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| author | Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> | 2009-04-20 21:30:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> | 2009-04-20 21:30:25 +0000 |
| commit | 683d2307779cbb9e7b641d1d6041cb2d0ba900a4 (patch) | |
| tree | ca1cfd3da57b0078f97c101bd1f814e52c62294c /config/global | |
| parent | 1805f4e62d15259fdef1e363896b810db07b0a46 (diff) | |
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Add a bit more explanations on the meaning of OBSOLETE and EXPERIMENTAL.
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/trunk/config/global/ct-behave.in | 22 13 9 0 +++++++++++++---------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 8 6 2 0 ++++++--
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diff --git a/config/global/ct-behave.in b/config/global/ct-behave.in index 0e64de24..49f76ac7 100644 --- a/config/global/ct-behave.in +++ b/config/global/ct-behave.in @@ -8,9 +8,13 @@ config OBSOLETE default n 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... + + 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 @@ -19,7 +23,7 @@ config 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 @@ -32,7 +36,7 @@ config DEBUG_CT prompt "Debug crosstool-NG" default n help - Say 'y' here to get some debugging options + Say 'y' here to get some options regarding debugging crosstool-NG. if DEBUG_CT @@ -51,10 +55,10 @@ config DEBUG_CT_SAVE_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 facility. + + It is not currently possible to restart at any of the debug facilities. They are treated as a whole. - + See docs/overview.txt for the list of steps. config DEBUG_CT_SAVE_STEPS_GZIP @@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ config DEBUG_CT_SAVE_STEPS_GZIP 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 |