[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Your build results for 2017-04-29

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

Hello,

On Thu, 4 May 2017 08:55:47 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  The problem is that that defconfig file (sourcery-arm-thumb2.config) doesn't
> specify which toolchain to use:
> 
> BR2_arm=y
> BR2_cortex_a8=y
> BR2_ARM_EABI=y
> BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_THUMB2=y
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
> BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION=""
> 
> It just relies on the default external toolchain.
> 
>  Obviously this isn't very robust to begin with: when the external toolchains
> change, this could implicitly change this toolchain defconfig. E.g. imagine that
> Linaro would grow a Thumb2 option, then suddenly this sourcery-arm-thumb2.config
> would build using a Linaro toolchain...

Aaah, yes.

>  So I think the solution is to explicitly add the predefined external toolchain
> to use to all the toolchain configs. I'll try to send a patch for that.

OK. Thanks.

>  BTW, I notice now that we don't have configs for the Codescape toolchains. Any
> reason for that?

Nope, just nobody has suggested one. Or maybe at the time I was a bit
annoyed by having too many MIPS related configurations.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com