Add build options to control SuS compatability, allows numeric

option handling to be disabled.
Defaults to enabled, so no changes in default behaviour

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/linux/Config.in b/sysdeps/linux/Config.in
index 95491c9a0..fb97c8f05 100644
--- a/sysdeps/linux/Config.in
+++ b/sysdeps/linux/Config.in
@@ -203,6 +203,21 @@ config EXTRA_CFLAGS_OPTIONS
           if you want to add some simple compiler switches (like -march=i686),
           or check for warnings using -Werror, just those options here.
 
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUSv2
+        bool "Enable features that are in SuSv2 but not SuSv3?"
+        default y
+        help
+          This option will enable backwards compatability with SuSv2,
+          specifically, numeric options such as 'head -1 <file>' will be
+          supported.
+
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUSv2_OBSOLETE
+        bool "Enable features that are obsolete in SuSv2"
+        depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_SUSv2
+        default y
+        help
+          Disables support for numeric arguments in fold.
+
 endmenu
 
 menu 'Installation Options'