Allow the user to configure extra flags to pass to the host compiler
at build time. Applies to both C and C++.
Useful on Ubuntu to turn off the stack protector and fortify defaults
so the program stands a better chance of running on other distros.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
[yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr: put the custom flags at the end]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
When CT_PARALLEL_JOBS is -1, set the number of parallel jobs to the
number of online CPUs + 1. Update documentation to match.
I find this useful when building in the cloud. You can use the same
.config file and have the build adapt to the number of processors
available. Limited testing shows that NCPUS+1 is faster than NCPUS+0
or NCPUS+2.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
Hide the prompts for some behavioral options, for which the upper-layer build
system is responsible for:
- parallel jobs and maximum load
- use pipes
- use custom shell
It's broken anyway. Eg.:
- user is already niced at 10
- user configures to renice at 5
- breaks because user is not allowed to 'boost' his/her nice value
Bette let the user handle the renice with:
nice -XX ct-ng 'action'
Some components (eg. GMP) will fail to correctly build if
the CONFIG_SHELL is not bash (eg. ash or dash). So make bash
the default CONFIG_SHELL.
Keep ash as a possible selection, as future versions of those
currently /broken/ tools may come fixed wrt to CONFIG_SHELL
being POSIX-ly compliant.
It apears that more and more ./configure scripts and Makefiles
make use of non-POSIXly correct shell constructs, that don't
work with ash.
For now, just warn the user against using ash, but keep it as
an option in case newer versions of the /broken/ components
come fixed, and we can again use ash, as it is in some cases
really faster than bash.
In case the shell the user wants to use as CONFIG_SHELL is located in a
weird place (eg. /opt/bash/bin/bash), or is weirdly named (eg. bash-4),
let the user enter the patch to the shell.
