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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2013-10-08 20:17:10 +0200
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>2013-10-09 16:02:38 +0200
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toolchain-external: improve help text of some options
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
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--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
@@ -876,15 +876,22 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CUSTOM_UCLIBC
# For the time being, we assume that all custom external
# toolchains have shadow password support.
select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SHADOW_PASSWORDS
+ help
+ Select this option if your external toolchain uses the
+ uClibc C library (available from http://www.uclibc.org/).
config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CUSTOM_GLIBC
bool "glibc/eglibc"
select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC
help
- Note: eglibc is a variant of glibc that (among other things) can be
- configured to exclude some of its features. Using a toolchain with
- eglibc configured to exclude key features may cause build failures to
- some packages.
+ Select this option if your external toolchain uses the GNU C
+ library (available from https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/)
+ or its variant the eglibc library (http://www.eglibc.org/).
+
+ Note: eglibc is a variant of glibc that (among other things)
+ can be configured to exclude some of its features. Using a
+ toolchain with eglibc configured to exclude key features may
+ cause build failures to some packages.
config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CUSTOM_MUSL
bool "musl"
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