Adding a new config option, mind if I check this in?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 24 17:52:10 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 24 February 2009 06:50:23 pm Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 08:21:19 am Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 01:02:24 Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > > > Anyway, I'm trying to get the number of patches I carry in FWL
> > > > down to a dull roar.  This is a patch I've had in FWL forever,
> > > > cleaned up and ready to submit.  Sound reasonable?  (There's a
> > > > help entry at the end explaining why.)
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> > >
> > > Given that we have a very similar patch in our local version
> > > of uClibc, I would like to see this patch applied as well.
> > 
> > Done. :)
> 
> 
>           You must disable this to use uClibc with a relocatable toolchain,
>           such as the prebuilt binary cross compilers at
>           http://uclibc.org/downloads/binaries which may be installed at an
>           arbitrary location (such as in a user's home directory).
> 
>           The amount of time saved by this optimization is actually too small to
>           measure.
> 
> 
> Since switching it on does more harm than good, why is it on by default?

Also it is intended to be a bool, but it is declared as string:

config HARDWIRED_ABSPATH
        string "Hardwire absolute paths into linker scripts"
        ^^^^^^
        default y
        help

Please fix.
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vda


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