[Buildroot] Package selection question

[Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:59:06PM -0700, Tom wrote:
>Thanks.
>
>I am working to isolate and find a workaround to my mpfr problem on 

See this for a real fix instead:
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/lists/buildroot/2007-May/002801.html

>cygwin. Once I do, I will post the results of all workarounds I had to 
>do (or the error log should I not get it done). In a separate thread as 
>requested.
>
>Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>>On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:23:37PM -0700, Tom wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I just want to build the toolchain and the debugger on host: cygwin, 
>>>target: arm.
>>>
>>>So, even after I unchecked busybox and all packages, it still builds gmp 
>>>(and, unsuccessfully, mpfr). Why does it need it please and why is this 
>>>an option then? Or am I doing something wrong here?
>>
>>gcc uses gmp/mpfr, you're doing nothing wrong. Please report build
>>failures of gmp/mpfr to the respective lists.
>>
>>Before you report it to the mpfr folks, please paste the error here,
>>since i suspect that it could have to do something with the
>>binary/library name extensions, which (IIRC) we currently do not handle
>>at all (there's a bug somewhere about this, if memory serves me right).
>>
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