Add --disable-syscall.

This resolves #517.
2016-12-03 16:47:36 -08:00
parent e1b2970d28
commit 145f3cd173
5 changed files with 33 additions and 15 deletions
--- a/5
+++ b/5
@@ -206,6 +206,11 @@ any of the following arguments (not a definitive list) to 'configure':
    most extreme case increases physical memory usage for the 16 KiB size class
    to 20 KiB.

+--disable-syscall
+    Disable use of syscall(2) rather than {open,read,write,close}(2).  This is
+    intended as a workaround for systems that place security limitations on
+    syscall(2).
+
 --with-xslroot=<path>
    Specify where to find DocBook XSL stylesheets when building the
    documentation.