From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:59:39 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Getting the toolchain generation out of Buildroot ? Message-ID: <20080613135939.44dab265@crazy> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, This is certainly a vast topic, but this is something I'm thinking of since quite some time. Buildroot is mainly designed to build a root filesystem, but also comes with the ability of generating a cross-compiling toolchain. However, these two tasks are very distinct: you usually generate the toolchain once, then build your root filesystem several times until it works, and at some points you might want to generate your toolchain again with some more options or other versions of the tools. But you always end up to do that separatly. >From my perspective, it would make a lot of sense to have two distinct tools, like "buildtoolchain" and "buildroot". And it happens that crosstool-ng [1] basically is what "buildtoolchain" could be. What about focusing the efforts of toolchain generate on crosstool-ng and getting rid of that feature in buildroot so that we have two nice tools, with similar behaviour, for these two separate tasks ? Sincerly, Thomas [1] http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/dokuwiki/projects/crosstool -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://busybox.net/lists/buildroot/attachments/20080613/654e1c27/attachment.pgp