[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / disabling Buildroot toolchain

[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / disabling Buildroot toolchain

[MikeW]

Buildroot cannot build a required toolchain, but I would still like
to use it to build everything else.

Is there a preferred way to disable building the toolchain, and to set
Buildroot to use an external toolchain instead ?

(This is 'inside-out' from the BR docs which say how to use the BR toolchain
from outside.)

Looking at the top-level Makefile, this looks as if it would involve
edits to the file(s).

Regards,
MikeW

[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / disabling Buildroot toolchain

[Alex Song]

I had this situation before since we were forced to
use glibc. I'm not sure of a better, easier or
preferred way but I modified the files and only used
buildroot to build the packages.

Regards,

Alex


--- MikeW <mw_phil@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Buildroot cannot build a required toolchain, but I
> would still like
> to use it to build everything else.
> 
> Is there a preferred way to disable building the
> toolchain, and to set
> Buildroot to use an external toolchain instead ?
> 
> (This is 'inside-out' from the BR docs which say how
> to use the BR toolchain
> from outside.)
> 
> Looking at the top-level Makefile, this looks as if
> it would involve
> edits to the file(s).
> 
> Regards,
> MikeW
> 
> 
> 
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[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / disabling Buildroot toolchain

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:13:45PM -0500, Alex Song wrote:
>I had this situation before since we were forced to
>use glibc. I'm not sure of a better, easier or
>preferred way but I modified the files and only used
>buildroot to build the packages.

It would be nice if using an external toolchain would be optional
without breaking the possibility to switch to a uclibc/gcc combo.

[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / toolchain as package

[MikeW]

MikeW <mw_phil@...> writes:

> 
> Buildroot cannot build a required toolchain, but I would still like
> to use it to build everything else.
> 
> Is there a preferred way to disable building the toolchain, and to set
> Buildroot to use an external toolchain instead ?
> 
> (This is 'inside-out' from the BR docs which say how to use the BR toolchain
> from outside.)
> 
> Looking at the top-level Makefile, this looks as if it would involve
> edits to the file(s).
> 
> Regards,
> MikeW
> 

On a related subject, it might be useful if a toolchain could be installed
from a (special) package - this would allow prebuilt toolchains, or other
source packages (the one I'm looking at is the ARM EABI one from CodeSourcery).

Maybe it's all in there now, and I just need to look ;-)

Regards,
MikeW

[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / disabling Buildroot toolchain

[MikeW]

MikeW <mw_phil@...> writes:

> 
> Buildroot cannot build a required toolchain, but I would still like
> to use it to build everything else.
> 
> Is there a preferred way to disable building the toolchain, and to set
> Buildroot to use an external toolchain instead ?
> 
> (This is 'inside-out' from the BR docs which say how to use the BR toolchain
> from outside.)
> 
> Looking at the top-level Makefile, this looks as if it would involve
> edits to the file(s).
> 
> Regards,
> MikeW
> 

Looks like there's a possible patch here
http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=237

Don't you wish there was a 'patch gallery' ?!

MikeW

[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / disabling Buildroottoolchain

[Ulf Samuelsson]

MikeW wrote:
> MikeW <mw_phil@...> writes:
>
>>
>> Buildroot cannot build a required toolchain, but I would still like
>> to use it to build everything else.
>>
>> Is there a preferred way to disable building the toolchain, and to
>> set Buildroot to use an external toolchain instead ?

It would be good to specify a toolchain once, and be done with
it, so you don't have to rebuild the toolchain
every time you start on a new version of buildroot.

>> (This is 'inside-out' from the BR docs which say how to use the BR
>> toolchain from outside.)
>>
>> Looking at the top-level Makefile, this looks as if it would involve
>> edits to the file(s).
>>
>> Regards,
>> MikeW
>>
>
> Looks like there's a possible patch here
> http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=237
>
> Don't you wish there was a 'patch gallery' ?!
>
> MikeW
>
>
>
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