From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:12:25 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] External toolchain built by buildroot no longer supported. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100406201225.2b24b255@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Grant, On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > Are we to assume that crosstool-NG is now the "officially supported" > source for external toolchains? No. Yann (the author of the commit) and I have started discussing the issue yesterday evening, and tried to find a satisfying solution. We hope to get such a solution integrated before 2010.05. > When I asked a few months ago if there was any reason I shouldn't use > external toolchains built by buildroot, I was told there were none. > > Has that changed? No, it hasn't changed. But there are bugs, and we need to fix them. External toolchain support is still in its early ages, and it needs to be improved. Your current feedback and comments are therefore very welcome. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com