From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael S. Zick Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:44:36 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5] toolchain: rename base target for external toolchains In-Reply-To: <201007192249.00218.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> References: <1278967576-11399-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> <201007192249.00218.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> Message-ID: <201007191744.38170.minimod@morethan.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon July 19 2010, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Mitch, All, > > On Monday 19 July 2010 03:50:54 Mitch Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Yann E. MORIN > > wrote: > > > It is misleeading to name the external toolchain make target 'uclibc', as > > > external toolchains can be based on other C libraries (eg. glibc or eglibc). > > > I understand your point about uclibc not being a suitable generic > > name, but I'm not sure toolchain-prepare is the ideal name. To me, > > what this target does is guarantees the presence of the C run time > > library (whether that be uClibc, glibc, etc). Might "c-rtl" or > > similar be a better name? (Of course, in order to generate the RTL, > > the toolchain will need to be there, as usual). > > OK, I agree that we can drop this patch for now, and do the rename later. > "c-rtl" is not that descriptive either... Even in-contect, it took me a > while to see what it meant... > > Maybe smthg like: > fill-me-that-fscking-staging-and-target-with-the-fscking-runtime-from-toolchain-and-dont-forget-headers-and-statics-for-staging-please-oh-and-build-the-toolchain-if-needed-while-youre-at-it-if-you-dont-care-you-are-such-a-lovely-pet > > Hehe! Yes, I like that one! :-) > This is supposed to be computer science, acronyms only may be applied - How about: My-Software, Vital-C, Run-Time. Direct, Digital Loading libraries? or which would be MSVCRT.DLL as an acronym? Something short, sweet and descriptive; such as found in en_OpenSSL: EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA Which, believe it or not, is the plain text version of an acronym used. Tack a: BR2- on the front of something like that and call it decision made. ;-) Mike > [ Thomas, I bet you, this time! :) ] > > > I can also imagine a scenario where one is building such a minimal > > system that one needs the toolchain, but not the RTL. What are good > > target names to guarantee the toolchain, and the RTL, as separate > > targets? > > Well, it will require some thinking... > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. >