[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] buildroot: toolchain: Allow to build gdbserver when external toolchain is selected.

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

Le Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:06:38 +0100,
"Henderson, Stuart" <Stuart.Henderson@analog.com> a ?crit :

> >Well, my personal experience (and I've heard this experience from several other people has well)
> >is that to avoid problems the gdbserver version you're using should be the same as the cross-gdb
> >used to connect to this gdbserver. Therefore, it makes sense for a toolchain to provide both cross-gdb
> >*and* gdbserver, or none of them, but it doesn't make much sense to offer just cross-gdb without a
> >gdbserver. As I was mentioning before, Linaro toolchains, Sourcery CodeBench toolchains do that.
> 
> This seems reasonable, however we only support matching releases of the toolchain/u-boot/linux, so the result is much the same.
> i.e. The 2012R1 release of the toolchain is used to build the 2012R1 release of u-boot and linux.  The latter of which contains the correct version of gdbserver for the 2012R1 release of the toolchain.

I am not sure to understand: why would gdbserver be part of your
"linux" release? Linux is the kernel, was does it has to do with
gdbserver.

> However, like I said, I certainly don't have any strong objections to having gdbserver in the toolchain package as well.  I'll take a look at how other people package it and see what Sonic's thoughts are on it when we're doing the next release.

Ok, thanks!

Thomas
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