config: fix ARM64 dependency check
[openwrt/openwrt.git] / config / Config-devel.in
index 5e5c857b42678eaccc798ad9f8bbc530f6f5c0e7..fd7c3ead1e8e6dcb6176216a4509f12845085c0b 100644 (file)
@@ -15,10 +15,19 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
        config BINARY_FOLDER
                string "Binary folder" if DEVEL
                default ""
+               help
+                 Store built firmware images and filesystem images in this directory.
+                 If not set, uses './bin/$(BOARD)'
 
        config DOWNLOAD_FOLDER
                string "Download folder" if DEVEL
                default ""
+               help
+                 Store downloaded source bundles in this directory.
+                 If not set then defaults to './dl', which is removed by operations such as
+                 'git clean -xdf' or 'make distclean'.
+                 This option is useful if you have a low bandwidth Internet connection, and by
+                 setting a path outside the OpenWrt tree downloads will be saved.
 
        config LOCALMIRROR
                string "Local mirror for source packages" if DEVEL
@@ -28,26 +37,37 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
                bool "Automatic rebuild of packages" if DEVEL
                default y
                help
-                 Automatically rebuild packages when their files change
+                 Automatically rebuild packages when their files change.
+
+       config AUTOREMOVE
+               bool "Automatic removal of build directories" if DEVEL
+               default n
+               help
+                 Automatically delete build directories after make target completed.
+                 This allows you to symlink build_dir into a scratch location, e.g. a ramdisk,
+                 which does not have enough space to keep a complete build_dir.
 
        config BUILD_SUFFIX
-               string "Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable" if DEVEL
+               string "Build suffix to append to the target BUILD_DIR variable" if DEVEL
                default ""
                help
-                 Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable, i.e: build_dir_suffix
+                 Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable, i.e: './build_dir/{target-build-dir}_$(BUILD_SUFFIX)'.
+                 This allows you to switch to a different .config whilst retaining all the build
+                 objects generated by the first .config
 
        config TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR
                string "Override the default TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR variable" if DEVEL
                default ""
                help
-                 Override the default TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR variable content $(BUILD_DIR) with custom path.
-                 Use this option to re-define the location of the target root file system directory.
+                 Override the default TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR variable content $(BUILD_DIR) with
+                 custom path.  Use this option to re-define the location of the target
+                 root filesystem directory.
 
        config CCACHE
                bool "Use ccache" if DEVEL
                default n
                help
-                 Compiler cache; see http://ccache.samba.org/
+                 Compiler cache; see https://ccache.samba.org/
 
        config EXTERNAL_KERNEL_TREE
                string "Use external kernel tree" if DEVEL
@@ -59,21 +79,31 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
                help
                  Enter the full git repository path i.e.:
                  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
-                 This will create a git clone of the kernel in your build
-                 directory.
+                 This will create a git clone of the kernel in your build directory.
 
        config KERNEL_GIT_LOCAL_REPOSITORY
                string "Enter path to local reference repository" if DEVEL
+               depends on (KERNEL_GIT_CLONE_URI != "")
                default ""
                help
                  Enter a full pathname to a local reference git repository.
-                 In this instance, the --refererence option of git clone will
+                 In this instance, the --reference option of git clone will
                  be used thus creating a quick local clone of your repo.
 
+       config KERNEL_GIT_REF
+               string "Enter git ref at which to checkout" if DEVEL
+               depends on (KERNEL_GIT_CLONE_URI != "")
+               default ""
+               help
+                 Enter the git ref at which to checkout the git repository
+                 after it is cloned, and before making it a tar-ball.
+                 It can be a git hash or a branch name.
+                 If unused, the clone's repository HEAD will be checked-out.
+
        config BUILD_LOG
                bool "Enable log files during build process" if DEVEL
                help
-                 If enabled log files will be written to the ./log directory
+                 If enabled, log files will be written to the ./log directory.
 
        config SRC_TREE_OVERRIDE
                bool "Enable package source tree override" if DEVEL
@@ -81,10 +111,11 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
                  If enabled, you can force a package to use a git tree as source
                  code instead of the normal tarball. Create a symlink 'git-src'
                  in the package directory, pointing to the .git tree that you want
-                 to pull the source code from
+                 to pull the source code from.
 
        config EXTRA_OPTIMIZATION
                string "Additional compiler options" if DEVEL
+               default "-fno-caller-saves -fno-plt" if !CONFIG_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN && !arc
                default "-fno-caller-saves"
                help
-                 Extra Target-independent optimizations to use when building for the target.
+                 Extra target-independent optimizations to use when building for the target.