View source for HiFi-2 snapshot 2 SMP Snapshot menuconfig

== Introduction ==
Below are notes on the buildroot menuconfig used to build this 2nd snapshot with SMP additions. 
The lines marked with a '+' are changes.
We will try to keep this page in sync with the snapshot_2+SMP git repositories/branches. 

    make menuconfig
        Target options  --->
                --- Project Options
                        + (HiFi-2) Project name                         [Puts cpio files in /buildroot-xtensa-smp/binaries/HiFi-2]
                        + (hifi2) hostname
                        + (Welcome to your custom Xtensa HiFi-2 Codec Developemnt System) banner

                        [ ] Generic development system                  [Brooken - Enables a lot of brooken packages]

        Build options  --->
                  [*] Show packages that are of the latest major version
                strip (none)  --->
                  [ ] prefer static libraries
                  (1) Number of jobs to run simultaneously
                + [*] manpages on the target                            [Only a few man pages to /man/man1]
                + [*] infopages on the target
                  [*] update config.sub and config.guess

        Toolchain --->
                [*] Thread library debugging
                --- Binutils Options
                   + Binutils Version (binutils 2.20)  --->             [Ok, Works Fine]
                        + (X) binutils 2.20
                  [*] Enable toolchain with --sysroot support
                  [*] Build/install c++ compiler and libstdc++?
                  [*] Build/install a shared libgcc?
                  [*] Build gdb debugger for the Target
                  [*] Build gdb server for the Target
                  [*] Build gdb for the Host
                        GDB debugger Version (gdb 6.6)  --->
                  [*] Enable large file (files > 2 GB) support?
                + [*] Enable RPC
                + [*] Enable WCHAR support                              [OK, needed for lots of things]
                  [*] Include target utils in cross toolchain

         Package Selection for the target  --->
                + [ ] Hide applications that are provided by busybox
                + [*] bash
                + [*] flex                                              [REGRESSION, Needed for building Buildroot]
                  [*]   Install libfl.a under staging_dir/usr/lib       [LPT/pan/scan.c lex: fatal internal error, exec failed]
                                                                        [SIGPIPE in fprintf at write()]
                                                                        [WORKAROUND: Added cp scan.o.save scan.o to Makefile]
                
                 
                + [*]() native toolchain in the target filesystem        [OK, builds and installs gcc, g++, and /usr/include on target]
                  ()    Additional target gcc options                   [NOTE: These are gcc configure options, not gcc options]
                + [*] make                                              [OK, needed to build LTP]
                  [*] tar                                               [BusyBox implementation only works for some tar balls]
                + [*] autoconf
                + [*] automake
                + [*] bison                                             [OK, Possibly needed with flex to compile LTP]
                + [*] ltp-testsuite
                  [*] procps     [kill, ps, uptime, top, vmstat etc]    [Ok, had a problem with Brooken, proc/escape.c not finding wchar.h...]
                                                                        [...located down one dir in staging_dir/usr/include/bits/]
                
                + [*] psmisc     [pstree, fuser, killall]
                + [*] strace                                            [Brooken, supported architecture... NO!, when autoconf 2.61 was used]
                                                                        [strace-4.5.15 builds fine with autoconf 2.63]
                  
                  [ ] util-linux [mkfs, mkswap, swapon, fdisk, mount..] [Brooken but..., llseek.c:93: error: expected '{'...]
                                                                        [... Easily Patched: fdisk/llseek.c; fdisk/fdiskbsdlabel.h]
                                                                        [Add __xtensa__ arch to #ifdefs]
                 [*] which
               + [*] Networking  --->
                        + [*]   bind                                    [Builds ok but doesn't start correctly, has a dependency on UcLibc LEGACY MACROS option which Qt doesn't like]
                          [ ]   dropbear                                [Seemed to cause problems with ssh using a bash shell, faster that sshd]
                        + [*]   nfs-utils
                                NFS utilities selection  --->
                                + [*] rpcdebug
                                + [*] rpc.lockd
                                + [*] rpc.rquotad
                                + [*] portmap
                         +  [*]   openssh                               [Ok, Might work better than dropbear when using bash as login shell; Key initialization VERY slow, like 30 mins!]
                            ---   openssl
                 
                [*] Graphic libraries and applications (graphic/text)  --->
                        [ ]   X.org X Window System, X11R7, release 7.2  --->
                        [*]   rxvt
                        [*]   mplayer
                        [ ]   mplayer_hifi2_mp3_plugin
                        [ ]   mplayer_hifi2_aacplus_v2_plugin