[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain: add support for glibc

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

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:54:04 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > Generally, 'make source' is unfortunately a bit broken with the new
> > internal toolchain backend based on packages. One of the reason is that
> > the 'make source' thing only works for one recursion level of
> > dependencies on host packages. I've started working on fixing that, but
> > it was more complex than I thought (or alternatively I was too stupid
> > to see that there was a simple solution).
> 
>   Probably requires an pkg-generic change, like:
> 
> $(2)-all-source: $(2)-source $(suffix -source,$($(2)_DEPENDENCIES))

Hum, right. I'll try to find some time to investigate that.

> >>> But I guess I
> >>> can probably make BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_LIBC be equal to "glibc" in
> >>> both the glibc and eglibc case, which would be sufficient to make the
> >>> toolchain building logic use the "glibc" and "glibc-configure" targets
> >>> for both the eglibc and glibc selections.
> >>
> >>    You could also choose to keep eglibc.mk and make glibc the derivative.
> >> Or would that be strange?
> >
> > Have you seen my new patch set:
> 
>   Sorry, I thought I had checked before sending but obviously my search 
> wasn't good enough.

No problem. I guess you'll continue the review over here :)

Thanks!

Thomas
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