From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:22:02 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Deprecate the support for the toolchain on target In-Reply-To: <4afe9c298939f3701caa09c2cc5c4bc04f6d4408.1352586949.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:36:02 +0100") References: <4afe9c298939f3701caa09c2cc5c4bc04f6d4408.1352586949.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87d2zcwset.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Thomas> As discussed during the ELCE 2012 Buildroot Developers Meeting, we no Thomas> longer want to support the possibility of building a toolchain for the Thomas> target. None of the core developers have any use for this, it has been Thomas> known to be broken or cause problems for a long time without anyone Thomas> providing fixes for it. Thomas> In addition to this, Buildroot is inherently a cross-compilation tool, Thomas> so the usage of a native toolchain on the target is not really Thomas> useful. Many newcomers are tempted to use this possibility even though Thomas> it is clearly not the intended usage of Buildroot. Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard