[Buildroot] config choices in building for beaglebone black (BBB)?

[Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

  anyone who uses buildroot to build for a BBB will probably know the
answers to this instantly.

  did a "git clone" of buildroot, and did nothing more than:

  $ make beaglebone_defconfig
  $ make

so, basically, all the defaults, worked fine. so now i'm looking at my
config options and want to know how far i can push a BBB build to the
bleeding edge, and about the BBB defaults.

  first, i notice that the default build for BBB uses uClibc rather
than glibc, which is easy enough to adjust, but i'm curious as to why
something like a BBB doesn't have glibc as the default C library to
use.

  also, for bleeding edge, can anyone verify whether i'm safe pushing
the versions of everything right to the latest? you know:

  * kernel 4.0.x
  * glibc 2.21
  * binutils 2.25
  * gcc 4.9.x

and so on, and so on. any other BBB issues anyone wants to warn me
about before i go charging off in that direction? thanks.

rday

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