[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/6] docs/manual: indicate how to handle BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Feb 13 13:55:26 UTC 2014
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:46:00 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> > * thread support
> > ** Dependency symbol: +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS+
> > -** Comment string: +threads+
> > +** Comment string: +threads+ (unless +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL+
> > + is also needed, in which case, specifying only +NPTL threads+ is
> > + sufficient)
> > +
> > +* NPTL thread support
> > +** Dependency symbol: +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL+
> > +** Comment string: +NPTL threads+
> >
> > * RPC support
> > ** Dependency symbol: +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC+
>
> Should we maybe use 'NPTL' rather than 'NPTL threads' to make the
> string shorter? (we want to fit in 80chars).
> It's true that it's a bit more cryptic, but so is RPC, wchar, etc.
> The biggest point is that a user can go to the Toolchain menu and
> recognize a string that matches, in this case the keyword NPTL.
Fine with me. I'll adjust that in the v2, but I'll wait a little bit
more for other comments, if any :)
Thanks for the review!
Thomas
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