From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Lundquist Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:43:38 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: <1231268970.32308.230.camel@elrond.atmel.com> References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106140140.GA22854@zelow.no> <87aba4pj4w.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106183243.GA28479@zelow.no> <873afwnu6n.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231268970.32308.230.camel@elrond.atmel.com> Message-ID: <20090107184338.GA12169@zelow.no> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:09:30PM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > > A typical issue that pops up from time to time is that > people build the toolchain with a certain configuration > and then finds that they need a different configurtion > to build a package, and do not realize that they > need to rebuild the toolchain for the changes to take effect. Which is why... > It would be good to resolve this, and this is why I have > proposed to separate toolchain build. ..This is a bad idea. (Since the rebuild should be automagic if there are changes in configurations that requires one.) > With SYSROOT in gcc-4 there is really no reason > to induce people to rebuild the toolchain, > and we might want to support downloading a binary toolchain as well. The only way to support this should be through the "external toolchain" thingie. (And that should have it's own maintainer, one that uses this) Thomas