From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Config.in: update description of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:51:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141012185116.2f24af40@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413131685-5567-2-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Dear Alexey Brodkin,
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:34:44 +0200, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
> index 24aa883..66cea4a 100644
> --- a/Config.in
> +++ b/Config.in
> @@ -536,15 +536,18 @@ comment "enabling Stack Smashing Protection requires support in the toolchain"
> depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SSP
>
> config BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
> - bool "prefer static libraries"
> + bool "build statically linked applications, no dynamic libraries"
> help
> - Where possible, build and use static libraries for the target.
> - This potentially increases your code size and should only be
> + Build all application for the target statically linked.
> + This potentially increases your filesystem size and should only be
> used if you know what you do.
> - The default is to build dynamic libraries and use those on
> - the target filesystem.
>
> - WARNING: This is highly experimental at the moment.
> + Note that some applications cannot be build statically and so are
> + intentionally disabled.
> +
> + The default is to build dynamic libraries and dynamically linked
> + applications to use those on the target filesystem.
"The default" should be clarified as "When this option is disabled".
Also linked -> link.
With this fixed (probably Peter can fix this when applying):
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-12 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-12 16:34 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] infra: BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB now selects static building of packages Alexey Brodkin
2014-10-12 16:34 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Config.in: update description of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB Alexey Brodkin
2014-10-12 16:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-10-12 17:22 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-10-12 22:17 ` Peter Korsgaard
2014-10-12 16:34 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] uclibc: explicitly set HAVE_SHARED depending on BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB Alexey Brodkin
2014-10-12 16:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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