| Flag |
Description |
17.2.2 |
17.1.2 |
17.1.1 |
17.0 |
| abi_mips_n32 |
⚠️
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| audit |
Enable support for Linux audit subsystem using sys-process/audit
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| debug |
Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| kerberos |
Add kerberos support
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| ldns |
Use LDNS for DNSSEC/SSHFP validation.
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| libedit |
Use the libedit library (replacement for readline)
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| livecd |
!!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during livecd building
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| pam |
Add support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| pie |
Build programs as Position Independent Executables (a security hardening technique)
|
✗ |
⊕ |
⊕ |
⊕ |
| selinux |
!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| ssl-engine |
Enable OpenSSL (hardware) ENGINE support
|
⊕ |
⊕ |
⊕ |
⊕ |
| static |
!!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| test |
Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| xmss |
Enable XMSS post-quantum authentication algorithm
|
✗ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |