# Options specific to crosstool-NG overall behavior comment "crosstool-NG behavior" config OBSOLETE bool prompt "Use obsolete features" help If you set this to Y, you will be able to select obsolete features. Such obsolete features are the use of old kernel headers, old gcc versions, etc... for which maintaining support in crosstool-NG would be very costly. It does not however mean that the specific feature or version has been marked obsolete by the upstream team. config EXPERIMENTAL bool prompt "Try features marked as EXPERIMENTAL" help If you set this to Y, then you will be able to try very experimental features. Experimental features can be one of: - working, in which case you should tell me it is! - buggy, in which case you could try patching and send me the result - unfinished, in which case you could try hacking it and send me the result - non-existant, in which case you could also try hacking it in and send me the result config ALLOW_BUILD_AS_ROOT bool prompt "Allow building as root user (READ HELP!)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help You normally do *not* need to be root to build a toolchain using crosstool-NG. In fact, it is *VERY* dangerous to run as root, as crosstool-NG will, as part of the build process, remove a few directories. If anything goes wrong, running as root can ruin your host distribution. I can't stress it enough: DO NOT RUN AS ROOT !! Do not run as root, you've been warned. Do not come whining, if it nukes your host system. Do not come whining, if you lose any data. Do not run as root. Do not run as root, you've been warned. Do not come whining, if the Earth stops rotating. Do not come whining, if kittens are smashed. Do not run as root. Do not run as root, do not run as root! (ad libitum) config ALLOW_BUILD_AS_ROOT_SURE bool prompt "Are you sure?" depends on ALLOW_BUILD_AS_ROOT config ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BUNDLED_PATCHES bool default n depends on EXPERIMENTAL prompt "Enable Experimental Bundled Patches" help This option is for advanced users or special senarios where a patch has been submitted upstream, but still not reviewed or applied yet, but fix an issue with a package or feature that is also marked experimental. config DEBUG_CT bool prompt "Debug crosstool-NG" help Say 'y' here to get some options regarding debugging crosstool-NG. if DEBUG_CT config DEBUG_PAUSE_STEPS bool prompt "Pause between every steps" help Say 'y' if you intend to attend the build, and want to investigate the result of each steps before running the next one. config DEBUG_CT_SAVE_STEPS bool prompt "Save intermediate steps" help If you say 'y' here, then you will be able to restart crosstool-NG at any step. It is not currently possible to restart at any of the debug facilities. They are treated as a whole. To get the full list os steps, run: ct-ng list-steps config DEBUG_CT_SAVE_STEPS_GZIP bool prompt "gzip saved states" default y depends on DEBUG_CT_SAVE_STEPS help If you are tight on space, then you can ask to gzip the saved states tarballs. On the other hand, this takes some longer time... To lose as less time as possible, the gzip process is done with a low compression ratio (-3), which gives roughly 70% gain in size. Going further doesn't gain much, and takes far more time (believe me, I've got figures here! :-) ). config NO_OVERRIDE_LC_MESSAGES bool prompt "Do *not* overide LC_MESSAGES (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help By default, crosstool-NG sets and exports LC_ALL=C so that the build.log file contains english messages, that can be read by people most likely to help interpret the logs. If you say N here, and your locale is not an english language, then dissecting your log file will be difficult for most people but you. If you say Y here, then your current locale settings will be used to print messages, instead of plain english. Say N, please. config DEBUG_INTERACTIVE bool prompt "Interactive shell on failed commands" help If you say 'y' here, then an interactive shell will be spawned for each failed command. This shell will have the same environment that the failed command was run with, and the working directory will be set to the directory the failed command was run in. After you fix the issue, you can exit the interactive shell with any of these exit codes: 1 the issue was fixed, continue the build with the next command 2 the issue was fixed, re-run the failed command 3 abort the build Note: '2' is only possible for commands run via CT_DoExecLog, though. endif