[Buildroot] AVR32 4.1.2 toolchain build issues [was svncommit:trunk/buildroot: target/device target/device/Atmel targetetc...]

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 02:46 +0100, Thiago A. Corr?a wrote:
> Ok.... got it to build... it happens to be that atngw100_defconfig now
> builds to a dir without nofp sufix, which makes me wonder if ppl have
> decided weather this thing has or doesn't has an FP, perhaps it's a
> paradox, or a dogma. You just have to belive it works. *smile*
> 

It does not have an FPU, probably just a bad defconfig.

> Anyway, disabled libdaemon, which I never use anyway, and now I get
> the uboot issue as well.... but at least I can work now. It should be
> easily enough to pull uboot from the Atmel AVR32 fork and figure out
> what's wrong. Dealing with packages is so much easier.
> 

The AVR32 fork has the bootloader in target/bootloader/u-boot, and is
quite different from the one in the Atmel directory.

> Btw, is there a reason why u-boot is buried into Atmel folder?
> Shouldn't other archs/chips use it as well?
> 

The AVR32 fork on atmel.no tries to do the bootloader general for all
archs.

> Hopefully I will come back with patches once more (have a better
> qtopia building, in a single stage, on the works).
> 

You can't, Qtopia hard codes the path to the libraries inside the
libraries. I have tried and ended up having to do a two stage build. One
for staging_dir and one for the target dir.

-- 
With kind regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt, Applications Engineer