attempt is made to allocate
  1358. a BUFSIZ buffer for it. If the allocation fails, fopen() will still
  1359. succeed but the FILE will be unbuffered.
  1360. This option adds a small amount of space to each FILE to act as an
  1361. emergency buffer in the event of a buffer allocation failure.
  1362. Most people will answer None.
  1363. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_NONE
  1364. bool "None"
  1365. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_4
  1366. bool "4"
  1367. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUILTIN_BUFFER_8
  1368. bool "8"
  1369. # If you add more choices, you will need to update uClibc_stdio.h.
  1370. endchoice
  1371. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_SHUTDOWN_ON_ABORT
  1372. bool "Attempt to shutdown stdio subsystem when abort() is called."
  1373. help
  1374. ANSI/ISO C99 requires abort() to be asyn-signal-safe. So there was
  1375. a behavioral change made in SUSv3. Previously, abort() was required
  1376. to have the affect of fclose() on all open streams. The wording has
  1377. been changed to "may" from "shall".
  1378. Most people will answer N.
  1379. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_GETC_MACRO
  1380. bool "Provide a macro version of getc()"
  1381. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1382. default y
  1383. help
  1384. Provide a macro version of getc().
  1385. Most people will answer Y.
  1386. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_PUTC_MACRO
  1387. bool "Provide a macro version of putc()"
  1388. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_BUFSIZ_NONE
  1389. default y
  1390. help
  1391. Provide a macro version of putc().
  1392. Most people will answer Y.
  1393. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_AUTO_RW_TRANSITION
  1394. bool "Support auto-r/w transition"
  1395. default y
  1396. help
  1397. Answer Y to enable the stdio subsystem to automaticly transition
  1398. between reading and writing. This relaxes the ANSI/ISO C99
  1399. requirement:
  1400. When a file is opened with update mode ('+' as the second or third
  1401. character in the list of mode argument values), both input and output
  1402. may be performed on the associated stream. However, output shall not
  1403. be directly followed by input without an intervening call to the
  1404. fflush function or to a file positioning function (fseek, fsetpos,
  1405. or rewind), and input shall not be directly followed by output without
  1406. an intervening call to a file positioning function, unless the input
  1407. operation encounters end­of­file.
  1408. Most people will answer Y.
  1409. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_LARGEFILE_MODE
  1410. bool "Support an fopen() 'F' flag for large file mode (uClibc-specific)"
  1411. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LFS
  1412. help
  1413. Answer Y to enable a uClibc-specific extension to allow passing an
  1414. additional 'F' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1415. the file should be open()ed with the O_LARGEFILE flag set.
  1416. Most people will answer N.
  1417. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_EXCLUSIVE_MODE
  1418. bool "Support an fopen() 'x' flag for exclusive mode (glibc-compat)"
  1419. help
  1420. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to allow passing
  1421. additional 'x' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1422. the file should be open()ed with the O_EXCL flag set.
  1423. Most people will answer N.
  1424. config UCLIBC_HAS_FOPEN_CLOSEEXEC_MODE
  1425. bool "Support an fopen() 'e' flag for close-on-exec mode (glibc-compat)"
  1426. help
  1427. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to allow passing
  1428. additional 'e' flag in the mode string for fopen() to specify that
  1429. the file should be open()ed with the O_CLOEXEC flag set.
  1430. Most people will answer N.
  1431. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLIBC_CUSTOM_STREAMS
  1432. bool "Support fmemopen(), open_memstream(), and fopencookie() (glibc-compat)"
  1433. help
  1434. Answer Y to support the glibc 'custom stream' extension functions
  1435. fmemopen(), open_memstream(), and fopencookie().
  1436. NOTE: There are some minor differences regarding seeking behavior.
  1437. Most people will answer N.
  1438. config UCLIBC_HAS_PRINTF_M_SPEC
  1439. bool "Support the '%m' specifier in printf format strings (glibc-compat)"
  1440. help
  1441. Answer Y to support a glibc extension to interpret '%m' in printf
  1442. format strings as an instruction to output the error message string
  1443. (as generated by strerror) corresponding to the current value of
  1444. 'errno'.
  1445. Most people will answer N.
  1446. config UCLIBC_HAS_ERRNO_MESSAGES
  1447. bool "Include the errno message text in the library"
  1448. default y
  1449. help
  1450. Answer Y if you want to include the errno message text in the
  1451. library. This adds about 3K to the library, but enables strerror()
  1452. to generate text other than 'Unknown error <number>'.
  1453. Most people will answer Y.
  1454. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYS_ERRLIST
  1455. bool "Support sys_errlist[] (obsolete-compat)"
  1456. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_ERRNO_MESSAGES
  1457. help
  1458. Answer Y if you want to support the obsolete sys_errlist[].
  1459. This adds about 0.5k to the library, except for the mips
  1460. arch where it adds over 4K.
  1461. WARNING! In the future, support for sys_errlist[] may be unavailable
  1462. in at least some configurations. In fact, it may be removed
  1463. altogether.
  1464. Most people will answer N.
  1465. Application writers: use the strerror(3) function.
  1466. config UCLIBC_HAS_SIGNUM_MESSAGES
  1467. bool "Include the signum message text in the library"
  1468. default y
  1469. help
  1470. Answer Y if you want to include the signum message text in the
  1471. library. This adds about 0.5K to the library, but enables strsignal()
  1472. to generate text other than 'Unknown signal <number>'.
  1473. Most people will answer Y.
  1474. config UCLIBC_HAS_SYS_SIGLIST
  1475. bool "Support sys_siglist[] (bsd-compat)"
  1476. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SIGNUM_MESSAGES
  1477. help
  1478. Answer Y if you want to support sys_siglist[].
  1479. WARNING! In the future, support for sys_siglist[] may be unavailable
  1480. in at least some configurations. In fact, it may be removed
  1481. altogether.
  1482. Most people will answer N.
  1483. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETTEXT_AWARENESS
  1484. bool "Include gettext awareness"
  1485. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE && UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY
  1486. help
  1487. NOTE!!! Not yet integrated with strerror and strsignal. NOTE!!!
  1488. Answer Y if you want to include weak stub gettext support and
  1489. make the *strerror*() and strsignal() functions gettext-aware.
  1490. Currently, to get functional gettext functionality you will need
  1491. to use gnu gettext.
  1492. Most people will answer N.
  1493. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETOPT
  1494. bool "Support gnu getopt"
  1495. default y
  1496. help
  1497. Answer Y if you want to include full gnu getopt() instead of a
  1498. (much smaller) SUSv3 compatible getopt().
  1499. Most people will answer Y.
  1500. config UCLIBC_HAS_STDIO_FUTEXES
  1501. bool "Use futexes for multithreaded I/O locking"
  1502. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS_NATIVE
  1503. help
  1504. If you want to compile uClibc to use futexes for low-level
  1505. I/O locking, answer Y. Otherwise, answer N.
  1506. config UCLIBC_HAS_GETOPT_LONG
  1507. bool "Support getopt_long/getopt_long_only"
  1508. depends on !UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETOPT
  1509. default y
  1510. help
  1511. Answer Y if you want to include getopt_long[_only() used by many
  1512. apps, even busybox.
  1513. Most people will answer Y.
  1514. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GETSUBOPT
  1515. bool "Support glibc getsubopt"
  1516. default y
  1517. help
  1518. Answer Y if you want to include glibc getsubopt() instead of a
  1519. smaller SUSv3 compatible getsubopt().
  1520. Most people will answer Y.
  1521. endmenu
  1522. menu "Big and Tall"
  1523. config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX
  1524. bool "Regular Expression Support"
  1525. default y
  1526. help
  1527. POSIX regular expression code is really big -- 53k all by itself.
  1528. If you don't use regular expressions, turn this off and save space.
  1529. Of course, if you only statically link, leave this on, since it will
  1530. only be included in your apps if you use regular expressions.
  1531. config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX_OLD
  1532. bool "Use the older (stable) regular expression code"
  1533. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX
  1534. default y
  1535. help
  1536. There are two versions of regex. The older (stable) version has
  1537. been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  1538. updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
  1539. corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite
  1540. a bit smaller than the newer version.
  1541. If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode
  1542. support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
  1543. Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
  1544. config UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1545. bool "fnmatch Support"
  1546. default y
  1547. help
  1548. POSIX fnmatch.
  1549. config UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH_OLD
  1550. bool "Use the older (stable) fnmatch code"
  1551. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1552. default y
  1553. help
  1554. There are two versions of fnmatch. The older (stable) version has
  1555. been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
  1556. updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
  1557. corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite
  1558. a bit smaller than the newer version.
  1559. If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode
  1560. support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
  1561. Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
  1562. config UCLIBC_HAS_WORDEXP
  1563. bool "Support the wordexp() interface"
  1564. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1565. help
  1566. The SuSv3 wordexp() interface performs word expansions per the Shell
  1567. and Utilities volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 2.6. It is
  1568. intended for use by applications that want to implement all of the
  1569. standard Bourne shell expansions on input data.
  1570. This interface is rarely used, and very large. Unless you have a
  1571. pressing need for wordexp(), you should probably answer N.
  1572. config UCLIBC_HAS_NFTW
  1573. bool "Support the nftw() interface"
  1574. help
  1575. The SuSv3 nftw() interface is used to recursively descend
  1576. directory paths while repeatedly calling a function.
  1577. This interface is rarely used, and adds around 4.5k. Unless you have
  1578. a pressing need for nftw(), you should probably answer N.
  1579. config UCLIBC_HAS_FTW
  1580. bool "Support the ftw() interface (SUSv4-obsolete)"
  1581. depends on UCLIBC_SUSV4_LEGACY
  1582. help
  1583. The SuSv3 ftw() interface is used to recursively descend
  1584. directory paths while repeatedly calling a function.
  1585. This interface is rarely used, and adds around 4.5k. Unless you have
  1586. a pressing need for ftw(), you should probably answer N.
  1587. config UCLIBC_HAS_FTS
  1588. bool "Support the fts() interface (bsd-compat)"
  1589. help
  1590. The fts functions are provided for traversing UNIX file hierarchies.
  1591. This interface is currently used by the elfutils and adds
  1592. around 7.5k.
  1593. You should port your application to use the POSIX nftw()
  1594. interface.
  1595. Unless you need to build/use elfutils, you should prolly answer N.
  1596. config UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1597. bool "Support the glob() interface"
  1598. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_FNMATCH
  1599. default y
  1600. help
  1601. The glob interface is somewhat large (weighing in at about 2,5k). It
  1602. is used fairly often, but is an option since people wanting to go for
  1603. absolute minimum size may wish to omit it.
  1604. Most people will answer Y.
  1605. config UCLIBC_HAS_GNU_GLOB
  1606. bool "Support gnu glob() interface"
  1607. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_GLOB
  1608. help
  1609. The gnu glob interface is somewhat larger (weighing in at about 4,2k)
  1610. than it's SuSv3 counterpart (and is out of date). It is an old copy
  1611. from glibc and does not support all the GNU specific options.
  1612. Answer Y if you want to include full gnu glob() instead of the smaller
  1613. SUSv3 compatible glob().
  1614. Most people will answer N.
  1615. config UCLIBC_HAS_UTMPX
  1616. bool "utmpx based support for tracking login/logouts to/from the system"
  1617. help
  1618. Answer y to enable support for accessing user accounting database.
  1619. It can be used to track all login/logout to the system.
  1620. If unsure, just answer N.
  1621. endmenu
  1622. menu "Library Installation Options"
  1623. config RUNTIME_PREFIX
  1624. string "uClibc runtime library directory"
  1625. default "/usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)-linux-uclibc/"
  1626. help
  1627. RUNTIME_PREFIX is the directory into which the uClibc runtime
  1628. libraries will be installed. The result will look something
  1629. like the following:
  1630. $(RUNTIME_PREFIX)/
  1631. lib/ <contains all runtime libraries>
  1632. usr/bin/ldd <the ldd utility program>
  1633. sbin/ldconfig <the ldconfig utility program>
  1634. This value is used by the 'make install' Makefile target. Since this
  1635. directory is compiled into the shared library loader, you will need to
  1636. recompile uClibc if you change this value...
  1637. For a typical target system this should be set to "/", such that
  1638. 'make install' will install /lib/libuClibc-<VERSION>.so
  1639. config DEVEL_PREFIX
  1640. string "uClibc development environment directory"
  1641. default "/usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)-linux-uclibc/usr/"
  1642. help
  1643. DEVEL_PREFIX is the directory into which the uClibc development
  1644. environment will be installed. The result will look something
  1645. like the following:
  1646. $(DEVEL_PREFIX)/
  1647. lib/ <contains static libs>
  1648. include/ <Where all the header files go>
  1649. This value is used by the 'make install' Makefile target when
  1650. installing a uClibc development environment.
  1651. For a typical target system this should be set to "/usr", such that
  1652. 'make install' will install /usr/include/<header files>.
  1653. config MULTILIB_DIR
  1654. string "library path component"
  1655. default "lib"
  1656. help
  1657. Path component where libraries reside.
  1658. For a typical target system this should be set to "lib", such that
  1659. 'make install' will install libraries to "/lib" and "/usr/lib"
  1660. respectively
  1661. DEVEL_PREFIX/MULTILIB_DIR
  1662. RUNTIME_PREFIX/MULTILIB_DIR
  1663. Other settings may include "lib32" or "lib64".
  1664. config HARDWIRED_ABSPATH
  1665. bool "Hardwire absolute paths into linker scripts"
  1666. default y
  1667. help
  1668. This prepends absolute paths to the libraries mentioned in linker
  1669. scripts such as libc.so.
  1670. This is a build time optimization. It has no impact on dynamic
  1671. linking at runtime, which doesn't use linker scripts.
  1672. You must disable this to use uClibc with old non-sysroot toolchains,
  1673. such as the prebuilt binary cross compilers at:
  1674. http://uclibc.org/downloads/binaries
  1675. The amount of time saved by this optimization is actually too small to
  1676. measure. The linker just had to search the library path to find the
  1677. linker script, so the dentries are cache hot if it has to search the
  1678. same path again. But it's what glibc does, so we do it too.
  1679. endmenu
  1680. menu "Security options"
  1681. config UCLIBC_BUILD_PIE
  1682. bool "Build utilities as ET_DYN/PIE executables"
  1683. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1684. depends on TARGET_arm || TARGET_frv || TARGET_i386 || TARGET_mips || TARGET_powerpc
  1685. select FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS
  1686. help
  1687. If you answer Y here, ldd and iconv are built as ET_DYN/PIE
  1688. executables.
  1689. It requires gcc-3.4 and binutils-2.15 (for arm 2.16) or later.
  1690. More about ET_DYN/PIE binaries on <http://pax.grsecurity.net/> .
  1691. WARNING: This option also enables FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS, so
  1692. all libraries have to be built with -fPIC or -fpic, and all
  1693. assembler functions must be written as position independent
  1694. code (PIC).
  1695. config UCLIBC_HAS_ARC4RANDOM
  1696. bool "Include the arc4random() function"
  1697. help
  1698. Answer Y to support the OpenBSD-like arc4random() function. This
  1699. function picks a random number between 0 and N, and will always return
  1700. something even if the random driver is dead. If urandom fails then
  1701. gettimeofday(2) will be used as the random seed. This function is
  1702. designed to be more dependable than invoking /dev/urandom directly.
  1703. OpenSSL and OpenNTPD currently support this function.
  1704. Most people will answer N.
  1705. config ARC4RANDOM_USES_NODEV
  1706. bool "Do not use /dev/urandom with arc4random()"
  1707. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_ARC4RANDOM
  1708. default n
  1709. help
  1710. Answer Y to use gettimeofday(2) and getpid(2) exclusively for
  1711. arc4random(). This is not a bad idea for a diskless system, but
  1712. it uses a lot of syscalls to stir each array element.
  1713. Most people will answer N.
  1714. config HAVE_NO_SSP
  1715. bool
  1716. config UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1717. bool "Support for GCC stack smashing protector"
  1718. depends on !HAVE_NO_SSP
  1719. help
  1720. Add code to support GCC's -fstack-protector[-all] option to uClibc.
  1721. This requires GCC 4.1 or newer. GCC does not have to provide libssp,
  1722. the needed functions are added to ldso/libc instead.
  1723. GCC's stack protector is a reimplementation of IBM's propolice.
  1724. See http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/ and
  1725. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/ssp.txt
  1726. for details.
  1727. Note that NOEXECSTACK on a kernel with address space randomization
  1728. is generally sufficient to prevent most buffer overflow exploits
  1729. without increasing code size. This option essentially adds debugging
  1730. code to catch them.
  1731. Most people will answer N.
  1732. config UCLIBC_HAS_SSP_COMPAT
  1733. bool "Support for gcc-3.x propolice smashing stack protector"
  1734. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1735. help
  1736. Add gcc-3.x propolice smashing stack protector to the library.
  1737. This requires a patched version of GCC, supporting the
  1738. -fstack-protector[-all] options, with the __guard and
  1739. __stack_smash_handler functions removed from libgcc.
  1740. These functions are added to ldso/libc instead.
  1741. More information at:
  1742. <http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/>
  1743. Most people will answer N.
  1744. config SSP_QUICK_CANARY
  1745. bool "Use simple guard values without accessing /dev/urandom"
  1746. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1747. help
  1748. Use gettimeofday(2) to define the __guard without accessing
  1749. /dev/urandom.
  1750. WARNING: This makes smashing stack protector vulnerable to timing
  1751. attacks.
  1752. Most people will answer N.
  1753. choice
  1754. prompt "Propolice protection blocking signal"
  1755. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1756. depends on DODEBUG
  1757. default PROPOLICE_BLOCK_SEGV
  1758. help
  1759. "abort" use SIGABRT to block offending programs.
  1760. This is the default implementation.
  1761. "segfault" use SIGSEGV to block offending programs.
  1762. Use this for debugging.
  1763. If unsure, answer "abort".
  1764. config PROPOLICE_BLOCK_ABRT
  1765. bool "abort"
  1766. config PROPOLICE_BLOCK_SEGV
  1767. bool "segfault"
  1768. endchoice
  1769. config UCLIBC_BUILD_SSP
  1770. bool "Build uClibc with -fstack-protector"
  1771. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_SSP
  1772. help
  1773. Build all uClibc libraries and executables with -fstack-protector,
  1774. adding extra stack overflow checking to most uClibc functions.
  1775. config UCLIBC_BUILD_RELRO
  1776. bool "Build uClibc with linker option -z RELRO"
  1777. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1778. default y
  1779. help
  1780. Build all libraries and executables with "ld -z relro".
  1781. This tells the linker to mark chunks of an executable or shared
  1782. library read-only after applying dynamic relocations. (This comes
  1783. up when a global const variable is initialized to the address of a
  1784. function or the value of another global variable.)
  1785. This is a fairly obscure option the ld man page doesn't even bother
  1786. to document properly. It's a security paranoia issue that's more
  1787. likely to consume memory (by allocating an extra page) rather than
  1788. save it.
  1789. This is explained in more depth at
  1790. http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/189
  1791. Nobody is likely to care whether you say Y or N here.
  1792. config UCLIBC_BUILD_NOW
  1793. bool "Build uClibc with linker option -z NOW"
  1794. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1795. help
  1796. Build all libraries and executables with "ld -z now".
  1797. This tells the linker to resolve all symbols when the library is
  1798. first loaded, rather than when each function is first called. This
  1799. increases start-up latency by a few microseconds and may do
  1800. unnecessary work (resolving symbols that are never used), but the
  1801. realtime people like it for making microbenchmark timings slightly
  1802. more predictable and in some cases it can be slightly faster due to
  1803. CPU cache behavior (not having to fault the linker back in to do
  1804. lazy symbol resolution).
  1805. Most people can't tell the difference between selecting Y or N here.
  1806. config UCLIBC_BUILD_NOEXECSTACK
  1807. bool "Build uClibc with noexecstack marking"
  1808. default y
  1809. help
  1810. Mark all assembler files as noexecstack, which will mark uClibc
  1811. as not requiring an executable stack. (This doesn't prevent other
  1812. files you link against from claiming to need an executable stack, it
  1813. just won't cause uClibc to request it unnecessarily.)
  1814. This is a security thing to make buffer overflows harder to exploit.
  1815. By itself, it's kind of useless, as Linus Torvalds explained in 1998:
  1816. http://old.lwn.net/1998/0806/a/linus-noexec.html
  1817. It only actually provides any security when combined with address
  1818. space randomization, explained here: http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/
  1819. Address space randomization is on by default in current linux
  1820. kernels (although it can be disabled using the option
  1821. CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK).
  1822. You should probably say Y.
  1823. endmenu
  1824. menu "Development/debugging options"
  1825. config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX
  1826. string "Cross-compiling toolchain prefix"
  1827. default ""
  1828. help
  1829. The prefix used to execute your cross-compiling toolchain. For
  1830. example, if you run 'arm-linux-uclibc-gcc' to compile something,
  1831. then enter 'arm-linux-uclibc-' here.
  1832. config UCLIBC_EXTRA_CFLAGS
  1833. string "Extra CFLAGS"
  1834. default ""
  1835. help
  1836. Add any additional CFLAGS to be used to build uClibc.
  1837. config DODEBUG
  1838. bool "Enable debugging symbols"
  1839. select EXTRA_WARNINGS
  1840. help
  1841. Say Y here if you wish to compile uClibc with debugging symbols.
  1842. This will allow you to use a debugger to examine uClibc internals
  1843. while applications are running. This increases the size of the
  1844. library considerably and should only be used when doing development.
  1845. If you are doing development and want to debug uClibc, answer Y.
  1846. Otherwise, answer N.
  1847. config DODEBUG_PT
  1848. bool "Build pthread with debugging output"
  1849. depends on UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS && LINUXTHREADS_OLD
  1850. help
  1851. Enable debug output in libpthread. This is only useful when doing
  1852. development in libpthread itself.
  1853. Otherwise, answer N.
  1854. config DOSTRIP
  1855. bool "Strip libraries and executables"
  1856. default y
  1857. depends on !DODEBUG
  1858. help
  1859. Say Y here if you do wish to strip all uClibc libraries and
  1860. executables. No stripping increases the size of the binaries
  1861. considerably, but makes it possible to debug uClibc libraries.
  1862. Most people will answer Y.
  1863. config DOASSERTS
  1864. bool "Build with run-time assertion testing"
  1865. help
  1866. Say Y here to include runtime assertion tests.
  1867. This enables runtime assertion testing in some code, which can
  1868. increase the size of the library and incur runtime overhead.
  1869. If you say N, then this testing will be disabled.
  1870. config SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG
  1871. bool "Build the shared library loader with debugging support"
  1872. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1873. help
  1874. Answer Y here to enable all the extra code needed to debug the uClibc
  1875. native shared library loader. The level of debugging noise that is
  1876. generated depends on the LD_DEBUG environment variable... Just set
  1877. LD_DEBUG to something like: 'LD_DEBUG=token1,token2,.. prog' to
  1878. debug your application. Diagnostic messages will then be printed to
  1879. the stderr.
  1880. For now these debugging tokens are available:
  1881. detail provide more information for some options
  1882. move display copy processing
  1883. symbols display symbol table processing
  1884. reloc display relocation processing; detail shows the
  1885. relocation patch
  1886. nofixups never fixes up jump relocations
  1887. bindings displays the resolve processing (function calls);
  1888. detail shows the relocation patch
  1889. all Enable everything!
  1890. The additional environment variable:
  1891. LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT=file
  1892. redirects the diagnostics to an output file created using
  1893. the specified name and the process id as a suffix.
  1894. An excellent start is simply:
  1895. $ LD_DEBUG=binding,move,symbols,reloc,detail ./appname
  1896. or to log everything to a file named 'logfile', try this
  1897. $ LD_DEBUG=all LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT=logfile ./appname
  1898. If you are doing development and want to debug uClibc's shared library
  1899. loader, answer Y. Mere mortals answer N.
  1900. config SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG_EARLY
  1901. bool "Build the shared library loader with early debugging support"
  1902. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1903. help
  1904. Answer Y here to if you find the uClibc shared library loader is
  1905. crashing or otherwise not working very early on. This is typical
  1906. only when starting a new port when you haven't figured out how to
  1907. properly get the values for argc, argv, environ, etc. This method
  1908. allows a degree of visibility into the very early shared library
  1909. loader initialization process. If you are doing development and want
  1910. to debug the uClibc shared library loader early initialization,
  1911. answer Y. Mere mortals answer N.
  1912. config UCLIBC_MALLOC_DEBUGGING
  1913. bool "Build malloc with debugging support"
  1914. depends on MALLOC || MALLOC_STANDARD
  1915. help
  1916. Answer Y here to compile extra debugging support code into malloc.
  1917. Malloc debugging output may then be enabled at runtime using the
  1918. MALLOC_DEBUG environment variable.
  1919. The value of MALLOC_DEBUG should be an integer, which is interpreted
  1920. as a bitmask with the following bits:
  1921. 1 - do extra consistency checking
  1922. 2 - output messages for malloc/free calls and OS
  1923. allocation calls
  1924. 4 - output messages for the `MMB' layer
  1925. 8 - output messages for internal malloc heap manipulation
  1926. calls
  1927. Because this increases the size of malloc appreciably (due to strings
  1928. etc), you should say N unless you need to debug a malloc problem.
  1929. config UCLIBC_HAS_BACKTRACE
  1930. bool "Add support for application self-debugging"
  1931. depends on HAVE_SHARED
  1932. help
  1933. Answer Y here to compile support for application self-debugging, by adding
  1934. a new shared object "libubacktrace.so" that provides the following new
  1935. functions:
  1936. backtrace, backtrace_symbols, backtrace_symbols_fd
  1937. The backtrace functionality is currently supported on SH platform, and it
  1938. based on dwarf2 informations to properly work, so any application that
  1939. want to use backtrace needs to be built with -fexceptions flag.
  1940. The symbol names may be unavailable without the use of special linker
  1941. options. For systems using the GNU linker, it is necessary to use the
  1942. -rdynamic linker option too. Note that names of "static" functions are not
  1943. exposed, and won't be available in the backtrace.
  1944. config WARNINGS
  1945. string "Compiler Warnings"
  1946. default "-Wall"
  1947. help
  1948. Set this to the set of compiler warnings you wish to see while compiling.
  1949. config EXTRA_WARNINGS
  1950. bool "Enable extra annoying warnings"
  1951. help
  1952. If you wish to build with extra warnings enabled, say Y here.
  1953. config DOMULTI
  1954. bool "Compile all sources at once into an object"
  1955. help
  1956. Set this to compile all sources at once into an object (IMA).
  1957. This mode of compilation uses alot of memory but may produce
  1958. smaller binaries.
  1959. Note that you need a very recent GCC for this to work, like
  1960. gcc >= 4.3 plus eventually some patches.
  1961. If unsure, keep the default of N.
  1962. config UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY
  1963. bool "Manuel's hidden warnings"
  1964. help
  1965. Answer Y here to see all Manuel's personal notes, warnings, and todos.
  1966. Most people will answer N.
  1967. endmenu