Enhance --enable-tunables to select tunables frontend at build time

[thirdparty/glibc.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 25619fc5208c07c29ca0823ae97c1d27933503be..55d52c5f1544c3f67aebf793036cc89825000599 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -172,7 +172,23 @@ will be used, and CFLAGS sets optimization options for the compiler.
 '--enable-tunables'
      Tunables support allows additional library parameters to be
      customized at runtime.  This is an experimental feature and affects
-     startup time and is thus disabled by default.
+     startup time and is thus disabled by default.  This option can take
+     the following values:
+
+     'no'
+          This is the default if the option is not passed to configure.
+          This disables tunables.
+
+     'yes'
+          This is the default if the option is passed to configure.
+          This enables tunables and selects the default frontend
+          (currently 'valstring').
+
+     'valstring'
+          This enables tunables and selects the 'valstring' frontend for
+          tunables.  This frontend allows users to specify tunables as a
+          colon-separated list in a single environment variable
+          'GLIBC_TUNABLES'.
 
 '--build=BUILD-SYSTEM'
 '--host=HOST-SYSTEM'