[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Config.in: update description of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Oct 12 16:51:16 UTC 2014
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 at free-electrons.com>
Thomas
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